Nigel Blundell & Roger Boar, in their combined work, 'THE WORLD'S
GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES' (Berkley Books, N.Y.  1990), refers to an
interesting 'contactee' story from England:
     
     "VISITORS FROM A DEVASTATED PLANET... A family from
Gloucestershire claim they were abducted by aliens from the
planet Janos (pronounced Jane-oss - Branton), who offered to
share their technological secrets with Earth if they were allowed
to live peacefully here.  John Mann, his wife Gloria, and his
sister Frances all say they saw 'film' of the planet, and were
told that it had been devastated by a chain of nuclear
explosions. 
     "Their bizarre story emerged during hypnosis sessions to try
to find out what really happened as the family drove home after a
visit to John's mother in Reading, Berkshire, on Monday, June 19,
1978.  They set out at 9:30 P.M., with the children, five-year-
old Natasha and three-year-old Tanya, dozing on the back seat of
the old white Vauxhall Victor.  It was 10:15 when they reached
Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire, and John, who knew the road
well, was confident of reaching his home in Brockworth in another
hour.
     "But as they went up a small rise beyond the village, he
noticed a brilliant white light in the sky about a mile ahead. 
The two women saw it too, and agreed it was too large to be a
star.  After another mile, with the light maintaining its
distance, John stopped the car to listen for any noises. 
Suddenly a red light flashed to the right of the white light,
which seemed to be getting larger.  The Moon, which had been
full, blacked out at the same moment, and John heard a sound, 'a
mixture of a swishing sound and a scoring noise of a train's
wheels against the track.'
     "He went on: 'The Moon reappeared and I could make out a
vast circular shape over 100 feet up, moving very slowly.  It
came directly at us, went over the car, and drifted over the
trees on the right into the field.  As it swung away we could see
a circular rim of brilliant coloured lights.'
     "His wife's shouts brought him out of a dream.  'Quick,
John, get in the car, it's going to land.'  He drove off.  But
after 100 yards, he realized they were no longer on the familiar
A417.  'It was pitch black, and we were tightly hemmed in by a
tall, dense hedge I could not see over,' re recalled.  'The road
was no longer straight, but wound up and down small humps and
rises, with sharp bends.  I had the strange feeling that if I
took my hands off the wheel, the car would drive itself.'
     "They rounded another bend, and found themselves in
Faringdon.  It was unusually quiet for 10:30, pub-closing time,
and John could not recall passing the Faringdon sign and the
entrance to town.  As they drove on towards Cirencester, Francis
noticed the same ball of white light, keeping pace with them 200
yards to the right.  It disappeared whenever the car came close
to houses, and finally vanished at Cirencester.
     "When he arrived home 20 minutes later, John rang RAF Brize
Norton, about seven miles from Faringdon, to report the UFO.  As
he looked at his watch, he got a shock.  It was after midnight,
and they should have been home an hour earlier.  Frances insisted
on driving on alone to her home and her husband Ronald in nearby
Stroud.  The Manns put the children to bed and turned in
themselves, both feeling a little baffled and sick.
     "The following evening, John returned from his work as a
building contractor, and decided to retrace their journey to look
for the mystery road bounded by hedges.  He couldn't find it.  He
went back at the weekend to examine the field where he thought
the UFO had landed.  There were no marks.  Had it been just a
dream?
     "Over the next few days, John developed a heat rash on the
lower part of his chest, and his wife found similar marks on her
left arm and leg.  They checked with Frances, and she too had
been scratching irritated skin.  Even more peculiar, they all had
unexplained bruises just below the right knee.
     "A week later, Natasha woke in the night crying and
confused, calling:  'Where is my Mummy?  I want my Mummy.'  It
was the first of four nightmares the little girl had over the
next fortnight.  Her mother asked her what they were about.
     "'She told me she could see lots of strange people with
funny eyes staring at her,' Gloria said.  'Someone had taken
Mummy and Daddy into other rooms.  When I tried to get more out
of her, she got very cross, and said, 'You should know, you were
there.'"
     "The dream convinced John Mann that something strange had
happened during that missing hour on their journey home.  Both he
and sister Frances decided to undergo hypnosis to try to unlock
their subconscious memories.  Hypnotherapist Geoffrey M'Cartney
agreed to the sessions... and the result was a story that
startled the world.
     "John recalled that the UFO hovered in front of the car, 100
feet off the ground.  Instead of driving down the darkened road,
he had stopped the car and got out, walking into a white mist. 
At least eight shadowy and silent figures passed him, walking to
the car and returning with the woman and the children.
