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Whereas the Rendlesham Forest case has just been celebrating three decades of tying itself into ever more confusing knots, we’ve just passed the 30th anniversary of another, lesser-known episode which reveals some interesting aspects of the UFO mystery.
It happened on 31 August 1980 at Golborne, Lancashire, when a woman who was a bit under the weather was sleeping on the settee to avoid disturbing her husband. She was awoken by flames outside, and hurr­ied to investigate. But this fire was in the sky, and a spectacular sight greeted her. Hovering above a nearby reservoir was a rounded object with a triangle of bumps in the base and a dark band round the middle.