by Hilary Porter
A rarely covered true story that has strong connections with the 1980
High Hurlands, Liphook, Hampshire, UFO and alien visitation case
[Please scroll down this page for the full story and important links]
In one way or another, I have been involved with UFOs and the Paranormal from an early age; since babyhood in all probability, considering how my Christening photos show a phantom visitor standing between my father and my Godmother - with myself, (the baby) staring directly at this ghostly apparition!...
…pictures which have been analyzed by experts, yet even they could not provide any logical explanation for such strange images.
Originally taken in 1946, these photos were examined in more recent years by a photographer working for the Daily Mirror newspaper; this guy is a true professional, and still prefers to use old-school film cameras rather than digital, and he develops all of his own pictures in the traditional way; he concluded that my images were not the result of double exposure or chemical runs caused during processing, (as skeptics might try to dismiss them as) neither are they tricks of the light or anything similar; they are genuine, untouched and unexplainable.
Yet it wasn't until the early spring of 1980, when it really hit me as
to the true extent of my other-worldly visitations!
The time was about 7.30pm, and I had just put our little daughter to
bed; her name is Sally and she suffers from severe autism, so as the
reader can imagine, I was now ready for a good rest myself; but, just
as I was about to enter my lounge to switch on the television I had the
shock of my life; nothing could have prepared me for what was about to
transpire!
No sooner than I had opened the lounge door, I suddenly noticed a big
figure standing there outside, practically pressed right up against my
lounge window!
Naturally, I was petrified, but also I wondered to myself how could he
have got in? as we have high wooden fencing and bushes ¾ of the way
round, and link wire fence divided gardens on the other side; then my
thoughts turned to calling the police.
This intruder was of absolutely huge stature, which I judged to be no
less than 6ft 7ins high, (probably even slightly more than that) so
tall in fact, that he was bending his head down into the fanlight
window to peer into my room!
I looked-on startled, terrified and yet outraged at the cheek of
whoever/whatever this might have been.
As I stared, I could see that the uninvited visitor was dressed in
black from top to bottom, and had a helmet-type of head-covering with
something like a large black visor on it; yet this 'helmet' seemed to
blend into the suit somehow; it was very weird, almost as if it was an
all-in-one suit of some kind.
Above: Witness drawing of encounter; please click
image to enlarge
Above: Comparison; please click image
to enlarge
At this point the visitor raised his right hand.
For some reason, I did the same and raised my right hand as if in reply.
Next, this “being” suddenly moved, but without walking, (it was more like a sliding or floating action), …zooming backwards, (a good 5ft back) and up to my garden wall.
Then the figure moved up on to the garden steps at least another 5ft to his left, …again without walking, as I didn’t notice any legs and the movements were truly super-humanly fast.
Because of his huge stature he blocked out most of the view of my neighbors’ greenhouse and shed; and I noticed as 'he' stood there, that the sunlight was making a sheen on ‘his’ suit; but I had never seen anything quite like 'he' was ‘wearing’ before; nearest description would be a cross between a black space suit and welders overalls.
Then to my shock, the visitor quickly vanished right before my eyes!
I rapidly shut the curtains and began writing all that I had just experienced in my log book: Yet, rather than frighten me-off the whole subject of UFOs and aliens, once I had recovered, this encounter served to strengthen my interest further.
With the help of the UFO Info Exchange Library in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, (of which I was a member at that time) I had already set up a special UFO telephone hotline for others to report sightings to me...
…and 3 months after my man in black experience, I had a phone call from two nurses at High Hurlands Hospital, Liphook, Hampshire.
It was on a Sunday evening in July, time 9.45pm.
The hospital sisters were so upset and distraught that they actually couldn’t speak much at first; but in between all of their crying I managed to reassure them - and told them to take as long as they wanted.
Gradually they calmed down and started to relate exactly what was going on; they said that there had been many incidents where an unidentified, circular, humming craft with multi-coloured lights on it had hovered above their hospital and over the grounds nearby.
Apparently they had observed it’s movements very well, and told me how the object always came from the Guildford direction then moved away southerly, towards the Portsmouth area; but they went on to say things have got much worse now.
Just and hour or so before they phoned me, the craft had actually landed!
Others in the staffing quarters at the bottom of the hill, had heard the humming of the craft and rushed out to have a look; they saw it hanging in the sky, and then suddenly it began to descend; at this point, the craft turned its lights off completely.
With the craft having touched down in a field behind the apple orchard, one of the nurses went back inside and grabbed her camera and took several pictures; but because it was dark, the object distant and the camera only a very basic Instamatic-type, the images were useless... nothing came out.
Then other staff coming off, and going on duty from the wards had reported seeing a large black figure rushing past their windows and doors.
'The whole place has been put into a lock-down situation', they told me.
As with my own encounter, they said that the being doesn’t walk but just “moves at incredible speed”... zooming across long distances, such as up and down between the Hospital's apple orchard and buildings in the blink of an eye... which would normally take a person about 20 minutes to cover.
Staff began phoning from the nursing quarters up to the main part of the hospital to warn them that the black figure was heading their way, and vice-versa.
This “being” had started “coming right up to the windows of the wards; and we have handicapped, sick children to care for, so we are having to put the blinds down as it’s scaring the life out of these little ones.”
The nurses were so hysterical - I was barely able to get a word in edgeways at times; this, added to the fact that they were calling from a pay phone, (presumably located within their hospital) meant our conversation was very hurried and I didn't have the opportunity to tell them one of the most important things of all; that their description of the visitor in black exactly matched my own close encounter observations just 3 months before; or the remarkable coincidence that my daughter Sally is also a special needs child... just like the children at High Hurlands.
I was taken aback by everything I had been told; then they begged me to go straight down to Liphook to investigate, but I explained that I had a small daughter to look after. I was on my own and couldn’t leave her, as she was also handicapped.
The nurses understood and I said that I would try and get help for them from another researcher, *Mr Omar Fowler, (an ex-RAF chap, turned UFO investigator) who lived near-by; and so I contacted him. [*Omar wouldn't have been my first choice though; but there was no one else locally I could have called on for the task, so I could see no other alternative; quite frankly, from previous dealings with him I found the man very aloof, cold and quite disbelieving; so-much-so that I didn't even tell him about my own remarkable encounter... his loss!]
As I waited for a call back, I thought hard on this situation; maybe those who are carers and nurses are being monitored by the aliens; perhaps these “beings” are studying the loving, caring side of humanity; or is it the handicapped children they are interested in? it's funny the things that go across your mind, especially in a time of crisis.
Anyway, Omar Fowler phoned me back and agreed to take the hospital case on; and so I left it in his very 'capable' hands.
I didn't hear any more about that case until months later when Omar published his report (click here for a PDF of the FULL story)
Above: Witness drawing; please
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My
friend insisted I phone the police, so to keep her happy I
did, and they said they
At no time could I reveal what really took place, as the police would have thought us both barmy!
I never heard from, or
was able to contact, or trace the nurses at High Hurlands again;
whether Omar had something to them, whether they were warned off, or
had moved on - or were simply too scared to discuss the matter anymore, I simply
don't know: All I do know is that despite the passing of several
decades, whenever I'm in my lounge, I sit with the curtains
open in the evening, wondering whether the being in black might return
again
someday.
The above experiences have strong similarities with yet another case,
where a large black alien entity was encountered in Bradford, UK, way
back in 1955.
Hilary Ann Porter
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