The mystical fog. United Kingdom

Seven months later in 1942, 27-year-old Albert Lancashire claims he became the first true British abductee. … Albert was guardian a wartime sentry box at a secret radar site at Cresswell near Newbiggin-on-Sea, Northumbria. It was late evening in September 1942 and he was ‘made’ to go outside his box by a ‘strange impulse to look at the sky’ – another common indication that these contacts occur in an altered state of consciousness. Out over the North Sea was a large, dark mist surrounding a glowing light. Thinking this was some German weapon he was about to raise the alarm when a beam of yellow light from the cloud struck him. He recalls a floating sensation, then nothing until regaining awareness by the sentry box. There was no obvious time loss involved.

Albert grew, like many witnesses, through a period of psychic experience (apparitions and ESP) and told friends of his story in the form just described. He had by now attached a mystical godly connotation. Then, in October 1967, Britain experienced a wave of UFO sightings and some white lights in the sky appeared outside the signal box at Ashton-Under-Lyne where Albert now worked for the railways. Poltergeist effects struck Albert’s home and he ha a series of dreams or visions that awoke his memory. In these visions he saw himself during the 1942 experience, waking in a strange room with a couch or bed and being in the presence of a woman of oriental appearance. There were also several ‘pygmy men’ and a human-sized being in a white suit. Albert now recalled being ‘examined’ on the bed by an entity wearing a surgeon’s mask. But much of the rest of the experience remained unclear because of ‘memory gaps’.