The shepherd and the 'thing' between the cattle grids; sheep walk round it (within Case 121)

What was reported

The morning after Johnny's midnight sighting the household compared notes, and a worker who had not joined the night search said that while gathering sheep lost the day before, in the early evening as darkness came on, roughly half past seven or eight, he had seen something sitting in the middle of the road between the two cattle grids near the house. He would not say exactly where. The sheep calmly ran round it, regrouped in front and carried on, untroubled except that they refused to walk over the spot where it had been. He maintains it was the very thing Johnny saw hours later. Johnny adds that his workers saw the same thing twice the previous year and, in 1996, earlier than his own night.

What Hind made of it

Recorded within Case 121 as corroboration from a second witness; no separate comment.

In their words

• And the sheep just calmly ran around this thing, then they joined up in front and carried on.

Cross references

• Case 121 Featherstone (15-05-1)

Connected

• UAP or 'Phantom' Car at Featherstone?Case fileSame window

  The shepherd saw the thing sitting between the cattle grids about 19:30-20:00 the same evening, hours before Johnny's midnight sighting; the sheep ran round it and afterwards refused the spot. Second witness on the same farm, told the next morning.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 15 (January 1997), spread 06-07

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