1973: UFO SPOTTING in WARMINSTER, WILTSHIRE | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

There were strange goings-on in Warminster, Wiltshire, home to a spate of flying saucer sightings in the west of England. Nationwide's Brian Ash spent a day and night looking for UFOs with the help of Arthur Shuttlewood and Rex Dutta.
This clip is from Nationwide, originally broadcast 28 August 1973.
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[@ADM_a_different_mind]

please upload more UFO-related videos in your archives, we love to see them

[@robindavies2242]

Good to see Rex Dutta in this. In 1975 (when I was more credulous) me and a fellow amateur “ufologist” saw him give a talk at Croxley Green Youth Club. We chatted to him afterwards and got a free copy of his magazine "Aquarius Viewpoint" (which I still have) - a curious stew of UFO reports and mysticism. He was clearly a major fan of H. P. Blavatsky and her "stupendous" Secret Doctrine!

[@christopherhovord3516]

Aw, they didn't show the photo 😢

[@petergivenbless900]

"A time-exposure which we can't show here for... reasons."

[@stud105]

BBC. They tend to hush. Like Sir Jimmy.

[@karaperrio-du5gs]

if i was an alien i would go nowhere near humans

[@friabads]

Maybee there is different type of humans as well as different type of "non humans".

[@Paul_G73]

​@@friabads there isn't bipedal aliens.

[@matthewgartell6380]

BBC in competition with Eyes on cinema

[@camila123]

Yes❤

[@pyrholorange]

about 20 years ago bbc2 used to play short video clips sent in by viewers between programs. one was a couple of kids mucking round with the camera when they spot a big glowing object sailing past at dusk at roof height outside the window. its amazing coulour footage but ive never seen it anywhere since. one of the kids is singing ' im a little spaceman' at the end of the clip.

[@vaggeliskostas6889]

I would love to see that, do you have any references? What was the program called?

[@pyrholorange]

@@vaggeliskostas6889 it was just a minute long clip, not part of a program. ive never been able to find it anywhere since. the oject looked to be about the size of a bus. glowing white and less than half a mile away.

[@tenjiso8898]

Seems like it was taken straight out of VIZ magazine 😂

[@davedogge2280]

4:32 This is what happens when The League of Gentlemen go out UFO spotting

[@joebryant5722]

This is a local channel for LOCAL people, we'll have no trouble here!🤓

[@julianaylor4351]

@@joebryant5722 🤣

[@julianaylor4351]

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[@bobkelly3162]

Priceless footage my friend. Well done!

[@user-un9go4qe5i]

I love how he tells us about the two photographs that were taken by 'a BBC man on a hill'... but we don't get to see them. Did the Men in Black pay a visit to Television Centre in the middle of the night...?

[@IanPayne]

Warminster just by Salisbury Plain where they have been testing army equipment and bombing for years.

[@mariuspetre1613]

I want to see more videos like this..

[@gerry5134]

Ken Dodd joke. "What a lovely day for sticking a cucumber thru someone's letterbox and shouting The Martians are Coming !' 😆. (you might need to think about that one!) 🤭

[@julianaylor4351]

🤣

[@Pymmeh]

"If true of course". Good lad, nice caveat.

[@shingitai5882]

I wonder if they are still seeing them?

[@wolfblitzer1981]

Only when they eat the local mushrooms 🍄 😂

[@Archangel_Reez]

​@@wolfblitzer1981😂😂😂😂

[@Treguard1987]

I wish aliens would just make themselves officially known once and for all. Give the human race a good kick up the arse and get us back on track!

[@MrDastardly]

Our galactic neighbours are best to observe earth from a distant. Humans are violent creatures best observed.

[@kelkilkat]

Yes, that would be ideal. They don't know how much that would further the human race

[@euanscotland]

I have no doubt we are the aliens living in human body's

[@davidreid2301]

They have for centuries, we just can't take a hint.

[@Buff_Cupcake]

If we encountered an alien race more advanced than us, it's more likely they will destroy or conquer us than encourage us to do better.

[@lw3646]

It seems a lot of the interest has died off now after some strong interest again around the late 90s. You can see why people were drawn into it though.

[@user-un9go4qe5i]

I wonder why flying saucers would repeatedly go back to Kettering?

[@julianaylor4351]

Forgot their shopping. 🤣

[@jonkirk2118]

Well, Wicksteed Park was great fun in those days.

[@julianaylor4351]

@@jonkirk2118 😆

[@pmason6076]

Sight-seeing and to enjoy the sun. The man said so at the start of the video. 😂

[@misdangered4326]

I wonder why anyone would repeatedly go back to Kettering!

[@fortuitousthings8606]

These have got to be test vehicles for the harier jump jet

[@Adam-fl9uc]

Aaaaaaand there's nothing

[@NTRSN-Archive]

It was George King with his Beings from outer space in Earth physical body’s .🎉

[@hmq9052]

4:08 A young Glen Hoddle there talking barely comprehensible gibberish about blackbirds or something

[@nicholasgargano7396]

11:35 pubs closed

[@andrewdeans3686]

23:35

[@nicholasgargano7396]

@@andrewdeans3686 nothing at that time stamp

[@dwaneyocum1718]

Modern equipment would perform better, and most agree that there needs to be multiple camera locations. My feeling is that they should be a great distance apart. Images and videos always show some object miles away. There must be some strategy that would improve the odds of capturing an image when it's closer to being just over head.

[@hmq9052]

A good idea would be to give 7 billion people smartphones so they can video anything they see over, say, a 20 year period. There'd be loads of footage.

