Explosive

The men were initially arrested on suspicion of explosives offenses.

However, no explosives were found in the three vans.

Though they did find a, quote, quantity of petrol, adding to the perplexity is the British police decision to release the men on bail, I should say.

They did have to have bail.

look at it, they look Iranian.

It just depends on what you want to see, right? A farcical attempt to warn the British Army of a possible threat...

And it produced complaints from Washington and a lot of unanswered questions, but no explosives.

Having failed to get an answer at the Ministry of Defense Security, the farmer then dialed 999.

But the creature was reportedly a tall human-like figure with large wings, glowing red eyes, and unusual ability to move or fly very quickly.

The first widely reported encounter took place on November 12th, 1966, when five gravediggers working near an abandoned TNT plant saw a strange figure emerge from the darkness.

Over the following days and weeks, more people claimed to have an encounter with a similar creature, turning what might have been an isolated sighting to a local mystery.

One of the most famous encounters actually occurred on November 15th, 1966, so just three days after, when two couples driving near the old TNT area reported seeing a large figure with glowing red eyes.

According to their accounts, the creature followed their car for several miles and appeared to keep pace with them even when they drove at high speeds.

The witnesses, uh, contacted the authorities, and their story quickly attracted media attention.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, colleagues at Gloucestershire Police received a report of suspicious vehicles in the vicinity of RAF Fairford.

As a result of that information, armed officers responded and arrested five men on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act and later preparation of a terrorist act under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act.

The men had been travelling in three vehicles.

Overnight, those vehicles have been subject to extensive examination with the support of military assets and forensic experts.

But the wisdom of crowds was a really interesting one.

Or it took me a while to figure out exactly what is, is this really happening? Because essentially it's crowdsourcing a missile strike or an object strike, you know, so 30 kiloton yield, whether it's just an impact or if it's a, Explosive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So they said, quote, "By seven hours into the call, we had a lot of resources here to use." Saying, um, you know, that, that this was the first...

The fire chief said this was the first time since he's been in fire that, uh, the Federal Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives were to be involved in an investigation.

He goes, "Those guys showed up.

We were like, 'What the...

where are you currently employed?

I work for the Bureau of Alcohol, Spat Gold, Firearms, and Explosives.

I'm assigned as a special agent.

My full-time assignment is currently a special agent can

It just, it's a bomb.

It's like, it's bl- explosives.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.