Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 09/02/2012
Last Updated: 09/12/2024
Introduction
In January 2012 I was contacted by Mr J. Sturch from Shard End in Birmingham. He wished to report three separate incidents which had happened to him and his brother – an encounter with a mysterious being during his childhood, a sighting of a white spherical UFO which he had in August 2011, and a previous sighting by his brother of an orange glowing orb. This report covers the being sighting. Links to the other reports can be found near the end.
Unfortunately the witness did not get back in touch so we only have his initially provided details to go on, hence the lack of certain pieces of information, including specific location of this event.
Encounter Details
This experience occurred around 1981 when Mr Sturch was 9-10 years old and still at junior school. It was bonfire night, 5th November. He and his parents had been round to the neighbour’s house to enjoy a bonfire and fireworks with them. There was a boy named Phillip who lived next door and was the same age. After his parents decided to return home, Phillip came back with him and they went to sit on the back door step to watch other fireworks going off in the neighbourhood.
They would often like to play tricks on an older boy who lived in the house that backed onto the house. They used to shine their torches into his bedroom window as they knew he would be in bed by a certain time. They shined the torches down to the base of the back garden, and immediately got the fright of their lives! At the base of the garden was a two metre high standard wooden fence, and raised area with a pile of cut hedging. When they shone the torches, the beams suddenly shone directly onto a large black humanoid figure crouching on top of the fence!
Mr Sturch questions his memory of the exact appearance of this figure. For many years he recalled that it reminded him of Zorro from the TV series. However as he got older and started to look more into the paranormal, he likened the being to the creature out of the movie The Mothman Prophecies, and later the Chupucabras. What he does remember is that the creature was jet black in colour with large red eyes that were staring directly at them. The figure was positioned like it was walking along the top of the fence and had turned to look at them. It was much larger than a cat, and reminded him more of a man crouching down.
Both the boys reeled back with fright so hard that they pushed open the back door directly behind them. They got back up off the kitchen floor and ran through into the living room. There they hysterically told J. Sturch’s parents what they had seen. While Phillip was laughing with shock, he was crying with the fear of what they had just witnessed. His dad got hold of an old pickaxe handle from the closet and ran outside to see whether the creature was still there. He searched all the bushes at the base of the garden but whatever it was had now gone.
His dad came back into the house and asked the boys to come round next door to tell Phillip’s father what they had seen. They did so, and then searched the back garden of Phillip’s house too. After finding nothing, the two fathers then went round several other houses to try and find what the boys had seen, but nobody else had seen anything.
Many years later Mr Sturch bumped into an old acquaintance from an old place of work. He was interested in the paranormal so Mr Sturch decided to tell him about what he had seen. He expected him to laugh it off and say it must have just been a cat or dog. But instead he informed Mr Sturch that his mother had seen something very similar in appearance! He said that one day she was washing the dishes and looked out of the kitchen window at the lawn outside. There on the grass was a large black creature with big red eyes staring right back at her! She was scared and ran out of the kitchen. When she returned the creature had gone. Mr Sturch was happy to hear that someone else had seen what sounded like the same thing. To this day he still wonders about what he saw that evening
Encounter Analysis
What could the strange creature have been? While it seems unlikely that it was a cat or dog due to the shape, size and red eyes, perhaps it was a big cat such as a black panther which had escaped from somewhere. These are agile and so would be able to walk along the top of a fence, much like domestic cats are often seen to do. Mr Sturch does not put this possibility out of the realms of possibility.
However he does say that it appeared much more humanoid in shape. Bonfire night is only five days after Halloween. If the creature was seen at ground level the possibility that it was someone in a Halloween costume would have been suggested, however it is unlikely that someone wearing a suit would be able to balance on the top of the garden fence.
Maybe the creature really was something out of the ordinary. There are not many ET sighting reports which match, however I have both heard of and directly investigated cases where beings in skin tight black suits have been seen (Click here to go to one such report). Also the description of the creature’s eyes immediately remind me of the Varginha incident in Brazil, where a number of brown coloured Grey-like beings were seen by villagers after a UFO crash and then promptly captured live by the military. These beings apparently had large oval shaped red eyes. Is there a connection here between the cases?
Or could it have been something else entirely? There are many reported sightings of ghostly black dogs with red eyes, could this have been the explanation? Whatever it was, it certainly appears to have been unusual, and the fact that it was seen by two witnesses means that it was definitely present and not just their imagination. The story he was told later could well have been another sighting of the same type of being.
Unfortunately Phillip later died in an accident, so we only have Mr Sturch’s testimony to go on.
As mentioned Mr Sturch had a much later sighting of a white spherical UFO. Click here to go to the report on this. Also his brother has had an orange orb sighting in Coventry. Click here to check this out.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024
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