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UFO case file · UFO-10946

Leighton Buzzard, Engl being encounter — July 1957

CE3United Kingdom / Ireland1957-07

LEIGHTON BUZZARD, ENGL, England, United Kingdom / Ireland

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Leighton Buzzard, Engl being encounter — July 1957
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Leighton Buzzard, Engl being encounter — July 1957

Case description

The inherited historical catalogue places this report at Leighton Buzzard, England, in July 1957, at approximately 3:30 p.m. It describes an observer seeing a landed disc and two men in one-piece, spacesuit-like clothing. The figures were reportedly occupied with collecting twigs and berries. A period of missing time is also attached to the entry. That is the recoverable sequence in the presently identified record. It does not establish the witness's name or age, the exact day, the disc's dimensions, the figures' physical appearance, or how the observer first approached and subsequently left the scene. The sampling activity suggests that the witness interpreted the figures as collecting material, but no surviving sample, photograph, or independently examined object is supplied in the catalogue summary. A related Leighton Buzzard story is frequently dated June 30, 1955 and concerns a nine-year-old boy. Its similar setting and collecting activity make it an important research lead, but those details should not silently replace the July 1957 entry. Until the original clipping or a reliable case cross-reference resolves that relationship, this record retains its own date and limited witness information. The reported missing time likewise remains a catalogue claim; the available entry does not document hypnosis, a recovered onboard narrative, or a measured duration.

Recorded details

Local time
15:30
Craft description
Craft / Vehicle
Entity description
Humanlike
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
MONTH_ONLY

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