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Bristol Contact Case - Visitations, Missing Time, UFO Sightings, Psychic Abilities, Paranormal Activity

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2023

Last Updated: 14/07/2026

 

Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used and certain location details have been omitted

 

At the start of June 2022 I was contacted by a lady from Bristol, who I shall name “Claire”. She wanted to discuss a number of fascinating and varied experiences she has had throughout her life. What triggered her to get in touch was an incident that happened back in April which she was quite disturbed by, and she was seeking answers to what had taken place. I was also pleased to meet her directly in 2023 at a private experiencer support discussion meeting arranged by Birmingham UFO Group.

 

This report covers her experiences in depth, which go right back to her childhood.

 

Twin Telepathy

 

Claire was born in 1970 and is a twin with her brother “Timothy”. Right back when she and her brother were only one year old she believes that she had a psychic connection with him.

 

At the time the family lived in Ealing, London. Claire and Timothy had matching cots in the same room. There was a wardrobe with glittery-coloured drawer knobs close to Claire’s cot. Even when the room light was off there was enough ambient light to see it. She recalls one night her brother telepathically speaking with her from across the room and daring her to reach out to grab them.

 

She took him up on this challenge and reached out towards the wardrobe. Unfortunately as a result she ended up falling out of the cot. She still recalls crying out for her parents and them rushing into the room. It is one of her earliest memories.

 

Could Claire really have received a telepathic message from her baby brother? As they were only 1 years old at the time their vocabulary would have been very limited indeed, however a directly transferred thought may have been implied rather than actual words. It is widely known that many people who experience contact throughout their lives appear to possess one or more psychic abilities, and as you will see this is far from her only psychic experience.

 

Brownies

 

Between the age of 4-6 Claire remembers numerous experiences of being visited during the night by short humanoid beings. She recalls that they were between 2-3 feet in height and had brown-orange coloured leathery skin. They looked male and wore clothing, but she cannot remember what this looked like. There were usually around three of them, she does not recall them every appearing on their own. Because of their skin tone she nicknamed them “Brownies”.

 

The beings would talk with her but she cannot remember specifically what they said. She does not remember seeing the beings directly appear, they would just suddenly be there. Nor can she recollect how they left the room. Claire thinks that they appeared quite regularly for up to three years. She was frightened of the beings, but does not think she ever ran out of the room or called out for her parents, she would just stare at them from the bed.

 

She never told her parents or friends at school about these visitations. Looking back at them she does not know why, especially due to the fear that she felt. The experiences did lead to her leaving the light on in her room, and she claims to have been frightened of the dark right up to her 20’s.

 

These incidents certainly sound like repeated visitations by possible alien beings. Although they did not look like Greys they were short in height. It is possible that they were another more humanoid species, or perhaps were masking their true appearance using a screen memory. She was of quite an early age at the time, and of course it is possible for childhood imagination to play a part, however the repeated nature of these experiences makes this seem less probable.

 

Colourful Patterns

 

Around the time she stopped experiencing visitations from the “Brownies”, Claire began to regularly see colourful patterns and shapes when she closed her eyes. Interestingly she used to call these “alien patterns” but has no idea why, she is certain it was not related to something she had read or seen. She would see various bright colours, shapes and geometric lines. It was as if they were superimposed over the usual darkness of her eyelids.

 

The patterns would usually appear when she was settling down to sleep, or just waking up in the morning. However she is certain they were taking place while she was still conscious, and there were other incidents where she saw them during the daytime when she happened to close her eyes. Claire enjoyed seeing the patterns and could sometimes will them to appear.

 

She remembers seeing the patterns up to the age of 9. After this they seemed to cease, and she could no longer see them. Like the visitations she never told her family or friends about them.

 

Ghostly Apparition

 

One evening in the Autumn or Winter of 1977 Claire recalls witnessing something very disturbing. She was sitting in the living room watching television. Her mother was in the kitchen at the time teaching her brother to read. At the end of the living room about 14 feet away were some tall French doors which were closed at the time and covered with long curtains. The doors led through to a conservatory.

