Stockport Contact Case – Greys, Hybrid, Abductions, UFO Sighting, Paranormal Activity
Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave HodrienRelease Year: 2024
Last Updated: 14/10/2026
Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses
On 26th – 27th August 2023 I attended the Awakening Expo UFO conference held in Manchester. It was a superb conference with many great speakers across numerous stages. I was provided with a table in the merchandise hall in order to sell copies of my UFO themed card game UFO Wave. However I still had a chance to watch some of the speakers and meet many people over the two days.
One of the individuals I was introduced to was Gaynor Clarke, a lady from Manchester visiting the conference. She had a number of contact related experiences she wanted to discuss with me. On the Sunday afternoon we found a quiet corner and I interviewed her about what had taken place. In the following months after the conference I reached out to her numerous times in order to understand everything in good depth.
This case report covers her experiences in age order.
Silver-Grey Disc
The first experience Gaynor can recollect was an UFO sighting, the only one she has had to date. It occurred in the winter of 1973 when she was 7 years old, and living with her mother and younger sister “Olivia” in a house on Ashdale Close, Stockport.
She shared an upstairs bedroom with Olivia (who was 5 at the time) at the front of the property. She recalls being in her room after dark one night, possibly around 9pm. She had gone up to bed but had not yet dropped off to sleep. Logically her sister should have been in the room too at the time, but she doesn’t remember her being there for some reason. She just knows that her mother was awake and downstairs at the time.
She remembers standing up and looking out of the front bedroom window to the East. She has no idea why she had felt inclined to do this. Usually the curtains would be drawn but she had pulled these back to look outside.
It was an overcast evening with grey cloud cover. Suddenly she saw what appeared to be a huge silver-grey coloured disc start to emerge from the edge of one of the clouds. The cloud directly below it was glowing orange colour, seemingly from light coming from its underside!
The disc appeared to be very large in size, possibly hundreds of feet across. It had a curved dome on the top, with a more flattened base. There were no windows, portholes or markings visible on its surface. It seemed to be above the cemetery grounds which lay to the East, although distance is sometimes hard to accurately judge, especially after dark.
Gaynor recalls staring at it for several minutes as it slowly came out from the cloud moving in a Southward direction. She did not call her mother or sister. After this period of time she does not remember what happened next. She does not know how the sighting ended, and does not think she spoke about it with either her mother or sister afterwards.
She thinks the incident was wiped from her mind directly after it taking place. It was a number of years later in her teens when she seemed to naturally recollect it, and she has remembered it ever since.
This sounds like a very impressive sighting indeed, and one which has a number of fascinating aspects. Although Gaynor did not observe it perform any advanced manoeuvres, it was seemingly much too large to be a normal aircraft or lit inflatable. The sighting occurred decades before drones existed so again this case be ruled out.
However a blimp with orange lights towards the base cannot be entirely ruled out, especially considering she was only young at the time of the incident. That said, why would Gaynor have forgotten the incident afterwards if it were nothing more than a blimp?
Another possible explanation for the orange glow seen would reflection of ground lights on the base of the cloud layer. However from Gaynor’s description it certainly sounds like the glow was localised and linked with the object itself.
Although there did not seem to be any direct interaction with Gaynor this cannot be ruled out. There are clearly some anomalies to the experience, including the possible loss of memories of the incident for a number of years, and the lack of a memory of her sister being in the room, even though she should have been by that time of evening.
It is a mystery as to whether there were any other witnesses of the object Given the huge size of the object, and the fact that it was only mid-evening (although already dark due to the time of year), it may well have been seen by other people at different locations.
Soldiers
Two years after the UFO sighting Gaynor experienced another bizarre incident, this time directly inside her home. She cannot recall the exact time of year it occurred but knows she was 9 at the time. It was about 9.30pm and like before she was in her bedroom but had not yet dropped off to sleep. Her mother was watching television downstairs.
She suddenly sensed that something was not right, and that for an unknown reason she should leave the room and go downstairs. Acting on this instinct, she got up, left the room, walked along the landing and turned to start heading down the staircase.
As she did she saw what appeared to be six figures walking up the stairs towards her, several steps up from the bottom! They were in three lines of two. The figures appeared human but they were all short, about 4 foot in height and seemed to be identical in appearance. They were all wearing blue coloured uniforms which had tassels on. Their clothing was the most prominent thing she noticed, she did not really have time to check their faces as she was frightened of the figures so immediately backed off.
