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4. A Mystery in the Tower of London

a) The first appearance of the alien race now referred to as Voltdab or Voltdabi may have been in the Tower of London in 1817. According to a former keeper of the Crown Jewels, named Edmund Lenthal Swifte

On Saturday night in October 1817, about "the witching hour," I was at supper with our wife, her sister, and our little boy, in the living-room of the Jewel House, which then comparatively modernized is said to have been the "doleful prison" of Anne Boleyn, and of the ten bishops whom Oliver Cromwell... accomodated therein.

I had offered a glass of wine and water to my wfe, when on putting it to her lips, she paused, and exclaimed, "Good God! What is that?" I looked up and saw a cylindrical figure, like a glass tube, seemingly about the thickness of my arm, and hovering between the ceiling and the table; its contents appeared to be dense fluid, white and pale azure, like to the gathering of a summer cloud, and incessantly mingling with the cylinder.

The object, observed by all present, moved slowly from person to person, stopping by his wife, who "crouched" and "shrieked out, O Christ! It has seized me!"

Later accounts are little more specific: they claim the cylinder sexually assaulted Mrs. Swifte. Her husband, according to Fantasms of Old London hurried the others out of the room, after which

Mrs Swifte lay upon the floor, her whole bodice agape and her breast bare, showing red risen teeth marks upon them, which were repeated on her shoulder and neck. She was thrashing around as if engaged in close relations with a lover....

According to the author of Fantasms of Old London, these details were supressed at the time, to preserve Mrs. Swifte's reputation and dignity, and to avoid a scandal which might have cost Swifte his prestigious job.

Swifte concludes his original account:

Even now, as I write, I feel the horror of that moment. I caught up my chair, striking at the 'appearance' with a blow that hit the wainscot behind her. It then crossed the upper end of the table and disappeared in the recess of the opposite window.

The story is oft-repeated, and accepted as part of the Tower of London's lore. It would remain an anomoly from the nineteenth century, were it not for a tiny Canadian UFO cult.

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