There is an increasing awareness among UFO investigators, that all is not what it may seem. I am referring to our limited visual perception in our three dimensional world.

Are we capable of seeing what is there in front of us? Our eyes have a very limited range of vision, their visible light range is only a fraction of the wide band known as the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Subsequently, our brains can only sift through the wide range of signals being presented before us, but are we missing something?

One of the questions most frequently asked by UFO witnesses is "surely someone else must have seen it?" The lack of other witnesses is often puzzling. Does this mean that the UFO witness has a more sensitive visual range than just seeing the basic spectrum of red and orange, through yellow green and indigo to violet?

We are being increasingly presented with cases where someone would see a UFO very clearly and others would not see it, others would see colours and some would not. It is becoming clear that not everyone perceives reality in the same way and in order to confirm our own ‘reality’, it has to be confirmed by others. Dr. John E. Mack has referred to this phenomenon as "differential perception". It is a phenomenon that is becoming more prominent in the minds of the UFO researcher.

Gordon Creighton, the editor of Flying Saucer Review, related the story he had received from a woman who witnessed such an event. She was a passenger on a ferry sailing from the Islands of Scilly to the mainland during the summer a few years ago. The ship was crowded and together with many passengers she was leaning on the handrail that runs along the side of the ship. They were some distance out at sea, when a disc shaped UFO craft emerged out of the water a short distance away and shot skywards. The woman was amazed by what she had seen and turned to speak to her fellow passengers. She was astonished to see people casually looking out to sea or chatting between themselves. Obviously they were completely oblivious to what had taken place!

Another strange event came to light when I recently interviewed a Mrs W. at Ilkeston Derbyshire. She related another such incident:

Mrs W. I was going out to peg the washing out, it was about October 1989 and I saw this thing, it was a dull, dull colour, not a shiny colour, it was like lead in a pencil, it was that colour. It started to come over, we’d got an alleyway down the back of our house and this lady was talking to me in casual conversation. Then this thing came over our garden, I was watching this round ball and talking to this lady and I thought, well she’s not looking at it, so she can’t see it. I would have said can you see that? But I thought it’s obvious she can’t see it.

O.F. She was looking in the same direction as you?

Mrs W. Yes, she was talking to me all the time, while I was looking at this ball.

O.F. There were no windows, just a ball?

Mrs W. Yes just a dull metallic ball. It was about the size of a car where you could sit two people in. Not very big but it was very low.

Mrs W. There were other people coming down and I thought it’s there but I didn’t say anything. I thought if they could see it, they would have said something by now. Then it started to climb and go up. When it got up higher, it expanded into a brilliant white light and them just shot off.

A few days later, when my eldest boy Lee was at Ilkeston School, I thought I’ve got a feeling that strange ball is here again. I went outside looking but couldn’t see a thing. Then ten minutes later, my son Lee ran up to the house and was banging on the ground floor window and he said "Mum, you don’t know what I have just seen?" I said I know what you have seen, you’ve seen a round ball haven’t you? He said "it was on top of your roof, it had prongs coming out of it and they were rotating." I didn’t see it that time, but I’d got a feeling it was there, but I don’t know why.

There are further examples of "differential perception" and one of the latest concerns a "Flying Triangle" sighting. A woman witness Mrs SJ of Towcester, Northants, related this:

Mrs SJ It was Christmas Eve 1998 and the time was 10.50 PM and I was sitting in the lounge. I don’t know what made me go towards the window, but I did and as I looked up, I saw this huge dark triangle object come over. It was traveling East to West and it made a slight droning noise. It-like glided and all I saw were huge red lights, but they were at the bottom of the triangle. It was so low, that if it had been a stealth bomber, it would have taken the roof of, it was that low! My husband was with me and I said to him "can you see that?" He replied "no I can’t see anything." We rushed upstairs, because we knew that if it had gone over the house, it would have gone over to the other side, but there was nothing and he said, "best say nothing." It was huge and had a funny drone to it, what it was I don’t know, but my husband didn’t see it!

Why can some people see UFO craft and others cannot? The sensory information coming through our eyes is so incomplete and is only a small part of what may exist.

Are we entering the realms of the psychic field? There are many reports of people having out of body experiences associated with UFO craft. One such person, ‘Paul’ told me "The information I can gather is that the ‘Triangles’ are from the future and coming back. I saw a photo in a magazine somewhere of a control panel in a Grey’s ship and I knew immediately! You put your hands on the panel that’s how you fly it…..it’s terrifying!"

These witness experiences are only a few of the many that have been related to me. The question that is now in everyone’s mind is are the UFO craft traveling in another dimension?

The aliens have told us that ‘time’ is a human concept and of our own making. Could they be time travelers, coming form another dimension already here on earth and visible to the gifted few?

We only believe what we see and to some extent we see what we believe.

Omar Fowler is the founder of the Phenomenon Research Association (PRA) based in Derby and a co-founder of Project FT which is the European database of all flying triangle

Can you help us with our research?

M.A.R.A. has collaborated with a number of groups with regards to reports of sightings of flying triangles over Merseyside. We already possess a number of local cases and would like more witnesses to these objects to come forward.