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MEANWHILE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND . . .
ust five months after Betty and Barney Hill’s late-night encounter, a similar incident occurred in the United Kingdom. In this case, the witness was a man named Ronald Wildman. It was in the early hours of February 9, 1962, that Wildman had an extraordinary experience, one which led him to fully believe he had seen a UFO at very close quarters. Amazed and slightly unsettled by what had occurred, Wildman contacted the local police, who later shared his story with the United Kingdom’s Air Ministry, which is today called the Ministry of Defense (MoD). The press, tipped off by the police, gave the story more than a bit of coverage, which led the UKs UFO research community to descend on Wildman and pick his brain about what he saw, too. Behind the scenes, the military was maintaining a very close watch of Wildman and his experience. That much can be proved: the old Air Ministry file on the man and his encounter has been released into the public domain and can be accessed in person at the National Archives in Kew, England. The Wildman file runs from 1962 to 1964 and is predominantly comprised of clippings taken from newspapers, various issues of Flying Saucer Review magazine—a popular publication for UFO
