Rowley Regis, England: Woman reports winged beings from orange sphere entering her house

On the morning of January 4, 1979, after waving her husband off to work on Bluestone Walk, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England, Jean Hingley saw a large orange sphere hovering above the carport. Three small figures, each about three and a half feet tall, in silvery tunics with buttons down the front, “goldfish-bowl” helmets and large transparent wings, shot past her into the house with a high-pitched buzzing noise. In the living room two of them shook the Christmas tree and bounced on the sofa; when she asked them to stop, they shone a beam of light at her forehead that blinded and burned her. They accepted a plate of mince pies, answered her in gruff, masculine voices after pressing buttons on their tunics, and finally flew back to the sphere, which took off and left a trail of inch-wide parallel lines in the snow. On January 6 the Christmas tree vanished from the living room and reappeared on January 8 in pieces in the back garden; the decorations turned up outside the garden over the following days. 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.