The Malvern Sighting, And The Late-1970s UK UFO Wave
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Marcus Lowth
- August 16, 2018
- November 14, 2021
- 6 min read
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- UFOs, Waves
In the late-1970s, particularly 1978, the United Kingdom, like many other parts of the world, experienced a surge of UFO sightings. Many of these would even result in claims of alien abduction, all of which were surprising in their similarity.
A depiction of a fleet of UFOs over the English countryside
While many other sightings were just that, sightings of strange lights or aerial objects, they still offer further evidence that “something” out of the ordinary was in the skies over the UK during this time. One perhaps can only imagine how many more sightings might be on record if the Internet had been available for witnesses to log and discuss their encounters. What follows is a mere selection of what is a vast amount...
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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In autumn 1978, I was living in Wolverhampton. I was about 5 years old at the time. I remember seeing a pale grey saucer type craft hovering over the houses and gardens. It came from nowhere in seconds. It hoovered but it appeared as though it was constantly rotating. I was too little to tell how long it was there, but it came and left in no time at all. I recall it having different coloured lights around its outer skirt and was totally silent. Even as a boy it just seemed surreal to me.
I was standing at the end of my garden which had a slight raised area like a tiny hill. I was talking to a girl whose garden backed onto mine. I guess she was about 8 or 9. We both saw it.
For decades I told myself that I had imagined it because how could something so big and so obvious not have been a major news story. That was until the 2010s when I came across a website about UFO sightings in the UK during the 70s.
There was one entry from a woman (no name given) who claimed to have being living in Wolverhampton as a girl. Her description was exactly as I had remembered it. The place and time she described matched my recollection. What convinced me that it was the same experience because she said she had seen it while being with a little boy who was smaller than her.
I have never been able to find that site or anything approaching that description since.
My friend and I saw three strange lights in the sky over Woodingdean in the late 70’s as we were returning home from the valley where we were playing. As we came out of the valley I looked back and saw what looked like two lights rising up from where we had just come from. The two lights then turned into 3 lights, like balls of light that formed a triangle but we couldn’t see any actual form of craft. It came right over us and we were both stunned and felt we had lost time like an hour or so.
I had my main encounter with a saucer type craft in the Midlands UK in the 70’s. It too, like one of the above stories, was hovering over the houses before shooting off.