 

Suddenly what appeared to be a semi-transparent upper portion of an oversized man’s body emerged through the curtains and began slowly floating across the room towards her! She could only see the shoulders and head of this man, and the vision was almost as tall as the doors. The man had white skin, wavy dark coloured hair with sideburns and looked Tudor in appearance. As the apparition drifted towards her the mouth opened almost as if it was about to speak.

 

Before the vision reached her she left the room and ran into the kitchen, telling her mother that she thought she’d just seen a ghost. When she bravely returned to the living room the apparition was gone. But she also found that the television was now off. She is certain it had been on when the man appeared, so had no idea of how it had been switched off.

 

Later on in her life she saw a stone bust of the famous composer Ludwig van Beethoven which un-nerved her because it reminded her of the apparition she had seen.

 

Ludwig van Beethoven stone bust
Ludwig van Beethoven stone bust

Looking back at the experience, the figure also looked somewhat similar to Mr Darcy from the television production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (played by Colin Firth).


Mr Darcy from Pride And Prejudice
Mr Darcy from Pride And Prejudice

This incident is both fascinating and un-nerving. Claire was wide awake at the time and watching TV so it is unlikely to have been a dream. She saw it clearly enough to notice specific features, suggesting it was actually present rather than just a trick of the light. If it was a ghostly apparition of a man then the way in which it was grossly over-sized is particularly odd. Another possibility is that this was a projection of some kind and linked with inherent psychic abilities.

 

The fact that the TV was off when she re-entered the room is another anomaly. It perhaps suggests that she has some missing time regarding the incident, and maybe switched it off herself before leaving the room. However this would have involved actually moving closer to the apparition, something she is unlikely to have wanted to do at the time, at least willingly. Another possibility is that the apparition somehow interfered with the electrics and the television was turned off as a side effect of its presence in the room.

 

Bicycle Accident

 

By 1986 Claire and her family had moved to a house in Shipton-Under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire. She used to enjoy cycling around the area. One day in July or August she was out cycling West from Burford to Cheltenham along the edge of the A40 to buy a new stereo.


It was around 11am and a pleasant sunny day. Due to the warm weather she was drinking a lot of water. She was on the approach to Dowdeswell Reservoir when she began to need the loo.


Aerial map of Dowdeswell Reservoir
Aerial map of Dowdeswell Reservoir

She started looking for a side road she could use for this purpose out of sight of the traffic.


Aerial map of the A40 indicating Burford (A) and Cheltenham (B), and the route Claire took to the reservoir
Aerial map of the A40 indicating Burford (A) and Cheltenham (B), and the route Claire took to the reservoir
 Photograph of the A40 on the approach to the reservoir
 Photograph of the A40 on the approach to the reservoir

Suddenly she found herself lying down on the grass verge alongside the motorway. She was picking herself back up. A couple of cars had stopped ahead of her and a lady from one of them was calling out asking if she was ok. Her bike was lying alongside her on the grass. She checked herself over and found that there was seemingly no damage to herself or her bike. She also noted that she no longer needed the loo, but was also certain she had not wet herself.

 

She responded to the lady asking her whether she had knocked her off her bike. The lady said “No we didn’t see you fall. We just saw you lying in the verge. We presumed you must have been knocked off by the car ahead.”

 

Claire continued her bike ride into Cheltenham. Later in the day she called her mother and informed her about what had happened on route. Her mother was concerned she may be concussed and asked her to go to a doctor’s to get checked out. She complied with this request, but the doctor confirmed she was completely fine. However her mother was still concerned so drove to Cheltenham to pick her up.

 

The incident has always troubled Claire. She is convinced that she was not feeling in any way faint while cycling along, and informed me she was very fit at the time so was not tired either. She had no injuries at all, and there was no damage to the bike either. She has no memory at all of coming off the bike, so essentially has a period of missing time she cannot account for.

