John Day, The Mann Family And “Mrs. G” – Crazy Claims? Or A Genuine Alien Abduction Spree In England, 1978?
By all accounts thirty-three year old John Day was the sort of man who scoffed and mocked the idea of aliens and UFOs. In December 1978, when returning home to Essex with his twenty-nine year old wife, Susan, and their three young children following a visit to Susan’s parents in Harold Hill, that would change.
Their journey should have taken (as it usually did) thirty minutes. They had set off from Susan’s parents at around 9:20pm. When they drove up to their home, entered the house and began to get their children ready for bed, they noticed the clock on their mantle showing forty-five minutes after midnight.
They couldn’t account for three hours they had supposedly spent driving home. They felt unsettled and confused, feelings that only increased over the coming days when the family began to experience strange and intense nightmares about strange large eyed creatures. The nightmares reached such intensity that the family were “scared to go to sleep!”
Almost against what he would have considered his better judgement, John Day contacted a UFO group who in turn put him in touch with hypnotist , Leonard Wilder.
John agreed to undergo hypnosis in order to “recall the lost three hours” of his life. Susan however stated she didn’t want to relive the accounts again. Nor would their three children.
John however, after supposedly being “conditioned” by Wilder to “only tell what really happened” revealed a fascinatingly detailed account of the events that took place on their drive home.
Their journey should have taken (as it usually did) thirty minutes. They had set off from Susan’s parents at around 9:20pm. When they drove up to their home, entered the house and began to get their children ready for bed, they noticed the clock on their mantle showing forty-five minutes after midnight.
They couldn’t account for three hours they had supposedly spent driving home. They felt unsettled and confused, feelings that only increased over the coming days when the family began to experience strange and intense nightmares about strange large eyed creatures. The nightmares reached such intensity that the family were “scared to go to sleep!”
Almost against what he would have considered his better judgement, John Day contacted a UFO group who in turn put him in touch with hypnotist , Leonard Wilder.
John agreed to undergo hypnosis in order to “recall the lost three hours” of his life. Susan however stated she didn’t want to relive the accounts again. Nor would their three children.
John however, after supposedly being “conditioned” by Wilder to “only tell what really happened” revealed a fascinatingly detailed account of the events that took place on their drive home.
The "wave" of alien abductions in England in 1978 are just three of many,many, thousands over the last fifty years alone.
He stated that they had driven into a strange mist that had arrived out of nowhere before noticing a bright light that was following the car. The light then landed in a field adjacent to their route and shot out another beam of light that lifted the car from the road and into what “looked like a spaceship!”
The next thing he recalled was standing in a “giant room” with three tall creatures that were dressed in tight silver-grey “one-piece” outfits and had a “balaclava-type helmet that covered the bottom of their faces” – their eyes were “bright pink and had no eye-lids!”
John assumed that they communicated with him telepathically as he “knew what they wanted him to do” as he made his way through a doorway into another room and lay on what looked to be an operating table that was there.
“A metal arm swung over me scanning my body,” John recalled before claiming that three other creatures then entered the room. These were shorter in height, and proceeded to poke at him with pen-like objects.
John then recalls walking through “the ship” and noticing how the furniture was all “moulded to the wall” – he even stated he remembered seeing “a table with a pile of cubes with magnets on them. They looked like some sort of game!”
The next thing he knew he was back in his car, driving on their journey home.
Wilder himself, perhaps predictably, perhaps not, stated that “he had no doubt that Day was telling him the truth!”
Although Susan Day refused to be hypnotised, she did talk about her own memory of the incident with John Clare in an interview carried by the News Of The World newspaper. She stated that she remembered being covered temporarily in a mauve liquid and then prodded with pens by several small creatures. She stated she screamed before a “tall being with a balaclava type hat on put his hand on my forehead!” – after that she claimed everything went black.
British UFO investigator, Barry King, was just one of many who examined the Day case. He stated in the same interview, “We have made exhaustive enquiries and are convinced that these two (John and Susan) did indeed have a close encounter of the third kind. Some of their descriptions are very similar to those given in other genuine cases of abduction. We can find no reason to doubt the authenticity of their story!”
The next thing he recalled was standing in a “giant room” with three tall creatures that were dressed in tight silver-grey “one-piece” outfits and had a “balaclava-type helmet that covered the bottom of their faces” – their eyes were “bright pink and had no eye-lids!”
