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1959, LEIGH, LANCASHIRE, U-K., MRS C. WICKENS:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Ufology catalogues indicate that a newspaper, not named and not dated, reported that at an unspecified date of 1959, in Leigh, England, at 10:30 p.m., a Mrs C. Wickens who had been visiting her sister was outside trying to catch a late bus when she noticed three figures crouching on the nearby grass verge.

She could also make out several other groups of three and four figures standing further back in the shadows, all motionless, watching her, all in dazzling white clothing and with "balaclava-type helmets" over their heads.

Mrs Wickens thought that the silence over the area was strange.

Then, on her left, she suddenly noticed a solitary "robot-like figure" some six feet tall or more, she was seized by terror and "couldn't go on" yet fled back to her sister's home where she stayed for the night.

Her sister, however, wrote the experience off, indicating that she had seen boy scouts camping on the green for the night, but it is said that in the morning there were "no signs" of the boy scouts.

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Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Leigh, England, in 1959, at 10:30 p.m., Mrs C. Wickens had been visiting her sister's home in Leigh and on her way to catch a late bus noticed three figures crouching on the nearby grass verge; she could also make out several other groups of three and four figures standing further back in the shadows.

All were dressed in clothing of dazzling white and wore balaclava-type helmets over their heads. They stood motionless, watching the witness, and there was a strange silence over the area.

Then, on her left, she suddenly noticed a solitary robot-like figure standing well over six-feet, and she was seized by terror and couldn't go on. She fled back to her sister's home where she remained for the night.

Her sister wrote the experience off, claiming she had seen "boy scouts" camping on the green for the night. In the morning there were no signs of such.

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Humcat quoting newspaper source."

Points to consider:

Left: A "balaclava" is not exactly a helmet.

No UFO is seen, only silhouettes, in the night. The whole thing has a strong perfume of newspaper story around frights of a lone woman in the night in the middle of the shades, and it is not unimportant that the sister did not believe in a serious nature of the thing.

No investigation seems to have been carried out anyway.

There is also no precise date, and no name or publishing date as of the newspaper who was apparently the primary source of the story.

It is thus not far-fetched to evaluate the case as a probable confusion, or possibly a prank played on the lady by some boy scouts.

List of issues:

Evaluation:

Probable confusion.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] ? "HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports", compiled by David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, USA, circa 1977.
• [ar1] * "1967 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1967.shtml

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