Newbiggin-On-Sea, Engl abduction report — August 1942

Albert Lancashire, a twenty-seven-year-old Army sentry, was guarding a radar installation near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, England, one night in August 1942. At about 11 p.m., he noticed a yellow light over the sea. It approached and resolved into a round object with light around its rim. He initially wondered whether it was a new German aircraft. Lancashire stepped back into his sentry box, then felt compelled to come out again. A narrow beam swept toward him and struck his face. He raised his hands, felt a floating sensation and lost awareness. His next immediate memory was lying on the ground several feet away, dazed and unable to explain what had happened. In later years he had dreams of being inside a craft, including a scene looking down at the sea, a man in white clothing and a red-haired woman handing him goggles. Further unusual experiences in the late 1960s prompted additional recollections of the 1942 event. He then described being drawn upward along the beam and carried aboard by small men in white suits. Beneath a blue-domed ceiling, he remembered an examination table, another woman lying nearby, figures wearing goggles or medical-style head coverings and a physical examination. The return itself remained indistinct; his remembered endpoint was waking beside his post. He later wondered whether a persistent tongue rash was connected. Lancashire reported the experience to researchers decades afterward, and the published story distinguishes his original sighting and blackout from dreams and later recollections.