Way back in 2002, I produced a brief info leaflet for the first ever Paranormal Week at Halton Lea Library, Runcorn. I then updated it for 2003. Whilst sorting out my computer’s C:Drive I came across the document for the first time since then.
As a taster for the start of Paranormal Week 2011, (which starts tomorrow 24th October through to Friday 28th october) I thought I would reproduce it here. If some of the paragraphs look ‘familiar’, it is because my leaflet was ‘borrowed’ by someone in the press and the words found their way onto several news sites, followed by a few Paranormal Sites. They say that imitation is the best form of flattery……
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1957, Runcorn:
James Cooke claimed he was taken by aliens in a flying saucer from Runcorn Hill – and taken to their homeworld, a planet called Zomdic, orbiting a star light years away from our own solar system.
There he claimed to meet with the wise elders of the planet who instructed him to spread the word of “universal peace and harmony” to the rest of humanity. He was returned home 45 hours later.
After a later contact, this time on Frodsham Hill, James set up the Church of Aquarius in the town. It became so popular that a second “church” was opened. Here, James “channeled” information from the elders of Zomdic. The church ran for 10 years before James disappeared from public view in 1969.
1963, Runcorn:
RAF veteran Dick Newby saw a “huge blue star-like object” hurtle through the sky, just above the rooftops over Boston Avenue. He then watched as it burned a path over Halton Castle. He said: “I served for seven years in the RAF and I have heard pilots speak about these flying saucers after returning from operations. I myself was very alarmed. I’ve seen plenty of shooting stars and airliners but this was neither. It looked nothing like a shooting star and was dead silent.”
1966, Runcorn:
John Middleham of Runcorn saw a flying disc over Halton. From then on, armed with a cine camera, he constantly scanned the skies trying to capture UFOs on film. Three years later, he spotted a huge cigar shaped object, with two smaller discs underneath, in the skies over Runcorn.
1968, Widnes:
Police took chase in squad cars after a huge brightly lit flying cross was seen flying over Fiddlers Ferry power station. No explanation was given for the object which left the cars standing as it hurtled off at speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour.
1969, Runcorn:
Police received a report of a UFO landing on a playing field behind Pine Road.
1972, Runcorn:
Julie Robson, Joyce Baxter and son Paul saw an unusual flying object over Halton Brow during daylight. They described it as “resembling a flying teapot without a lid.”
1978, Frodsham:
A group of teenagers came across a large dome-shaped object sitting in a field near the Devil’s Garden in Frodsham. They saw “alien figures” examining cows in a field, using a “strange frame like apparatus”. The cows were completely motionless and silent, as though they had been immobilised.
1988, Preston Brook:
A woman on the A56 slip road saw a bright white light and experienced “missing time”.
1992, Frodsham:
Graham Clamp saw a strange “pink ball of light” over the Mersey from Cottons Bridge, Frodsham. The ball slowly zig zagged across the sky and then shot off at great speed over Frodsham Hill.
1994, Frodsham:
A major UFO wave was reported over Frodsham Hill during four evenings. More than 30 witnesses saw a huge “cigar shaped object” with shimmering coloured bands running down its side. The object returned later in the year and was seen by at least 70 people both here and over Chester and North Wales. Investigators could find no satisfactory explanation.
1995, Widnes:
A woman saw a “bell shaped object” hover over the Mersey near Fiddlers Ferry power station. It appeared to be “sucking up a column of water” from the river. Six other passers-by also witnessed the event. This was the start of a two-month spate of sightings over Halton. Many witnesses saw all manner of unusual objects and lights, ranging from bright star like objects, flying discs and black triangles to huge wedge shaped objects which were described as being larger than two football pitches.
1996, Widnes:
A Widnes man claimed to have seen a UFO overWidnes railway station. He reported that the bright spherical object made a sound like “a thousand wailing cats” and then fired bursts of flame at the ground which apparently burnt holes in some railway sleepers.
1996, Preston Brook:
A driver reports seeing a huge cigar-shaped object which he claimed was the size of a Boeing 747. It travelled alongside his car whilst he drove along the motorway in thick fog. Two other witnesses describe similar events whilst travelling to Frodsham and Helsby a few weeks later.
1997, Runcorn/Widnes:
There were numerous sightings of huge black triangular objects on a large section of the North West shoreline, stretching from North Wales to Morecambe. Residents in both Widnes & Runcorn reported numerous sightings including 3 flying triangles in formation that appeared to be hovering over the Runcorn-Widnes bridge. Several months later, one witness was pursued by a dark triangular object as she drove over the bridge at night.
1999, Runcorn/Widnes
Over 20 Halton residents report seeing strange luminous orange spheres in the sky over both Runcorn & Widnes. Paranormal investigators from across the North West converged on the towns, but no rational explanation could be found.
January 2003, Widnes
A Widnes woman and her daughter spotted a strange dark shape with green light emanating from it hovering in the sky over Widnes.
January 2003, Runcorn
Workers at the O2 buildings near Preston Brook had a rare daylight sighting when they spotted a strange cigar shaped object hovering over nearby village of Dutton.
March 2003, Runcorn
Several witnesses sighted a strange orange glow/sphere in the skies above the Mersey. After several minutes the glow faded out leaving a dark wedge/triangular shaped object hanging in the sky. Several minutes later the dark object shot away at incredible speed.
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