Ley of the land

JENNY RANDLES wonders whether a new terrestrial zodiac offers a new way of looking at UFO events

In July 1977 I visited my friend Kate Preston. She was a keen tennis player, and I remember her beating me at the table version as we watched in awe while Virginia Wade won the ladies’ final at Wimbledon to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. I recall Kate telling me about her long-term project to track and document the ‘Lamanche Zodiac’. The 25-year-old me had never heard the term zodiac outside of astrology, and I also assumed that ‘Lamanche’ must be located somewhere in France. Thankfully, Kate set me right: the cleverly derived name came from the large section of the North West of England that she believed this terrestrial zodiac crossed: the county of LAncashire, the then newly-created Greater MANchester county and, to the south of both, CHEshire. I…

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