The soundtrack to our Pole Hill excursions and to our fevered discussions about every new titbit of UFO-related gossip, was 'Flying Saucers Have Landed', a groovy single by Paul St. John, released in 1972, but even then sounding more late 60's than early 70's.
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Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Flying Saucers Have Landed
Pole Hill, a section of Epping Forest in
Chingford, was a regular haunt for me and my
pals in 1972 and '73. The reason?
Uninterrupted views across two massive
reservoirs, long-rumoured locally to be a
centre of heavy UFO activity - the Area 51
of North East London if you will. With our
imaginations fuelled by too much Star Trek
and Erich von Däniken, we would head off on
a Saturday morning and spend hours sitting
on the grass, cameras in hand, gazing out
through our binoculars, waiting
for....something, anything to happen.
Funnily enough, we never did see any little
green men, but I'm pleased to note that all
these years later, the rumours of their
existence in the area persist.
The soundtrack to our Pole Hill excursions and to our fevered discussions about every new titbit of UFO-related gossip, was 'Flying Saucers Have Landed', a groovy single by Paul St. John, released in 1972, but even then sounding more late 60's than early 70's.
The soundtrack to our Pole Hill excursions and to our fevered discussions about every new titbit of UFO-related gossip, was 'Flying Saucers Have Landed', a groovy single by Paul St. John, released in 1972, but even then sounding more late 60's than early 70's.
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