The object has also been spotted hovering over Dudley Castle and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill.Īnd in April, 2009, builders at West Midland Safari Park were stunned to see a UFO floating above them. In Tipton in 2010, two young men saw an "amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed." Its most recent appearance over the region was in Quarry Bank in 2011, when a man smoking in his garden saw a mysterious object with flashing lights - which was then chased away by another strange craft. The distinctive airborne object is one of the famous UFO sightings in the West Midlands. What next? The Wednesbury Wotsit? The Pelsall Pringle? Yes, the Midlands has a UFO named after a crisp, because it's triangular. Mr Foley, who is to be the subject of a planned Channel 5 documentary, kept several big cats including three lions and a tiger.Ī friend of Lew has now revealed that Lew released the cats in the Malvern Hills - and said he had even seen one of them not far away from there, at Shobdon, Herefordshire. It was Cradley Heath eccentric Lew Foley whose menagerie prompted the change in the law. While there are many hoaxes and genuine mistakes, evidence has started to accumulate over the years that panthers and other big cats are at large in the UK countryside.Īn Asian jungle cat was found dead on a roadside verge in Shropshire after being run over by a car in 1989 and - elsewhere in the UK - a lynx that had killed 15 sheep was photographed after being shot in Suffolk in 1991. Many believe these are creatures that were released into the wild after the 1976 Dangerous Wild Animals Act tightened up the ownership of exotic pets. The British Big Cats Society has catalogued hundreds of sightings across the Midlands. Lew Foley with Venus and Angel (left) and Laddo (right). Researchers say it's unlikely to have been caused by lights from a regular aircraft or the glow of a Chinese lantern.
The unexplained orb had also been seen by a friend who lived half a mile away. It ended up as a massive glowing sphere like a red sun, according to a report logged by the Birmingham UFO Group. The man who saw it told how it dimmed and then intensified into a bright red colour. Later, when shown a picture in a book of a classic image of an alien with grey skin, a bulbous head and large eyes - known by researchers as a Grey - her son immediately repeated the 'spaceman' words and began crying.Ī researcher from the UFO Group believes the boy may have experienced a visitation, adding: "There is no indication that he has had any other contact-related experiences or that he had been abducted at the time, but it is still a very interesting incident." The Red Orb of OldburyĪ bright light - at first white in colour - was observed over fields near Sandfields Road, Oldbury, in 2004. She went in and he was shouting 'spaceman' repeatedly. The woman had heard her three-year-old son screaming in his bedroom. It was in January 2015 that a report emerged of an alleged 'alien visitation' in Selly Oak.īirmingham UFO Group spoke to a mother who revealed events that had taken place many years earlier, back in 1997. Police reveal reports of alien abductions Birmingham’s most haunted places where you can find ghosts, poltergeists and paranormal activity.Did you see her while waiting to make a call at the phonebox? Read More Related Articles
She's become known as the Melting Woman because of the way she dissolved away into thin air. Over the years, the story has evolved as Chinese whispers altered the details - some variations say the woman was in Victorian costume, others that she was in a red dress or pink cardigan. The kiosk was removed after BT decommissioned all of its red phone boxes. The apparition was said to be the troubled spirit of a distressed mother who had lost her children in a house fire and was calling the emergency services. The ghostly caller was reported at the site until the mid 1990s.
There was once a haunted red phone box in Station Road, Erdington, it was later replaced by a sculpture (far right) on the supernatural spot
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