When I was but a small child
Mummy Maladicta had a brief stint in the local WI, along with her slightly dappy and very morbid friend Anita (who I refer to as Death, after the Simpsons episode where Grampa mistakes everything for the Grim Reaper). They used to go along once a week or so and talk about village life (we lived in the outskirts of a large, chavtastic town so I have no idea what they were doing there), bake cakes, arrange flowers and do whatever it is WI ladies do that isn't posing for naked calendars.

Anyway, with me being about 10 or so, I would usually be in bed by the time they came home - usually sharing lifts. On this one occasion Anita was the one with the car, and she made to drop my mum off at our house on the other side of town. Just as she was about to get out of the car they both looked up at a weird light in the sky.

A disc with big, lit windows and lights around its base was hovering serenely above the house. It stayed there for about half an hour, with mum and Death staring at it intently, not daring to move or get out of the car before, just as it had arrived, it zipped off faster than their eyes could follow it.

Had mum been on her own, I would doubt her word, but as there were two of them in the car, I'm more inclined than usual to believe that they really did see a UFO. They didn't lose any time, or anything like that, but my mum still talks about what she saw and can still draw the craft if asked to...
( Maladicta, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 18:00, Reply)