{"id":292517,"date":"2025-09-28T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=75c9336771becc98feacfcb0187230f5"},"modified":"2025-09-28T06:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:37:27","slug":"looking-back-1973-ufo-spotting-in-warminster-wiltshire-nationwide-weird-and-wonderful-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=292517","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back &#8211; 1973: UFO Spotting in Warminster, Wiltshire | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgCZ01Fl1govBBiqDdB477zvSMBGXU55FDJH2EMl0RxZqN6aaposI4NsmbBP2eoH4O5viLzicYVpitEsBnjkzmsw8zNnQmV8S6B7BxybRLoQnNi6gWi9JxI8nroiNR4DK5GEOjAYzAoFgKFCxKdFf1CU9DlaCNZ8tIvALWQ7tKYwX2zIoxesLd2HLpGFAA_\/s686\/Warminster-UFO.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"385\" data-original-width=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgCZ01Fl1govBBiqDdB477zvSMBGXU55FDJH2EMl0RxZqN6aaposI4NsmbBP2eoH4O5viLzicYVpitEsBnjkzmsw8zNnQmV8S6B7BxybRLoQnNi6gWi9JxI8nroiNR4DK5GEOjAYzAoFgKFCxKdFf1CU9DlaCNZ8tIvALWQ7tKYwX2zIoxesLd2HLpGFAA_\/s500\/Warminster-UFO.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><big><b><font color=\"bright orange\">Looking Back &#8211; 1973:<br \/> UFO Spotting in Warminster, Wiltshire|<br \/> Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive<\/b><\/font><\/big><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere were strange goings-on in Warminster, Wiltshire, home to a spate of flying saucer sightings in the west of England. Nationwide&#8217;s Brian Ash spent a day and night looking for UFOs with the help of Arthur Shuttlewood and Rex Dutta.<\/p>\n<p>This clip is from Nationwide, originally broadcast 28 August 1973.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"530\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rnMSCKZ811Q?si=ibvClgUND5tkNquX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"bright orange\">YouTube link:<\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rnMSCKZ811Q?si=jXQEAEQ1V4Lzx9ft\" ><u>https:\/\/youtu.be\/rnMSCKZ811Q?si=jXQEAEQ1V4Lzx9ft<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking Back &#8211; 1973: UFO Spotting in Warminster, Wiltshire| Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive<\/p>\n<p>There were strange goings-on in Warminster, Wiltshire, home to a spate of flying saucer sightings in the west of England. Nationwide&#8217;s Brian As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[11289],"class_list":["post-292517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufo","category-ufo-news","tag-ufo-disclosure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292518,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292517\/revisions\/292518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}