He said the flashing lights formed the shape of a flattened oval
rather like a flying saucer and he is hoping other motorists
might have spotted them and tell him what they were.
Mr Stevens, 25, of Upper Isbury in Marlborough, was driving home on
the A4 past the Waggon and Horses pub in Beckhampton at about 4am on Sunday [Feb 20] when he saw the shimmering
blue, green, white and red lights in the distance.
As he drew nearer Silbury Hill, he could see the
lights were on top of the mound itself.
It it looked like the helicopter landing pad on an oil rig with all
its bright lights, said Mr Stevens, a consultant on water softening
devices who was returning home after dropping off a friend in
Chippenham.
He said it was a clear night with a bright moon but he could not see
people on top of the hill, just the lights forming an oval which he
estimated was about two-thirds the size of the hilltop.
On top of the hill was a whole pattern of lights in a traditional
flying saucer shape. They were flashing white, red, green and blue, he
said.
I could not tell if it was hovering or if it was stationary on top of
the hill. It really scared me because I was on my own, there was no
other traffic about and you hear these stories of alien abductions.
Mr Stevens said he was also well aware that the hill stands in the
centre of an area where mysterious crop circles are frequently found.
He said that as he drove past the hill the lights disappeared behind
it and although he looked back in his mirror he did not see them again.
He added: I am not frightened to admit I was scared stiff, and I
could not get along the A4 quick enough.
Mr Stevens, a keen military historian, said he doubted the lights
could have come from a helicopter or aircraft. Nor does he think the
lights were being carried by hoaxers because they would have had to be
on the end of long poles.
It was very cold on Sunday morning which made me think that if there
were hoaxers up there they needed their heads read, he added.
Doug Sheppard, landlord of the Waggon and Horses, said he was in bed
at 4am on Sunday and he had heard no reports of strange happenings at
Silbury. But he said: I don’t know if it’s connected at all but my
telephones went down at the weekend. When BT came to repair it they said
it was an external line fault.
On Monday a National Trust spokesman said that as far as they were
aware there had been no gatherings at Silbury Hill at the weekend.
Police said they had received no reports of strange lights in the
area.
Mr Stevens, who is a member of the Marlborough Carnival Committee,
said: All that has been going through my mind is that no one has ever
been able to determine what Silbury Hill is all about.
Perhaps someone else saw it and can explain what it was because I am
totally mystified.
Silbury Hill Link to UFO
Landing
[Original headline: HilltopDriver Clive Stevens is seeking the truth behind
mysterious coloured lights he saw over Silbury Hill [Wiltshire] in the
dead of night.
[Source - Wiltshire Gazette & Herald, Marlborough Edition - originally published: Feb 25
2000]
