27 September 1971 21:30
Banbury, UK
Truck driver saw man in white suit in road directly ahead. Hit brakes but thought he hit man, found no one, saw in headlights 7-8' tall "spaceman", big eyes, backpack, jumped 3' up, ran over hedge. Explanation: Hoax.
Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and monstrous occupants. One disc was observed by four male experienced witnesses on a highway for ten minutes (Delman, L). One 7.5-foot-tall giant, wearing a white suit and backpack, was seen.
Len Delman, a lorry driver, saw what he took to be a man in a white suit in the road directly ahead of his lorry; he hid the brakes, coming to a halt, believing he may have hit the man. He jumped out and went behind his lorry, but found no one; coming around front he saw, in the headlights, a "spaceman" 7-8 ft tall, with big, staring eyes 8-12" apart and extending to the sides of the head, and a pack of his back from which two tubes led to the head. When he sounded his horn repeatedly, the "thing" jumped 3 ft in the air, ran across the road, and leapt over the hedge. With two other lorry drivers who came upon the scene, Delman watched a disc-shaped object take off from the field where the figure had disappeared.
Hynek rating: CE3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Entity reports)
Vallee rating: CE3: Entities have been observed on the UFO.
Vallee reliability rating: 103: Report attributed to a known source of unknown or uncalibrated reliability; no site visit, or answer unknown; natural explanation requires major alteration of several parameters.
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