UK X-Files: Lemonheads

‘We want you, come with us,’ were the words coming out of a lemon-shaped head, according to one report.

The figure wanted the young boys who had stopped in a field at 23.55 on May 4 1995 in Chasetown, Staffordshire, to stare at what they believed was an UFO.

The pair ran to a local police station and breathlessly asked the officers on duty to come outside and look across the distance at the glowing-red saucer-shaped object.
Enlarge ‘Lemon heads’: The handwritten notes of one of the boys who claimed he was approached by an alien

‘Lemon heads’: The handwritten notes of one of the boys who claimed he was approached by an alien

Police thought it was an aircraft.

The episode is recorded in official files released today by the Ministry of Defence.

The officer’s report reads the boys arrived ‘agitated and distressed’ after gazing at the UFO which emitted an intense heat before zig-zagging off east to west.

‘They stated the object was about four houses high in the sky and about forty foot away from them,’ said the report.

‘They then, reluctantly, went on to say that a voice which came from a lemon-like head, which appeared beneath the machine said “We want you, come with us”.

‘Both appeared upset and shocked and as such it was increasingly difficult to obtain detailed information from them.’

The boys were sent home and told to write up their account.

One of the boys said they were drawn to the field by an intense heat.

When they walked into the field off Rugeley Road, Burntwood, there was a flash of light then some sort of spaceship allegedly appeared.

It sent his friend’s face ‘the colour of beetroot’, the boy wrote.

His friend wrote after hearing the command to go with the lemon-head: ‘I just said “run”.

‘I couldn’t hardly breathe [sic] and we turned around it just shot off in the air and the sky didn’t light up. It just went. Vanished.’

He added that the boys did not want to tell anyone because they thought they wouldn’t be believed.

Two days after the sighting police visited the spot and discovered a farmer spraying his crops.

He said he had seen nothing unusual.