This is a photo from The Warminster Mystery (1967): "Cradle Hill.  Nightly watch for UFOs has been kept on this high point just outside Warminster since February 1966."

The six books by Arthur Shuttlewood that I have reviewed apparently do not constitute his entire output of books chronicling the variety of unexplained phenomena that collectively became known as 'The Warminster Mystery.'  In his 1979 book More UFOs Over Warminster, he mentioned local UFO cases and stated "as my seven books on the continuing enigma illustrate, with all witness names and addresses given."  In his other book published in 1979, UFO Magic in Motion, he wrote: "My last book, Wheels of Heaven, was dedicated to an old friend, the Master of Orkney, 91-year-old Oliver St.

I obtained a copy of the UK journal Flying Saucer Review Vol. 16, No. 4 July/August 1970 at Amazon.co.uk.  The issue contains a brief (one page) article by Arthur Shuttlewood.  Charles Bowen's first page editorial "Warminster Phenomenon" shows that Arthur Shuttlewood was regarded cautiously, following the publication of his books The Warminster Mystery (1967) and Warnings from Flying Friends (1968).

This is a photo from the May 1 session of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure.  (source: citizenhearing.org)

Between April 29 and May 3, a "Citizen Hearing On Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race" was conducted at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  The event organizer was "registered lobbyist" Stephen Bassett.

In the first chapter of his final book UFO Magic in Motion (1979), Arthur Shuttlewood (1920-1996) looked back at his predicament as reporter of the diverse unexplained phenomena occurring in the vicinity of his local Warminster, Wiltshire, England.  The first 'Thing story' broke on Christmas Day 1964, as he had acknowledged in a September 10, 1965 Daily Mirror article (shown above) that is included in the book.

"Cigar-shaped aeroform at Upton Scudamore near Warminster (Chris Trubridge)" — photograph from More UFOs Over Warminster (1979) by Arthur Shuttlewood.

The following account is from UFO Magic in Motion (1979) by Arthur Shuttlewood.

A much valued UFO friend is violinist music-teacher Christopher Trubridge of 83 Portway, Warminster.  With a Praktica Super TL2 camera equipped with a telephoto lens f: 200mm 1:35.5 and using 400 ASA — Din.

Having first read More UFOs Over Warminster (1979) several years ago, what first caught my attention when I recently again studied the book was a recognition of the similarity of one of the photographs (below) featured therein with a photo taken by Daniel Fry shown in a previous blog article.  The photos also correspond with characteristics of the UFO seen in the 1965 Gordon Faulkner photo selected for the cover of The Warminster Mystery.

In More UFOs Over Warminster (1979) by Arthur Shuttlewood, an incident is chronicled that shows a correlation with occurrences reported by American 'flying saucer contactee' Orfeo Angelucci in his 1955 book The Secret of the Saucers.  Shuttlewood described his companion during the incident, Chris Trubridge, in UFO Magic in Motion (1979) as a "violinist music-teacher" resident of Warminster.

This photo from The Flying Saucerers shows a "glowing air chariot" seen at Starr Hill, Warminster in August, 1975.  (Photo: Chris Waller)

Arthur Shuttlewood suggested in The Flying Saucerers (1976) that the phenomena he had witnessed in the vicinity of Warminster posed "a mystery not to be fully revealed until man has solved the equally baffling mystery of knowing and understanding himself and his fellow creatures throughout the universe . . .

Arthur Shuttlewood presented in his fourth book The Flying Saucerers (1976) extracts from Bryce Bond's account of his visit to Warminster, England in August 1972.  Bond is among a diverse throng of curious Warminster sojourners whom Shuttlewood wrote about in his books.  The photograph and caption below are from Bond's 1986 book Higher Techniques to Inner Perfection.

This is a photo from Arthur Shuttlewood's Warnings from Flying Friends (1968): "UFO over Cradle Hill, August 1967.  Picture by Birmingham Contact U.K. group member Roger Blackwell."

The following excerpts are from the tenth and eighteenth chapters of UFOs — Key to the New Age (1971) by Arthur Shuttlewood.

Spacecraft of our flying friends, and the thinking intelligence behind or aboard them, are not extroverts and exhibitionists, normally.
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