The other day, forum member 'Sentry' posted a link to a 1968 Saucer News edition (Vol 15 No. 3) in which there is an article written by Tim Beckley, about a family in Toledo, Oregon who suffer a very strange protracted UFO experience beginning in March 1966.
More than once the family experience strange 'crawling' lights on the walls inside their home - the lights look doughnut shaped and appear to have no apparent source despite looking like projections of some sort.
Anyway, as soon as I read this article I started racking my brain trying to remember when I'd seen something similar on a TV show. After a little bit of youtube research, I found what I was looking for in the 1960's marionette-based show called 'Captain Scarlett'. I think the show was British but I could be wrong. I don't know if it was ever shown in the US but I imagine it has been at some point.
The 'baddies' in this show are called 'The Mysterons', who you never actually get to see, only their double agent 'Captain Black'.
When encounters with the Mysterons happen, an evil voice-over is heard and wherever it is heard, there are these doughnut-shaped 'crawling lights' moving over the walls etc, with no visible light source!
I believe Captain Scarlett started in 1967, so this is around a year after the report of these crawling lights in Oregon.
Did the writers of Captain Scarlett copy this idea from reports of the lights in Oregon, or was this something more widely known in ufology at that time? I had never heard of crawling lights until I read this article and despite having seen the episodes of Captain Scarlett long ago, including the lights, I had never known this was supposed to be a real phenomena.
Does anyone have any further knowledge of lights behaving in this way? I find the similarities between the report and the TV show compelling, I really don't think it coincidence?
More than once the family experience strange 'crawling' lights on the walls inside their home - the lights look doughnut shaped and appear to have no apparent source despite looking like projections of some sort.
Anyway, as soon as I read this article I started racking my brain trying to remember when I'd seen something similar on a TV show. After a little bit of youtube research, I found what I was looking for in the 1960's marionette-based show called 'Captain Scarlett'. I think the show was British but I could be wrong. I don't know if it was ever shown in the US but I imagine it has been at some point.
The 'baddies' in this show are called 'The Mysterons', who you never actually get to see, only their double agent 'Captain Black'.
When encounters with the Mysterons happen, an evil voice-over is heard and wherever it is heard, there are these doughnut-shaped 'crawling lights' moving over the walls etc, with no visible light source!
I believe Captain Scarlett started in 1967, so this is around a year after the report of these crawling lights in Oregon.
Did the writers of Captain Scarlett copy this idea from reports of the lights in Oregon, or was this something more widely known in ufology at that time? I had never heard of crawling lights until I read this article and despite having seen the episodes of Captain Scarlett long ago, including the lights, I had never known this was supposed to be a real phenomena.
Does anyone have any further knowledge of lights behaving in this way? I find the similarities between the report and the TV show compelling, I really don't think it coincidence?
