1982 - Hayle – Canine Being Encounter

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2024

Last Updated: 13/10/2026

Donna Marie Welham is the administrator of the Facebook community page “Post Apocalyptic, UFO, Cyborg, Bigfoot, Conspiracies, Angels, Cryptids etc”. In September 2024 I heard her mention a UFO sighting she had experienced. I reached out to her to ask for more details. This resulted in a Facebook Messenger video call in which she went over not only the sighting, but also an incident from her childhood involving an unusual being.

This report covers the being encounter, to read about Donna’s later UFO sighting click here.

Encounter Details

In 1982 when she was 9 years old she lived in a bungalow on the rural outskirts of Hayle, Cornwall with her parents, uncle and two older brothers.

One night in the early hours of the morning she awoke for an unknown reason. For some reason she felt compelled to get up and go and look out of her bedroom window. When she pulled back the curtains she was shocked to see an unusual being standing quite close to her. It was 8-9 feet in height, was unclothed and covered in brown coloured fur. It had long pointed ears and fiery red eyes.

Terrified by the presence of this strange being she ran through into her parent’s room. She told them she had seen something outside. She grabbed a pillowcase and drew a picture of it to show them (Sadly Donna no longer has this pillowcase, she says that many years ago there was a fire and it probably got destroyed in that). She is unsure whether they believed her, but they allowed her to sleep in with them for the night.

Looking back at the experience Donna says that it looked similar to the Egyptian jackal god Anubis.

She believes that the being wanted to be seen as it was not trying to hide or making any threatening signs or sounds. She says that even now when she goes to close the curtains she has vivid memories of what happened.

Encounter Analysis

The being which Donna saw is interesting. Obviously it is important to consider that she was only 9 at the time and she had just woken up. Could this have been her imagination perhaps caused by someone standing outside combined with reflections of moonlight/other nearby ground lights?

If it was actually present, then it did not look like any of the usual types of being reported in contact experiences. Some may even interpret this experience as evidence that werewolves or skinwalkers exist. It may well have been an unusual cryptid. However, there is also the possibility that this was a screen memory and it was an ET masking its actual appearance. There is the fact that she felt compelled to get up and look out of the window, suggesting an aspect of mind control.

A Later Incident?

Donna says that her friend Emma had a terrifying experience within months of her encounter with the canine being. At the time Emma was staying in one of the chalets in the sand dunes alongside Hayle Beach with her family.

Emma didn’t actually see anything visibly but heard a sniffing sound and the sudden feeling of dread like she was being watched. She ran back to the chalet, sensing something chasing after her every step of the way.

Not much else is known about this experience, and other than the animal-like noise there is nothing really linking it with Donna’s encounter. It is possible that the sniffing noise she heard was a nearby wild animal and this spooked her, making her feel like something was after her.

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026