Lynda Jones UFO Abduction (1979)

In 1979, Lynda Jones had a strange experience that stayed with her long after it ended. She was walking along the River Mersey in Didsbury, Manchester, with her two children, her five-year-old son Christopher and her fifteen-year-old daughter Lisa. They were picking wildflowers and enjoying a quiet evening when something unusual appeared in the sky. Lisa reportedly shouted that the moon was coming toward them. What they were seeing was a rugby-ball-shaped object, glowing bright orange with a spinning effect, estimated to be around 60 feet across. It moved silently through the twilight sky, passing directly overhead before disappearing behind a ridgeline.

Curious and concerned, Lynda assumed it might be a plane crash, especially given how close they were to Manchester Airport. She moved toward where it had gone down, but what they found was nothing like a conventional aircraft. The object had reappeared in a nearby field and was now hovering just two to three feet above the ground. It made no sound at all. The air around them felt unnaturally still, with even distant background noise seeming to vanish. As they approached, a glowing orange orb emerged from the object and moved toward them, which immediately escalated the situation.

Fear quickly took over and they ran. As they crossed the grassland, something even more unsettling happened. The grass around them suddenly shot up to an unusual height, close to six feet, and then began folding down in sections as if being pressed by an invisible force. This wasn’t something guiding them or reacting gently, it felt aggressive and unnatural, happening as they fled in panic.

When they finally made it home, the situation became even more confusing. Lynda’s husband Trevor was already there, even though he had left earlier for his factory shift. Based on the time, they realized something didn’t add up. The entire experience had felt like maybe ten minutes, yet they arrived home around 10:50 PM, meaning roughly 90 minutes were missing. Neither Lynda nor her children could account for where that time had gone.

Not long after, Lynda developed physical symptoms that were hard to explain. Her eyes became red, swollen, and scaly, almost as if they had been burnt. This couldn’t be blamed on sunlight, as it had all happened in the evening. The condition was noticeable enough that her husband immediately commented on it.

About 18 months later, Lynda underwent hypnotic regression in an attempt to recover what happened during that missing time. Over multiple sessions, which were recorded on video, she recalled a sequence of events that she later found difficult to fully accept. She described seeing several men in long dark coats and trilby hats running toward the object, some carrying satchel-like bags. There was a column of mist, and then a shift to figures in one-piece jumpsuits. She remembered the sensation of floating upward into the craft. Inside, she described beings in formal-looking attire with long necks and Oriental facial features, including slanted eyes, one of whom felt strangely familiar to her.

She also recalled being placed on a table and examined. There was a cold sensation applied to her legs, and bright lights were directed into her eyes, seemingly to prevent her from looking around. The experience, as remembered under hypnosis, was detailed and vivid, yet deeply unsettling to her. She reportedly struggled to watch the recordings of her own sessions, finding them disturbing and difficult to reconcile with her conscious memory of events.

Lynda’s children did not undergo hypnosis, but they drew matching sketches of the object upon returning home, adding another layer to the account. Experiences like this tend to raise more questions than answers. The missing time, the physical effects, and the recovered memories all appear in other cases as well. Regardless of interpretation, the impact on those involved is real, leaving a lasting impression that doesn’t easily fade.