 

While there is no reason not to believe that the incident happened as Claire recollects, I feel that it is most probable that this has a normal explanation rather than it being linked with contact in anyway. Perhaps she briefly lost control of the bike or ran over something on the edge of the road. Or perhaps a passing car accidentally bumped her with its wing mirror and did not stop to help. The fact she did not need the toilet anymore could well have been just down to the shock of what had happened, there was more pressing issues for her to think about.

 

It is entirely possible to lose memory of sudden accidents or frightening moments. I know this first hand. When I was 16 years old I had an accident on my bike where I went over the handlebars. The memory of falling through the air completely vanished. One second I was riding along, the next thing I knew I was lying on the pavement with a mouthful of blood. Even though Claire luckily did not suffer any injuries, she could still have forgotten the actual crash itself, so this cannot be ruled out as the explanation for what took place.

 

Precognition

 

From about the age of seventeen Claire began to experience what she believed to be psychic abilities. She realised that she would know information about people or things that were going to happen to them, sometimes when meeting them for the first time. She would also sometimes know things that were going to happen to herself. Claire provided a number of specific examples of these apparent abilities.

 

By early 1993 she had moved to a share house in Manchester where she lived with other girls. Around this time in her life she was quite religious and would often pray. One morning she was praying in her bedroom when she slipped into a trance-like meditative state.

 

She then heard in her mind a vivid conversation. The conversation was with one of her male friends who she was interested in being with. He told her reasons why he could not be with her. Later that day around 2pm her friend actually rang up. He then began to speak exactly the same words she had already heard in her mind earlier on. Claire believes that she was given this information in advance to emotionally prepare her for what he said.

 

Claire sensed that one of her housemates, “Lucy”, was having to put up with verbal harassment from a man at her workplace. She had not shared this information with anyone. When she asked Lucy about this, she confirmed that it was true.

 

She would sometimes sense things that were medically wrong with people. When she first got together with one of her boyfriends and touched his arm she immediately sensed that there was something wrong with his kidneys. There was no reason at all for her to know this, but when she asked him about it he confirmed that there was and that he was taking medication for it.

 

On another occasion she had a very specific vision. In this vision she saw her friend “Heather” driving in her car and eating French Fries. She wasn’t paying proper attention to the road and another vehicle suddenly crashed into the side of her car. She decided to tell Heather about the vision and warn her to be careful. Two days later Heather contacted her back and said that while out driving a car had suddenly shot out from a side road. If she hadn’t had her hands on the wheel at the time she would not have been able to swerve out of the way in time.

 

Vision Of The Grey

 

In 1998 Claire moved to a flat in Abington, Oxfordshire. By this time in her life she was no longer religious, but had continued to meditate and explore her psychic abilities. One day she was alone in the house meditating. She was interested in seeing whether she could communicate with any spirits or other intelligences while she was in this state of mind. She opened herself up and in her mind asked “Is there anyone out there who wants to talk with me?”

 

Immediately the vision of a Grey being came into her mind. It was unclothed and had brown-green coloured skin. The being appeared to be aboard a craft. Behind it she could see control panels and a long rectangular window through which stars could be seen.

 

The being responded to her telepathically, saying “We want to talk to you!” Claire was shocked at this vision as she was not thinking about aliens at the time at all, or intending on contacting them specifically. Nor did she know much about ET contact.

 

She was quite disturbed at what had occurred and immediately brought herself back out of meditation. The whole incident felt very strange to her, and she just put it down to her imagination, not considering the idea that some kind of genuine communication may have taken place.

 

Psychic Readings

 

In her late twenties Claire felt that her abilities had grown to a level in which she could start doing psychic readings as a business. She would tell clients what was going to take place or warn them what would happen if they didn’t do specific things.

 

One example of this that she gave me involved her seeing a vision of the deceased father of an American client.  When she closed her eyes she saw a man with a hole through one of his hands. She sensed that this man was no longer alive. When she described the man to her client, the client was amazed and confirmed that it must be her father. In the past he had accidentally driven a nail through his hand. The client had not written about this anywhere so there was no way that Claire could have found this out in advance.

