Northampton Contact Case – Greys, Reptilians, Abduction, UFO Sightings, Telepathic Communication
Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2023
Last Updated: 12/09/2026
Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used
In late July of 2023 I was contacted on Facebook by a man from Northampton. He informed me that he had experienced contact and wanted to share the details of his experiences with me. A few days later I arranged a detailed conversation with him via video call to go over everything in depth, which has led to the creation of this extensive report.
Early Signs
“Steve” was born in 1968 and spent the early years of his life living with his parents in the village of Tring, North West of London. As far back as he can recollect he has been fascinated in space and convinced that we are not alone in the universe.
As with many other children, he had a fear of the dark in his room at night and of something hiding under his bed, so the door of his room was left ajar and the landing light left on.
Between the ages of four to six he remembers numerous incidents where he would see a glowing light coming from outside of his bedroom at night. This seemed to occur quite regularly, perhaps as often as once a month. He would be lying in bed and would suddenly see a fiery orange coloured glow coming from around the edges of the door. There was never any sound accompanied by this or feelings of a presence, but he wonders if something else took place with these incidents, and it was more than just childhood imagination.
The family lived in an old house with no heating except for a gas fire in the living room, so at night his mother would tuck in the sheets very tightly around him. This meant that although he was warmer there was barely any room to move around. He recalls one incident where he awoke to find himself turned round in the bed, with his head under the sheets where his feet should have been! Looking back at this, the most puzzling aspect to him is that there would not have been enough space for him to have done this in his sleep. Again he wonders if something more took place with this.
Steve informed me that he found it difficult to make friends as a child and was bullied at school. He says that from an early age he felt different to the other children and didn’t belong, but at the time had no inkling as to why.
Between the age of six to seven he owned a number of Wade Whimsie ceramic animal models which he used to play with.
To his recollection he used to sometimes talk with these models and believes that he got re-assuring communication back from them. He does not put this down to just being unhappy at the time, but cannot remember precisely what they said to him.
White Orb
In 2007 at the age of 39 Steve moved into a house on Stanley Street, Northampton with his partner, and another house mate. However it was not until 2014 that he had his first UFO encounter. By this point in his life he had developed an interest in the subject, and one evening in late autumn he was watching Ancient Aliens on television by himself. His partner had already gone up to bed, and his house mate was in his own room.
It got to about 11pm and he decided to call it a night. Before heading up to bed he decided to grab a cup of tea and then head out into the back garden for a cigarette. He stepped outside the back door of the property and sat down on the garden bench. It was a very clear and still night, with no cloud cover and the stars visible in the sky.
Stanley Street is on a slope, and from his garden Steve had a clear view over the roofs of the houses to the West. At the Western end of the road at the T-junction with St Andrews Road there is a corner shop and a fish and chips shop named The Galleon.
Above the roofs of these shops Steve suddenly noticed a brightly glowing white orb of light. It appeared to be very low down, only 100 feet up, and much too low to be a bright star. It appeared to be hovering motionless so it could not have been a plane, and did not have any red or green navigation lights visible, so did not appear to be a helicopter either.
Steve sat there for a couple of minutes puzzled at what the orb of light could be. He then realised that it was not stationary, but was in fact moving slowly in his direction. As it got nearer he realised there was no sound coming from it whatsoever. He began to get apprehensive of the object, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
He continued to watch, transfixed on the object. It continued on a straight and level course and passed directly over his head before slowly heading away to the East. As it did he suddenly realised he had not taken any footage of the object as he had been so caught up in watching it. He got out his Sony Xperia mobile phone, which had a rudimentary camera, and took two photographs of the orb.
Unfortunately Steve no longer has these photographs for analysis as he did not save them on his computer or on Google. He did upload them to an old Facebook account, but unfortunately it got hacked so he had to create a new one, losing all his older posts.
Over a number of minutes the object slowly moved further and further away until it was lost from sight behind a tall tree in a garden further up the road. In total he had watched the object for up to 10 minutes. He sat there amazed at what he had just witnessed, before heading back inside, shaking with excitement.
