School Janitor 'Spotted UFO In Skies Above Farm' In 1974 - But Kept Alien Secret Until Now - Mirro...

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A retired primary school janitor says has finally decided to open up about the moment he 'saw a UFO ' hovering menacingly over a farm more than 50 years ago.

Keeping what he spotted in the sky in West Lothian, Scotland , a secret for five decades, Gordon Mackerracher, says he's had enough of worrying what people think and has decided to share his story.

In 1974, on a brisk autumn night, Gordon says he left the cottage of a girl he was dating to travel down the old road connecting Kirknewton and East Calder. He said at 17 years old he was working on Ormiston Farm, rolling and ploughing fields and enjoying his youth.

But his perception of the universe was irreversibly changed when he decided to look up into the sky during his walk home to his parents' cottage. Gordon, who now lives in Newbridge, described seeing a brown metallic conical structure that was the size of a caravan floating around 100ft above his head and travelling silently towards Bathgate and Dechmont.

The 67-year-old remembers watching the aircraft as he hurriedly made his way to phone air traffic control at Edinburgh Airport from a phone box at the end of Langton Road. But after calling staff at the control tower, he claims he was told that no aircraft had entered or left the surrounding airspace in the past hour.

"I could see the moonlight shining off it. It was funny, as I don't remember being scared when I watched it, although it is possible I was at the time. I headed to the phone box on Langton Road which was about a 20 minute walk and phoned the control tower at the airport. I told them I saw a conical object flying in the sky that was completely silent.

"They went away to check and when the guy came back he told me that nothing had taken off or arrived at Edinburgh in the past hour. He said their radar did not capture anything during that time either. At first I thought it was maybe circling round to land at Edinburgh airport but obviously not. I just told the controller that it didn't matter and headed home."