The famed supposed date that the nun was said to walk happened to be the following afternoon (July I think??). I'd once seen this date printed in a local free paper the day after - referring to the police presence etc, but had not made note of it and this was some years earlier.
Interest piqued, and feeling finding the book that day was a bit of a coincidence, I talked a few friends into driving from Sudbury to go visit the church. I had never seen so many people in Borley, and we arrived there before sundown and had a hard time finding a place to park, but parked on the Long Melford side of the church. We noticed a number of policemen and quite a few others milling about, but my friend's concern was "ok now where here, where are we supposed to look, and at what time". Of course I had no idea but I suggested we go and head a little further toward the churchyard.
As we were were doing so, I was looking at the crowds of people and I have to be honest thinking it would be amusing if someone actually dressed up as a nun on this night, and as this thought crossed my mind within a second I double checked myself and my next thought was - "I don't believe it - someone HAS dressed up as a nun". I saw her walk for about 3 seconds in the churchyard, before vanishing in something I couldn't even describe that night, except to say it wasn't a light BEAM but was definitely some sort of strange light "thing". At that moment I have to be honest I had the s*it scared out of me and I insisted to my friends we hurry back to the car, and we drove back to Sudbury. I wouldn't talk about what I had seen there until afterwards. They, to my knowledge, saw nothing.
My only final thought on the subject is I did get to see "something" for a few seconds, and I'm still puzzled by it, if not afraid anymore (but I am thousands of miles away now ;-) ). I had to ask myself if it was my imagination but the oddest thing about the nun is she was not wearing the kind of head-dress I would personally imagine a nun to wear, or that I had seen depicted in books about her, but it was one I have since known to be of a much older variety, with sort of wings coming off the sides. This is NOT the head-dress I would have imagined. I assumed the contemporary look would be what I expected.
Other memories are quite sketchy, but I actually came across your site wondering if anyone had ever described the nun in any detail - especially her headdress, and if you have any information on this I'd very much appreciate it.
We didn't even make it quite inside the churchyard, but it has stayed with me since that day, and I am persoanlly convinced by what I saw.