Birmingham Contact Case – Visitations, UFO Sightings, Signs Of Contact

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2016

Last Updated: 24/09/2025

Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used

In 2016 an experiencer from Birmingham who I shall call “Jacob” got in touch with BUFOG via phone to discuss a number of experiences he recollected from his past. This report documents the information passed on in that phone call and my thoughts on the events. Unfortunately, after this call he did not keep in touch so details in some regards are limited.

Abduction Return?

At 8 years old Jacob recalls an unusual incident which happened one night. He remembers waking up in the process of being placed back into her bed by a figure. He felt like he had been somewhere he could not remember. The figure holding him appeared to be wearing a yellow-coloured cardigan. His mother used to own a cardigan like this but had thrown it away several years before this incident took place. Jacob felt that the figure was trying to put on the appearance of his mother. However, he did not feel threatened by the situation.

After he was placed back on the bed he fully woke up and found nobody was there in the room. He lay there a while before dropping back off to sleep. In the morning he asked his mother whether she had lifted him out of the bed during the night. His mother said she had no recollection of doing so.

While this could have just been down to a vivid dream based on memories of his mother wearing the cardigan on previous years, there is the possibility that Jacob had been abducted and this was a being, and its appearance was down to what is known as a screen memory.

Hairy Being Visitation

Another incident occurred in 1989. He awoke during the night to find a strange being standing alongside the bed. It was 4-5 feet in height and had a stocky build. It was brown coloured and hairy, with very large eyes and a protruding snout-like nose. It was wearing a cloak which covered it’s shoulders but was parted from its chest downwards.

The being reminded him of Alf, the alien from the American comedy sitcom series which was on TV back in the late 1980s, although it was just reminiscent, not exactly the same.

Photograph of Alf

Jacob does not recall what happened next after seeing the being standing there by the bed. This is his only memory of the encounter.

While I have dealt with a few other cases of hair-covered beings, they are quite rare. If this was a visitation experience there is the possibility that, just like his previous encounter, the being’s appearance was down to a screen memory, which caused it to appear similar to something he was familiar to off TV at the time.

Paralysed

Between 2001-2002 Jacob had numerous frightening experiences where he woke up during the night to find he could not move. He tried screaming out but no sound came out so nobody came to help. He could feel something pressing down on his chest and moving around, and could hear it laughing at him.

On these occasions Jacob says that afterwards his pet dogs would act in an erratic manner like they were agitated. Usually he would just lie there in this state for a while and would then eventually drop off. On one occasion he managed to break out of the paralysis and everything immediately went away.

The symptoms Jacob describes here have been reported many times before with sleep paralysis, the sleep related disorder which people sometimes suffer from. During sleep paralysis people often report feeling something pushing down on their chest, feeling the sense of something evil or hearing strange sounds. It is very probable that this is what was taking place on these occasions rather than anything contact related.

Vibrations

Jacob says that around this time he also felt low frequency sounds which shook his house. He claims that this occurred quite frequently in both the afternoon and after dark. He was unaware of any machinery in the vicinity of his property which could have been responsible for the noises.

While these noises do sound unusual there’s numerous potential mundane explanations for them. Perhaps there was some electrical machinery in a nearby building which he was unaware of. Perhaps the sounds were being made by his own house’s central heating, electricity or water system. The fact that they occurred regularly and were not directly linked to anything else unusual going on suggests that they probably had a mundane explanation.

Orange Orbs

In 2016 Jacob had a couple of sightings of a glowing orange coloured orb. When he initially spotted it he was shocked. The object was initially stationary in the sky. It then moved to the left before halting again. He walked to his left and as he did the object began moving left again matching his movements. He walked back to the right and it too moved back to the right. The fact that it appeared to be mimicking his movements panicked him.

On a Sunday a number of weeks before Jacob reached out to BUFOG he saw another very similar looking object. He wonders whether it was the same object as before making a return appearance. The following day he noticed a tall man in a grey suit standing and staring up at the sky. The man appeared to be in his mid-50s and had grey hair. Nobody else seemed to be paying any attention to him. Jacob wondered if the man was related to what he had seen the previous night.

While the movements of the first orb were intriguing it is possible that it, and the later sighting were something mundane, such as sky lanterns or other lit inflatables. The movement patterns observed could have just been coincidental and the object drifting around in air currents. Jacob did not describe how either of the objects left the vicinity. The man that he saw could have just been a civilian and nothing to do with the second sighting, it was after all many hours later that he was witnessed.

Conclusions

Jacob has had some intriguing experiences. While the later incidents could certainly have mundane explanations, some of his childhood experiences are more interesting and could possibly suggest that he has experienced contact.

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025