Steve wanted answers to what had occurred, and didn’t even want to wait till morning to get them! He checked on his computer and tracked down a UK-based UFO researcher online (he cannot remember the name of this researcher). He then got in touch with this individual, apologising for ringing them so late. When he described what had just happened, the researcher informed him that there had been some other similar sightings reported further North on the same evening.
The object he saw sounds interesting, especially given its supposedly close proximity. I asked Steve whether it could have been the International Space Station. This can sometimes appear to be much closer than it actually is. However he said that he has seen the ISS numerous times crossing the sky, and is convinced that this object was in the atmosphere not out in orbit. Also it sounds like it was moving too slowly to be the ISS.
Due to the lack of navigation lights or sound I agree with Steve that it could not have been a normal aircraft. Steve says that he has a personal interest in aviation. Also Tring is situated close to an Royal Air Force base, RAF Halton, and he would often see aircraft flying to or from the base for air shows, so is familiar with how planes of various kinds look under different levels of lighting and distances.
A drone would also have made audible sound at low altitude. It was the wrong colour for a Chinese lantern, which tend to emit an orange glow. I cannot fully rule out a white coloured LED balloon, although it does sound quite large and impressive from the description, and you would also expect a bit of drift from one of these. Although not all mundane explanations can be fully ruled out this is an intriguing sighting.
The Abduction
Within a week of the orb sighting, Steve believes that he was abducted. He was relaxing on the couch downstairs watching TV. Again his partner was already asleep. He was not feeling particularly tired, and does not recall dropping off to sleep.
He suddenly became aware of being in another location. He found himself sitting at a table in a dimly lit room, still clothed. The room was square in shape, with a high ceiling, about 20 feet. There was a dull purple-green coloured light coming down from above. He could just about make out the walls. They were magnolia in colour, the same as the ceiling and floor, and did not seem to contain any windows or doorways. There appeared to be no other furnishings in the room.
The table he was sitting at had a dull metallic look to it, and was raised about three feet off the floor. Sitting on the opposite side of it a little to his left was a Grey. The being was unclothed and had smooth pale grey coloured skin. It had a large head, oval shaped dark coloured eyes, small nostrils and a slit for a mouth. As it was sitting down it was hard to tell how tall it would be if it stood up. The being was staring directly at him, but seemingly not making any attempts to communicate with him.
He then suddenly noticed a standing Reptilian being had appeared behind the Grey. He is unsure of where this being came from, as there were seemingly no doors into the room, it was just suddenly there. Again it was unclothed, and was covered in jade green square-shaped scales. Its face was lizard-like, while at the same time possessing some humanoid qualities. It had a strong and muscular body frame, clawed hands and large clawed feet. Behind it Steve could see a pointed tail about 2-3 feet long.
It walked from left to right behind the Grey. As it reached a position level with him it suddenly stopped, turned and looked at him. At this moment he felt a warm sensation pass through him from head to feet. He then received a telepathic communication from this being in his mind.
The voice of the Reptilian was male, with a deep but calming and friendly tone to it. It started by telling him to not be afraid, that he would not be harmed and that they were his friends. It then told him that he was important to them and that he would find out more information in due course about this.
Steve had previously looked into contact so recognised these beings as aliens. He was not frightened of the situation but was instead intrigued and fascinated that he was there. He tried to speak back to the Reptilian in his mind, telling it that he was honoured to be there and that he wasn’t scared of them. The being did not seem to respond to this in any way. Instead it raised one of its clawed hands as if to say goodbye. It then turned around and walked away into the darkness, seemingly vanishing into thin air.
A moment later he suddenly jumped and found himself back on the couch in his home. What had just happened felt extremely real to him, far more vivid than a normal dream would. He remembered every detail and was convinced that he had actually been taken somewhere else.
Steve did not inform his partner about what had happened, as according to him he is quite sceptical of the subject. He did confide in a number of friends on Facebook about the experience.
