Sightings1965

Warminster 'Thing' sightings, Wiltshire

When

1965

Where

Warminster, England

Sources

1 public source

From Christmas 1964 residents of Warminster reported loud unexplained sounds, dubbed 'the Thing', then lights and objects by mid-1965. Local journalist Arthur Shuttlewood championed the reports, and a 1965 Daily Mirror photo drew thousands of skywatchers. Sightings faded by the early 1970s.