In about 1970, I took an interest in the "Flying Saucer" reports emanating from Warminster in Wiltshire. I was befriended by a lady who was a keen watcher and we went together, with her family on regular sky-watches in the fields around the little town (The name comes from a legend of giant worms found in the area and it dates back to the Neolithic).
One place where we regularly worshipped the sky people was Clay Hill which was on an Army training range.
One late evening a large group of us were waiting for a visitation and all the little lights from the electric fences and the shooting stars in the brilliant night sky were being investigated. Then a bright light came down and floated to the ground... I realised it was an Army star shell to illuminate the target. Something hit me a blow in the side of my waist. I gasped "I've stopped a bullet" I called out.
My friend's husband took me home as fast as possible with the words "lets get out of here!". We left the area down country lanes in his new car.
At the house the small hole in my jacket was a source of attention and I felt a bit ill. Her husband took me to the hospital where I was examined. The shell had not entered my body and the flattened piece of metal was found in my pocket.
Then they took out my flying saucer detector which was in my pocket. It had a large dent in its metal box. I had been saved by my flying saucer detector!
I had to explain that it was not switched on at the time as it was for sale but no-one believed it would detect one. I had to explain that I did not think so either and the way they flew was unknown, most of my target clients thought that they were mind - powered. However some theories around had suggested magnetism may be involved so I had made a simple magnetic field detector. It later was sold as a TV detector as it was able to detect the television line-scan magnetic field.
Chris.
02/01/2010