Merthyr Tydfil Contact Case – Visitation, UFO Sighting, Paranormal Activity, Psychic Abilities
- Chairman Dave
- Sep 23, 2025
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Updated: Sep 23, 2025
Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2016
Last Updated: 23/09/2025
Pete got in touch with me towards the start of 2016 to discuss numerous contact experiences via phone. This report covers what was discussed in depth.
Disembodied Hands
Pete spent his early childhood living in a house on Plymouth Terrace, Merthyr Tydfil with his mother, aunt and grandparents.
One late evening he went upstairs. The door to his aunt’s bedroom happened to be open giving him a view into the room. Inside the room was a chest of drawers. Pete immediately saw what appeared to be some white coloured disembodied hands floating near the top of the furniture. He froze on the spot with fear staring at them.
For a moment the hands appeared to be rearranging something, but then faded away. He backed away along the landing and ran back downstairs. Pete cannot remember whether he told anyone about what he had seen.
While this may have nothing to do with his later experiences, it should be noted that many experiencers of contact also report witnessing paranormal incidents, such as visual apparitions, in their vicinity.
Visitation Flashback
By the age of 7 Pete and his family had moved to 106 Aneurin Crescent in Twynyrodyn. It was around this time that he had a flashback to an incident which had seemingly occurred several years previously at the previous house.
It was evening time and he was in the living room after coming home from school. The TV was on at the time and his mother and grandparents were also in the room. He has no idea why the memory suddenly came back to him, but it was extremely clear and vivid. Pete says that it was “very very overpowering it was so real!”
He recalled that it was daytime. His mother and grandfather were at work but his grandmother Lillian was there looking after him. He believes he was 3-4 years old. He remembered seeing Lillian terrified and hiding behind the sofa in the living room. He was trying to get there to but suddenly found himself standing in front of a figure which had appeared in the room. He was paralyzed in a standing up position and extremely frightened.
The being was around 7 to 8 feet in height. It had muscular arms and large round eyes like a fish, which were white with a black pupil. The eyes seemed dead and soul-less. It appeared to have frills down the sides of its neck. He could not recall the exact colour of its skin but knows that it was a dark colour. It was clothed and wearing a mesh-like body suit. He cannot remember what its hands and feet looked like or whether they were exposed.
He also sensed that there was something outside the back of the house hovering in the air, something that wanted to take him away, although he had no actual sight or recollection of this.
Lillian had clearly never mentioned the incident to him. He wondered if the memories of it had been wiped from her mind. After experiencing the flashback he did not ask her about it, or tell anyone else what had occurred. Sadly she has now passed away so I am unable to speak with her directly about the incident.
Looking back at the incident Pete has noted that the being he remembered seeing was quite reminiscent of the Sea Devils, an aquatic species from the 9th season of Doctor Who. He believes he had seen this around this time so wonders what he recalled was a vivid daymare rather than a flashback to an actual experience.
It is great that Pete has suggested possible mundane explanations for this incident instead of immediately considering it to be a contact experience. This could indeed be what took place. However there are numerous aspects which do fit in with a visitation. He recalls being paralyzed at the time, which often occurs during contact. There is also the fact that he sensed something was waiting in the air for him outside of the property, perhaps a craft which this being had emerged from.
Regarding the appearance of the being, it is entirely possible that this was a screen memory. This is where entities mask their true shape, often appearing as something familiar to the experiencer. It is possible that it took on the appearance of a Sea Devil, hence why Pete recollected it in this way. Another possibility is that it was a Reptilian being, and just reminded Pete of a Sea Devil.
Spirit Visions
In his adult life Pete used to work at a local factory. He was friendly with one of his work colleagues named Roland. He had black combed back short hair and a moustache. Sadly he had cancer and was very ill indeed.
Pete had gone on holiday to Benidorm with his wife and other friends. Early one morning he headed out for a stroll down to the sea by himself. Near the sea front he noticed Roland sitting on a bench! He approached him, thinking to himself “What are you doing here?” At that moment his face changed into the face of another unknown man. Pete did not speak with the other man, just continued his walk, puzzled by what he had just seen.
The following day Pete and his wife were walking through a local shopping mall. There was a family walking towards them. Pete suddenly noticed that Roland was walking with them. Once again as he started at him, the face changed and he realised it was someone else. Pete informed his wife about had just happened, and about the incident on the previous morning.
After leaving the mall they had to use a bus to get back to the hotel. The bus dropped them off at the sea front, close to where Pete had been the previous day. Once again someone was sitting on the same bench, and once again when he looked the face looked like Roland. He said to his wife “I can’t believe it! It’s happening again!”