Gaynor ran along the landing and quickly hid inside the airing cupboard, terrified that the strange figures were going to come and get her. A short period of time went by and then suddenly the door of the airing cupboard opened. This was the last thing she remembers when thinking back to the incident, she does not recall who was there when the door opened. It could have been the figures, or perhaps instead was her mother coming upstairs to check on her.
The fact that Gaynor does not recall how the incident ended is an interesting aspect, and potentially points towards this being a visitation experience. The figures she saw coming up the stairs were very unusual in appearance, and almost looked like they were in military clothing of some kind. She remembers them looking humanoid in appearance, although did not really see them clearly.
Perhaps the figures were ghostly apparitions of actual soldiers. But another possibility is that they were ET beings, potentially using a screen memory to mask their actual appearance. This is something which has been reported on many occasions, often when encountering Grey beings. Sometimes the appearance the beings take seems to be something familiar to the individual, however Gaynor had no interest in the military at the time.
It is interesting that the figures appeared to be shorter in height than normal adults. More often than not Greys are described as being around 3.5-4 feet tall. Could the short height of the figures indicate that they were actually Greys? If so then this could explain why Gaynor cannot remember what happened after the cupboard door opened. One potential explanation for this is that she was abducted but the memories were then blocked out.
Paralyzed
Between the ages of 12-14 Gaynor experienced numerous similar incidents. The first time it happened she was lying awake in bed when she suddenly felt her body gradually start to go stiff. The sensation started in her solar plexus (abdomen) and spread out until her whole body felt “like a stone slab”.
She lay there wondering how long this state would last for. She could not move at all, only look around the room. She was not really frightened, but more intrigued by the sensation. To her knowledge it lasted about five minutes and then gradually subsided until she could move again.
A number of months later exactly the same thing occurred, and then occasionally in the two years following. She did not see or hear anything unusual during any of these experiences.
It is very likely that these incidents were what is known as “sleep paralysis”. If you are unfamiliar with this, it can often occur when the body is settling down to drop off to sleep. It is a shutdown of the body’s muscles while still in a conscious state of mind. While there is some crossover with the contact phenomenon, in that many people find themselves paralysed while experiencing contact, many people suffer from the condition (sometimes quite regularly). There is no indication that these incidents were anything other than sleep paralysis.
Repeated Abductions
In 1985 when she was 18 Gaynor and her family moved to a new address, Hollow Vale Drive in North Reddish, Stockport. She again has a bedroom at the front of the property.
At the time she was in her final year at Sixth Form College. One late evening she returned home after being out with friends after college ended. She went up to her room and got into bed. Suddenly she heard a low humming sound. Initially she wondered if it was coming from the nearby railway line to the South East.
But the noise sounded like it was all around her inside the room rather than coming from outside. Puzzled by the sound she lay there listening to it. As she did she began to sense that something or someone was coming for her. The noise felt somehow familiar to her, even though she believed that she had never heard it before. She lay there for about ten minutes anticipating something. Exactly what, she did not know.
After this she seemingly blacked out, her next memory was of waking up in the morning. She did not tell her mother about what had occurred as she did not want to worry her. Nor did she inform her sister, as she did not think she would understand.
However this would not be the only time she would hear the sound. Gaynor informed me that she began to hear it regularly from that point onwards, roughly several times a month for the next eight years of her life!
On many of these occasions roughly the same thing would occur. She would be lying in bed and would hear the sound for a period of time before blacking out. However on some occasions she would not even have got into bed and would be standing up in her room, yet would still black out in the same way.
She began to get petrified of hearing the sound as she associated it with someone coming for her and her being helpless to prevent this. The only time she felt safe was when it was raining because of the background noise that this created coming from outside. Looking back at this Gaynor understands how illogical this was, as of course the rain would not prevent anything from happening.
On one particular occasion she was standing in her bedroom near the door when the buzzing noise began. She peered out through the window, wondering what the source of the sound was.
Next thing she knew she found herself in a rectangular craft of some kind. There were rows of seats and windows along each side with a central walkway, similar to an old bus. She was sitting on one of the seats on the left side near the front. There was another girl sitting further back on the other side. She realised it was one of her work colleagues, but did not attempt to speak with her.
