The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the heyday of prophecy. Popular chapbooks told of the amazing abilities of figures like Mother Shipton, and quoted after the event verses which appeared to foretell events such as the Spanish Armada and the Civil War. Real historical figures like Roger Bacon might be invoked, and prophecies allegedly discovered hundreds of years after their death would turn out to be relevant to the news of the day.
Exceptional things were happening in Liverpool during 1964. When the Beatles returned to the city on 10th July for the premier of their first film A Hard Day’s Night, 150,000 people lined the streets to greet them. A less well known fact is that a few days earlier thousands of children, and curious adults, went hunting for leprechauns in a Liverpool park.
The question of what may really have been seen at Rendlesham in December 1980 is dealt with elsewhere by Ian Ridpath. However there are several other aspects of the book Sky Crash that are important to comment on. First of all, as the title implies, the idea of conspiracy is central to the book, which attempts to document the claim that a highly significant event was deliberately covered up by the British and American governments.