Leominster / Catterick Garrison Contact Case – Cloaked Being Visitations, UFOs Sighting, Signs Of Contact
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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2020
Last Updated: 29/10/2025
Steve Edwards is an experiencer with a military background who has served in the Armed Forces. He first got in touch with BUFOG in June 2020 to discuss a number of varied experiences which had occurred throughout his life. This case report documents these experiences and my analysis of them.
Spinning From The Sky
Back in 1988 when he was 9 years old Steve lived with his family on Bradmoor Road, Bromborough, Liverpool.
One night between 10-11pm he stepped outside into the back garden to look up at the stars. It was a very pleasant, still and clear night. He immediately noticed a strange sound coming from the sky directly overhead.
It sounded like a metallic whirring noise, very different to the rotor blades of a helicopter or jet engine. He stared up into the sky but could not see anything. After about 20-30 seconds the sound suddenly became quieter like whatever it was coming from had moved further away.
Steve continued to stand staring up at the sky. Roughly 20-30 seconds later the sound became loud again. It began repeating this pattern, going quiet and then getting louder.
After listening to the noise for several minutes Steve decided to call his mother through the open back door of the house saying “Come outside and listen!”. She joined him outside the back door. At first she could not hear the sound but after listening a while she did. At this point she became nervous of it and said “Come on, get in, get in”
Steve agreed with her request and they both headed inside. He has no idea how long the sound continued for, but never heard it again while at the property.
This is an intriguing incident. Even though Steve was only a child at the time, the fact he later served in the armed forces means he is familiar with the sounds normal aircraft and helicopters make. If it was such a noise he would have realised this later on in his life, but it still continues to mystify him.
It was a clear night so there were no clouds for any aerial object to hide behind. Steve says it certainly sounded like it was overhead some of the time rather than echoing from elsewhere. However, it does sound like he was close to the back door of the house meaning his view of the sky could have been partially blocked by the house.
Maybe it was hidden just out of sight. This incident occurred decades before drones were commercially available. But perhaps it was a remote controlled model of some kind. Of course there is the possibility that the noise truly was coming from an advanced craft of some kind, one which was invisible to the naked eye.
Stairs
The following year after hearing the strange sound in the sky, Steve began to get a recurring dream about being dragged up the stairs by an unseen force. This would happen quite regularly, sometimes multiple nights in a row.
In the dream he found himself on his own standing in the kitchen of his house. He would look through the open doorway of the kitchen at the staircase. At the top of the stairs he would see a dark mass of indeterminate shape. He would feel a force coming from this mass pulling him towards it. He would try to resist but it was difficult to walk away from it, almost like walking through treacle.
Sometimes he would manage to fight against it and enter the living room. At this moment the dream would end. On other occasions the force would be too strong and would drag him up the stairs. As he was dragged he would hear his grandfather (who lived with him at the time) shouting out for help. He would look up into the blackness expecting to see something waiting for him but there was never anything visible.
He would then wake up terrified and on his front, actively pushing up away from the pillow. Sometimes after waking he would call out to his mother, or get up and then spend the rest of the night in her bed. Steve says that in total he thinks he had this dream about 50 times over the next two years before it finally ceased around age 11.
While this could have been nothing more than a vivid recurring nightmare, it is interesting that it involved him being pulled somewhere against his will. There is the possibility that this dream was contact-related potentially brought on by recollections of one or more abduction experiences, although there is nothing directly linking it with contact.
Cloaked Figure
In 1999 Steve served a six month tour in Kosovo. During this tour he was unfortunately wounded and sustained injuries. He was treated for these injuries in the Duchess of Kent Military Hospital on Horne Road, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire (The hospital is no longer in use).
One night in 2000 while he was recovering in the hospital something disturbing occurred which literally changed his life. The ward he was on was comprised of one long corridor with 5/6 rooms on one side and the ward office and toilet/shower room on the other. According to Steve his bed was in the far left of one of the rooms.
About 11pm Steve went to his room to lie down on the bed out of boredom. He did not feel particularly tired so wasn’t planning on sleeping. He lay on it in such a manner that he was on his back with pillows propping him up at around 30 degrees. The room lights were off due to the time of night. Only the emergency lights were left on, making it able to distinguish objects at the other side of the room.
After a couple of seconds of lying down he suddenly became aware of a tall figure leaning over him. It was between 7-8 feet in height and was wearing a hooded black cloak which covered its entire body. No facial features were visible. The figure had manifested in a way he had never experienced before, it was just not there one moment, there the next.
