A Flying Saucer UFO Landed In Normanton, West Yorkshire In The Summer Of 1979: Three Tall Humanoid Aliens In Silver Suits Emerged And Walked Around On A Field

Philip Mantle, a UFO researcher with the Yorkshire UFO Society (YUFOS), investigated a baffling UFO sighting report by a woman in Normanton, West Yorkshire in 1986.

The woman and six children claimed they saw a flying saucer UFO that landed on a field near their home in broad daylight. Three very tall humanoid beings dressed in silver suits emerged from the flying saucer and walked around the field as if investigating the area or searching for something.

The mysterious beings returned hastily to their UFO and flew away after they realized that they were being observed by a woman and six children.

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Mantle investigated the case with colleague Mark Birdsall, also a member of YUFOS and editor of Eye Spy Magazine, Open Minds TV reported.

According to Mantle, the case was one of the strangest, but most convincing of multiple cases he investigated during close to three decades of his involvement in UFO studies and research.

Before they received the report from Normanton, Mantle had featured in a regional newspaper, the Wakefield Express, on Friday, October 13, 1986. The article on the Wakefield Express gave an account of Mantle’s involvement in UFO research and investigation and ended with a call to readers in the region to refer UFO sightings to YUFOS for investigation.

Several readers reported their UFO sighting experiences but one particular report stood out among the cases that Mantle and Birdsall investigated in 1986.

A woman by the name Mrs Westerman telephoned Mantle, saying that she and her children had a UFO sighting experience in the summer of 1979. But she feared he would not believe her story.

Mantle persuaded her to share her experience, and she eventually told an incredible story of a UFO sighting she had with six children in the summer of 1979. Five of the six youngsters were her children. The sixth young witness, Danny Shore, who was 13 years old at the time of the sighting, was a friend.

Mantle and Birdsall interviewed the woman and the six children at their home in Normanton, then a large mining town a few miles outside Wakefield in Yorkshire.

According to Westerman, her children and their friend were playing a ball game outside their home in Normanton, West Yorkshire, on a bright, sunny weekend afternoon in June 1979.

Mrs Weterman was indoors doing the laundry. It was mid-afternoon when her eight-year-old daughter rushed indoors, shouting excitedly that an “aeroplane” had landed in the field in front of their home.

Westerman switched off her washing machine and ran outside to see the “aeroplane.”

Westerman’s home stood on a slightly elevated piece of land at the end of a cul-de-sac, allowing a clear view of surrounding fields. A few hundred yards away in front of their home, inside a fenced field, stood a strange-looking object unlike any airplane she had ever seen.

It had silver and dull grey colors and was shaped roughly like a “Mexican hat.”

Three very tall humanoid creatures in silver suits stood near the craft. Each held an instrument that looked like a flashlight. The beings walked around the field pointing their hand-held instruments to the ground.

Westerman and the six children ran down from their property toward the field and stopped at the fence to gawk at the strange sight. The humanoid beings stopped when they saw the small crowd of people watching them. They hurried back to their strange-looking craft and entered it.

The craft rose silently, vertically, straight into the air, and stopped to hover momentarily before shooting off at great speed. The small crowd stood looking in utter amazement and shock as the flying craft disappeared.

After Mrs Westerman told her story, Mantle and Birdsall interviewed the children separately.

The children had seen the UFO coming in to land on the field, but their mother saw it only after it had landed and the humanoid beings had emerged.

The investigators were deeply impressed with the overall consistency of the report the six children gave separately, despite minor discrepancies. According to the researchers, minor discrepancies in details were expected of children who were recalling a shocking experience they had seven years before.

According to Sandra — then an eight-year-old — she was playing outside in the sun with five other children when someone threw the ball high in the sky. As she looked up to catch the ball her attention was distracted by a strange flying object in the sky.

Astonished, she shouted at the other children to look, pointing skyward. The six children watched in silence as a silver-grey UFO, roughly disc-shaped, with a rim around a bulging center, descended and stopped a few hundred feet in the sky. The mysterious object hovered for several seconds before descending slowly and landing inside a field.

Sandra fled to fetch her mother.

Another child gave an account of what transpired during the brief period Sandra ran indoors to fetch their mother.

The young children ran hesitantly toward the field and stopped at the fence to watch the UFO.

The UFO was not very big. It was about the size of a large car. Three very tall humanoid creatures emerged from what appeared to be the rear of the craft, each holding an object that looked like a flashlight.

Their faces were covered and they were dressed in metallic silver suits that had no visible zippers, buttons or seams. Each wore a pair of gloves and boots.

They proceeded, silently, slowly, but deliberately, to walk about the field. As they walked around they pointed their hand-held instrument to the ground.

Sandra returned with their mother at that moment and the seven witnesses stood watching in confusion and bewilderment for about a minute.

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One of the mysterious beings stopped abruptly and looked in the direction of the small crowd of people by the fence. He must have drawn the attention of his colleagues to the family observing them because the three beings turned suddenly and walked quickly back to their strange craft.

They disappeared inside the craft.

The craft then rose vertically in the air, without an audible sound. It stopped momentarily to hover after it had gained a height of several hundred feet and then flew off at great speed.

The children were very excited about the incident. But according to Westerman, although they often discussed the incident among themselves they did not talk about it outside the family because she thought no one would believe them.

Mantle interviewed Danny Shore, one of the six children, who was 13 years old at the time.

Shore said the entire sighting took only about ten minutes. A neighbor, Andrew Lewis, was present during the interview. He did not witness the UFO landing but he visited the family very soon after the sighting and recalled how excited and agitated they appeared to be.

Mantle and Birdsall visited the alleged site of the landing and noted it was a small field located at the end of a row of houses, part of a housing estate. The small field had several electric pylons and Mantle noted that it would have been very difficult to land a helicopter on the field.

Mantle and Birdsall were firmly convinced about the credibility of the family.

“At no time did they call the object a ‘spaceship’ or a ‘flying saucer’ and there was no way Mrs Westerman wanted any publicity,” Mantle wrote. “She would not even allow us to take her photograph.”

“They were honest, hard-working down-to-earth people,” he continued. “The children’s accounts were consistent, and all seven witnesses were in no doubt that they had observed something out of the ordinary. Both Mark and I could find no reason for them to concoct such a story.”

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