Case description
This Bolton story is a childhood recollection reported long after the alleged event. The fuller narrative identifies Henry Thomas, later a professional artist, as the boy who entered a backyard during a game of hide-and-seek in November1926. The imported summary refers generally to several children playing, but the detailed encounter is attributed to Thomas alone. No exact day is established.
He recalled three figures looking through a house’s rear window. They wore bulky silver-gray suits compared to rubber tubing, black boots and transparent domed helmets, with tubes leading toward small containers on their backs. When they turned toward him, he noticed enlarged, bulb-like heads with dark slit-like eyes and small noses. One made a gurgling noise. Thomas said he fled as they moved toward him, although he later felt they had not intended harm.
The account was passed to Jenny Randles and appeared in later sighting literature. No contemporaneous photograph, original1926 investigation or independent observer of the figures was recovered here. Thomas’s adult occupation does not verify a memory from childhood, and the suit description cannot establish its date or origin by itself. The story contains no observed craft. Its plate illustrates the recalled yard encounter, with the child safe at the entrance, rather than importing a saucer, contact procedure or physical threat absent from the source.
