“The Silent Vulcan” was a term coined by UFO investigator Graham Hall, of the Leicestershire UFO group, following a spate of unusual sightings in 1978. It caused a stir, as it was widely observed by independent witnesses and was clearly a real event: the only thing missing was the identity of the unexplained flying object. Such was the notoriety of the case that it even inspired a recent trilogy of novels by the late James Follett about weird events over England, in which a village was covered by some kind of shield: the final book of this series is actually entitled The Silent Vulcan.
The Silent Vulcan returned to our skies on the night of 1 March 2022,
