Close Encounter of British Air Marshall Peter Horsley
From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 07:26:58 -0800
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An abbreviated version of this article appeared in "The Advertiser", a
South Australian daily, on August 11 and was posted to UFO Updates
immediately after.
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
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From: NEIL CUNNINGHAM <106015.2402@compuserve.com> (by way of abcdefg <logger@california.com>)
Subject: Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley-BOOK ON UFOS/ALIENS
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RE: Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley
Article from UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday Aug 10th 1997.
Another book, more ET's!
Close encounter in a Chelsea flat.
Military giants don't come much bigger than Air Marshall Sir Peter
Horsley.
A war hero who flew Mosquitoes against the Germans, he has held one of
the highest ranks in the RAF and has been an intimate adviser to the
Queen and Prince Philip.
He has also, he claims, met a visitor from another galaxy. Sir Peter
has kept his close encounter with the mysterious man he calls Mr Janus
in a London flat a secret for 43 years. But now, at the age of 76, he
is ready to go public.
Fixing me with a steely gaze, he says: "We talked for hours about
travelling in space and time. I don't know what or who he was. He
didn't say he was a visitor from another planet but I had that
impression. I believe he was here to observe us. I never saw him again.
I have no qualms about the reaction to my experience with Mr Janus. I
don't care what people think - it was what happened."
His extraordinary testimony - in his autobiography, Sounds from Another
Room, to be published in the autumn - and his uncompromising belief in
Unidentified Flying Objects will no doubt ruffle the sangfroid of the
men at the Ministry. For, incredible as it seems, it is the evidence of
a man who once ran the country's front line defence at RAF Strike
Command and was a Buckingham Palace aide for six years.
At his riverside cottage in Hampshire, where Christmas cards from the
royal family hang in the lavatory, he discusses the presence of alien
spacecraft with unswerving nonchalance.
"I would say they come from another planet somewhere in the universe
but not in our galaxy. They are benign, not aggressive and, like us,
are explorers", he says.
His interest in UFO's began, he says, in 1952 while he was an equerry
to the Duke of Edinburgh and was sparked by newspaper reports at the
time. He joined the Royal Household in 1949 as a squadron leader who
had been decorated for his work as personal pilot to Major General Sir
Miles Graham during the Normandy Invasion. Sir Peter says he talked to
Prince Philip of his interest in UFO's.
"He was quite interested. As always his mind was open. He agreed I
should do a study on the subject in my spare time as long as I kept it
in perspective and didn't bring the Palace into disrepute. He didn't
want to see headlines about him believing in little green men."
Sir Peter started by interviewing people who had claimed to have seen
UFO's and invited a BOAC captain to visit him at Buckingham Palace. His
own encounter came in 1954.
"At the end of my tour at the Palace, I had a very strange experience",
he recalls with charming understatment. He says he was introduced to a
General Martin who arranged for him to visit the Chelsea home of a Mrs
Markham. Sir Peter cannot remember the date or the number of the flat
in Smith St. - nor can he describe the man he met there - but he is
adamant the encounter took place.
"Janus was there, sitting by the fire in a deep chair. He asked:"What
is your interest in flying saucers?"
And then he gave a Wellsian account of space travel at the speed of
light with spare body parts in the luggage.
When Sir Peter went back to the flat it was empty. But his interest in
the paranormal stayed with him during his rise through the ranks to the
crucial post of Deputy Commander in Chief of RAF Strike Command in 1973.
Sir Peter insists: "I don't think I am a crank about it at all." But at
the Ministry of Defense in Whitehall, jaws are dropping. As one former
senior officer put it: "Oh God. How unfortunate that the public will
learn that the man who had his finger on the button at Strike Command
was seeing little green men".
Sounds From Another Room is published by Leo Cooper in October.
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Created: Aug 14, 1997