John assumed that they communicated with him telepathically as he “knew what they wanted him to do” as he made his way through a doorway into another room and lay on what looked to be an operating table that was there.
“A metal arm swung over me scanning my body,” John recalled before claiming that three other creatures then entered the room. These were shorter in height, and proceeded to poke at him with pen-like objects.
John then recalls walking through “the ship” and noticing how the furniture was all “moulded to the wall” – he even stated he remembered seeing “a table with a pile of cubes with magnets on them. They looked like some sort of game!”
The next thing he knew he was back in his car, driving on their journey home.
Wilder himself, perhaps predictably, perhaps not, stated that “he had no doubt that Day was telling him the truth!”
Although Susan Day refused to be hypnotised, she did talk about her own memory of the incident with John Clare in an interview carried by the News Of The World newspaper. She stated that she remembered being covered temporarily in a mauve liquid and then prodded with pens by several small creatures. She stated she screamed before a “tall being with a balaclava type hat on put his hand on my forehead!” – after that she claimed everything went black.
British UFO investigator, Barry King, was just one of many who examined the Day case. He stated in the same interview, “We have made exhaustive enquiries and are convinced that these two (John and Susan) did indeed have a close encounter of the third kind. Some of their descriptions are very similar to those given in other genuine cases of abduction. We can find no reason to doubt the authenticity of their story!”
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An artists account of the events described by John Day.
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The Very Similar Encounter Of The Mann Family
One case that did have very similar details occurred around six months earlier on June 19th 1978, when John Mann, his wife Gloria and his sister Frances, along with their two children, were driving home from Reading, Berkshire to Brockworth, Gloucestershire, realised they couldn’t account for nearly two hours of their journey.
They set off at just after 9:30pm and expected to be home around 11pm. It was a journey they had made before and knew the route well.
A little after 10pm, after they had just passed Stanford-in-the-Vale in Oxfordshire, the three adults (the children were dosing in the back) all saw a brilliant white light in front of them. They followed it for a mile or so, with the light maintaining it’s distance. They could see the full moon so they knew it wasn’t that and all agreed that it was too big to be a star.
John pulled the car over and stepped outside the vehicle in an attempt to see if there was any unusual sounds he could make out. Almost instantly a red light flashed on beside the white light, that was now growing larger as it made it’s way closer to them. John would later recall he could hear a “mixture of a swishing sound and the scoring noise of a train’s wheels against the track!”
His wife screamed at him to “get back in the car! It’s going to land!” which awoke John from his trance. He sped off away from the light.
After one hundred yards or so though he realised that were not on the A417 road that they had just been on. They were on a small, windy road with sharp bends that was hemmed in with hedges that he could not see over.
John recalled bizarrely that “I had this strange feeling that if I had taken my hands off the wheel, the car would have driven itself!”
They rounded another bend and found themselves suddenly in Faringdon, Gloucestershire, although John could not recall passing the usual “Welcome to Faringdon” sign that he normally would have.
They also noticed again the ball of light, although this time it was behind them, keeping pace, but not pursuing them as much as keeping them in sight. Frances recalled later that it “would disappear whenever they drove past a group of houses!”
By the time they had reached the village of Cirencester, it had vanished.
Expecting it to be just after 11pm, the three adults were shocked to discover it was well after midnight. Frances insisted on driving her own car to her own house in Stroud several miles away, and after the Mann’s had put their children to bed, John rang RAF Brize Norton to report the UFO.
The following day, still very shaken, John tried to locate the twisty, winding road they had driven on the night before but could not do so. He also attempted to find the field where they had seen the ball of light land before they had taken off at speed. Again he couldn’t and John began to wonder if they had had some kind of group hallucination.
However, just as they were beginning to think they had imagined the whole affair, John noticed that he had developed what looked to be heat-rash on the lower part of his chest which was extremely irritable and itchy. When he informed his wife, Gloria, she revealed that she too had similar markings on her left arm and leg. Upon speaking with Francis she confirmed that she also had developed itchy skin that resembles a heat-rash.
Perhaps even stranger, all of them had discovered substantial bruising below their right knees with no idea how it had become bruised.
The final straw for the Manns were several disturbing nightmares that their daughter Natasha had over the weeks following the drive home.
They set off at just after 9:30pm and expected to be home around 11pm. It was a journey they had made before and knew the route well.
A little after 10pm, after they had just passed Stanford-in-the-Vale in Oxfordshire, the three adults (the children were dosing in the back) all saw a brilliant white light in front of them. They followed it for a mile or so, with the light maintaining it’s distance. They could see the full moon so they knew it wasn’t that and all agreed that it was too big to be a star.
