Peterborough / Blackpool Contact Case – UFO Sightings, Psychic Abilities, Paranormal Activity, Signs Of Contact
- Chairman Dave
- Oct 16
- 9 min read
Updated: Oct 21
Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2018
Last Updated: 16/10/2025
Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used
In September 2018 I was contacted by a man who I shall name "Luke". He wanted to discuss a number of interesting incidents he had experienced over the years. This report is the resulting documentation from that conversation.
Rectangular UFO Sighting
In 1990 when Luke was 10-11 years old he lived at Westwood in Peterborough. One day he was standing on a path in the open park situated between Westwood and Highlees Primary School which he attended at the time. Luke cannot remember whether it was a weekend, or whether it was a week day but school had ended. He just recalls that he was on his own.
He happened to glance up into the sky and noticed a strange object. Directly overhead he saw a rectangular shaped yellow coloured object. It had a square shape at one end making it look similar to the shape of a van. The object looked quite flat, and about 500 feet up.
Luke estimates it was quite sizeable, about 150 feet across. It hovered motionless and silent in the air. He stood there and watched it for an extensive period of time.
At one point a lady walked past. Luke pointed it out to her saying “Look at that!” She replied by saying “Yeah, what is that?” However after clearly not identifying what it was she continued on her way once again leaving him alone.
After a long while, at least half an hour after first spotting it, he got bored of looking at it so decided to walk away with it still present in the sky. A short while later when he checked for it he found it was no longer there.
This is quite a bizarre sighting due to the shape and colour of the object. It was clearly not an aeroplane, hand glider or parachute as it hovered still for an extensive period of time. It did not have the right appearance for a yellow-coloured helicopter, and he surely would have been able to hear the rotor blades. Drones were not available until decades later.
It seems like it was stationary for too long to have been a novelty inflatable. A novelty hot air balloon is a possibility, but I find it odd that neither Luke or the lady were able to identify it as such. Surely the basket would have been visible in the middle of the base. Another possibility is that it was much smaller than it appeared to be, and was in fact a tethered kite of some kind, being held aloft in a continuous air current.
Abduction Memories?
Around the same time period as the yellow UFO sighting, Luke recalls an unusual dream he had while at the dentist and under anaesthetic for an operation. While asleep he could feel and see “spider-like” figures standing around him. He looked down at the floor and it looked like glowing green squares. During the investigation Luke asked his mother about this incident. She informed him that she remembered him talking about seeing spiders.
While this is intriguing there is not much to link this to recollections of a previous abduction experience. It could just have easily been a vivid dream which he experienced while unconscious.
Channel Hopping
Back in the early 1990s Luke’s family owned an old style television set which required manual pressing to change channels. In 1993 the TV set began to switch channels by itself on a near daily basis. Luke’s mother seemed convinced that it was the ghost of her father being mischievous.
While these events could have a paranormal explanation, it is also possible that the TV was just malfunctioning. Luke did not mention whether it continued to do this until they got rid of it or whether it occurred for a period of time and then noticeably stopped.
Scissors
One day when Luke was between 14-16 years old there were some scissors left on the table in the living room. For an unknown reason he picked them up, even though he had no intention of using them. He just felt compelled to do so.
At the time he was watching Prisoner Cell Block H on television. About 10 minutes after he had picked up the scissors there was a scene in the episode where the camera zoomed in to someone picking up a pair of scissors! Luke wondered if he had predicted this scene in his mind and this is why he had picked them up previously.
Although this is not out of the question, as sometimes experiencers do have precognitive visions or premonitions of seemingly mundane things, it is possible that this was just a coincidence. He did not see a vision of the scene in his mind, he merely picked up the scissors and then something similar happened on the TV.
Moving Ornament
In 1996/97 Luke moved to a flat on Axiom Avenue with his mother and sister.
By now they had a new television set (maybe fed up of the previous one changing channels). On top of this they had an ornament of the cartoon dog Snoopy in a lying down position.
One day Luke was watching TV when the ornament suddenly flew off the top of the TV towards him. It seemed like it had been forcibly thrown rather than just fallen off due to vibrations from the TV speaker. He put the ornament back up.
However, from this point onward it began to happen on other occasions, sometimes multiple times in a single day, and sometimes when his mother or sister were also present. The ornament always came forward across the room, never away or off to one side.
The incidents were so bizarre and un-settling that in the end the family decided to get rid of it. Luke did not think to try setting up a camera to capture it happening on video.
Shadowy Figures
Luke informed me that both his mother and sister had experiences in which a dark figure tried to grab and pull them out of bed in the middle of the night, although he provided no further information on these particular incidents.
