Manchester/Cambridge Contact Case – Grey Abduction, MIB, UFO Sighting, Paranormal Activity, Psychic Abilities
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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2017
Last Updated: 10/10/2025
The Sphere
The first unusual incident Simon can recall happening took place in 1994 when he was 8 years old. At the time he lived in a council house in Stretford, Manchester with his mum and sister. His bedroom was positioned at the back of the house, and his window overlooked a railway track. He often enjoyed sitting on the bedside table and staring out of the window at the surroundings.
One night he was having trouble sleeping and was awake with his TV on. It was about 5 am in the morning and still quite dark outside. He decided to look out of the window, which was open at the time. When he did he noticed something unusual. He saw what appeared to be a white coloured sphere. It was hovering close to the houses on the far side of the railway track, about 100 metres away. It was quite small, only a few feet across.
The sphere was moving along the row of houses and shining a beam of white light into the windows, as if it was looking for something. It was systematically hovering then stopping, and going from left to right along the houses. Simon was confused as to what the object could be. As it was travelling from one house to the next it suddenly appeared to have noticed the fact he was staring at it. It immediately turned and rushed towards the window extremely fast!
It stopped only 30 cm away from the window. Simon was horrified to see that the front of the sphere was flat-faced, and on it appeared to be a screen showing rows of human faces, all of which were screaming silently at him.
Simon reeled back away from the window and turned to run out of the bedroom. As he did he blacked out.
The next thing he became aware of he found himself waking up face-down on the floor of the room. The sun had now come up outside and the sphere was nowhere to be seen. Once he had got dressed he went downstairs and told his mother, but she brushed it off and Simon never spoke of it again.
Simon assumes the object that he witnessed was a drone of some kind, however there are many oddities around this sighting. The object had no visible means of propulsion, no rotor blades. And if it was military why would it have had a screen showing screaming faces on it? Also for what reason would the military have been shining a light into civilians windows early in the morning?
He does not believe the incident was merely a nightmare, he recalls being awake at the time and out of bed. If we assume it did take place, there is the possibility that this was an extra-terrestrial device. The faces on the screen appeared human, however this could have been a screen memory masking what was really observed.
Military Helicopter
One summer’s day between 1996-1998 Simon was playing a game of “curby” with a football – bouncing it off the curb and catching it again. He was on a clearing of land alongside his house where other houses used to stand.
He began to hear the sound of loud rotor blades. Looking to the East he saw a large green coloured military helicopter approaching his location. It initially flew over the roof of his house, about 50 metres up. It then turned and faced towards him. The windows were dark and he could not see the pilot, although he did wave at it.
It then turned round and flew away. His best friend from next door, Daniel, and Daniel’s sister also saw it, but only Simon questioned why it was there on that day.
Even though it is unusual for a military helicopter to hover at low altitude over an urbanised area, it is possible that the helicopter was on an exercise or perhaps even on its way to an airshow (although if so why did it stop and hover close to Simon?)
Fallen Table
A few years after the sphere incident (roughly 1997), Simon was fast asleep in bed. Again the bedroom window was open. The table alongside his bed was very sturdy. Suddenly a loud thud awoke him in the dark. Looking around he found that the bedside table was knocked over on its side. He was quite sure he had not knocked it over himself, and it was far too heavy to have been blown over by a gust of wind coming through the open window.
Simon was quite frightened by what had happened, and felt that something had come into his room and knocked over the table. He panicked and ran out of the room. He slept alongside his mother until morning.
Psychic Abilities
Simon stated that since childhood there have been numerous incidents where he has known certain things are going to happen in advance.
He says that during his childhood years he was very sensitive to weather patterns, and knew when it was going to be sunny or when it was going to snow. He also mentioned that there were numerous occasions where he knew someone was going to say something specific to him before they did, although he provided no direct examples.
It is common for experiencers of contact to report having one or more psychic abilities. The connection between this and contact is well documented, although the precise reasons for this are still theorised over.
Face In The Wall
Nothing else took place until Simon’s early 20s. He was taking a media technology course at Cambridge University, and lived in a share house with one other student. One weekend he was in his room and lying on his bed watching TV. It was about 2pm in the afternoon. It was summertime and a pleasant day outside, and the curtains were open letting light into the room.
Opposite the bed was a wall with no pictures hanging on it. As he glanced over at it, without warning what appeared to be a humanoid face pushed forward out from it. The face was black and semi-transparent like it was made out of shadow. It was about the size of a human face. It’s features were quite clearly defined, with slits for eyes and a mouth.
Simon was frozen in astonishment at what he was looking at. He started at the face for what seemed to be around 5 minutes. To his knowledge there was no communication, and the face did not move at all. Eventually it seemed to sink back into the wall and was gone.
He continued to stare at the wall. At that moment his housemate entered. Simon said “Mate look at the wall.” His friend looked and said “What about it?” Simon did not know what to say. He was confused as to what had just taken place. He decided to keep what he had just seen to himself.
Many experiencers report seeing dark shadow-like forms, commonly referred to as “shadow beings”. Could this have been one of these entities? If so for what purpose did it appear? Alternatively this could have been a visitation, with a screen memory potentially masking the actual appearance of the being. There are lots of cases on record where beings have emerged from solid walls, either surrounded in light or sometimes through a visible portal.
