by Charles Lear, author of
βThe Flying Saucer Investigators.βBowles and PrattThis is the third part in a series looking at two separate encounters in Winchester, England, with UFOs and humanoids reported by two friends, 42-year-old Joyce Bowles and 58-year-old Ted Pratt. They reported that as Bowles was driving with Pratt in the passenger seat prior to their first encounter, Bowlesβs Cooper Mini Clubman travelled diagonally as if it was floating after the steering wheel locked, and the car came to a rest on a strip of grass (known as a βvergeβ in England) next to the road. They said they then saw a craft hovering 18 inches above the ground with 3 humanoids behind a window or windows sitting lined up as if they were on a bus. A creature left the craft, possibly by walking through it, came up to the car, and seemed to have put its hand on the roof as it looked in Bowlesβs window. It was said to have been wearing what looked like a silver βboiler suitβ and to have had long hair that curled up in the back, sideburns that came down to a pointed beard, and brilliant red eyes with no pupils or irises. They said that during their second encounter, they found themselves standing next to Bowlesβs car inside what they assumed was a spaceship. The creatures spoke with them, said they werenβt there to invade and that theyβd be back. Their case got the interest of researchers from various organizations and there is one
article examining it in the March/April 1977 BUFORA Journal and FOUR
articles in the February 1977, Vol. 22, No. 5 Flying Saucer Review. In the course of the investigation, it came out that there were after-effects and that Bowles had a
of reported paranormal experiences and well as healing and psychic abilities. One of the researchers, Lionel Beer, reported in his article in the BUFORA Journal that Bowlesβs history made him dubious, but he and the others didnβt discount her claims, possibly due to the influence the ideas of John Keel and Jacques VallΓ©e were having on researchers at the time. Leslie Harris makes a reference to VallΓ©eβs 1969 book βPassport to Magoniaβ in his article covering the case in Flying Saucer Review.
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