Due to the fact that Steve was relaxing at the time of the incident, that he was alone at the time, and that no UFO sighting or other anomalies occurred prior to the experience, it would be easy to dismiss this incident as nothing more than a dream. He had looked into contact prior to the incident, so was aware of the main types of entities reported by experiencers. That said, he confirmed that it felt extremely vivid, more so than a dream would normally feel. This is extremely commonly reported with contact experiences.
Cone Shaped UFOs
On 29th June 2015 Steve was out driving on a country lane near to Little Gaddesden. Unfortunately he cannot recall the exact road he was on at the time, and I have not been able to work it out from the photograph which he took. It was 7.15pm when he parked up alongside a farmer’s field.
It was pleasant and clear weather so he got out to relax. Looking over to the right across the fields the ground began to slope upwards, and in the distance were some dense copses of trees.
All of a sudden a dark grey coloured cone-shaped object moved upwards into view from behind the tree line. It appeared to be continuously rotating, and reminded him of an old spinning top. It only remained visible for a few seconds before drifting back down out of sight.
A couple of seconds later, a second similarly-shaped object moved upwards in the same manner, again hovering briefly before descending again! This pattern continued for several minutes, with one object ascending into view and then the other, back and forth.
After watching puzzled for a short while, Steve decided to photograph one of the objects on his Sony Xperia smartphone, and then take some video footage. Unfortunately he has since lost the footage as he did a clear out of Google Photos a while back and removed many of the stored videos he had previously taken to save space. However he was able to send me the photograph, which he claims shows one of these cone-shaped objects:
In order to check the authenticity of the image I extracted and analysed its metadata:
The Camera Info, Creator Software, Make and Model values all confirm this was taken on a Sony Xperia camera and has not been manipulated on image editing software. While it is possible to modify metadata, most people do not even know what it is, let alone how to edit it.
Looking at the photograph you may well think that this shows nothing more than a distant hot air balloon. This was my immediate reaction upon seeing the photo. The object appears to have a similar shape, and unfortunately the image is not high quality enough to make out much detail.
Here is a zoomed view of the object:
Could the objects have been nothing more than a couple of hot air balloons, perhaps being briefly tested one at a time which could have caused the movement patterns observed? I ran this possibility by Steve, but he disagreed with this explanation.
He informed me that first of all the objects seemed to be ascending and descending far too rapidly for them to have been distant hot air balloons. And secondly he has of course (like most people of his age) seen distant hot air balloons on many occasions and knows exactly what they look like. That said, due to the similarity in shape I do not believe this possibility can be entirely ruled out.
Lit Disc
In 2015 Steve had shift work as a coach driver. The company he worked for would contact him to provide pick-ups to and from locations. One of the regular pick-ups he would do involved picking up students from West Herts College in Hemel Hempstead and taking them to and from a nightclub located at Batchwood Hall in St Albans.
While the students were at the club, Steve had a number of hours of relaxation time. Sometimes he would wait at a lay-by on the one way road leading from the location, other times he would drive further afield and park up elsewhere, before returning in the early hours of the morning to pick the students back up.
One night in late summer 2015 he had parked up in the usual close lay-by. It was somewhere between 1.30-3.30am and a very clear and still night. He got out of the coach to have a cigarette.
He happened to look to the South East along the road. In the distance he could make out the sky above the centre of St Albans. He noticed a flattened disc-shaped object hovering over the roofs.
The main colour of the object could not be made out due to the time, but what drew his attention to it most was a line of blue-white coloured lights which were around its central rim. The object itself, or just the lights on it, were rotating in an anti-clockwise direction.
Steve was certain that the object was freely floating and not attached to any of the buildings. He initially thought it must be an advertising blimp, but it wasn’t the right shape for this, and it would seem very unlikely for a blimp with an LED display to be situated over St Albans in the middle of the night in the first place. Also the way the lights were rotating did not look like a programmed pattern, it genuinely looked like they were rotating.
He estimated that if the object really was over St Albans centre as it appeared to be it would be about 50 feet across. It seemed to be quite low down like the orb had been, perhaps 100 feet up. He had his smartphone on him, but unfortunately it had ran out of charge, so he was unable to attempt to photograph or video the object.
