1955: Bexleyheath UFO Encounter

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1955: Bexleyheath UFO Encounter
Posted On: December 16, 2021

The year is 1955, the place, Bexleyheath, England. On King Harold's Way in Bexleyheath in the London Borough of Bexley a 30 foot wide saucer shaped object was seen to hover a few feet above a street in broad daylight. It was a very hot cloudless day. The event was witnessed by around thirty people. Car engines nearby to the object stalled. The object made a humming noise. The object landed at the junction of Ashbourne Road and Whitfield Road. It hovered over Bedonwell Primary School for around one minute. Finally the object shot off into the sky.


On July 17th, 1955 at 12:00 hours, the witness, Rodney Maynard, from Belvedere and about thirty other people observed an object in the middle of the street. The witness advised:


"We were on our lunch break when we heard something was happening in King Harold's Way. So we went up there to have a look. This thing had landed in the roadway. It took up the whole width of the road and overlapped onto the pavements. It wasn't on the ground, it had about eight massive suckers. The center was still, but the outer rim was spinning slowly and it had white lights flashing, like a camera flash. There were about 30 of us staring at it. We could hear it humming. It had what looked like windows but the glass was concave and molded together so you couldn't see in. A couple of us went forward to try and touch it and it began to spin faster. Then it lifted slowly off the ground and hovered above our heads, tilting slightly. The craft moved slowly until it was over Bedonwell Primary School, where it stayed for about a minute, then shot up into the sky and disappeared. It was black, sleek and streamlined with a surface like polished metal. It was very fine and beautiful. It certainly wasn't a prank. I have never forgotten it but I don't talk about it because people would think you were barmy.”


Another witness this UFO encounter was Margaret Fry. She advised that she had lived in Hythe Avenue, was making her way to her doctor's office. She and the doctor, Dr Thukarta, both saw what she described as an "enormous craft" hovering over the doctor's car. She described the craft as saucer-shaped with a "blue, silver, grey, pewter texture, yet, none of those colours." Mrs Fry said it also had what looked like three spheres inset into its base, one of which "flopped out", landing on the ground at the junction of nearby Ashbourne and Whitfield Road.


A group of twelve children who were playing nearby saw it and went over to have a closer look, before it rose up from the ground and into the sky, disappearing from sight after a few minutes.


This one is straightforward. Multiple witnesses, during clear daytime hours observed something very unusual at close range. The military at that time did not have anything even close to this type of craft. Its very hard to put this one as swamp gas or the planet Venus.


Resources: ufocasebook.com.



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1955: Bexleyheath UFO Encounter
Posted On: December 16, 2021

The year is 1955, the place, Bexleyheath, England. On King Harold's Way in Bexleyheath in the London Borough of Bexley a 30 foot wide saucer shaped object was seen to hover a few feet above a street in broad daylight. It was a very hot cloudless day. The event was witnessed by around thirty people. Car engines nearby to the object stalled. The object made a humming noise. The object landed at the junction of Ashbourne Road and Whitfield Road. It hovered over Bedonwell Primary School for around one minute. Finally the object shot off into the sky.


On July 17th, 1955 at 12:00 hours, the witness, Rodney Maynard, from Belvedere and about thirty other people observed an object in the middle of the street. The witness advised:


"We were on our lunch break when we heard something was happening in King Harold's Way. So we went up there to have a look. This thing had landed in the roadway. It took up the whole width of the road and overlapped onto the pavements. It wasn't on the ground, it had about eight massive suckers. The center was still, but the outer rim was spinning slowly and it had white lights flashing, like a camera flash. There were about 30 of us staring at it. We could hear it humming. It had what looked like windows but the glass was concave and molded together so you couldn't see in. A couple of us went forward to try and touch it and it began to spin faster. Then it lifted slowly off the ground and hovered above our heads, tilting slightly. The craft moved slowly until it was over Bedonwell Primary School, where it stayed for about a minute, then shot up into the sky and disappeared. It was black, sleek and streamlined with a surface like polished metal. It was very fine and beautiful. It certainly wasn't a prank. I have never forgotten it but I don't talk about it because people would think you were barmy.”


Another witness this UFO encounter was Margaret Fry. She advised that she had lived in Hythe Avenue, was making her way to her doctor's office. She and the doctor, Dr Thukarta, both saw what she described as an "enormous craft" hovering over the doctor's car. She described the craft as saucer-shaped with a "blue, silver, grey, pewter texture, yet, none of those colours." Mrs Fry said it also had what looked like three spheres inset into its base, one of which "flopped out", landing on the ground at the junction of nearby Ashbourne and Whitfield Road.


A group of twelve children who were playing nearby saw it and went over to have a closer look, before it rose up from the ground and into the sky, disappearing from sight after a few minutes.


This one is straightforward. Multiple witnesses, during clear daytime hours observed something very unusual at close range. The military at that time did not have anything even close to this type of craft. Its very hard to put this one as swamp gas or the planet Venus.


Resources: ufocasebook.com.



1955: Bexleyheath UFO Encounter

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