Sighting record / 1977
Dereham, Norfolk. Wednesday 11 May 1977, around 9.30pm. Marilyn Lorton turned her car out of the Market Place. Beside her sat her cousin, Stewart Bennett, on his way to a Chinese takeaway. Then he looked up. A metallic saucer, about 30ft long, was crossing the sky from east to west. A row of portholes ran along its top. One glowed orange. Beneath it, a red light pulsed. It made no sound. It flew no higher than forty feet above the roof tops, about 100 yards away, for at least 15 seconds. "It was a flying saucer," Bennett said. "That is the only way to describe it."
Dereham is a market town in the heart of Norfolk. On the evening of Wednesday 11 May 1977, Stewart Bennett of Toftwood was heading into the centre to pick up a Chinese takeaway. His cousin, Marilyn Lorton of Sandy Lane, Dereham, was at the wheel, with Bennett in the passenger seat. Around 9.30pm, Marilyn turned out of Dereham Market Place. That was when Bennett saw it.