The fact that they were grabbed implies that this may have been visitations by beings rather than ghostly entities, although malevolent spirits cannot be ruled out of course.
Precognitive Visions
Luke wasn’t the only one to apparently see things in advance of them happening. He informed me of numerous incidents where his mother had claimed to have had precognitive visions of certain events. These events include an earthquake which occurred in the vicinity, the World Trade Center disaster, and a bike accident. He did not provide details on how far in advance of these incidents she had these visions.
Flying Triangle
Back in 1997 Luke used to go and play football at Castor Lodge AstroTurf football pitch on Splash Lane every Tuesday evening between 9-10pm. This was a substantial distance from home but he used to enjoy the weekly walk. One Tuesday he was on his way to the location. It was approximately 8pm and a clear evening.
As he began to walk North along Cranford Drive, opposite the T-junction with Axiom Avenue, he heard what he initially thought an aeroplane to the North East.
He looked ahead and off to his right. Behind the two storey house situated on the T-Junction he could see a black triangular shaped object, partially hidden by the roof of the building. The sound he had heard initially had now stopped. It hovered motionless in the air. Luke thought to himself “What is that? How come it’s not flying past?”
After 30 seconds it started moving and emerged over the roof of the house. It was a solid black triangular shaped craft with a small white light at the base of each corner, and a red circle in the centre of the base. This circle had an unusual look to it, almost like it was made of flowing liquid.
The craft was only about 40 feet off the ground. It was at least as big as a large truck, possibly about 30 feet across. It approached until it was over Cranford Road ahead of him and then halted. It then remained in this position for around 5 minutes.
Luke looked up at it diagonally fascinated by it. It almost felt like time had stood still. He would have expected vehicles to drive on past, but does not recall seeing any. Sadly he had no camera on him to attempt to photograph or video it.
After this time the craft suddenly shot away to the East extremely rapidly out of sight. There was no slow build up of speed and no shockwave or sound when it departed.
Shocked and excited, Luke wanted to tell someone about what he had just seen. There were no other pedestrains in the vicinity at the time. He decided to run South, East along Atherstone Avenue, then North along Cottersmore Close and enter The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, which he attended at the time (The church is now situated on Cumberland Avenue).
When he entered the church there was a boy there, roughly 10-11 years old. The boy looked at him with a funny expression and said “You’ve seen it too haven’t you?” He asked the boy what he meant. The boy claimed to have also seen the same craft hovering directly over his head before entering he church. He said that he was scared it was going to take him. His mother, who was also there at church, had apparently not seen it, and had tried to convince him that it was not alien in origin.
Later on that evening he got banned from attending football there again by the organizers, who claimed he had insulted the other player’s religious beliefs by claiming to see a UFO. Luke says this was very unfair because at no point did he claim that what he saw was alien, he had just told them about what it looked like and how it moved.
Assault Premonition
By 2008 Luke had moved to Blackpool and had got a job as a children’s entertainer. One day he was out in the town when he saw a police officer speaking with a man on a bike. For some reason he suddenly had the feeling that the police officer’s life was in danger. He had no idea where this feeling came from as the man did not look threatening in any way. He did not warn the officer because he had no evidence to suggest that the man he was speaking with was in any way dangerous.
About 20 minutes later he was walking past the same area. He saw the police officer restraining the other man on the floor. He had not seen what took place, but clearly something bad had gone on to provoke such a reaction.
Unexplained Sound
In 2017 Luke heard a vibration-like sound while upstairs in his flat. It sounded like it was coming from an electrical socket out on the landing, but when he went to check he found that it was actually coming from outside. He exited the flat and could hear that the noise was emanating from a disposed wooden cabinet.
As he walked towards it the sound immediately ceased. He opened up the cabinet but there was nothing inside which could have accounted for the sound.
While experiencers do sometimes hear strange sounds which can be related to contact or paranormal in nature, it is just as likely that this sound was coming from elsewhere and just echoing in a way which made it sound like it was coming from the cabinet.
Conclusions
Luke has had some impressive UFO sightings, especially the Flying Triangle he saw back in 1997 He has also experienced a number of other things which can sometimes be related to contact, such as the paranormal activity at his house in Peterborough, and possible premonitions, he has not had any confirmed visitations or abductions. It is possible that the strange dream he had at the dentist was contact-related, but there is no definite link, such as the presence of recognisable beings seen in other cases.
Therefore, it cannot be confirmed whether he has experienced contact up until this point or not. It is however good to get these fascinating incidents down on record.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025
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