Prescot, Eng being encounter — March 17, 1980

On 17 March 1980, Margery Sherrard, her adult daughter Deborah and Deborah’s friend Teresa Malvaney drove from Rainhill toward Knowsley after an exercise class and coffee. Deborah drove. A descending light approached over fields and houses; when they stopped, they described a cloverleaf-like outline, four white corner lights and a dull-orange underside. Frightened by its approach, they drove away. Margery’s final view resembled a low bowler hat disappearing behind houses. After leaving Teresa at home, only mother and daughter made the return journey around 11:35 p.m. They reported another reddish light pacing the car near Lord Derby’s estate. Near Elm Cottage it appeared diamond- or cone-shaped, changed toward yellow and approached. These descriptions should not be treated as simultaneous sightings of multiple craft. The women continued home rather than investigating a landing. Brian Fishwick’s investigation also recorded three separate roadside appearances of a similar scruffy man: long grey hair, a thin pale face and an apparently white raincoat. One occurred on the outward journey and two on the return; the women did not know whether they saw the same person repeatedly or whether he was connected with the lights. This is not a report of three aliens standing together. The labelled sequence plate shows one such figure and the initial three-woman journey.