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Warminster Close Encounter Reports

The Warminster close encounter reports refer to the famous Wiltshire UFO wave usually called the Warminster Thing. Beginning with mysterious noises and shocks reported around Christmas 1964 and expanding into repeated light and object sightings over 1965 and after, the Warminster phenomenon became one of Britain’s most influential UFO clusters because it combined local witnesses, Arthur Shuttlewood’s campaigning journalism, hilltop skywatching, and a setting deeply entangled with nearby military land.