Man Feared For His Life When UFO Lights Dragged His Car Towards Dogging Spot

Castlebar man Martin Bogue was driving home last Friday night at approximately 11.50pm when his car was “bathed in light and drawn magnetically” towards a side road. Bogue said his car began to shake like it would fall apart, as if flew down the poorly surfaced side road at 90km per hour”.

The court heard the car only came to a halt when a “beam of orange light cut the ignition and removed one of his legs from his trousers”. Had the police car that found him like that not been following him, he said, he felt certain he would have been “probed by aliens”.

Officer Walter Shanahan told the court he and officer Phelim Greaney were on patrol when they noticed Bogue driving at high speed. Under cross examination, Bogue said he was “in a hurry to meet a woman whose marriage was ‘in trouble’.”

When asked if he was the trouble her marriage was in, he said he was but denied he was registered on a dogging site as ‘mrluvrluvr’.

Sentencing was adjourned.