At the same time, he realised he could not move apart from his eyes. The figure was looking directly down at his torso, leaning awkwardly from the base of its back with its arms by its side. After a few seconds there was a bright flash of light in his mind and he immediately lost the ability to see. Within the flash was an image of some large and pale coloured arms. On one of the arms was a a tattoo-like printing of a rod/staff with a snake wrapped around it in a clockwise direction.
After the image disappeared Steve found that he could move again and the entity was nowhere to be seen. He made a conscious decision not to tell anybody because of the nature of where he was, he thought it could frighten the other patients or nurses.
The following night at around 11pm he went for a shower. On leaving the shower room he could see down the corridor a small group of people outside his room. As he approached the group he realised it was comprised of a few nurses and another soldier that was staying in the same room as him. He immediately noticed that the soldier was in a severe state of shock – he had dilated pupils, pale skin and trembling hands. He also noticed another nurse inside the room, sweeping around with a red filter torch.
The other soldier went on to say that while Steve had been in the shower he had witnessed a long cloaked and hooded entity leaning over his empty bed! Steve realised that the nurse with the torch must have been doing a sweep of the room attempting to look for it.
Steve was shocked upon hearing what the other soldier said. He had not told him or anyone else about what had happened on the previous night. The fact that this other patient had also seen the same entity cemented it as a real experience rather than just something he had imagined.
This is a fascinating and un-nerving account. The symbol Steve saw on one of the pale arms in his vision sounded reminiscent of the “Rod of Asclepius”, the staff of the ancient Greek God Asclepius, a deity of medicine and healing:
This is intriguing considering the location he was in at the time. Was this merely a coincidence, or was it something Steve was previously aware of forming part of the vision for one reason or another?
If it wasn’t for the follow on experience that the other soldier appeared to have had I would have put Steve’s initial experience down to sleep paralysis. During this state it is common for people to see shadowy figures in their vicinity which sometimes lean over them or sometimes even press down on them. It is believed by many that this is a product of the mind trying to explain the reason for why it is not possible to move.
However, the fact that the other patient saw the same entity once again leaning over Steve’s bed as it had done previously seems to suggest that it was not caused by sleep paralysis. This could well have been a repeated visitation by a being. Perhaps on the second occasion it was expecting to find Steve there again hence why it was leaning over the empty bed. I have dealt with quite a number of cases where ETs have been seen to wear dark hooded cloaks, and it is also common that people are paralyzed during contact experiences.
Glowing Orbs
Within weeks of the repeated sighting of the cloaked figure, Steve, alongside his step-father, would have a close encounter with several UFOs.
On the evening of the sighting Steve stepped outside the back door of his step-father’s house. There was sporadic clouds in the sky but it was quite pleasant. Looking down the back garden he noticed a luminous blue glowing orb. It was hovering completely still in the air.
Steve stared at it a short while before calling his step-father to come and take a look. He had no camera on him at the time, and did not think about asking his step-father to bring one with him.
They both continued to watch the orb. Then suddenly it shot across the sky extremely rapidly and appeared to enter a cloud. It did not reappear on the other side.
A number of seconds went by and then a second similar orb came into view where the first one had initially been seen. It was almost like time had reversed and it was the same scene repeating a second time.
The second orb again began moving towards the cloud. But this time it performed a right angle turn, and approached until it was right over their heads before halting! At this point Steve’s step-father became frightened of what was taking place and went back inside the house. Steve was less concerned so remained outside.
The second orb moved away out of sight. After a short while a third orb also appeared travelling on a separate flight path. A minute later, after it too had departed, Steve decided to head back in.
This is an intriguing sighting. They were clearly not normal aircraft due to the manoeuvres observed by the two witnesses. The incident occurred over a decade before drones were available. Due to the colour of the orbs it is unlikely they were sky lanterns, these tend to be an amber orange. However, I do wonder if the orbs were three blue LED balloons (or other lit inflatables) drifting on conflicting air currents. These could have caused them to hover still, move across the sky or make sudden changes in direction.
Conclusions
Steve has had some interesting experiences. Although some of them could be put down to dreams or mis-identification of mundane things, his experience in the hospital with the cloaked being and subsequent return visit witnessed by someone else (who I am sadly unable to speak with) is truly fascinating.
The closeness of the sighting of the orbs and the visitations at the hospital is also worth considering. Was this merely coincidence or were the two experiences linked in some way? We will unlikely ever find out for certain.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025
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