 

Claire says that she stopped doing the psychic readings in 2004, a year after her son “Luke” was born. She said that she was feeling a bit burnt out by it, and was getting disheartened by people’s insistence on wanting to hear positive messages from her, even if that was not what she was picking up.


Stepfather’s Protection?

 

In December 2003, a few months after Luke was born, Claire’s stepfather passed away. At the time she was living with her husband “Robert” in a detached house at a small remote village on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.

 

The following night she had a strange vivid dream which seemed completely unrelated. In this dream she saw Robert standing up and looking down at her through a window. She remembered it when she woke but had no idea what it meant.

 

Luke was a very hungry baby, and would not stay asleep for long before wanting a feed. The following night after the dream Claire was sitting in the kitchen with a baby monitor around 1am waiting for Luke to wake back up. Robert was upstairs sleeping in the bedroom opposite Luke’s room.

 

Suddenly the monitor came alive with the sound of white noise static. Over the top of this she could hear her son. He seemed to be awake and it was as if he was reacting to something in the room. She then heard a voice clearly say “Alright little boy”. The voice sounded odd, more high pitched than a normal human voice would sound. However it also had a loving protective sound to it.

Example photo of a baby monitor from the 2000s
Example photo of a baby monitor from the 2000s

 Claire did not feel frightened by the voice, it was almost comforting. She walked upstairs and pushed open the door to her son’s room. She immediately noticed many small orbs of glittering light in the air over the cot. The orbs were white with a slight orange tinge to them. They were drifting slowly around in no apparent pattern. Even though they were unusual and in the vicinity of her son Claire did not feel in any way threatened by them.


She left the room and went into the bedroom to draw Robert’s attention to what was taking place. She woke him and told him about the strange voice she had heard, and the orbs of light in Luke’s room. Robert suggested that maybe it was his father who had come to visit him. Like Claire, he did not appear frightened by what he was told, and did not get out of bed to see the orbs for himself.

 

A couple of days later Claire and Robert had to drive Luke to Liskard to get his three month injection. Due to the time of year it was snowy conditions, and because of the remoteness of the village where they lived the roads had not been gritted. Claire was driving at the time, with Robert in the passenger seat and Luke in the back.

 

On the way across the moor the 4x4 jeep they were in skidded on ice. Claire was unable to maintain control of the vehicle and it crashed off the side of the road, ending up on its side in a ditch. As the vehicle was lying driver side down, Claire was trapped in her seat. However Robert was able to clamber up out of the passenger side window. Once he had climbed through it he looked back down at Claire still in her seat. When Claire looked up at him she immediately realised that this is what she had seen in the dream a few nights before! She had seemingly experienced a premonition of the crash.

 

Fortunately nobody was hurt in the accident. Claire has always linked what happened with the baby monitor and the orbs with the crash due to their proximity. She feels that Robert’s father had visited Luke and that soon afterwards had protected them all from harm.

 

This is an interesting series of varied events. The static and voice that Claire heard over the baby monitor is very intriguing. She informed me that due to the remoteness of their location there were very few vehicles on the road or things which could have caused any form of interference. She did not hear static from the monitor on any other occasions. She confirmed that the voice was very clear, and does not put it down to just hearing things in random noise.

 

Claire confirmed that there was no external lights outside the window of her son’s room which could have accounted for the glowing orbs seen in the room that night. She did not see them on any other occasion, and the curtains of the room were closed at the time so they could not have been caused by dust particles or insects being caught in moonlight. Obviously we have to take Claire’s word on this as there are no photographs of the room at the time of the incident.

 

Whether you believe the resulting lack of injuries in the car crash was anything to do with what had previously occurred or not is going to be down to interpretation. The two incidents did occur in quick succession of one another, however there is nothing really linking them in any other way. It could have just been down to luck that nobody was hurt in the accident as opposed to any form of protection from the other side.

 

Night of Activity

 

By 2021 Claire lived in a house in Somerset with her new fiancée “Justin”. They also owned a house in Bristol which they were in the process of selling. On 21st April her father suffered from a stroke and was rushed to Cardiff hospital. Claire got a phone call from them telling her that she needed to get to the hospital to say her goodbyes as soon as possible. She set off on the drive, already knowing that she would not make it in time. Sure enough by the time she arrived her father had sadly passed away.