John pulled the car over and stepped outside the vehicle in an attempt to see if there was any unusual sounds he could make out. Almost instantly a red light flashed on beside the white light, that was now growing larger as it made it’s way closer to them. John would later recall he could hear a “mixture of a swishing sound and the scoring noise of a train’s wheels against the track!”
His wife screamed at him to “get back in the car! It’s going to land!” which awoke John from his trance. He sped off away from the light.
After one hundred yards or so though he realised that were not on the A417 road that they had just been on. They were on a small, windy road with sharp bends that was hemmed in with hedges that he could not see over.
John recalled bizarrely that “I had this strange feeling that if I had taken my hands off the wheel, the car would have driven itself!”
They rounded another bend and found themselves suddenly in Faringdon, Gloucestershire, although John could not recall passing the usual “Welcome to Faringdon” sign that he normally would have.
They also noticed again the ball of light, although this time it was behind them, keeping pace, but not pursuing them as much as keeping them in sight. Frances recalled later that it “would disappear whenever they drove past a group of houses!”
By the time they had reached the village of Cirencester, it had vanished.
Expecting it to be just after 11pm, the three adults were shocked to discover it was well after midnight. Frances insisted on driving her own car to her own house in Stroud several miles away, and after the Mann’s had put their children to bed, John rang RAF Brize Norton to report the UFO.
The following day, still very shaken, John tried to locate the twisty, winding road they had driven on the night before but could not do so. He also attempted to find the field where they had seen the ball of light land before they had taken off at speed. Again he couldn’t and John began to wonder if they had had some kind of group hallucination.
However, just as they were beginning to think they had imagined the whole affair, John noticed that he had developed what looked to be heat-rash on the lower part of his chest which was extremely irritable and itchy. When he informed his wife, Gloria, she revealed that she too had similar markings on her left arm and leg. Upon speaking with Francis she confirmed that she also had developed itchy skin that resembles a heat-rash.
Perhaps even stranger, all of them had discovered substantial bruising below their right knees with no idea how it had become bruised.
The final straw for the Manns were several disturbing nightmares that their daughter Natasha had over the weeks following the drive home.
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(back right) Gloria Mann, (back left), Frances Mann, (middle) John Mann, (front left) Tania Mann, (front right Natasha Mann)
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Gloria would later recall her daughter told her of the dream that “she could see lots of strange people with funny eyes staring at her” and that “someone had taken Mummy and Daddy into another room!”
When Gloria tried to pry a little more into what happened Natasha grew increasingly frustrated with her and stated, “you should know! You were there!”
Upon hearing these accounts from Natasha, John Mann became convinced that “something” happened to them on their recent journey, and both he and his sister, Frances agreed to undergo hypnosis by hypnotherapist Geoffrey McCartney.
John recalled once under hypnosis that when he had exited the car a UFO had landed in front of them about one hundred feet off the ground. John began to walk into a “strange mist” and then around eight tall figures, dressed in a “tight fitting silver-grey metallic looking suit with balaclava looking helmets” walked past him and took the two women and three children from the car. They then all proceeded to walk into a “column of light” which seemed to lift them from the ground.
They were then in a giant room with several of the tall figures around them. He was taken to another room where he was sat in what resembled a “dentist’s chair” and had a bright light shone into his face and eyes. He claimed the two tall figures were women, and while one examined him closely, another was pressing buttons on a desk to his side. The woman examining him then pulled something down from the ceiling and he blacked out.
He recalled when he awoke there was what looked to be a tall man in the room who spoke to the two women in a language he could not understand. The man then addressed him in English. He stated his name was Anouxia and that no harm would come to any of them.
John further recalled that he had enquired if they were on a spaceship and how was it powered, to which Anouxia replied that “they would be prepared to bargain with the ship’s technology in exchange for them to live on Earth!”
He recalled being shown what he could only describe as a film as if from a “pilot’s view point” who was flying over a desolate rocky landscape that looked as though it had been ravaged by war or a disaster of some kind. He claimed what he was seeing was the a film of Anouxia’s people “collecting their dead" on their home planet.
When Gloria tried to pry a little more into what happened Natasha grew increasingly frustrated with her and stated, “you should know! You were there!”
Upon hearing these accounts from Natasha, John Mann became convinced that “something” happened to them on their recent journey, and both he and his sister, Frances agreed to undergo hypnosis by hypnotherapist Geoffrey McCartney.
