my uncle used to do the Cradle Hill skywatches at Warminster — second-hand but here goes

Not first hand so take it as that. My uncle (late now, bless him) was one of the lot who'd go up Cradle Hill outside Warminster, Wiltshire, in the late 60s for the 'Warminster Thing'. It all blew up from 1964-65 thanks to a local journo, Arthur Shuttlewood. People reported a thing in the sky he desc……