Instead she peered out of the window alongside her and realised that they were up in the air. Looking down she could see the roof of the local police station. The craft was flying about 30 feet above it. Then it began to ascend up through the atmosphere for about ten minutes until Gaynor believes it was in orbit.
Looking out to the right she could see the moon and stars all around. To the lower left of her view she could see the Earth. She was excited by this fact, rather than frightened, and thought to herself “Oh my god, I’m in space!” Rather than panic about where she was, or what was going to happen next, she instead couldn’t wait to tell her step-father “Rob”, as he had always had aspirations of being an astronaut.
Gaynor does not recall seeing any other beings aboard the craft, or what happened next. Her next memory was of waking up in the morning. She clearly recollected being aboard the strange aerial vehicle, it felt extremely vivid. Even though she felt that it had been more than a dream she decided not to tell Rob.
She never told anyone else about these experiences either, as she felt that they would ridicule her. It was something she learned to live with.
A Triggered Reaction?
By 1989 Gaynor was dating a local man, “Simon”. On some summer evenings they used to drive out in the car around the rural lanes in the outskirts of Stockport. They would then park up and camp for the night.
One evening they were out on one such drive. It was about 9.30pm and most of the light had faded in the sky. It was a clear and dry evening. Gaynor cannot recall exactly which road they were on at the time, other than the fact it was very rural and there was nobody else around.
They were driving up the gradual slope of a hill. As they neared the summit all of a sudden there was a bright white glow coming from the other side ahead of them. Gaynor immediately started panicking for an unknown reason. She immediately brought the car to a halt and started crying. She was shaking and extremely emotional, but could not understand exactly why.
After a short while the glow was still present in the sky. Simon got out of the car and walked up the remainder of the slope. He soon returned to the vehicle and informed her that the glow was coming from the moon, which had of course appeared due to the time of evening.
After hearing this Gaynor started to calm back down over a number of minutes. She could not understand why she had reacted so extremely to seeing the light. Once she was fully calm they continued their drive along the lane, and she finally saw that it was the moon with her own eyes.
In the days following this incident Gaynor thought about what had happened. She started to view her previous experiences in a different light, and began to realise that something unusual was very likely taking place in her life. Soon afterwards she decided to tell Simon all about her prior experiences and her thoughts on why she may have reacted the way she did.
White Light
At the time Gaynor was living with her mother, while Simon was living in a large Victorian house in Whalley Range, Manchester.
One night in September she had gone round to spend the night there. She woke up about 2am for an unknown reason. The room was very dark and Simon was fast asleep next to her. She rolled over in bed to face towards the huge bedroom window which covered almost the entirety of the outer wall.
Suddenly the room was bathed in bright white light, clearly coming in from outside. The curtains were closed but the light was so intense that it shone straight through them, lighting up the surroundings.
Concerned about the situation, Gaynor turned and tried waking Simon up by shaking him. But no matter how hard she shook him he did not seem to stir. She does not recall what happened next, this was her last memory of the night.
In the morning when she awoke she felt more tired than she would usually feel. She informed Simon about what had happened, and about the fact that she did not seem to be able to wake him up.
What Gaynor experienced here may well have been an abduction. Many contact experiences begin with white light filling the vicinity (sometimes coming from a waiting craft). I have also investigated numerous cases where others in the nearby area appear to have been “switched off” and cannot be woken, just as was reported here.
Lost Pregnancy
In 1990 Gaynor began to feel like she was pregnant. There was no physical bump, but she tested positive on two pregnancy tests. She went to see her GP and they confirmed that she was.
A couple of months later she started bleeding. Concerned for the baby, she rang an ambulance to come and get her and take her to Stephen Hill hospital. They confirmed that she had unfortunately had a miscarriage and there was no sign of the baby. What confused Gaynor was that she felt certain she had not passed anything large enough to be a foetus. It was like the baby had just disappeared.
Two months later she got pregnant again. Thankfully this time it was a success and her first daughter “Lucy” was born in 1991.
It is of course possible that Gaynor was mistaken on this occasion, and it was in fact a normal miscarriage. This has been mentioned because of what occurred later on.
