August 28, 1930, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, U-K., people:
Brief summary of the event and follow-up:
The British "skeptic" ufologist Peter Rogerson included around 2018 in his INTCAT catalog a story he found in a 2006 ghost story book.
He says that on August 28, 1930, at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, during an "intense electrical storm occupants of a house saw a figure resembling a robed monk."
During an intense electrical storm occupants of a house saw a figure resembling a robed monk
Codd 2006 p42
Points to consider:
The source cited by Peter Rogerson [pr1] is a ghost stories book [dc1] that "provides accounts of poltergeists, and first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits. This book contains a range of ghostly phenomena. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, it features the Lincoln Imp, the Binbrook Poltergeist and the Irby Boggle, as well as the haunted airfields of 'bomber county'."
As a "skeptic" ufologist, Peter Rogerson defended the notion that human "imagination" and "invention" always existed; this is why he included reports in his catalogue that obviously have nothing to do intrinsically with UFO sighting reports or UFO occupants. This one is clearly a ghost story, with no elements of credibility: unnamed witness, undefined place, date of reporting unknown, how reported unknown, and a report that takes just a few words.
In the same time, Peter Rogerson criticized "proponent" ufologists for including such cases as "UFO occupants sightings" in the ufology literature.
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No credibility, not UFO-related.
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* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[dc1] ? "Haunted Lincolnshire", book by Daniel Codd, The History Press Ltd publishers, U-K., page 42, 2006.
[pr1] * "INTCAT - International Catalogue of close encounters and entity reports", compiled by Peter Rogerson, U-K., not dated, circa 1971-1972, updates 2005-2018, available at http://intcat.blogspot.com/2012/08/intcat-1930-1939.html
