Posted On: April 12, 2022

The year is 1978, the place is Northamptonshire, England. The Victim was driving her car in the late afternoon. At this time she had an encounter with a UFO which resulted in missing time.

On November 22nd, 1978, at 17:15 hours, Elsie Oakensen of Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, was driving southwards down the A5 Hwy from Weedon Bec towards her home. When she approached the village of Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, she saw two very brilliant lights, a red one and a green one.

She said that there had been much traffic, but that all was as in slow motion. The object she was looking at was dumb-bell shaped, "made of very soft plastic", gray, without any openings or windows, and approximately 30 meters above the road.

She did not want to stop on high traffic road where nobody else seemed to have seen the object, she drove on under the object, continuing towards Church Stowe, or her home in Weedon according to other sources.

When she left the main road she took the lane which ended at her Weedon home, and the car stalled, there could have been two stops.

Elsie advised: "A green light started to flash. I decided to restart the engine but when I turned into the village something strange happened, the car, which had just been serviced that day, completely cut out."

This is said to have occurred when she reached a line of trees at the entry of a farm.

"Eventually it restarted but I had only travelled about 100 yards when it stopped again. The natural light disappeared and everything was in absolute blackness."

"Then suddenly a white circle shining of light approximately a meter in diameter shone on the road immediately after, as if somebody had pressed on a switch, the normal light returned and I drove my car normally."

She realized that 15 minutes had passed: which she was unable to explain.

After a single unsuccessful attempt to recover memory of the missing time by the use of "hypnotic regression", carried out by Martin Keatman, one of the coordinators of the BUFORA ufology federation, she was encouraged to try "creative visualization" on the spot of her UFO sighting by British ufologist Jenny Randles.

Consequently, she was able to "remember" being led to a place where she was "scanned" by a brilliant light by shaded and gray forms, one long and thin and the other more rectangular, which appeared and disappeared several times in a fog. Both shone through this fog, in silver gray, smooth and round. She also remembered to feel heat and that her arm was shaking.

Apparently, she was not completely "satisfactory", she had the feeling that she had been "rejected" by the entities, who brought her back to her car.

Ufologist Jenny Randles reported that there had been an independent sighting less than two hours after the Oakensen encounter, approximately four miles away: four women, younger than Mrs. Oakensen but who did not know anything of her story, and reciprocally, drove through the village of Preston Capes, and saw colored lights similar to those which had alerted Elsie Oakensen, and then they saw parallel beams shot from a cloud. Their car began to lose power and the object paced them, until they entered the village lit by streetlamps and the car returned to normal. The UFO lights now merged into one and vanished.

Because no clear link between the two encounters had been established then, there was no continuation with these other witnesses to check whether they had also experienced "missing time".

Elsie Oakensen had been so much puzzled by her experience that she wrote two books, in 1995 and 1998, about what she thinks was a close encounter of the third kind with extraterrestrial forms of life, she expressed this opinion publicly.

She continued to live in Church Stowe, writing articles for spelling journals.

My Take: There is not much to say about this. I only included it to be more thorough for my 1970’s compilation. She is either crazy, lying or something unusual happened to her.

Resources: ufologie.patrickgross.org

Posted On: April 12, 2022

The year is 1978, the place is Northamptonshire, England. The Victim was driving her car in the late afternoon. At this time she had an encounter with a UFO which resulted in missing time.

On November 22nd, 1978, at 17:15 hours, Elsie Oakensen of Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, was driving southwards down the A5 Hwy from Weedon Bec towards her home. When she approached the village of Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, she saw two very brilliant lights, a red one and a green one.

She said that there had been much traffic, but that all was as in slow motion. The object she was looking at was dumb-bell shaped, "made of very soft plastic", gray, without any openings or windows, and approximately 30 meters above the road.

She did not want to stop on high traffic road where nobody else seemed to have seen the object, she drove on under the object, continuing towards Church Stowe, or her home in Weedon according to other sources.

When she left the main road she took the lane which ended at her Weedon home, and the car stalled, there could have been two stops.

Elsie advised: "A green light started to flash. I decided to restart the engine but when I turned into the village something strange happened, the car, which had just been serviced that day, completely cut out."

This is said to have occurred when she reached a line of trees at the entry of a farm.

"Eventually it restarted but I had only travelled about 100 yards when it stopped again. The natural light disappeared and everything was in absolute blackness."

"Then suddenly a white circle shining of light approximately a meter in diameter shone on the road immediately after, as if somebody had pressed on a switch, the normal light returned and I drove my car normally."

She realized that 15 minutes had passed: which she was unable to explain.

After a single unsuccessful attempt to recover memory of the missing time by the use of "hypnotic regression", carried out by Martin Keatman, one of the coordinators of the BUFORA ufology federation, she was encouraged to try "creative visualization" on the spot of her UFO sighting by British ufologist Jenny Randles.

Consequently, she was able to "remember" being led to a place where she was "scanned" by a brilliant light by shaded and gray forms, one long and thin and the other more rectangular, which appeared and disappeared several times in a fog. Both shone through this fog, in silver gray, smooth and round. She also remembered to feel heat and that her arm was shaking.

Apparently, she was not completely "satisfactory", she had the feeling that she had been "rejected" by the entities, who brought her back to her car.

Ufologist Jenny Randles reported that there had been an independent sighting less than two hours after the Oakensen encounter, approximately four miles away: four women, younger than Mrs. Oakensen but who did not know anything of her story, and reciprocally, drove through the village of Preston Capes, and saw colored lights similar to those which had alerted Elsie Oakensen, and then they saw parallel beams shot from a cloud. Their car began to lose power and the object paced them, until they entered the village lit by streetlamps and the car returned to normal. The UFO lights now merged into one and vanished.

Because no clear link between the two encounters had been established then, there was no continuation with these other witnesses to check whether they had also experienced "missing time".

Elsie Oakensen had been so much puzzled by her experience that she wrote two books, in 1995 and 1998, about what she thinks was a close encounter of the third kind with extraterrestrial forms of life, she expressed this opinion publicly.

She continued to live in Church Stowe, writing articles for spelling journals.

My Take: There is not much to say about this. I only included it to be more thorough for my 1970’s compilation. She is either crazy, lying or something unusual happened to her.

Resources: ufologie.patrickgross.org