He continued to watch the disc for a number of minutes wondering what it could be. He then got back onto the coach, but could still see the object through the window. The object remained present in the sky for over an hour, and remained rooted to the spot. Steve considered driving the coach over there to take a closer look, but needed to wait for the students to come out of the club.
At around 3.30am the club closed and he began driving the coach along the one way road, to head back around and pick them up. Suddenly he realised that the object was no longer present in the sky, it had completely vanished! He could not do much else besides pick up the students and start the drive back to Hemel Hempstead.
This is a distant though intriguing sighting. It was clearly not an aeroplane as it was hovering motionless for an extended period of time. The rotating line of lights seemingly moving around the object put a patrol helicopter out of the question. Drones do not have rotating lights either, and also would not remain airborne for that length of time. I agree with Steve that an advertising blimp seems very unlikely given the location and time of night. Also if it was a blimp why would it have suddenly disappeared without trace? Even if the lights had been switched off, it is likely Steve would still have been able to make out the shape, and while it could have conceivably been hidden from view behind a cloud, he informed me that it was a very clear night.
A Second Disc
A number of months after the Batchwood Hall sighting Steve was once again driving a coach-load of students back to West Herts College. It was the early hours of the morning and he was heading East along Sandpit Lane, St Albans. The sun was just about to come up so there was a bit of light starting to appear in the sky.
As the coach passed a housing estate Steve happened to glance to the left out of the passenger side window. Through gaps in the trees he caught glimpses of the red roofs of the houses. And above them hovering in the air was another disc-shaped object! It was still quite dark but it appeared to be a metallic grey colour. He estimates it was above 50 feet across. This time there were no rotating lights on the object, but it was lit up by a white glow from underneath.
He was only able to observe it for several seconds before it was lost from sight. Due to the fact that he had a coach full of students, and the fact that there were no nearby lay-bys he did not stop to continue watching the object. He did call out to the students asking if they had seen what he had seen, but they paid him no attention as many of them were either drunk or sleepy by that point.
Steve was amazed that he had experienced a second disc sighting so soon after the other. There was nothing really linking the two sightings beyond the shape of the object. It could possibly have been the same craft, just with the lights switched off on this occasion, but this would just be speculation. As he only managed to view it for a few seconds, mundane explanations such as a balloon of some kind cannot be entirely ruled out, but it is still an interesting, if brief, sighting.
Tracked by a Flying Triangle
In late autumn 2015 Steve was driving in his Ford Focus Hatchback towards Hemel Hemstead coach station to begin a work shift. He was driving South along Stoke Road and had just left Bilsworth. It was mid-evening but due to the time of year already fully dark. It was a clear and still. He does not recall whether the stars were out or not. There were a few other vehicles on the road but it was quite quiet.
As he drove along he glanced to his right out of the driver side window. Just beyond the line of trees that were alongside the road, he saw at a diagonal a triangle of three coloured lights in the air – one blue, one orange and one purple. They were at an elevation of about 45 degrees and appeared only about 20 feet away, just beyond the trees.
He continued to drive and noted that the lights maintained their position to him, seemingly moving along at the same speed that he was driving at. They were constantly bright, and gave the distinct impression of being attached to a singular object as they did not move position with one another at all.
Steve drove for about 2.5 miles with the lights continuing to follow alongside his vehicle. He did not stop the car to see if they stopped too, or to attempt to capture the lights on camera, as he was on a tight schedule for his shift start.
Suddenly without warning the lights suddenly veered towards the road. He caught sight of them passing approaching the car at a diagonal in his rear view mirror. They then flew directly over the roof of the car out of sight, before appearing again visible in the left side of the windscreen and continuing away to the South East! He watched them move away until they were blocked from sight by other trees.
