Bright Lights Over Bentilee
‘It seemed like a saucer…’
‘The object started to glow bright red…’
‘We thought the field was on fire…’
‘We couldn’t hear a bird – everything was dead…’
‘I thought I was seeing things…’
A new play by Deborah McAndrew, directed by Conrad Nelson, inspired by a remarkable real life UFO sighting on the edge of the Bentilee housing estate in Stoke-on-Trent on 2 September 1967.
There has never been a plausible explanation for what they saw...
1967...
The Summer of Love, Sergeant Pepper, the launch of the QE2 and BBC Local Radio, Sandie Shaw wins The Eurovision Song Contest, and a flying saucer lands in Stoke-on-Trent…
Oh yes!
Dozens of witnesses saw a glowing, saucer-shaped craft touch down in a field beside the Bentilee housing estate and, for the characters in Claybody’s new drama, life will never be the same again.
Because of all the people on Planet Earth, the pottery folk of Stoke-on-Trent know a saucer when they see one!
Production Photos by Andrew Billington