[@dwaneyocum1718]

@@hmq9052 It wouldn't even take that much. A single closeup could happen at any time and serendipitously.

[@hmq9052]

@@dwaneyocum1718 Yes. I hope you didn't miss my point there.

[@dwaneyocum1718]

@@hmq9052 If I did, try me again. But, who wants to wait another 20 years. I'm in my 70s and I probably don't that much time left.

[@hmq9052]

@@dwaneyocum1718 As I feared. You missed it. The point is we've just run that very experiment over the last 20 years. The evidence is in. And here it is: (There is none)

[@garybiker9092]

i see a flying teapot up there...

[@darrenedwards8433]

From the Planet Gong.

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

And pot headed pixies flashing on the hill 😂

[@Jack_Warner]

Swamp Gas..........................

[@UpTheAnte1987]

3:45 First person they interview after the sighting just happens to be the village idiot 😂

[@markwiles3485]

Take me to your leader.

[@joebryant5722]

Not a good idea in this country!

[@alileevil]

No soy faces, no screaming or yelling or OMG, what is that?!. Just a bunch of people calmly explaining what they've witnessed.

[@2degucitas]

Soy faces?

[@nohandleleft]

The problem here is the same for all witness testimony, it's never consistent, and it's often wrong. The journalist said the lights were high up in the sky flashing on and off, another says they were rising up into the sky. The journalist also says it looked like an explosion, a ball of fire, a blinding flash of light, while another described it as a camera flash. One guy takes it much further and injects his own idea of intelligent beings communicating. And on and on. Conveniently the camera never captured any of it. And where are the two 'time exposure' pictures that were taken from a neighboring hill? I would say 100 people just got trolled. They might as well say the lights picked them up with their mind rays and shook them like a dawg.

[@smeeself]

I once gave a detailed and factual account of staying up all night and watching the sunrise. I didn't mention that what I saw WAS the sun rising, and the ditz I was taking to had decided it was DEFINITELY aliens, and had even started to imbue them with qualities I had made no mention of. People. 🙄

[@kamandi1362]

@@2degucitasMouth agape, eyes wide.

[@octaviussludberry9016]

If I was to compile a list of reputable people, his list would tick all the boxes.

[@TomVernonUAP]

as much of this as you can find please beeb.

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

It's just government projects

[@Paul_G73]

Totally

[@Greenwillow]

The only flying saucers I have ever seen is the ones I would have to dispose of😂

[@BILLY-px3hw]

I almost got hit by several over the years, they usually appear to come from my wife's direction on the other side of the room

[@Barnaby_bo]

Lol. I'm not boasting, but I've seen more than you.

[@lasselasse5215]

-"Do you se 'em?" I see a black night sky. That's definitively something. I also see "flashing". And I see "flashing" also in the foreground, in front of the people. So recording artifact, and I guess hence fake altogether.

[@Dr_LK]

Flashing light... definitely an airplane, lol. Why should aliens have flashing lights?

[@atomictraveller]

i see "you a foe" all the time in arizona thank god for superior intelligence

[@albundy7718]

I'm sure some official will soon come forward and confirm UFO's exist, lets say in exactly 50 years. ;)

[@simmadpaul2880]

Turned out to be people on another hill flashing their torches and car headlights.

[@petergivenbless900]

I was thinking; a rival group of keen UFO spotters were flashing lights in response to the lights they saw flashing in the "sky" too!

[@awreckingball]

I work at the BBC and I'm posh.

[@juhox0]

I concur, sir

[@robinvanags912]

I'm pleased for you - keep up the good work.

[@julianaylor4351]

🤣

[@julianaylor4351]

These UFO experts' name sounds like Monty Python characters. 😆 They were probably experimental military jets or drones, especially since this was during the Cold War. 😁 Possibly the BBC didn't show the photographs, because if they were, what I think they are, the images would have been censored. 🤔 The only real flying saucers are the ones filled with sherbet. 😋😆

[@rgarlinyc]

I. Could. Not. Help. Noticing that. Almost. All. Of those. Local. People. Spoke. So. Very. Slowly. Methinks they'd all already suffered a direct hit by an "oo-fo" sometime previously.

[@tonyedwards4067]

where are ALL the video's and photo's... there's STILL no REAL proof...

[@friabads]

And how do you get "real proof". Who can get you real proof? Who can give you an open investigation? Will they? If not - why?

[@sunshinecloudy]

I hope the aliens don't eat us. What do they eat, anyway? Do they carry snacks in those ships?

[@gregthomas1346]

They eat fish , fish in ships

[@NoosaHeads]

Mass hypnotism or some new research technology that, unaccountably, didn't progress in the last 50 years.

[@jasonayres]

(5:00) In the old days anyway, if you wanted something to sound.. legitimate, umm.. warranted... Special💡, yes.. An old bloke with a European accent, even better if he's wearing a lab coat (-this bloke lets down the side a bit here) who can impress people with big words, that'd do the trick.

[@andrewdeans3686]

What does a 'European' accent sound like ? ? ? Given that Europe is multi-lingual, there can be no so thing as a 'European' accent.

[@jasonayres]

@andrewdeans3686 🤔Well, I would say "Western" European, but that wasn't always the case. North of Southern Europe and yet, east of Western Europe. Except for the odd English one in a Tweed jacket with those elbow patches, you know.

[@andrewdeans3686]

@@jasonayres What a load of cobbler's. The accents are all west country English.

[@misdangered4326]

‘European accent’ as in any country in mainland Europe. Eastern European would be the best imho, as that would give an air of mystique and the nagging suspicion that they might a closet Commie ready to betray us (bloody foreigners!)