Summer 1972-74 – Warminster – Domed Disc Landing & Beings Sighting

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Date: 02/10/2020

Last Updated: 04/02/2026

In September 2020 I was contacted by a lady from Kings Heath named Marian. She was interested in learning more about BUFOG, but when asked if she had ever seen anything herself she informed me of a stunning experience she had witnessed back in the early 1970s while living in Warminster, Wiltshire.

Warminster has for many years been known as a UFO hot spot after a wave of sightings from the 1970s and 80s, and it’s where I had my own UFO sighting back in 2009 while at Cradle Hill on a sky watch. However Marian’s experience involves something else entirely – a daylight sighting of a landed craft and beings!

Incident Details

In her early 20s Marian used to live on Princecroft Lane with her mother on the Western side of Warminster. At the time there were a number of grass-covered fields to the South West between Princecroft Lane and Masefield Road. These fields no longer exist and have since been built over.

Marian cannot recall the exact year when the experience took place but believes it was between 1972 and 1974. She does however remember that it occurred on a Friday evening in early summer time. It was just before 6pm and she and her fiancé were preparing to go out for the evening. Marian went upstairs to get ready. She entered the bedroom and walked over to the window to draw the curtains.

Due to the time of year it was still light outside, and a pleasant clear evening. She glanced out over the fields which lay beyond the end of the back garden of the property. It was now that she noticed a grey coloured object down on the ground in the nearest field. It was about 150 feet away from her location. It looked like a flattened disc with a raised dome in the centre, and appeared to be about 15 feet across. As she was upstairs she was looking down on the object at an angle.

Marian had an interest in the UFO subject at the time and was aware that Warminster was known as a hot spot. She immediately realised that the object was a landed craft. Her fiancé had some binoculars, and Marian kept them in the room just in case they ever observed anything. The binoculars happened to be on the bed at the time, so she quickly grabbed them to take a closer look at the craft. Marian informed me that even though there was a camera in the house at the time, there was unfortunately no film in it.

She stared through the binoculars at the craft for about 2 minutes. There were no visible markings, lights or windows. Suddenly she watched a ladder appear from the near side of it. Then one by one three beings descended to the ground. They looked identical to one another and were about 3 feet in height. They appeared to be unclothed. Unusually, their skin was a fluorescent green colour and they appeared to be semi-translucent. It was possible to partially see bones and internal structure through them. They did not appear to be emitting any light.

Through the binoculars they were close enough to make out facial features. They had elongated black slit-like eyes, very flat noses and ears which seemed to go into the sides of the head rather than protrude.

The beings started to walk around on the grass close to the craft. They had a strange bobbing motion as they moved. There was seemingly no pattern to this movement. Marian watched them for a further two minutes. She was a little startled and frightened by what was taking place, as of course she had never seen anything like this before.

As she was beginning to get scared, she decided to look away for a few seconds and call out to her mother and fiancé to come and see. When she looked back the craft and its occupants had completely vanished! Her mother and fiancé entered the room and asked what was going on. Marian said to them “I’ve just seen something near to the garden!” She then proceeded to tell them what she had witnessed. Her mother believed her as she too knew about Warminster’s connection with the subject, but her fiancé felt that she must have imagined it.

Due to his reaction to her experience Marian did not immediately head out to the location in the field where she had seen the craft and beings, and instead went out for the evening as planned. However the next day she walked over to the field on her own. There was no sign there had ever been anything there, no depressions in the grass or burn markings. She did not contact anyone else at the time about what had happened, but it made a lasting impression on her.

Incident Analysis

If the experience happened as Marian describes then this appears to be a genuine landing of an ET craft. Obviously there is no physical evidence to back up her claims, as with most cases we only have the testimonial evidence to go on. However the primary reason Marian got in touch with me was to learn more about our group meetings and membership. She came across as trustworthy and was not interested in making any money from her story. She had not gone to any newspapers and was not aware I would write this case report until I mentioned it.

It is very unlikely that she mis-identified something mundane as a landed craft and entities. She observed them through binoculars for a number of minutes. And surely if it was something else in the field it would not have vanished when she briefly looked away, but would still have been present.

The beings which Marian observed have some aspects which fit with them being Greys – including the short height, the shape and colour of their eyes. However the translucent fluorescent green skin is very unusual indeed. There may be other cases on record which match this description, but I have never directly investigated any other incidents which involved beings of this type.

The fact that both the object and beings did disappear so suddenly is a mystery in itself. There are plenty of cases where UFOs observed in the air have vanished extremely rapidly, and this often appears to occur when the witness happens to look away. This suggests that in some cases they may be aware they are being observed and use the opportunity to leave the area. However in this case the craft was on the ground and the beings were outside of it walking around. It would have been very difficult for them to re-enter the craft and leave the area in the short amount of time that Marian looked away. There is of course the possibility that they cloaked themselves to be hidden from sight.

Due to the significance of the location and the fact that many other sightings had gone on there around that time (and continue to do so) this could well have been a witnessed craft and its occupants on the ground. As with many experiences, this really comes down to whether you feel the testimonial details and my thoughts on the witness are enough evidence to support its reality.

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