Case file · Abduction
Elsie Oakensen's missing time, Church Stowe
Driving home on the A5 on 22 November 1978, Elsie Oakensen saw a dumbbell-shaped object with green and red lights; her car cut out twice, a white beam lit the road, and she could not account for 15 minutes.
1978 CE · 52.22, -1.07 · status: account
The account
Oakensen, a respected local woman, told her story openly for years. She is often cited as a sober 'missing time' case without a lurid abduction narrative.
The sceptical view
No physical evidence; missing-time reports are hard to separate from ordinary lapses of attention.