When we proposed a project for Aid and Abet’s Space Exchange we wanted an artist from somewhere else in the UK to set us a research task that we could undertake in the Eastern Region somewhere. Artist Dave Evans from Royal Standard took up our offer and in an email we received last Thursday he put forward some areas of interest. He has been researching UFO sightings over East Anglia (the fact there have been any is news to me). He names two incidents in particular, ‘Operation Charlie’ in 1947 and the ‘1996 East Anglia UFO Flap’ which has intrigued Dominique and I, and already ideas are forming as to how we will approach the task of being research assistants to an artist we have never met.
So equipped as UFO incident investigators, we will search for traces of real or unverified UFO incidents, gathering as yet unidentified evidence that might include photographs, objects, sound and conversations. We will send the research material to the Aid and Abet gallery during the exhibition to form an evolving body of corroboration. At a later date the research material will be delivered to Evans in Liverpool.
Coming home tonight our research journey has already begun quite by chance something unusual in the sky whilst the fans at Carrow Road were cheering (final score Norwich 2 Sunderland 1).
Nicola Naismith
