When a UFO Lifted Her Car w/ Zelia Edgar

Summary

In November 1967, Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt were driving near Winchester, England, when their car was seemingly lifted off the road and set down beside a hovering cigar-shaped craft, from which a silver-suited, pink-eyed being emerged to peer in at them. A second encounter weeks later allegedly placed both witnesses and the car inside a strange room with communicating entities before they reappeared beside an unfamiliar river. Host Zelia Edgar explores how Joyce's lifelong history of poltergeists and apparitions complicates the case, raising the question of whether a haunted person can draw or even project high strangeness.

Key takeaways

• 1On November 14, 1967, Joyce Bowles (42) and Edwin 'Ted' Pratt (58) saw a 12-foot cigar-shaped object near Chilcomb outside Winchester; the car's steering locked, it felt carried sideways onto a grass verge, and the headlights grew about four times brighter.
• 2The being was about 6 feet tall, wore a shimmering silver suit Joyce compared to Bake-o-foil, had pink pupil-less eyes like an albino rabbit's, blonde hair, and a pointed beard; Joyce later developed a rash on her right side and her watch stopped working.
• 3Leslie Harris of the Bournemouth UFO group SCAN wrote up the case in Flying Saucer Review, noting other local sightings that weekend, including a silver-suited man seen by a Mr. and Mrs. Haynes.
• 4An anonymous caller said the government was displeased with Joyce, and two unrelated men both named Richard Lawrence from London contacted her on the same day.
• 5On December 30, 1967, the pair claimed they were taken with the car into a room containing a banded bottle-shaped structure with horoscope-like symbols; a being said 'we are not coming to invade you,' and they woke beside an unknown river about 10 miles south of Winchester.
• 6The Bufora Journal (May-June 1977) reported a third encounter on March 7, 1977, with friend Anne Strickland; Joyce also reported a haunting at her Quarry Road home, featured on TV in 1972, where Reverend Ramsdell Wally performed two exorcisms.

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