When they got back to the hotel room Pete checked his mobile phone, which he had left in the room. His phone was full of messages from friends back in Wales informing him that Roland had passed away.
Pete’s mother believed in sixth sense abilities and was interested in mediumship. Soon after the Benidorm holiday she had arranged to have a reading by a medium around the house. After her reading Pete’s wife decided to have a reading too. After her reading she informed Pete that the medium had mentioned the incidents in Benidorm, that he had thought he had seen his friend that had passed away, and that he should trust his instincts. His wife also informed him of other things that had happened with Roland at work which she could not possibly have known.
Pete was convinced that aside from his wife and a couple of friends he had not mentioned the Benidorm incidents with anyone else. He says that the medium was a stranger who did not live in the local area, so was fascinated that she had somehow known about what took place.
While it is possible that the medium had somehow found out about what happened and was just relaying this, the incidents themselves are far harder to explain, especially considering the fact the same thing occurred three on three separate occasions. Could this be another sign of sixth sense abilities which Pete possesses, perhaps indirectly linked with contact?
Precognition
In 2011 Pete got a new job working for the NHS performing night sitting duties looking after patients. On 11th March he was around a patient’s house watching TV to pass the time and keep himself away.
Suddenly, out of the blue, he began to see the word “earthquake” in his mind over and over with the outline of what looked like an aerial view of the coast of a mainland and a smaller island. The shape of the island reminded him of Sicily. He thought to himself “Oh my god, there’s going to be an earthquake in Sicily!” He was overwhelmed with emotion, the vision was extremely powerful and clear.
He wanted to text his wife to tell her about what had just occurred but he only had his work mobile phone on him and didn’t know his wife’s phone number off by heart.
Pete put BBC News 24 on, convinced that something was going to take place. A couple of hours went by with no incident. But then suddenly there was an announcement stating that a massive earthquake and tsunami had occurred in Japan. At this point Pete realised that the island he had seen was Japan not Sicily! Over the following hours he avidly watched updates about the situation, convinced that he had had a precognitive vision of the disaster.
He got back home from his night shift at 8am, and continued to watch the news on BBC and Sky. In these later reports a map was shown displaying where the epicentre of the earthquake had been. He realised that this map was the same shape as what he had seen in his mind, but the other way up.
It is common for experiencers to seemingly possess one or more psychic abilities, which often manifest as precognitive visions or premonitions, so it does not surprise me at all to learn that Pete has experienced this.
Information Downloads
In his late 30s to early 40s Pete has had several similar experiences in which he believes he has been given information telepathically.
The first time it occurred he was sitting down in front of the television after work and feeling really tired. He was just dropping off to sleep when he suddenly felt like he was receiving a massive amount of information directly into his mind. It only lasted a couple of seconds before he snapped out of it. Immediately the feeling disappeared. He could not recollect exactly what information he had received.
Over the next few years there were at least two other occasions where exactly the same thing occurred. Every time it happened he was in a state of semi-sleep. While these incidents could possibly be put down to a sleep-related disorder, it is possible that these were what is commonly referred to as “information downloads”, where experiencers seem to receive large amounts of telepathic information, often too fast to specifically recollect afterwards.
Oval UFO Sighting
By 2014 at the age of 42 Pete and his wife had moved to Pant. In late December 2014 just before Christmas he was walking home from his aunt’s house along Pant Road around 7pm. Due to the time of year it was fully dark. The weather was dry but cold. There were no other pedestrians around.
As he walked North along the road he looked up into the sky in the direction of the Brecon Beacons to see if he could see the moon. In the sky over the mountains in the distance visible above the rooves of the buildings he did see something large, white and glowing, but not what he expected to see.
In the sky was a very large glowing oval-shaped object, about half the size of the moon. It was at quite high altitude like a passenger jet, although this was hard to gauge accurately. It was already silently moving extremely fast on a vertical ascent.
The object was only visible for a second before it was lost from sight. Pete was astounded at what he had just witnessed. Once he arrived home he immediately phoned his aunt, then his wife and mother, and informed them all about the sighting. He did not check the media to see if anyone else had reported seeing it.
Conclusions
Pete has had some interesting and varied experiences which may well indicate that he has experienced contact. The flashback memory of the “Sea Devil” could well be a visitation experience, with the being recollected in this manner because of a screen memory. If so, then the other paranormal and psychic experiences he has mentioned could well be related to this, either indirectly or directly. The sighting of the UFO he experienced in 2014 was so distant that it is unlikely to be linked, and he was probably just in the right place at the right time to witness this.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025
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