The Lights Upon The Hills
The Burton Dassett UFO Events Of 1923
Richard Rokeby
Flying Disk Press, 2020
Pb, 70pp, £5, ISBN 9798560435875
Two decades before the advent of UFOs, mysterious lights were seen moving about above the Warwickshire hills. This phenomenon was observed by hundreds of locals, but at the time – in the winter of 1923 – they were widely thought to be ‘ghosts’. Local historian Richard Rokeby has gathered accounts from the newspapers of the day of multi-coloured lights that illuminated buildings and then sped off at a great height and speed. Rokeby – who had a career in the Army and Police – presents a succinct account in this slender but