Voyage Into Space
While still at Cambridge, a couple of events occurred in close proximity to one another. The first of these occurred on a Friday night. Simon was asleep but what took place seemed far more vivid than a dream.
He found himself in darkness floating in a seated position. All around him was an oval-shaped pod of some kind which was transparent like glass. The temperature of it was slightly cool. He was wearing the boxer shorts he had gone to bed in, and was in a seated position. He felt drowsy, in a state of semi-alertness, but also realised that he felt weightless.
He looked upward trying to establish where he was, and as he did he was astounded to see the sun. It was now that he realised that the pod was in space and appeared to be positioned close to the sun, which was absolutely huge in scale. Despite its proximity, there was no noticeable heat from it entering the pod.
Simon then looked to his right and noticed out of the corner of his eye two grey-coloured figures seated behind him. They were slender with long thin arms and legs, and did not appear to be wearing clothing. They seemed to be a little shorter than himself, possibly about 5 feet in height. At this moment they realised that he was looking at them. The being on the right reached out and put its hand on his shoulder. Its fingers were skinny and long.
At this moment he blacked out and he recalled nothing further about being inside the pod. When he came round he found himself back in his bed. However he was lying sideways in an odd position, almost as if he had been placed there. Simon informs me that he usually sleeps on his back so this seemed un-natural.
He recalled what he had seen, and was disturbed by how real it had all felt. He remembered how incredibly vast the vision of the sun had been. It filled him with a sense of awe. Describing the vividness of this experience to me Simon said “I felt the weightlessness, I felt the temperature in the pod, everything. I've got a crimp in my neck, and I felt that when I turned.”
Man In Black
A couple of evenings after the pod experience, Simon went out running around the outskirts of Cambridge. He was on his way back home looking down at the pavement because staring into the distance puts him off running. He was listening to music through headphones.
As he was about to cross a particular street he got a sudden feeling of absolute terror. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up. He looked up at what was ahead and saw a man walking straight towards him.
The man looked completely out of place. He was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, and was wearing a long black coat over a black coloured suit, with a square top hat and smart black shoes and gloves. He also had sunglasses on, even though it was after dark.
He looked elderly but strong. He was staring at him with an unusual toothy grin on his face which was lit up by passing car headlights, and was also wringing his hands together.
Simon immediately felt that his sudden feeling of terror was directly linked with this man. As he ran past the man, he suddenly lurched towards him, as if trying to make him jump. In response to this Simon raised his fists into a defensive stance but continued running.
A few seconds after passing the man he got the courage to turn round and look. When he did he found that the man had completely vanished! There was nowhere for him to have hidden behind in such a short space of time. Simon immediately realised that he could not have been human.
There are numerous possibilities for who the man was. He had an appearance somewhat similar to reported cases of “Men In Black”, wearing the dark coloured suit and shades. But if he was a human agent he would not have vanished in the way he did. Could he have been a ghostly apparition? Simon has experienced paranormal activity on other occasions so this cannot be ruled out. However, if he was an apparition it was clear that possessed a level of awareness as he reacted to Simon’s proximity.
Another possibility is that this was an ET masking its appearance using a screen memory, and Simon only perceived it as a man in a dark suit. Although quite rare, I have investigated other cases where this has seemingly occurred.
Simon stated that he saw a similar case on a documentary, where a woman in New York met a Man In Black in broad daylight, and just like him felt a deep sense of terror.
Precognitive Visions
Simon used to work at the shopping mall known as the Trafford Centre in Manchester.
One morning he was on the bus to work when a vision suddenly came to his mind. In it he saw himself standing face-to-face with an Asian man. He interpreted the vision as a fight with this unknown man which was going to happen at some point.
When he arrived at the centre, his boss introduced him to a new worker named Raj. Simon immediately recognised him as the man he had seen in his vision. He and Raj started working together on the shop floor.
Soon afterwards Simon and the other workers needed to go and check the phones. He heard Raj say something behind him. He turned around and realised he was standing directly in front of him, exactly how he recollected. Raj then asked him what he was having for lunch. As it turned out the vision was a friendlier incident than Simon had initially interpreted it to be.
Simon mentioned that he has had other precognitive visions ever since, roughly once a year. They tend to physically take place within hours, or occasionally the following day.
Conclusions
Simon has had some varied and interesting experiences, some of which appear clearly linked with contact, although many have more of a paranormal nature about them. The abduction aboard the clear-walled spherical craft is particularly intriguing. I have investigated numerous similar cases before, regarding the appearance of the craft, presence of beings aboard it and even the fact that it went up into space.
Oddly it is also quite reminiscent of an extremely vivid dream that I once had, in which I stepped into a beam of light, shot upwards through the sky and ended up floating inside a clear “bubble”. It should be noted that I believe this was only a dream, I do not feel I have experienced contact directly.
It is common for contactees to experience paranormal activity and possess psychic abilities, so it does not surprise me at all that Simon has mentioned both of these. If he ever gets back in touch I may be able to add further details to this report, as well as find out if anything else has occurred since.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025
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