     "'Together we all walked towards a brilliant column of
light,' John said.  'As we entered the light beam, we seemed to
float upwards.  I was then in a circular room with THREE MEN
wearing close-fitting metallic silver suits with balaclava-type
helmets.  THEY HAD PALE BLUE EYES AND PALE COMPLEXIONS (Note: The
book 'THE JANOS PEOPLE' adds that they were human, both male and
female, and slim or petite in a strange oriental-like fashion -
Branton).
     "One of them welcomed us IN ENGLISH, and told me they wished
to examine me.  He said no harm would come to us.  I left the
others and went into another room where there was a sort of
'dentist's chair'.  A woman strapped my arms to the chair arms
while another pressed buttons at a desk.
     "'An intense beam of light shone into my face, then one of
the women pulled something black down from the ceiling and I was
completely dazed.  When I woke up, a man came into the room and
talked to the woman in a language I could not understand.  Then
he introduced himself as Anouxia, and told me to follow him back
to the first room.  He spoke into a recessed wall microphone in
his own language, and about 50 PEOPLE entered the room.
     "'Anouxia told me in English that something was coming, and
the ship had to move a short distance.  He said we were lucky to
be in the engine room while it moved.  The floor tipped to the
left.
     "'Later I asked how the ship was powered, and he said IT WAS
A PROCESS THEY WERE PREPARED TO BARGAIN IN EXCHANGE FOR A CHANCE
OF LIVING PEACEFULLY ON EARTH. (a scenario like something out of
the TV series 'ALIEN NATION'? - Branton)  He then took me to what
he called the navigation room, switched on a screen, and said he
wanted to show me pictures of his home.
     "'I had the impression the film was being taken from an
aircraft coming in to land, and I felt I was actually on board. 
We flew over a desolate landscape of gray boulders and rocks, and
I could see some of the rocks parting and a craft emerged, about
the size of a single-decker bus.  It went into a tunnel.  Then I
saw six figures dressed like monks carrying a crate.  Anouxia
said the crate was a coffin--the craft had come to collect their
dead.  I felt terribly sad.'
     "Frances too was given an examination.  Then a man called
Uxiaulia, who had a plain white disc on his silver uniform, told
her he was an explorer pilot from the planet Janos, and wanted to
show her a film that would explain why they had left to seek
somewhere else to live.
     "There were three planets on the screen, which he called
Sarnia, Sarton and Janos,' Frances recalled.  'Apparently Sarton,
the one nearest their sun, came too close to Janos and started to
disintegrate, showering them with meteorites.  When one hit a
nuclear power station, it set of a chain reaction which
devastated the planet.' (or rather, chain-reacted to other
nuclear power stations in their nuclear energy grid.  Many seeing
the devastation coming, according to 'THE JANOS PEOPLE', took
refuge in their deep network of underground cities below Janos. 
Unfortunately however, the resultant radiation seeped into these
underground structures and many were killed as a result -
Branton)
     "The next picture, according to Frances, was of a young
blonde woman and two children.  Uxiaulia told her they were his
wife, son and daughter, who all died in the explosions.  Then he
said survivors from Janos had escaped on a master base ship (a
huge donut-shaped interstellar carrier vessel which was capable
of light-speed travel, or something close to it - Branton), and
were sending out explorer ships to find a new home for their
people.  'From what they had seen of Earth, they would like to
live hear,' said Frances.
     "Both she and John remembered being given colorless fizzy
drinks before they left the ship.  'It is to help you forget,'
they were told.  'You must forget because you will be exploited. 
In time you will remember.  We will meet again, and you will know
us.'
     "Was it all just a wild science-fiction story?  Scientists
and doctors checked out the family's experiences, and their
hypnotherapist was convinced they believed they were telling the
truth.  The consistency of their stories, told separately, also
lent credence to them, especially when little Natasha, who had
not been hypnotized, told her story to newspaper writers--a story
that matched in every detail."
     (Note: What the authors fail to mention here it that in the
original full-length volume on the experience, 'THE JANOS
PEOPLE', the Englishmen were told that the real reason Earth was
chosen was because of the heavy role the Earth and this solar
system had played in the ancient legends and traditions of the
Janosians, suggesting that their ancestors had been a part of
ancient earth cultures, and therefore had retained the knowledge
of the Sol-ar system and it's potion in the sky from their
perspective.  The generations-long voyage from the devastated
Janos via the giant carrier ship was therefore a one-way
migration of surviving refugees from their doomed system to the
Sol system, according to the book.