This is quite a compelling incident. The object could not have been a normal aircraft of any kind due to the colours and positioning of the lights, and was seemingly too large to be a drone or radio controlled model. Whatever it was it did appear to follow alongside Steve’s car for a period of time, although the road was relatively straight so this may have been just coincidental rather than it genuinely following him. As he did not attempt to stop or slow right down we have no way of knowing whether the object was actually matching his actions or whether it would have carried on ahead if he had done so.
The positioning of the lights suggested that they were at the corners of a triangular shaped object, although the main body of the object was never seen by the witness due to the darkness. I have investigated many sightings of “Flying Triangles” before. They generally have corner lights of the same colour, but I have investigated a couple of other cases where each light was different, although not with exactly the same colour combination as was reported here.
Telepathic Message
One night in late 2015 Steve was parked in his car in Hemel Hemstead bus yard after having dropped off the students at the night club. He was feeling tired so decided to get some sleep by lying down on the back seat of the car, which was a little awkward.
He lay there trying to drop off to sleep when suddenly he began to hear his name being called in his mind. He responded to this by responding in thought, asking “Who’s calling me?” At this he heard the voice state “We want you to know we're looking out for you and watching over you. We have some important information we have to tell you.”
Steve accepted that some kind of communication was taking place and asked “What do you want to tell me?” The voice then imparted lots of information. It informed him that he is a hybrid, and that he was born into a human body placed into his Earth mother. It said that although he was born on Earth he is not from the Earth, that is is part of a royal bloodline and that he is an ambassador for Earth relations.
He was told that he has a mission to fulfil, to expose the truth and try to get others to wake up to their presence. That the stereotype that all Reptilian beings are evil monsters isn’t true, and that there are good ones out there as well. Throughout this conversation Steve asked questions such as how long he has been here, how old he is and whether he has family back home, to which he got responses.
After this information the voice suddenly stopped and he found himself alone again in the car. He did not view the experience as merely a dream or his imagination, he believed it had actually taken place. The incident got him to look back at his life and see it through new eyes.
Coloured Orbs
On a night in the winter of 2015 Steve was in Whipsnade for coach driving. He had a while to relax before he was required so decided to drive to a nearby beauty spot known as Dunstable Downs. He parked in the entrance to the National Trust centre on the B4541. Although the centre itself was closed after dark, there was enough space to park outside the closed gate.
Steve got out to stretch his legs and breathe the cool air. It was a very clear and still night. To the South East of his location was a number of open fields separated by lines of trees and hedgerows. Seemingly over a particular field alongside Isle Of Wight Lane he suddenly noticed a red orb of light briefly appear above the tree tops. It was then joined by a second orange coloured orb.
The orbs were visible for a number of seconds before descending down behind the trees. But a moment later they reappeared. Steve watched them for a number of minutes as they briefly appeared and disappeared in an erratic fashion.
After a while he thought to himself “I’ve got to find out what’s happening behind these trees.” He got back in his car, drove a short distance North along the B4541 then turned right onto Isle Of Wight Lane. He then drove along the lane until he arrived alongside the field where he believed the lights were situated.
There weren’t any lay-bys near to the field, but there was a small cut-in alongside a gap in the hedgerow. He pulled up and disembarked to see if he could once again spot the orbs. Looking across the field he noticed a red and amber glow coming from about half way across.
For an unknown reason he began to get very apprehensive of the situation, like he was not supposed to be there. This feeling grew stronger and stronger, and this, combined with the fact that the field had only recently been ploughed and was very muddy, caused him to make the decision not to get any closer. The sensation that he was not welcome was also the reason he did not attempt to take any photographs or videos. He just felt that he should get away from the location as quickly as possible.
He jumped back in the car, then had a job turning it round in the narrow lane. He then drove to a new location elsewhere well away from the activity in the field. As he did he began to feel the negativity inside him begin to subside.
This is an intriguing sighting. Clearly the orbs were not normal aircraft of any kind, and the repeated movements they were initially making tends to put lit inflatables or Chinese lanterns out of the picture.
I asked Steve if it could have been some kids throwing lit toys up into the air, but he said that the orbs did not immediately drift down once they’d appeared, they would hover motionless for a number of seconds before dropping down again.
