Sunday, March 21, 2021

Chased by a UFO: A Frightening 1973 UFO Encounter in New Hampshire

   The annals of Ufology are as diverse and anomalous as the number of seemingly inexplicable events that encompass the field. The following case I shall delve into here is no exception to that rule. Thusly, the state of New Hampshire and the whole of New England in general is surely no exception when it comes to bewildering UFO accounts including the 1965 'Incident in Exeter' and of course the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case of 1961. Right now I shall turn my attention to another case, one that didn't get as much attention as maybe it should have as the two aforementioned cases. The 1973 Lyndia Morel account.


It was in the early morning hours of Friday, November 2, 1973 when Lyndia Morel who worked as a masseuse at the Swedish Sauna in Manchester, NH, clocked out and left work at around 2:45 am. She briefly stopped to have coffee with a friend, then for gas, before setting out on the interstate and heading home to nearby Goffstown, about eight miles west of the city of Manchester.


About the time she reached the outskirts of Manchester on highway 114, a bright light in the sky caught her attention. The further she drove, the closer and brighter the object seemed to become. It flashed yellow, then red, blue and green colors. Thinking it slightly odd, but nonetheless writing it off as a planet or star in her mind, she continued onward to her destination. As she reached the intersection of highways 114 and 114A, the light seemingly blinked out, only to reappear again in the same position of the sky when she had gone through the intersection. It was at this time she realized this object, whatever type of craft it was, seemed to be following her. A type of craft like she had never seen before. 


APRO staff artist, Brian James, worked with Mr. Webb and the witness to create the above artwork.

As she drove onward through Goffstown, the light would go out and reappear several times. Only this time the light seemed even bigger, brighter and closer than before, straight ahead and toward the left of her. Soon the bright 'orb' was so much closer that she could make out details of the object. She could make out that the object was an orangey, gold colored sphere with hexagon patterns like that of a honeycomb, with what appeared to be an oval window to the upper left. The red, green and blue colored flashes seemed to be coming from the middle of the object and now she noticed a high-pitched sound emanating from the object.


Around this time Lyndia reported that she seemingly could not remove her hands from her car's steering wheel, and she felt as if the object had taken control of her will and the vehicle, as the car's speed increased and it started going past the Westlawn cemetery. The object drew closer, and when roughly a few hundred feet away, to her horror, Lyndia could make out a strange humanoid figure in the oval window. She described a smallish humanoid behind some sort of console. The figure had a round, greyish head, wrinkled face, a downward turned slit of a mouth, and two large, oversized eyes with dark pupils. It was then she felt this being was telepathically sending her a message, a message to not be afraid.



Detail of occupant based on witness, Lyndia Morel's description

At this point, Lyndia was beyond afraid, she was terrified. Around this time she was able to slow down her car, turning into in the driveway of a house just after the cemetery. Lyndia jumped out of her car, not paying attention to a German shepherd that was barking at her. She pounded on the door, ringing the doorbell and yelling for help, as by this time she was in hysterics. In the meantime, the object had positioned itself across from the house hovering above the tree line, still emitting the high-pitched sound she had heard earlier.


Finally the startled residents of the home, Mr. and Mrs. Beaudoin came to the door, puzzled  as to what was going on. They were met by Lyndia, cowering and covering her ears, saying a UFO was after her. The Beaudoins looked around and could not see anything in the sky, and likewise hear anything unusual. The object had disappeared. All appeared as quiet and still as any other night. Mrs. Beaudoin phoned the police for the hysterical Lyndia, and shortly after a Goffstown officer, Daniel Jubinville arrived at the residence. He found Lyndia's car was in the driveway with the lights on and the motor still running. After going in and listening to and writing down Lyndia's harrowing account he noted in his report that she did not appear to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.


It was noted sometime after the incident that the planet Mars was at it's brightest point and was in the Western part of the sky where Lyndia witnessed the 'craft', however that does not explain the other aspects of the account and events that she had claimed occurred. And to this day, an explanation has not been found as to the strange events that took place in the early morning hours of November 3, 1973.

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