1973: UFO SPOTTING in WARMINSTER, WILTSHIRE | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful

1973: UFO SPOTTING in WARMINSTER, WILTSHIRE | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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9 ай бұрын

There were strange goings-on in Warminster, Wiltshire, home to a spate of flying saucer sightings in the west of England. Nationwide's Brian Ash spent a day and night looking for UFOs with the help of Arthur Shuttlewood and Rex Dutta.
This clip is from Nationwide, originally broadcast 28 August 1973.
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@ADM_a_different_mind 9 ай бұрын

please upload more UFO-related videos in your archives, we love to see them

@robindavies2242 9 ай бұрын

Good to see Rex Dutta in this. In 1975 (when I was more credulous) me and a fellow amateur “ufologist” saw him give a talk at Croxley Green Youth Club. We chatted to him afterwards and got a free copy of his magazine "Aquarius Viewpoint" (which I still have) - a curious stew of UFO reports and mysticism. He was clearly a major fan of H. P. Blavatsky and her "stupendous" Secret Doctrine!

@christopherhovord3516 9 ай бұрын

Aw, they didn't show the photo 😢

@petergivenbless900 9 ай бұрын

"A time-exposure which we can't show here for... reasons."

@stud105 9 ай бұрын

BBC. They tend to hush. Like Sir Jimmy.

@karaperrio-du5gs 9 ай бұрын

if i was an alien i would go nowhere near humans

@friabads 9 ай бұрын

Maybee there is different type of humans as well as different type of "non humans".

@Paul_G73 5 ай бұрын

@@friabads there isn't bipedal aliens.

@davedogge2280 9 ай бұрын

4:32 This is what happens when The League of Gentlemen go out UFO spotting

@joebryant5722 9 ай бұрын

This is a local channel for LOCAL people, we'll have no trouble here!🤓

@julianaylor4351 9 ай бұрын

@@joebryant5722 🤣

@julianaylor4351 9 ай бұрын

🤣

@pyrholorange 9 ай бұрын

about 20 years ago bbc2 used to play short video clips sent in by viewers between programs. one was a couple of kids mucking round with the camera when they spot a big glowing object sailing past at dusk at roof height outside the window. its amazing coulour footage but ive never seen it anywhere since. one of the kids is singing ' im a little spaceman' at the end of the clip.

@vaggeliskostas6889 9 ай бұрын

I would love to see that, do you have any references? What was the program called?

@pyrholorange 9 ай бұрын

@@vaggeliskostas6889 it was just a minute long clip, not part of a program. ive never been able to find it anywhere since. the oject looked to be about the size of a bus. glowing white and less than half a mile away.

@matthewgartell6380 9 ай бұрын

BBC in competition with Eyes on cinema

@camila123 9 ай бұрын

Yes❤

@gerry5134 9 ай бұрын

Ken Dodd joke. "What a lovely day for sticking a cucumber thru someone's letterbox and shouting The Martians are Coming !' 😆. (you might need to think about that one!) 🤭

@julianaylor4351 9 ай бұрын

🤣

@tenjiso8898 9 ай бұрын

Seems like it was taken straight out of VIZ magazine 😂

@bobkelly3162 3 ай бұрын

Priceless footage my friend. Well done!

@user-un9go4qe5i 9 ай бұрын

I love how he tells us about the two photographs that were taken by 'a BBC man on a hill'... but we don't get to see them. Did the Men in Black pay a visit to Television Centre in the middle of the night...?

@IanPayne 9 ай бұрын

Warminster just by Salisbury Plain where they have been testing army equipment and bombing for years.

@mariuspetre1613 8 ай бұрын

I want to see more videos like this..

@shingitai5882 9 ай бұрын

I wonder if they are still seeing them?

@wolfblitzer1981 9 ай бұрын

Only when they eat the local mushrooms 🍄 😂

@Archangel_Reez 9 ай бұрын

@@wolfblitzer1981😂😂😂😂

@Pymmeh 9 ай бұрын

"If true of course". Good lad, nice caveat.

@Treguard1987 9 ай бұрын

I wish aliens would just make themselves officially known once and for all. Give the human race a good kick up the arse and get us back on track!

@MrDastardly 9 ай бұрын

Our galactic neighbours are best to observe earth from a distant. Humans are violent creatures best observed.

