Glasgow Contact Case – Humanoid & Shadow Beings, Floating Device, Orbs, Signs Of Contact

Birmingham UFO Group Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Date: 12/01/2014

Last Updated: 20/05/2025

Introduction

James first got in touch with me after watching a video of the lecture I gave on contact at the UFO Truth Magazine Conference in November 2013. He informed me of a number of unusual incidents he had experienced back in 2012, and asked for my opinions on them. Some of these incidents may have mundane explanations, but there are a number of facts which suggest that James may be a contactee. This report covers his experiences in detail.

Orb Sightings

In early 2012 James moved into a new high rise flat in Glasgow. Soon after doing so he had a number of separate sightings of glowing orbs in the night sky. On some of these occasions it was clear that they were nothing more than Chinese lanterns or distant aeroplanes.

But at other times James saw star-like lights which appeared to be perform controlled manoeuvres in the sky. He was convinced that these objects were not distant helicopters, although this of course cannot be entirely ruled out.

Sleep Paralysis

Later in the year James developed an interest in sleep paralysis and began reading about its symptoms. A short while after this he began to experience it for himself. It appeared that reading about it had somehow triggered his body into actually experiencing it. He began to suffer from bouts of sleep paralysis on consecutive nights.

Sometimes during these experiences he would see shadowy beings standing in the room, but he is convinced these were a side effect of the paralysis and nothing more. He could tell at the time that he was in a dream-like state of mind.

The Black Box

One night James randomly woke up at around 4 o’clock in the morning.  He decided to stay awake, but in the end dropped back off at around 5am. He felt that he then slept for between 30-40 minutes before waking up again. When he opened his eyes he lifted his head off the pillow and looked round the room.

On the other side of the room floating above the right hand side of the television was what appeared to be a small solid rectangular-shaped black box. It was hovering motionless in the air. James says that usually he would have panicked at the sight of such a thing, but for some reason when he looked at it he was filled with a sense of calmness and tranquillity. It also felt familiar to him, like he had seen it before and knew exactly what it was doing there.

Mock up of the hovering black box based on witness description

For an inexplicable reason instead of getting out of bed or reacting to the situation, James then dropped back off to sleep. It was as if he had told himself “It’s just one of those small back box things again, just go back to sleep”.

 In the morning when he awoke he remembered the black box and the feelings that he had experienced when he observed it. He cannot explain why he acted in the manner he did and finds the whole incident very strange indeed.

Red Faced Being

Later in 2012 James was chatting with a family member. He was very relaxed and happy. When he closed his eyes he suddenly saw an unusual face staring at him. It looked like a man with blood red coloured skin, pointed ears and jet black hair. This man had an inverted triangular-shaped golden crust of bone protruding from between his eyebrows, and a menacing wide smile on his face.

James was shocked by the vision and opened and closed his eyes again but the image was still present for a further 5 seconds, which felt longer at the time. After this the image of the face faded away. It felt to him that there had been some kind of screen behind his eyelids when he closed them.

What could have been the explanation for what James saw? It seems unlikely that it was just his imagination. He had no reason to dream up the image of this face and was not thinking about ETs or his prior experiences at the time. Nor did he recognise the face in any way from anything he had seen elsewhere. It is possible that the image was a waking flashback to a being he had seen at some point in his past. I have looked into a number of other contact cases where very similar things have been reported – sudden clear visions of staring faces.

However if the vision really was a flashback to an actual experience, the being which James reported is not one which I have heard described before. It is far from a commonly reported appearance, although it is possible other people have reported them and I have just not yet come across these cases.

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