Chris Evers - OLM with Guest Co-Host Earl Grey Anderson of MUFON Southern California

My Introduction to UFOs My own involvement in the subject of UFOs began one evening in the month of February 1974. Although I had a slight interest in the subject of the paranormal after reading several publications on ghosts and UFOs at my uncle's home over the previous year, or so. It had been only a very slight, if somewhat passing interest before my own full-blown interest in the subject began, and I personally peered down the rabbit hole that is Ufology. I remember enjoying the final years of the 1960s watching America's and NASA's attempts to get to the Moon, although I was less than ten-years-old. I remember being woken up and taken out of bed to watch on TV when the Apollo 11 crew landed on the moon and were attempting their first moonwalk. The grainy, black-and-white images appeared to be ghost like as the astronauts jumped and bounced across the moon's surface. I loved TV programs such as Star Trek and Gerry Anderson's UFO series, along with Dr. Who. Moving forward to my own experience. During the early 1970's we did not possess mobile (cell) telephones, computers or video and such items as DVD players or, of course, the internet. We were considered lucky to have a football and if fortunate, a bicycle, (at this time I did not have a push-bike, which would come a few months later). We made our own entertainment. ‘Mam' was a single parent, which was an awkward thing to be back in the 1960s and early 1970s, ‘Mam' gave us the best she could. And that was her undivided attention and love. The early evening of my own sighting in question, a group of lads were out playing soldiers, and using sticks for guns, in total there were seven or eight of us, being split into two, equal teams. I was hiding in the area where we would play such games. This was a building site on the council estate of Bransholme, here in the city of Kingston-Upon-Hull. Today you could not gain access to such an area, because all building sites must be enclosed to stop people and children getting injured by trespassing in the area. There were no such regulations back then. The area today is the home to Roborough Close and the large North Point Shopping Centre, which, at one point in time, was the old RAF Sutton on Hull, air base, the home to the City of Hull's barrage balloons during WWII.