@kelkilkat 9 ай бұрын

Yes, that would be ideal. They don't know how much that would further the human race

@euanscotland 9 ай бұрын

I have no doubt we are the aliens living in human body's

@davidreid2301 9 ай бұрын

They have for centuries, we just can't take a hint.

@Buff_Cupcake 9 ай бұрын

If we encountered an alien race more advanced than us, it's more likely they will destroy or conquer us than encourage us to do better.

@user-un9go4qe5i 9 ай бұрын

I wonder why flying saucers would repeatedly go back to Kettering?

@julianaylor4351 9 ай бұрын

Forgot their shopping. 🤣

@jonkirk2118 9 ай бұрын

Well, Wicksteed Park was great fun in those days.

@julianaylor4351 9 ай бұрын

@@jonkirk2118 😆

@pmason6076 3 ай бұрын

Sight-seeing and to enjoy the sun. The man said so at the start of the video. 😂

@misdangered4326 5 күн бұрын

I wonder why anyone would repeatedly go back to Kettering!

@Adam-fl9uc 9 ай бұрын

Aaaaaaand there's nothing

@fortuitousthings8606 9 ай бұрын

These have got to be test vehicles for the harier jump jet

@hmq9052 9 ай бұрын

4:08 A young Glen Hoddle there talking barely comprehensible gibberish about blackbirds or something

@UpTheAnte1987 9 ай бұрын

3:45 First person they interview after the sighting just happens to be the village idiot 😂

@NTRSN-Archive 9 ай бұрын

It was George King with his Beings from outer space in Earth physical body’s .🎉

@nicholasgargano7396 9 ай бұрын

11:35 pubs closed

@andrewdeans3686 9 ай бұрын

23:35

@nicholasgargano7396 9 ай бұрын

@@andrewdeans3686 nothing at that time stamp

@Jack_Warner 9 ай бұрын

Swamp Gas..........................

@alileevil 9 ай бұрын

No soy faces, no screaming or yelling or OMG, what is that?!. Just a bunch of people calmly explaining what they've witnessed.

@2degucitas 9 ай бұрын

Soy faces?

@nohandleleft 9 ай бұрын

The problem here is the same for all witness testimony, it's never consistent, and it's often wrong. The journalist said the lights were high up in the sky flashing on and off, another says they were rising up into the sky. The journalist also says it looked like an explosion, a ball of fire, a blinding flash of light, while another described it as a camera flash. One guy takes it much further and injects his own idea of intelligent beings communicating. And on and on. Conveniently the camera never captured any of it. And where are the two 'time exposure' pictures that were taken from a neighboring hill? I would say 100 people just got trolled. They might as well say the lights picked them up with their mind rays and shook them like a dawg.

@smeeself 9 ай бұрын

I once gave a detailed and factual account of staying up all night and watching the sunrise. I didn't mention that what I saw WAS the sun rising, and the ditz I was taking to had decided it was DEFINITELY aliens, and had even started to imbue them with qualities I had made no mention of. People. 🙄

@kamandi1362 9 ай бұрын

@@2degucitasMouth agape, eyes wide.

@garybiker9092 9 ай бұрын

i see a flying teapot up there...

@darrenedwards8433 9 ай бұрын

From the Planet Gong.

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts 3 ай бұрын

And pot headed pixies flashing on the hill 😂

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia 9 ай бұрын

It's just government projects

@Paul_G73 5 ай бұрын

Totally

@markwiles3485 9 ай бұрын

Take me to your leader.

@joebryant5722 9 ай бұрын

Not a good idea in this country!

@albundy7718 9 ай бұрын

I'm sure some official will soon come forward and confirm UFO's exist, lets say in exactly 50 years. ;)

@Greenwillow 9 ай бұрын

The only flying saucers I have ever seen is the ones I would have to dispose of😂

@BILLY-px3hw 9 ай бұрын

I almost got hit by several over the years, they usually appear to come from my wife's direction on the other side of the room

@dwaneyocum1718 9 ай бұрын

Modern equipment would perform better, and most agree that there needs to be multiple camera locations. My feeling is that they should be a great distance apart. Images and videos always show some object miles away. There must be some strategy that would improve the odds of capturing an image when it's closer to being just over head.

