Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – A REPAIR STOP IN LEEDS
Jan Siedlecki, born in Poland in 1919, came to live in England during the Second World War. He does not recall the precise date of his alleged encounter with an alien vehicle that landed near a housing estate in a suburb of Leeds, England, but believes it was during the summer of 1976.
At the time of the incident, Siedlecki was working overtime at Brydon’s Garage, Cross Gates. It was about 01.00 on a hot, humid night when he put down his tools, walked the short distance home and retired to bed. Suddenly, a brilliant white glow flooded the bedroom. Thinking the garage might have caught fire, Jan jumped out of bed. What he saw was a strange craft, hovering around 10 to 15 feet off the ground, wobbling, as if trying to land. The craft was saucer-shaped, of a glistening deep-blue colour. Jan put on his shirt, trousers and slippers, and headed outside. The time was now 02.00.
Jan dashed across York Road (a dual carriageway) then hid behind a fence to watch the strange machine as it hovered above a large expanse of grass, about 75 yards away, which backed on to a large housing estate. ‘Jan watched very carefully as the object finally managed to rest on the ground,’ reported researcher Mark Ian Birdsall, who headed an investigation by the Yorkshire UFO Society (now Quest International). ‘There had been complete silence and the witness was still looking around to see if there were any other people or cars passing. He then looked carefully at the underside of the object. He could now see three “legs” which supported the object. At this point he was very frightened.’
A few seconds later, Jan observed a tube descend from the central underside of the object, which he says was a few feet wide, and which reached the ground. Although the entire object was dark, an unusual glow was pouring from the underside, which he thought strange. ‘On one side there was total darkness, and on the other an intense glow; you could have cut the two with a pencil,’ he remarked.