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I'm not sure if this has been brought up on the list but the Beverly case is very interesting and a possibly striking correlate to the Westall affair. Both occurred in April 1966 and school areas were involved. Westall while getting some local coverage did not get much of profile in the US. Beverly was investigated by Ray Fowler (see his books "UFOs Interplanetary Visitors" and "Casebook of a UFO investigator") and the notorious Condon report.
Also on April 22 1966 at Wenham Mass., Gordon College students and a ground maintenance man saw a roughly circular orange object approach within 600 feet of them at about 100 feet altitude. It did a right angle turn and moved off and out of sight behind trees. Wenham was Fowler's home town.
Here is what Fowler wrote in "UIV": "During the month of April 1966, I received a total of 22 reports that were evaluated as being in the "unknown" category! Six of these reports involved UFOs hovering over or around school buildings."
Here is what Dr. James McDonald said about the Beverly case to the "Symposium on UFOs", hearing before a US House of Reps committee in 1968:
"... 3 adult women and subsequently a total of more than a half dozen adults (including 2 police officers) observed 3 round lighted objects hovering near a school building ... At one early stage of the sightings, one of the discs moved rapidly over the 3 women, hovering above one of them at an altitude of only a few tens of feet and terrifying the hapelss woman until she bolted. "
The Condon report on the Beverly event:
"narratives of past events, such as the 1966 incident at Beverly, Mass., (Case 6), would fit no other explanation ("an alien vehicle was physically present") if the testimony of the witnesses is taken at full face value."
I suspect a similar conclusion could be drawn of the Westall school event also of April 1966, unless compelling evidence for a man made stimuli emerges. I'm not aware of any prosaic or exotic man made stimuli that satisfactorily fits even the consensus view on Westall, let alone the rest of the strange mix.
Something unusual was in the air during April 1966.
Regards,
Bill Chalker
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