John recalled once under hypnosis that when he had exited the car a UFO had landed in front of them about one hundred feet off the ground. John began to walk into a “strange mist” and then around eight tall figures, dressed in a “tight fitting silver-grey metallic looking suit with balaclava looking helmets” walked past him and took the two women and three children from the car. They then all proceeded to walk into a “column of light” which seemed to lift them from the ground.
They were then in a giant room with several of the tall figures around them. He was taken to another room where he was sat in what resembled a “dentist’s chair” and had a bright light shone into his face and eyes. He claimed the two tall figures were women, and while one examined him closely, another was pressing buttons on a desk to his side. The woman examining him then pulled something down from the ceiling and he blacked out.
He recalled when he awoke there was what looked to be a tall man in the room who spoke to the two women in a language he could not understand. The man then addressed him in English. He stated his name was Anouxia and that no harm would come to any of them.
John further recalled that he had enquired if they were on a spaceship and how was it powered, to which Anouxia replied that “they would be prepared to bargain with the ship’s technology in exchange for them to live on Earth!”
He recalled being shown what he could only describe as a film as if from a “pilot’s view point” who was flying over a desolate rocky landscape that looked as though it had been ravaged by war or a disaster of some kind. He claimed what he was seeing was the a film of Anouxia’s people “collecting their dead" on their home planet.
Many UFO witnesses and alien abductees report seeing a bright blue-white light.
Frances, hypnotised completely separately from John, further clarified the film they had seen. After having matched John’s account almost indentically, until they were split from each other before their examinations.
When Frances came to, she claimed she spoke with an “explorer pilot” called Uxiaulia, who had led his “people” from their home planet of Janos. Like John, Frances recalled being shown a film that showed why they had to “find a new home!”
“There were three planets on the screen,” Frances recalled, “he said they were called Sarnia, Sarton and Janos. Sarton, the one nearest to their sun, came out of it’s orbit too close to Janos and began to break up, showering Janos with meteorites. One of these meteorites hit a nuclear power station and set off a chain reaction which devastated their planet!”
Frances even claimed to have seen a picture of a “tall blonde lady and two young children” who were the pilot’s wife, son and daughter, all of whom she said he had told her had died on Janos.
Lastly, Frances said that those that could, fled the planet on a “huge mother ship” and then sent various explorer ships out into space to seek out other planets – and that Earth was a planet they wanted to live on in “exchange for technology!”
Even stranger both Frances and John made passing comments about being given colourless fizzy drinks before they left the ship. When asked what they were and why they were given them, each replied they were told, “It is to help you forget. You must forget for you will be exploited!”
So was this a wild story that the Mann’s concocted?
As with the Day’s experience six months later, their case was examined by many doctors and UFO specialists, with most agreeing that the consistency of their statements under hypnosis, made separately and independently of each other was “remarkable” and that most were “convinced they were telling the truth” – what lent further credence to this belief was the account that Natasha gave, also separately from her father and aunt, who, although not under hypnosis, matched both of their accounts in every detail.
If we are assuming for just a moment that these abduction claims were real and authentic, are they the same “species” of alien?
Both were said to be wearing tight fitting silver-grey one-piece attire and both were described as having “balaclava type helmets” on that covered the bottom of their faces. The accounts happened within six months of each other, relatively speaking, in the same area of the country.
When Frances came to, she claimed she spoke with an “explorer pilot” called Uxiaulia, who had led his “people” from their home planet of Janos. Like John, Frances recalled being shown a film that showed why they had to “find a new home!”
“There were three planets on the screen,” Frances recalled, “he said they were called Sarnia, Sarton and Janos. Sarton, the one nearest to their sun, came out of it’s orbit too close to Janos and began to break up, showering Janos with meteorites. One of these meteorites hit a nuclear power station and set off a chain reaction which devastated their planet!”
Frances even claimed to have seen a picture of a “tall blonde lady and two young children” who were the pilot’s wife, son and daughter, all of whom she said he had told her had died on Janos.
Lastly, Frances said that those that could, fled the planet on a “huge mother ship” and then sent various explorer ships out into space to seek out other planets – and that Earth was a planet they wanted to live on in “exchange for technology!”
Even stranger both Frances and John made passing comments about being given colourless fizzy drinks before they left the ship. When asked what they were and why they were given them, each replied they were told, “It is to help you forget. You must forget for you will be exploited!”