 

That evening upon leaving the hospital Claire realised that she had forgotten the keys to her own home, she only had the keys for the house in Bristol, which had not yet been sold. As Justin was not home until 11.30pm from work, and she had no way of letting herself in, she decided to wait at the house in Bristol until 11pm, with the intention of then driving home.

 

It was around 9.30pm. Claire was relaxing in the front bedroom of the house on the bed with a takeaway. The house is Victorian and three storeys high. The council houses on the opposite side of the road are lower down, providing a clear view of the sky. The room she was in has large windows which look out over the local area.

 

Suddenly through the window Claire happened to notice something in the sky. The sun had set but the weather conditions were clear and the stars were visible. She saw what appeared to be a bell-shaped object. It was at low altitude and appeared to be skimming the rooftops of the neighbouring houses within 200 feet from her position. The object was dark in colour, perhaps muddy brown or dark grey. It did not appear to be glowing but she could see it reflecting lights from the ground.

 

Confused by the object, Claire got up off the bed and walked to the window to get a better look at it. At this point she realised the object really was unusual and that it was moving in her direction, approaching from the North East East. She decided she wanted to try and capture it on her smartphone camera. The phone was across the room charging by the bed. She quickly ran over and grabbed it. When she returned to the window the object was still visible.

 

However the window of the room was not open at this point. She didn’t want reflection in the window to interfere with the footage so she tried to open it. Unfortunately the window was stiff and could not be opened easily. As she battled to get it open she watched as the object continued to get closer. By the time she had got the window open the object was about to pass right over the house. Not having enough time to start recording, she leaned out and caught a glimpse of it for just a moment before it was lost from sight.

Claire says that looking up at the object from underneath it looked more triangular in shape. The object appeared to be about 15 feet across. In the base of it she could see a grill-like pattern covering its surface. There were also six red lights, a line of three along each side. The object appeared to be making a pneumatic sound, similar to the sound of a battery-operated milk float.

 

She was so frustrated that she had not managed to capture it on film. She may of thought of running to the back of the house to capture it flying away, but she was distracted from this by the presence of other unusual objects in the sky. She saw a number of flashing white lights. As she watched some of these lights appeared to break up into clusters of lights and form patterns or arranged formations. She switched off the bedroom light so as not to draw attention to her presence. She then managed to capture some of this activity on camera.

 

About ten minutes later another triangular object appeared in the distance. This time it looked triangular from the off. It was moving very slowly, less than 30 mph. Once again it was moving towards the house on a straight course. Now she was ready for it with the camera, and managed to record it as it approached and once again flew over the roof.

 

As the object was no longer in sight, Claire quickly ran to the back room of the house. The window sill in this room had some cuddly animals sitting on it. She knocked them off onto the floor so she could lean on the sill and continue to film the object as it moved away. From the rear Claire says that it looked more like a military aircraft rather than anything unusual.

 

By this time her phone was down to 8% battery life, so she charged it for a while as she continued to watch other lights in the sky from the front window. About half an hour later another triangular shaped object was again sighted! This one was on a slightly different course to before, and ended up flying over the house a few doors down the road from her.

 

Claire continued to watch things take place in the sky. At 11.30pm she called Justin knowing he would now be home from work. She explained what was going on. As she was on the phone she saw a bright white flaring light in the sky to the North East East, around where the first bell-shaped object had been spotted. This glow died down and from it emerged a military aircraft. It appeared to Claire that it had just materialized out of thin air!

 

They continued to talk for about half an hour. Claire continued to film on and off during this conversation. After ending the call around midnight activity had largely seemed to have calmed down in the sky, so Claire decided to look and see what she had managed to capture on film.

