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Clapham Wood

Near Worthing, West Sussex

A wood of UFO lights, strange mists, missing dogs and unsolved deaths.

From the 1960s, Clapham Wood gathered a reputation for UFO sightings, sudden nausea, grey mists and the feeling of being followed. Dogs were said to vanish there, and several deaths in the area went unexplained.

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When
From the 1960s
Where
50.8500, -0.4400
Group
UFO cases

Visiting

Footpaths run through the wood from Clapham village.

Cover of UFO Cases of Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

UFO Cases of Britain

Clapham Wood, a patch of ancient woodland in West Sussex, is different: it is a place, not an event, one that has accumulated, over several decades, a tangled reputation involving UFO sightings, strange physical sensations, missing pets, and, most disturbingly of all, a series of genuine, unexplained deaths.

Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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