Bozeat Contact Case – Orbs, Beings, Missing Time, Psychic Abilities

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2022

Last Updated: 27/04/2026

Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used

Incident Details

Around 1983 in his early teens Martin lived in Bozeat, Northamptonshire. He used to regularly go camping with his friend “Steve” in an open field alongside Horn Wood.

Aerial map indicating Bozeat (A) and Horn Wood (B)

 On one of these camping excursions soon after settling down to sleep in the tent they noticed green and red coloured lights visible through the tent lining. They opened the door to the tent to have a look at where the lights were coming from. They saw two orbs, one green and one red, hovering over near the hedge at the edge of the field. They were zig zagging back and forth as they moved along. After a moment they disappeared.

Photograph of the field where the witnesses camped

They then looked off to their left towards a path about a quarter of a mile away which ran around the outer edge of the wood. They were surprised to see a girl standing there. She looked to be about the same age as them, 13-14 years old. She was quite attractive and had long brown hair.

They decided to walk over to speak with her. As they approached they watched her walk off into the edge of the wood and vanish from sight. When they arrived at where she had previously been they saw an opening in the wood which was very dark.

The next thing he became aware of it was morning time and he and Steve were waking up in the tent. He was feeling dazed and found it hard to concentrate. He was also hungry and thirsty.

Steve ran off across the field to the nearby farmhouse. Martin decided to head back into Bozeat to get something to eat and drink.

When he arrived at the village he noticed a line of children waiting at a bus stop in school uniform. He assumed it must be a school trip as it was Sunday morning so school should have been closed.

After getting some food and drink he walked back home. When he arrived his mother asked where he had been. He said he’d been at the tent. His mother replied “Don’t lie to me, you weren’t there!”

Confused by what she meant Martin questioned her further. It was now that he found out It was in fact Tuesday morning. Both he and Steve appeared to have two entire days of missing time! When they had not returned to the village on Sunday their parents and cousins had apparently headed to the field and found the tent empty. They assumed that they had ran off across the field.

Soon after the incident Steve’s father stopped him from speaking with Martin, no doubt angry or concerned regarding what had taken place. His parents told him that they’d been informed that he was acting strangely. Six months later his family moved away from Bozeat. Martin did not attempt to contact him.

At the time this was all Martin could not remember anything between reaching the edge of the wood, and waking up on Tuesday morning. However, around 2009 at the age of 40 he began to have flashbacks to what took place.

He did not recall seeing the girl at any point. But he did remember two entities of some kind standing close to him. They were charcoal black in colour and like they were made of mist, with no distinct shape or bone structure. One was standing behind him, the other in front of him. He sensed that one of them was extremely old. The other was younger and interacted with him, akin to a “good cop, bad cop” situation. He remembers it joking with him, like it was having fun with him.

He also remembered being up in the air about 400 feet above the wood after dark. He could see the back garden of his grandmother’s house. It was lit up really brightly, more illuminated than it should have been.

When these memories started to come back to him he wondered if he and Steve had been drugged, but the whole situation made no sense, it was too strange.

Martin feels that the entities he met with unlocked something in his brain. He says that he has a high level of intuition, and when he meets people for the first time he senses things about them which he shouldn’t know. He also sensed that something big was going to take place in 2025 which would affect many people.

In recent years he was diagnosed with PTSD. He believes this is directly related to what took place.

Incident Analysis

This is a bizarre and mysterious series of events which could well have been related to contact. It began with the sighting of some glowing orbs of light performing unusual manoeuvres. These could potentially have been hovering devices linked with what took place.

The girl that was seen was possibly a humanoid being. Another possibility is that she was a being utilising a screen memory to appear in that form, perhaps to reduce the fear of the situation or prompt the boys to approach.

The fact that the boys had two entire days of missing time is fascinating. Clearly something took place which involved both of them for an extensive period. They had no contact with anyone out at the field prior to the incident beginning, so it seems improbable that they were drugged. In this scenario someone would have had to have spiked their drinks before they set off on their excursion. Then there’s the oddities of the glowing orbs and the girl on the path. These cannot have been visual hallucinations because they both saw the same thing.

I have investigated numerous cases before where the memories of incidents are completely removed for an extensive period of time but then slowly start to return, sometimes seemingly naturally for no obvious reason.

The encounter with the mist-like entities that Martin recollects is certainly unusual. Again it is possible that this was down to a screen memory. The other memory he has of looking down from the air above the wood and seeing his grandmother’s garden lit up in the distance is bizarre. It is possible that he was viewing this through a window aboard a craft, but the reason for why it was lit up more brightly than it should have been is unknown.

The fact that Martin informed me that since the incident he feels that he has enhanced intuition when meeting others, and also a possible premonition of some kind, is again telling. He has not got back in touch since the end of 2025 so I have no way of knowing whether he relates anything that took place during the year with his premonition. Many experiencers report having one or more psychic abilities. The reason for this link with contact is unknown, although there are numerous theories.

It certainly sounds like the incident has had a profound impact on Martin’s life leading to issues on a long term basis. It’s good to hear that he has reached out for support from his GP on this. I hope that in time he gains more of an understanding of what took place.

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026