Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999
Spaceman photograph on a Carlisle marsh (book review retelling)
1964 ยท Marsh north-west of Carlisle, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Wintle recounts Randles' investigation of a snapshot taken on a marsh north-west of Carlisle in May 1964 which, when developed, showed a man in a space suit that neither the photographer nor his wife had seen. A month later two men in black suits arrived in a dark car, grilled him, drove him out to the marsh and then left him to walk five miles home. Randles investigated years later and linked the case, almost unbelievably, to a rocket launch at Woomera in Australia aborted the same month because something strange had turned up on a photograph taken just beforehand. Wintle asks what the men were investigating and how events on continents ten thousand miles apart could be connected.
What Hind made of it
Wintle finds the Woomera link almost unbelievable but presents it as one of the book's most fascinating cases.
In their words
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What on earth is going on in this world of ours linking continents 10 000 miles apart?
Cross references
- The Truth Behind the Men in Black
- Woomera rocket launch, May 1964