isn’t just about the music and the revelry – apparently it could be a hotspot too. Over the years there have been several reports of spooky goings on near the festival site in Pilton, Somerset, with people claiming they’ve seen lights and suspicious orbs. One pair were even convinced they had seen a flying saucer as they stood in one of the fields.
While some of the sightings may be put down to people being a little the worse for wear after partying, some of the sightings have been reported by people who were sober at the time. So is there something extraterrestrial going on in the skies above Worthy Farm? We have a look back at some of the unusual sightings that have been reported. In 2009, it was revealed that two revellers at Glastonbury had claimed to have seen a UFO during the festival.
The apparent sighting had actually been in 1994, but only came to light when government files were released. The man and woman who reported the incident said they had seen what they thought was a flying saucer over the jazz tent and that they were sober when it happened. According to reports at the time, the woman said she saw a “twirling set of moving lights attached to what must have been a circular object”.
“It was unlike anything we knew,” she said. “What made me feel this was (a UFO) was that the lights were below this circular object and flashing in a way that was communicating to us. It was also silent and the way it glided was the smoothest and most effortless moti.