 

She was confused to find that many of the films she had taken had now apparently vanished from her phone, including the ones she had taken of the approaching triangular objects. Some of the less impressive, more distant videos remained, and a number of screenshots, but the close footage had disappeared! Even more bizarrely, the timeline of some of the images and videos appeared to be out of sync on her phone, and she was convinced that some of the footage had been artificially lengthened.

 

Discouraged by the disappearance of the footage Claire decided to stop watching the sky at this point. However she did copy the recordings she had managed to capture onto her Macbook. She then started to analyse them and alter their frequency to see if she could pick anything up.

 

As she listened intently she believes that she began to hear other voices on the recordings. She had not had the TV or radio on while filming, and felt sure that the voices were not coming from outside. Sometimes it was very muffled but at other times it sounded like at least two distinct voices coming from within the room. Unfortunately she did not save these altered frequency recordings as separate files and when she attempted to do the same thing again later on no other voices could be heard. Claire wonders if she was actually hearing the voices live at the time rather than them being on the recording.

 

Eventually at around 6.30am Claire finally got some sleep, after having stayed up most of the night concerned by what had taken place. The following day when she watched one of the pieces of video that had remained on her phone, she was disturbed to see what appeared to be someone else’s arm in the footage. It reached in and opened the window. The sleeve on the arm was pink or beige coloured. However Claire says that she was wearing a dark grey top that night. Also she says that the arm was fatter than her own and the knuckles on the hand looked different.

 

She also noticed what appeared to be Grey beings caught in the reflection of the glass standing behind her in the room, although she had seen nothing at the time.

 

When she rang Justin again in the morning she asked him whether he had experienced anything unusual. He informed her that just before she had called on the previous night he had heard what sounded like someone walking around in the garage. Over the following weeks Claire and Justin experienced further paranormal activity at their home in Somerset, including locked windows and doors inexplicably opening by themselves.

 

Two weeks after the incident they finally sold the house in Bristol, so had to officially move out. When Claire entered the back room where she had done some of the filming she was shocked to see that the cuddly animals were sitting back on the window sill. She was convinced that she had not picked them back up following the incident but had left them scattered on the floor. She then noticed a piece of carpet grip nailed to the window sill, which again she was certain had not been there before.

 

In addition to the cuddly animals, on one of the shelves in the room there was a plastic model of Snoopy the dog. Claire noticed that there was a piece of paper jutting out from under it. She picked this paper up and found that it was a vintage article from an issue of The Strand magazine. Years before she had purchased many issues of the magazine from a car boot sale with the intentions of selling valuable articles to collectors. She had begun cutting out articles of interesting subjects.

 

However she never got round to attempting to sell them, and in the end got rid of them due to other commitments. Yet bizarrely one of these articles was now under the model! It wasn’t even of something well known or interesting, something that she would have obviously kept to sell. The article was about Queen Maud, the Queen of Norway until her death in 1938.

 

Intrigued, Claire decided to search online to see what she could find out about her. When she did a Google search for her she found out that there was an area of Antarctica named after her, Queen Maud Land, and that, according to some sources, there was supposedly a secret Nazi base established there in the war at which Hitler was attempting to create saucer-shaped craft.

 

Here is an example article describing this secret base:

 

Claire was concerned by this apparent link between the article and the UFO subject. She wonders if it was left there on purpose as some kind of warning that she was being watched.

 

Dropped Onto The Bed

 

In May 2021 Claire visited Cardiff for her father’s funeral. For her visit she stayed at a very fancy hotel. The bed in her room had a thick and sturdy mattress.

 

During the night she suddenly awoke with the feeling of being put back onto the bed with force. When this happened she was convinced that the bed had also physically shook, and she also found that she had bitten her lip.

 

When she checked the bed she found that the weighty mattress had seemingly moved. She took this as yet another sign that something had actually taken place. She says that it was too heavy to have been shifted by herself moving around in the night. She managed to take photos of the mattress as evidence of what had happened.

 

Safari Shots

 

On 20th April 2023 Claire and her son “Robert” visited Longleat Wildlife Park. It was a pleasant sunny day, and was also quite quiet with not a huge amount of visitors. Early in the afternoon Claire drove around the safari section of the park in her Kia Pincato, with Robert in the passenger seat. They both took numerous photographs, Claire on her Nikon DLSR camera, and Robert on his IIIF150 B1 Pro smartphone.

