Arthur Shuttlewood In Retrospect

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This is a photo from The Warminster Mystery (1967): "Cradle Hill.  Nightly watch for UFOs has been kept on this high point just outside Warminster since February 1966."


The six books by Arthur Shuttlewood that I have reviewed apparently do not constitute his entire output of books chronicling the variety of unexplained phenomena that collectively became known as 'The Warminster Mystery.'  In his 1979 book More UFOs Over Warminster, he mentioned local UFO cases and stated "as my seven books on the continuing enigma illustrate, with all witness names and addresses given."  In his other book published in 1979, UFO Magic in Motion, he wrote: "My last book, Wheels of Heaven, was dedicated to an old friend, the Master of Orkney, 91-year-old Oliver St. John, and his cousin, Chela Fitzmaurice."

People interested in UFO research are known as UFOlogists and any such researcher is at a loss if he or she hasn't read the work of Arthur Shuttlewood, whose life and books have received comparatively scant attention or publicity here in the United States.  Conversely, alien 'abduction' is an often-promoted concept in American UFOlogy books despite the obvious fact that if anyone had actually been 'abducted' they would not still be present to discuss the matter.  Reading UFOlogy accounts, one is reminded that articulated 'dreams,' 'out-of-body experiences' and visionary or 'psychic' phenomena express states of consciousness that are relative to individual interpretation so understanding what is meant by experiencers of these phenomena may raise questions of semantics.

I have no doubt that sincere UFO investigators are distracted from important sources of information by the plethora of books offering veritable disinformation.  Upon reading the recently published The UFO Singularity by Micah Hanks, I was surprised to find no mention of Shuttlewood or any of the other contactees profiled in previous blog articles.  Warminster UFOlogy testimonials are also featured in volumes of Haunted Skies — The Encyclopedia of British UFOs by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway.  The encyclopedia commenced publication in 2010.

At the end of 2006, I was able to obtain from Ebay seller Marc Wessels of Kentucky an original letter handwritten by Arthur Shuttlewood along with a carbon copy of the typed letter sent to him in reply by Swiss correspondents.  Shuttlewood's letter reveals his devout conjectural hopes.  Theories mentioned are obviously hypothetical and these speculations were incorporated within his books.  The letter is a reminder of our common humanity and our shared human predicament of experiencing ephemeral milieus during the interim of a lifetime on Earth.

In The Flying Saucerers (1976), Shuttlewood remarked: 

One should not cross-examine, psycho-analyse or browbeat UFO witnesses too viciously to find the golden key which unlocks all answers to the overall enigma.  Rather, one should study how the whole structural pattern and emotional side of their lives has changed since their visual experiences.





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