“A little too much UFOing going on”?

There seems to be a lot of overlap between supposedly different types of anomalous phenomena. For example, starting in the mid-1960s, and continuing until about 1977, the Warminster area of Wiltshire generated numerous reports of UFO sightings, although claims about strange phenomena thereabouts weren’t confined to aerial manifestations.1 There were, for instance, reports about people hearing mysterious footsteps, and of vehicles colliding with human-like figures, but with no casualties being found. However, the Warminster case is controversial, with some commentators suggesting that prosaic factors, such as the misinterpretation of ordinary aerial objects and sensationalist news reporting can explain what allegedly occurred (not to mention hoaxing; see FT331:40-47). But if a substantial number of the reports were true, the locality may have been, at least temporarily, a hot spot for weird…