@hmq9052 9 ай бұрын

A good idea would be to give 7 billion people smartphones so they can video anything they see over, say, a 20 year period. There'd be loads of footage.

@dwaneyocum1718 9 ай бұрын

@@hmq9052 It wouldn't even take that much. A single closeup could happen at any time and serendipitously.

@hmq9052 9 ай бұрын

@@dwaneyocum1718 Yes. I hope you didn't miss my point there.

@dwaneyocum1718 9 ай бұрын

@@hmq9052 If I did, try me again. But, who wants to wait another 20 years. I'm in my 70s and I probably don't that much time left.

@hmq9052 9 ай бұрын

@@dwaneyocum1718 As I feared. You missed it. The point is we've just run that very experiment over the last 20 years. The evidence is in. And here it is: (There is none)

@octaviussludberry9016 7 ай бұрын

If I was to compile a list of reputable people, his list would tick all the boxes.

@lasselasse5215 9 ай бұрын

-"Do you se 'em?" I see a black night sky. That's definitively something. I also see "flashing". And I see "flashing" also in the foreground, in front of the people. So recording artifact, and I guess hence fake altogether.

@Barnaby_bo 28 күн бұрын

Lol. I'm not boasting, but I've seen more than you.

@Dr_LK 9 ай бұрын

Flashing light... definitely an airplane, lol. Why should aliens have flashing lights?

@dimebagv3307 9 ай бұрын

as much of this as you can find please beeb.

@simmadpaul2880 9 ай бұрын

Turned out to be people on another hill flashing their torches and car headlights.

@petergivenbless900 9 ай бұрын

I was thinking; a rival group of keen UFO spotters were flashing lights in response to the lights they saw flashing in the "sky" too!

@atomictraveller 9 ай бұрын

i see "you a foe" all the time in arizona thank god for superior intelligence

@julianaylor4351 9 ай бұрын

These UFO experts' name sounds like Monty Python characters. 😆 They were probably experimental military jets or drones, especially since this was during the Cold War. 😁 Possibly the BBC didn't show the photographs, because if they were, what I think they are, the images would have been censored. 🤔 The only real flying saucers are the ones filled with sherbet. 😋😆

@awreckingball 9 ай бұрын

I work at the BBC and I'm posh.

@juhox0 9 ай бұрын

I concur, sir

@robinvanags912 9 ай бұрын

I'm pleased for you - keep up the good work.

@julianaylor4351 9 ай бұрын

🤣

@rgarlinyc 9 ай бұрын

I. Could. Not. Help. Noticing that. Almost. All. Of those. Local. People. Spoke. So. Very. Slowly. Methinks they'd all already suffered a direct hit by an "oo-fo" sometime previously.

@tonyedwards4067 9 ай бұрын

where are ALL the video's and photo's... there's STILL no REAL proof...

@friabads 9 ай бұрын

And how do you get "real proof". Who can get you real proof? Who can give you an open investigation? Will they? If not - why?

@sunshinecloudy 9 ай бұрын

I hope the aliens don't eat us. What do they eat, anyway? Do they carry snacks in those ships?

@gregthomas1346 8 ай бұрын

They eat fish , fish in ships

@jasonayres 9 ай бұрын

(5:00) In the old days anyway, if you wanted something to sound.. legitimate, umm.. warranted... Special💡, yes.. An old bloke with a European accent, even better if he's wearing a lab coat (-this bloke lets down the side a bit here) who can impress people with big words, that'd do the trick.

@andrewdeans3686 9 ай бұрын

What does a 'European' accent sound like ? ? ? Given that Europe is multi-lingual, there can be no so thing as a 'European' accent.

@jasonayres 9 ай бұрын

@andrewdeans3686 🤔Well, I would say "Western" European, but that wasn't always the case. North of Southern Europe and yet, east of Western Europe. Except for the odd English one in a Tweed jacket with those elbow patches, you know.

@andrewdeans3686 9 ай бұрын

@@jasonayres What a load of cobbler's. The accents are all west country English.

@misdangered4326 9 ай бұрын

‘European accent’ as in any country in mainland Europe. Eastern European would be the best imho, as that would give an air of mystique and the nagging suspicion that they might a closet Commie ready to betray us (bloody foreigners!)