Sighting record / 1965
June 3, 1965. About 8:30 in the evening. At the vicarage in Heytesbury, a village a few miles from Warminster, Patricia Phillips looked up and saw something hanging in the sky. It was cigar-shaped. It lay horizontal. It threw off a halo of red-orange light, with a dark circular patch at its base. For twenty-five minutes or more it did not move. Her family watched with her, and her 12-year-old son studied it through binoculars and drew it. Then it seemed to grow shorter, as if turning. And it was gone.
From December 1964, the Wiltshire town of Warminster began reporting strange sounds and lights. By the summer of 1965 the flap had a name, the Warminster "Thing", and it had drawn press coverage, a UPI wire story and a public meeting. Heytesbury lies about 3½ miles south-east of the town, on the north bank of the River Wylye.