‘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…’

Claybody Theatre's new play is inspired by a remarkable real life UFO sighting on the edge of the Bentilee housing estate in Stoke-on-Trent on 2 September 1967. A number of children and adults witnessed a glowing red object fly over the houses and land in a field on the edge of the estate. Then it took off in a blaze of white light and disappeared from view.

There has never been a plausible explanation for what they saw...

1967 – a remarkable year! 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!

Join us this autumn for a show that is, quite literally, OUT OF THIS WORLD!