 

At the time neither of them noticed anything unusual. However when they checked the photographs later on, there were a number of anomalous objects present on some of the images.

 

In a photograph of some antelopes Claire took at 2.28pm through the driver side window, she noticed a small dark coloured object. Below is the photograph with the object ringed:

 


Zoomed view of the object:

 


On the next photograph in sequence the object was no longer visible:

 


On one of Robert’s photos of the same animals, taken within seconds of Claire’s photograph, several objects are visible:


 

Zoomed view of the objects:

 


Again, just like Claire’s photo, the next one in sequence that her son took several seconds later no longer contains the objects:



At 2.45pm they were driving through the deer paddock when Claire took some consecutive photographs of an approaching deer through the front windscreen. When she checked these photographs she again found some anomalies.

 

This first photograph in the sequence shows a black object to the right of the deer’s head:

 


Zoomed view of the object:



A few seconds later this later shot of the same deer was taken. This time the anomalous object appears to the left of the image:

 


Zoomed view of the object:

 


It is important to note that Claire made no claims that these photographs definitely showed craft, she merely sent them because she was intrigued by what they might show.

 

I have no reason at all to doubt that these are all genuine images. Claire gratefully sent me the original photographs off her camera including the raw image files, which cannot be manipulated by image editing software. However I also believe that some of the images are of birds caught in flight, whereas others show insects flying past the lens of the camera.

 

It is extremely likely that the first two photographs taken by Claire and Robert show birds. Sometimes when birds are captured swooping with their wings directly at their sides, they can resemble a blurred disc or domed-disc shaped craft, exactly like what is seen in these photos.

 

Here is another famous example of a “UFO” taken in Cornwall. This is actually a seagull in mid-flight:



The thinner right side of the object in the first photo and objects at the right of the second photo is the bird’s tail, which is narrower than the rest of the body. The third object seen between the two antelope in the second picture is also probably a bird just caught at a different angle. However another possibility is that this was an insect crossing past the camera at the moment of it being taken. Unfortunately it is impossible to determine precise distance from photographs, and therefore size of objects captured.

 

The jet black elongated object in the third photograph is extremely likely to be an insect flying past the lens. I have analysed numerous photographs like this before. Because insects can fly past the camera in a split second the detailed shape is sometimes not visible, and gets stretched out in the direction of travel.

 

It’s hard to make out exactly what the object in the fourth photo could be, but again it is likely to be either a bird or insect. It is too blurred to say for certain.

 

This is very likely why neither Claire nor Robert noticed anything at the time of taking the photographs, and also why the objects seem to only be present for a few seconds before vanishing. I am quite confident that these photographs do not show craft of any kind, but am grateful that Claire has provided them for analysis all the same.

 

Conclusions

 

Claire has had some fascinating and varied experiences. While some of these experiences may well have aspects which can be explained in mundane terms, others are more interesting and could be linked with contact.

 

The visitations of the short beings in her childhood are very interesting due to their repeated nature. While the beings encountered were not one of the usual types seen, this does not mean that the incidents did not take place. Both psychic abilities and paranormal activity have clear links with the contact phenomenon, and, as you have read, Claire has had many experiences of this nature.

 

The bizarre night involving unusual objects seen in the sky and other anomalous aspects certainly affected Claire deeply. While I find it highly unlikely that her mobile phone has been hacked by one or more unknown parties in order to cover up some of what was observed, and other aspects can be put down to false memory or pareidolia, it still appears that she may have observed some genuine unidentified craft. It’s just a shame that we do not have any significant video footage to back up her testimony.

 

I would like to thank Claire for bravely coming forward with this information. She knows how bizarre some of it sounds and is aware that some people who read this report may be sceptical of her claims, but in speaking with her I have no doubt that she is describing actual events which have taken place. If she keeps in touch going forward, further incidents may be added in due course.

 

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

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