The possibility that the objects were two drones, one lit with red lights, one with orange lights, cannot be fully ruled out. It would seem odd for anyone to be flying drones in the middle of the night in such a rural location, but not impossible. Steve did not approach the glowing light in the field, so was not able to categorically identify the source.
Formation Of Lights
After having many experiences within 2014 and 2015, Steve experienced no further incidents of note until 2023. It was early evening on 8th August. He was standing outside his house on Sandhill Road, Northampton having a cigarette. It was a pleasant evening, dry and still, with a clear sky. There were no other pedestrians around at the time.
Steve happened to look up into the sky to the South East. It was now that he noticed what appeared to be a cluster of coloured lights. There seemed to be a pink coloured light at the centre, surrounded by a triangle of pale green coloured lights. They were all moving on a straight course and heading towards his location. As they did not deviate from one another it gave the impression that they were multiple lights attached to a single object, although the main body of this object was not really visible.
Intrigued by what he was looking at, Steve took a photograph of the lights on his smartphone:
He then started recording on video, and watched them for a couple of minutes as they slowly moved on a gradual arc across the sky. Unfortunately he informed me that this footage was lost due to his recent clean out of Google Photos.
There was no detectable sound coming from the lights at any point of the sighting. They maintained their positioning to one another throughout, and eventually vanished into the distance.
This is an unusual sighting for various reasons. The lights and their configuration do not match those of a normal aircraft. They do not really coincide with those of a drone either, at least a standard one.
Here is a zooomed image of the lights:
The same zoomed image with edge find:
I did wonder initially whether they could have been a number of tethered balloons reflecting the evening sunlight and drifting across the sky. However with balloons you would expect some kind of rotation or change in altitude due to air currents, but neither of these were observed.
Steve is convinced that the lights were only a few hundred feet up. At this distance the main shape of the object would have been visible, which means that either they were four separate orbs flying in formation, or that for whatever reason the main body of the object was invisible, but the lights on it visible.
Snake Man
Steve regularly wakes up early in the morning and often walks down to his local convenience store, Best One, on Weedon Road, a short distance from his house. Around 5am on 31st August 2023 he decided to head down to the store to buy a drink and some cigarettes. It was a very clear morning, but due to the time of day very quiet.
As he approached the shop he noticed a couple of men standing on the pavement ahead. They appeared to be in their 30s and were wearing normal casual clothing. As he walked past the men one of them suddenly turned and stared straight at him. He then heard a telepathic voice in his mind which exclaimed “Oh look, snake man!” The man then turned back to the other and they both started to laugh.
The voice sounded male but quite sinister in emotion. Steve felt quite threatened by what had just happened, so as quick as possible reached and walked inside the shop. When he came back out a number of minutes later the two men were no longer there.
What took place here sounds quite un-nerving, and I can understand why he entered the shop as soon as possible rather than attempt to speak with the men. Exactly who they could have been is down to interpretation, but the fact that the message Steve received seemed to be telepathic instead of audible implies that they may have not been human.
If so then exactly what they meant by this message is unknown, although it could well be referring to the implied Reptilian heritage which he was informed about via the telepathic message he received in 2015.
Conclusions
Steve has had some varied and sometimes unusual experiences over the years. The fact that his apparent abduction took place merely days after his initial UFO sighting certainly suggests that the two incidents were linked.
It is interesting that he appeared to have a number of repeated UFO sightings and other experiences all within 2015. This could have merely been coincidental, perhaps it was due to all the rural driving he was doing that year, which made it more likely he would see things in the sky. Most of the sightings were distant, it was only the Flying Triangle sighting which suggested direct interaction of any kind.
His recent sighting of the formation of unusual coloured lights is intriguing, although too small or distant to make any definite conclusions on. There is also the bizarre telepathic message incident which happened within days of this sighting, which can certainly be interpreted in a number of different ways.
Steve may continue to have unusual incidents occur, and if he decides to keep in touch this report may be updated with them going forward. If you have any information regarding any of his experiences please get in touch.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026
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