Stratford dog walker left in fear after UFO hovers overhead
A DOG walker feared she would be abducted by aliens when an eerie flashing light raced towards her at high-speed last Friday.
Maria Hemming says she saw a UFO moving in an erratic pattern over a field next to Stratford’s Recreation Ground when she and her son Daniel, aged 24, walked the family dog next to the recently installed children’s playground close to the Tramway path on Shipston Road.
The time was 10pm and for a whole minute or two the object in the sky emitted a mix of green, orange and red lights but made no noise before heading toward Maria, Daniel and their English bulldog, Lluvia.
“I thought ‘oh my God they’re going to abduct us,’” Maria told the Herald. “It was coming towards us very fast and I was very frightened. It had been circling around a big field next to the Recreation Ground. It was elongated and everything happened so quickly. I shouted to Daniel that we needed to hide behind some trees for safety. The object then just disappeared from view.”
While Maria was calling for Daniel to take cover he continued to take pictures of the mysterious object in the clear night sky.
Daniel said: “We spotted a bizarre green and red moving object in the sky while walking my dog in the Recreational Ground. Because of its erratic movement, it was rather difficult to take close-up pictures and I wondered if anyone else might have reported similar sightings? It disappeared out of sight suddenly after I took pictures of it, although it seemed to be hovering around the same area for some time. I also think that it was too high up in the sky to be a drone.”
Both he and Maria raced up to the Tramway path to see if the object was still visible but it was nowhere to be seen.
For Maria, Friday’s experience brought back some close encounters she had as a youngster in her native Colombia.
She added: “I have seen UFOs three times before. One was hovering over my house and one was outside my school but the one on Friday has made me very worried and now it’s better to walk the dog in the afternoon. It wasn’t a lantern or a drone I would say it was a UFO.”
Last November John Hanson from near Stratford, who is a retired CID detective, published Policing The Haunted Skies a collection of police encounters with UFOs in the UK from the 1950s onwards.
The Herald contacted Mr Hanson for his thoughts on Maria and Daniel’s experience and he had this to say.
“I have seen similar photographs of objects like this over the many years I have been involved in research and investigation. I have no reason to believe at this moment in time that these are not apparently genuine photos of objects which have been seen moving across the skies of the UK going back many years. What they are and where they come from still eludes explanation.”
John Hanson hopes to make contact with Maria and Daniel to find out more about Friday night’s frightening episode.
