‘Sprinkled with stardust’: Stoke-on-Trent’s mythic UFO landing comes to the stage

‘Sprinkled with stardust’: Stoke-on-Trent’s mythic UFO landing comes to the stage

Deborah McAndrew’s Bright Lights Over Bentilee recreates the local legend of a UFO sighting in the fields behind a housing estate in 1967

For residents of the Bentilee housing estate in Stoke-on-Trent, once one of the largest in Europe and made up almost entirely of social housing, life had undoubtedly been tough.

But for a brief few moments, during one night more than 50 years ago, local people on the sprawling complex of semi-detached houses and cottage flats were “sprinkled with stardust” when dozens witnessed bright lights in the sky and what they believed to be a UFO landing in a nearby field.

Bright Lights Over Bentilee runs at the Dipping House, Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent from 27 September to 12 October

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