Andy McGrillan

Encounters, a new podcast available exclusively on Wondery Plus, takes a deep dive into one of the most famous and still unresolved UFO encounters to ever take place in the UK. Featuring shocking testimony from first-hand witnesses, journalists and senior military personnel...

Encounters, a new podcast available exclusively on Wondery Plus, takes a deep dive into one of the most famous and still unresolved UFO encounters to ever take place in the UK. Featuring shocking testimony from first-hand witnesses, journalists and senior military personnel...

Hosts, journalist, podcaster and UFO researcher Andy Macmillan, that's me, and producer Elle Scott take us back to the nights in question and examine all of the evidence and conflicting theories about what was encountered in the middle of a snowy Suffolk forest 40 years ago.

Hosts, journalist, podcaster and UFO researcher Andy Macmillan, that's me, and producer Elle Scott take us back to the nights in question and examine all of the evidence and conflicting theories about what was encountered in the middle of a snowy Suffolk forest 40 years ago.

Hello and welcome to Encounters. I'm Andy McGrillan.

Hello and welcome to Encounters. I'm Andy McGrillan.

UFOs indeed. And as the name suggests, we'll be deep diving into the most compelling UFO encounters history has to offer to figure out as best we can what it is we have been witnessing all these years.

UFOs indeed. And as the name suggests, we'll be deep diving into the most compelling UFO encounters history has to offer to figure out as best we can what it is we have been witnessing all these years.

Yeah, I agree. A lot of the general public, Elle, have a limited to no knowledge or interest in the UFO topic.

Yeah, I agree. A lot of the general public, Elle, have a limited to no knowledge or interest in the UFO topic.

However, for those listening who have been ardent followers of ufology for months, years or decades, we hope this podcast you find something that is either news to you, a different way of looking at the topic, or maybe something you've heard about a bit before and forgotten about in the years gone by.

However, for those listening who have been ardent followers of ufology for months, years or decades, we hope this podcast you find something that is either news to you, a different way of looking at the topic, or maybe something you've heard about a bit before and forgotten about in the years gone by.

Yes, Elle. It's essentially the UK's Roswell and it has that moniker for a reason. But before we get to talking about Vendelsham, I think we have to take it back a step. And this episode is an introductory episode to introduce some context, some background, some UFO history to bring folks up to speed to where we are now. And then we can jump back to 1980.

Yes, Elle. It's essentially the UK's Roswell and it has that moniker for a reason. But before we get to talking about Vendelsham, I think we have to take it back a step. And this episode is an introductory episode to introduce some context, some background, some UFO history to bring folks up to speed to where we are now. And then we can jump back to 1980.

Thank you very much. I think I know a little about a lot rather than a lot about a little.

Thank you very much. I think I know a little about a lot rather than a lot about a little.

I had my own sighting in the kind of mid-90s. How old were you?

I had my own sighting in the kind of mid-90s. How old were you?

About 10, 11, something like that and we left the kind of winter's night, October, November time in Scotland and I remember looking along the road and to my left there's like a Chinese, a laundrette, a chip shop, you know, local shops and to my right just all houses, a community centre, there's no big fields, we're not in the middle of nowhere where a lot of UFO sightings commonly happen and

About 10, 11, something like that and we left the kind of winter's night, October, November time in Scotland and I remember looking along the road and to my left there's like a Chinese, a laundrette, a chip shop, you know, local shops and to my right just all houses, a community centre, there's no big fields, we're not in the middle of nowhere where a lot of UFO sightings commonly happen and