The UFO Phenomenon

Famous British UFO sighting is inspiration behind new play

By T.K. Randall
September 26, 2024

Image: AI-generated (Bing AI / Dall-E 3) The strangeness began on September 2nd, 1967 when reports started to emerge of something strange in the skies over Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent which is situated in Staffordshire, England.

Descriptions of the phenomena seemed to differ slightly but most witnesses agreed that the object was saucer-shaped and exhibited a number of lights which routinely changed color.

Some also described it as having a red glow that did not seem to be giving off any heat.

"It seemed like a saucer and then it changed in different colors," said one witness. "It changed like... red and then it... come into like a greenish color and then a blue.""There was no heat. It was just a red glow, like a sunset," another added.

In total, there were around 70 independent sightings of the phenomenon.

Now, several decades later, a new play is being produced all about the incident.

Named Bright Lights Over Bentilee, it is being produced by the local Claybody Theater and will begin its run this Friday at The Dipping House for anyone who happens to be visiting the area.

"The idea that something might be out there in general and that this is like a.... kind of world where people on a mass scale saw something in our area, I think that's kind of like really kind of wild and magical," said cast member Jack Wilkinson.

Source: BBC News

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