Daugher’s Nightmares
By 1995 Gaynor had a second daughter, “Sophie”. Lucy and Sophie shared a bedroom. They slept on a bunk bed, with Sophie on the bottom bunk and Lucy on the top.
Lucy began to inform her mother of nightmares she was having where hands would grab hold of her and float her out of the bedroom window. She would wake up in the middle of the night loudly screaming.
On one particular occasion Lucy woke in the night shouting out like usual. Gaynor went through to her room, climbed up onto the top bunk and lay down alongside her to comfort her. As she lay there cuddling her, the dark silhouette of something suddenly looked over the edge of the bunk! Gaynor only saw it for a brief moment, she sat up but there was nothing there.
Hybrid Daughter
By 2002 Gaynor had moved into her own home with her daughters. One night she dropped off to sleep like normal.
She suddenly found herself elsewhere. She recalls walking through a tall rectangular door which swivelled closed behind her. She found herself in a room about 15 feet high. It was quite dark. She was standing on a flattened rounded platform with railings around the edge. Beyond this platform she could see a number of panels with lights and buttons on.
There were several Greys present, one close and diagonally ahead of her, one off to the right, and another further back. They were quite tall in height, around 7 foot. They were unclothed, had a slender body frame and blue-grey coloured smooth skin. She cannot recall whether their eyes were fully black or not, but they were large and she was transfixed by them. Looking back at the incident Gaynor says “You would fall into them. If you looked into them you were hooked.” She cannot recall seeing noses, but had thin slits for mouths.
For an unknown reason, despite them all looking identical, Gaynor sensed that the being closest to her and the one further away were male, whereas the one off to the right was female. She was not frightened by them and felt that they were friendly. They felt familiar to her like she knew them.
Alongside the Grey that Gaynor sensed was female stood a little girl. She looked about 11 years old and was around 3 and a half feet tall. She was wearing a white coloured tunic. She had very pale skin, thin white hair and big blue eyes, and was clearly not fully human. Despite this, Gaynor immediately sensed a connection with her, like she was her own daughter.
The Grey closest to her then began to speak with her telepathically. She heard a male sounding voice in her mind. It informed her that this girl was indeed part hers and belonged to her, but would not be able to come with her as she looks too different and would not be accepted on Earth.
Gaynor walked over and knelt down in front of the girl. She wanted to get near to her and sensed a great connection with her. The girl did not respond and just stood there staring at her. However, Gaynor sensed that she was grateful to be there with her in that moment. She reached out and held the girl’s hand.
After a short while, the Grey nearest to her informed her that the girl had to go. When the female Grey took her away Gaynor was not upset, she understood that the girl could not stay with her. Looking back at this Gaynor is a little puzzled. She informed me “I wasn’t angry at the beings, which is really weird because if anyone touched my kids I’d kill them, I am very protective. It was almost like I was acting more complacent than usual.”
This is where her memory of the situation ended. The next thing she knew she was waking up in the morning. The memories of what had taken place felt much more vivid than a normal dream and she interpreted it as a real experience. She was initially very emotional, but settled down after a number of hours.
Looking back at what happened, Gaynor feels really grateful that she was able to meet with the girl. She feels at peace with what happened, and ever since the incident has not been frightened. Gaynor says that often feels watched while she is out places. Now and again she reaches out to her in her mind and says hello, just in case she is able to somehow hear her.
Conclusions
Gaynor has had some fascinating experiences, and is clearly an experiencer as she has vivid recollections of being abducted and meeting with Greys. It is unknown whether the sighting of the disc-shaped UFO is related or not. It did not appear to be there directly for her, but the memories of the sighting were seemingly blocked out for a number of years, which implies a level of direct interaction. It is possible that this initial sighting was what led to her later experiences.
It is clear that Gaynor is also part of what is commonly referred to as the “hybrid breeding program”. I have investigated other cases where experiencers have been presented with Grey-Human hybridised babies or children which they view as their own offspring. The exact reason why these hybrids are being created is not fully understood at present, though a number of theories exist, and some experiencers have been given information relating to this.
It does appear that her eldest daughter may also have experienced contact. It is common for contact to run through numerous generations of a family blood line.
I would like to thank Gaynor for having the confidence to discuss these sensitive experiences with me to get them down on official record.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026
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