Church Stowe, England: Elsie Oakensen's car stalls under dumbbell object, missing time

At 5:30 p.m. on 22 November 1978, Elsie Oakensen is driving home to Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, England, on the A5 when she passes beneath a hovering object shaped like a dumbbell with red and green lights. As she turns onto Main Street, her foot is flat on the accelerator but the engine makes no sound and the car coasts to a halt; the car lights fail as circles of light dance around the road, illuminating a nearby farmyard. The car restarts but stops again after about 300 feet, and she says the natural light disappears and she is enveloped in pure darkness until a white circle of light about 3 feet across shines on the road, the normal light returns and she can drive on. She estimates about 15 minutes of missing time and at 7:10 p.m. feels a tightening sensation around her forehead that she remembers from just before the encounter; at 7:20 p.m., four young women driving through nearby Preston Capes see red and green lights and beams shooting out of clouds as their car engine temporarily loses power. After hypnosis with minimal results, Oakensen tries creative visualization at the scene and recovers some abduction memories. The case is documented in the BUFORA Journal, Northern UFO News, Jenny Randles's Alien Abductions and Oakensen's own accounts in the BUFORA Bulletin. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.