MAN IN 'ALIENS' STORY SAYS IT'S ALL RUBBISH
A man who featured in a book about a supposed alien invasion of Grantham says he doesn't believe a word of the story.
A man who featured in a book about a supposed alien invasion of Grantham says he doesn't believe a word of the story.Author Anthony Mallin's book Asylum tells of a mass alien abduction in Grantham in 1965, but Mick Cresswell, who lives in Barkston, says it's all rubbish.
Mick appears in the book as Colin Watson, the sidekick of Mallin's alter-ego Clive Powers. He and Mr Mallin were childhood friends and best men at each other's weddings, but later lost contact.
Mick said: "It's one of those strange things – I don't know if it's tongue-in-cheek or what. It's got to be the most grammatically incorrect book I've ever read in my life.
"I went to see him at his book signing. He was highly embarrassed and couldn't wait to get rid of me. I wished him well and said I hope the book sells well – I suspect it won't."
In the book Mallin describes seeing a blinding light in Green Lane, which was then on the edge of Grantham.
But Mick says the light was not caused by any kind of spacecraft.
He said: "It was much darker in those days, and we thought anything that flashed was a UFO. There were lights but we were aware that it was the lights of RAF Cranwell."
According to the book everybody who was abducted had their memory erased and the Journal has been complicit in a cover-up operation.
Mick said: "Maybe he's telling the truth, but its not the truth I can remember. It's either completely true and it's me in the wrong, or he's 100 per cent barking."
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