The article below was published in the daily newspaper Daventry Express, Northants, England, March 17, 1994.
A Church Stowe woman who spotted a UFO has had her experience immortalised on video.
Elsie Oaken's trip home from Daventry to the village one May day in 1978 has left her a minor celebrity in UFO circles.
Her appearance in the video, Penetrating The Web, is the latest in a long line of screen spots, radio shows and mentions in at least ten books on the subject.
"It's very flattering to still be invited to go on these programmes," said Elsie, who never gets tired of telling her story.
Her journey home to Church Stowe went wrong as she turned right at Weedon crossroads, where she first noticed a grey dumbbell object with red and green lights.
As she entered the village her car came to a halt.
"By the schoolrooms I was in complete darkness except for a series of white lights with no beam," she explained. After the lights had circled around for a time, they left and Elsie found herself driving along the road as before, only her journey had taken twice as long as it should have.
A few months later Elsie heard of a group of four Byfield women traveling through Preston Capes a few hours later, who had seen similar lights, which experts believe backs up her extraordinary story.
