Flap: Sandling Park, England, Nov 1963
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Other Flying (3).
In the 10 years either side we have 1 other report within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Nov 1963 Four eyewitnesses saw a headless bat-like figure with large webbed feet and wings waddle towards them.
Other Flying · Kent, England - Nov 1963 A group of teenagers reported seeing a man-shaped, headless, black creature with webbed feet and bat wings emerge from behind a tree after watching a…
Other Flying · Sandling Park, England - Nov 16, 1963 Witnesses report seeing a large glowing orb that landed and from which a strange creature emerged.
Other Flying · Sandling Park, England
Sources: ukwildman (2), paranormaldb (1).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.