So was this a wild story that the Mann’s concocted?
As with the Day’s experience six months later, their case was examined by many doctors and UFO specialists, with most agreeing that the consistency of their statements under hypnosis, made separately and independently of each other was “remarkable” and that most were “convinced they were telling the truth” – what lent further credence to this belief was the account that Natasha gave, also separately from her father and aunt, who, although not under hypnosis, matched both of their accounts in every detail.
If we are assuming for just a moment that these abduction claims were real and authentic, are they the same “species” of alien?
Both were said to be wearing tight fitting silver-grey one-piece attire and both were described as having “balaclava type helmets” on that covered the bottom of their faces. The accounts happened within six months of each other, relatively speaking, in the same area of the country.
One of the many alleged alien ufo sightings caught on camera. Real?
The Encounter Of Mrs G.
Lastly there is the account of a lady who would only allow herself to be identified as “Mrs G.” from Devon, who claimed she was abducted from her back garden as she pegged out washing in February 1978, four months before the Mann’s experience and ten months before the Day’s.
Mrs. G made her claim to Contact UK, one of the largest British UFO investigating organisations.
She stated that she had noticed a blue-white light approaching towards her garden in Ermington, Plymouth until it hovered over her about one-hundred feet above the ground.
“Suddenly I was enveloped and rising in a column of light,” she told UFO investigators, “I saw three figures who looked like tall men. Each was dressed with a tight shiny metallic looking suit and had on what looked like a Balaclava!”
She stated, although no-one spoke to her, she was “given the impression I would come to no harm” - perhaps telepathically.
Mrs. G. then claimed she was stood back in her garden and felt a “a sharp blow on the back of my neck. I was stunned but not hurt!”
Mrs G. found she had been stood in her back garden much longer than she should have been and the washing was still not pegged on the line. In the following days and weeks she was haunted by strange and intense dreams which ultimately led her to get in touch with Contact UK.
Bernard Delair, one of Contact UK’s more senior members said of Mrs. G’s case, “We take the report very seriously. Her story is very graphic and fits many other similar reports!”
Was there a wave of alien abductions in the south of England in 1978? Or are these three incidents co-incidence? Maybe even just crazy attention seeking stories?
Perhaps the one thing that makes the case for their legitimacy is the descriptions of the creatures or abductors themselves. It seems strange that the descriptions given were far from the "norm" of the time, and particularly of their clothing matching right down to the balaclava helmets – if they were fantasy stories made up for attention, the alien figure in the public perception at that time would really be of the “grey alien” type, and you would expect this to be the descriptions of the abductors if they were fraudulent.
You decide. For a little further viewing check out the two You Tube videos on some of the more credible alien abduction claims.
[Marcus Lowth November 2015]
Mrs. G made her claim to Contact UK, one of the largest British UFO investigating organisations.
She stated that she had noticed a blue-white light approaching towards her garden in Ermington, Plymouth until it hovered over her about one-hundred feet above the ground.
“Suddenly I was enveloped and rising in a column of light,” she told UFO investigators, “I saw three figures who looked like tall men. Each was dressed with a tight shiny metallic looking suit and had on what looked like a Balaclava!”
She stated, although no-one spoke to her, she was “given the impression I would come to no harm” - perhaps telepathically.
Mrs. G. then claimed she was stood back in her garden and felt a “a sharp blow on the back of my neck. I was stunned but not hurt!”
Mrs G. found she had been stood in her back garden much longer than she should have been and the washing was still not pegged on the line. In the following days and weeks she was haunted by strange and intense dreams which ultimately led her to get in touch with Contact UK.
Bernard Delair, one of Contact UK’s more senior members said of Mrs. G’s case, “We take the report very seriously. Her story is very graphic and fits many other similar reports!”
Was there a wave of alien abductions in the south of England in 1978? Or are these three incidents co-incidence? Maybe even just crazy attention seeking stories?
Perhaps the one thing that makes the case for their legitimacy is the descriptions of the creatures or abductors themselves. It seems strange that the descriptions given were far from the "norm" of the time, and particularly of their clothing matching right down to the balaclava helmets – if they were fantasy stories made up for attention, the alien figure in the public perception at that time would really be of the “grey alien” type, and you would expect this to be the descriptions of the abductors if they were fraudulent.
You decide. For a little further viewing check out the two You Tube videos on some of the more credible alien abduction claims.
[Marcus Lowth November 2015]
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