The Warminster Thing: From UFOs to Creeping Clouds

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we explore one of the biggest paranormal cases in the history of the UK, known simply as the Warminster Thing. The Thing is hard to describe. The events surrounding it started on Christmas Morning of 1964, but they spread through 1965 and 1966 as well. What makes this case unique in UFO lore is that it had so many witnesses (practically the whole town witnessed some part of it), and The Thing happened in different forms over the years.

The first encounter with the Warminster Thing was a series of strange sounds. Several witnesses on that Christmas morning heard a horrible sound. One woman said it was like someone was dragging large branches over her roof and then was followed by massive hail stones falling on the roof, though the sky was clear and dry. Over 30 soldiers at a nearby base heard The Thing as well and described it as a chimney being ripped from the wall and dropped on top of the buildings. Another woman heard the horrible sound on an early morning walk, and the sound waves pressed her to the ground. Many other witnesses experienced the same strange, loud sound in the night sky just in time to think it was an evil Santa

Some time passed with no more of these strange audio moments, but then something even bigger happened. Many people reported hearing a massive explosion in the sky and felt several earth quakes after the denotation. The weird thing was what the blast did. Many witnesses claim it turned into a giant cloud of smoke, like a mushroom cloud but shaped more like a light bulb. The, the cloud lowered to the ground and rolled over the forest. It turned into a ball of smoke with a bright yellow glowing core and sent tentacles of electricity out of it as crept along the tree line.

The third big encounter with The Thing was the UFOS. Eventually, people started to see a classic cigar shaped UFO with what looked like coal fires in its port holes. It was perfectly silent and slid around the sky, again, with multiple witnesses. But then there were small things, too. A bunch of rats mutilated through the town and filled with strange puncture holes. A flock of pigeons that suddenly died in unison and fell from the sky.

All of these encounters led to a town meeting in Warminster, intended to calm the populace down. All it did, however, was rile them up. People compared notes, freaked out, demanded action. A reporter covering the meeting named Arthur Shuttlewood was given one of the most famous UFO photos of all time at this meeting and took the story to the Daily Mirror. He wrote several stories and a crucial book in which he interviewed the witnesses of all the strange manifestations of The Warminster Thing. So, what was it? An alien visit? A dimensional rift? An energy weapon? An experimental craft in the cold war? What do we think of the UFO video shot on site in 2017? We have our theories, so listen, laugh, learn.

Visit our Sources:

http://www.ufo-warminster.co.uk/information/thing_history.htm

http://www.ufo-warminster.co.uk/timeline_top.htm

https://www.ufocasebook.com/warminster1964.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=AeKBoFQsXoQ

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/08/latest-uk-ufo-stirs-memories-of-the-warminster-thing/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8694000/8694729.stm

https://unresolved.me/the-warminster-thing