Continued from Part 2 Missing Battery In February 2016 Bill went to visit his parents at their home in Florida with Rachel. They stayed in the guest room on the side of the house. There was very little furnishings in the room – only a bed and a nightstand - as his parents were in the process of moving out of the property. During the night Bill awoke suddenly in shock. It was dark in the room but he felt really unusual like something was wrong. It took him a while to drop back off to sleep. In the morning he found his vape on the carpeted floor of the room. He felt certain it had been on the nightstand by the bed when he dropped off to sleep. When he picked it up he realised that the panel on the back was open and one of the 18 650 batteries had fallen out. The battery was a bit larger than an AA battery and bright purple coloured, so it should have been easy to spot on the green carpet of the room, but it could not be seen. Bill assumed it had rolled under the bed so he and Rachel got up and began looking around for it. Inexplicably, even after moving the bed and nightstand around, they could not find it anywhere. Later in the day Bill purchased a replacement from a local store. A month later Bill and Rachel helped his parents move out. At this point they literally moved out the furniture from the room. Yet the battery was still not found. It had seemingly vanished without trace. Rachel remembers this event quite vividly. She informed me of the following. “We tore the room apart, but never did find that battery. There wasn’t much in the room either – just a bed, bedside table and our suitcases. I don’t recall Bill mentioning something had happened during the night, I just remember how odd it was that the battery had gone. The vape needed two batteries to make it work, and he would always switch out the batteries at night. He was very particular about this, so there is no way the battery had fallen out some point the previous day, he would have definitely have noticed this before going to sleep. I asked him if he had had an episode during the night, to which he replied maybe. Later on we helped his parents move, but never found it. It was just really strange.” Bill wonders whether he had actually dropped off to sleep with the vape in his hand, and had then been abducted during the night. If so then perhaps the battery had fallen out during this abduction aboard a craft, and when he was returned the vape fell onto the floor. While this may seem an unlikely scenario it is still a possibility given Bill’s previous experiences, and if so would explain why the battery was never found. UFO Close Encounter One of Bill’s most intense UFO experiences occurred in Florida in September 2017. At the time Bill and Rachel were living in Cape Canaveral. On the 10th September the category 4 Hurricane Irma hit Florida. Unfortunately their house suffered heavy damage in the storm. While it was being repaired they temporarily moved in with Bill’s parents in Sun Tree, Melbourne. They spent numerous trips moving their belongings between houses. The journey between Cape Canaveral and Melbourne typically took around 40 minutes. There was an area of swampland near to Faulk Canal which Bill felt inexplicably uncomfortable with In mid-September between 9-10 pm they were travelling North along Highway 95 with a car loaded with belongings. Bill was in the driver’s seat, with Rachel as a passenger. Bill was driving about 70 mph. There were a few other vehicles on the road but it was quite quiet. Aerial map showing the position on Highway 95 where the sighting began They were about a quarter of a mile before the Faulk Canal when Bill noticed a green light and a red light close together and off to the right of the road over the swampland in a North North East direction. It was very unusual to see any lights out there due to the difficult terrain. It was even very difficult for boats to sail in the area. Photograph of Highway 95 in the direction the lights were first spotted The lights seemed to be very low, about 10 feet off the ground. Bill initially thought it must be a drone. As he watched the lights seemed to shift position. The green light ceased to be visible and now a second red light could be seen. Bill assumed that it was a singular object with multiple lights on which had rotated obscuring the initial green light from view. He continued to drive and realised that the lights were getting closer. As it got nearer he realised that whatever the lights were attached to must be much bigger than a drone. He nudged Rachel and pointed out the object to her saying “Look at that!” Rachel asked “What do you think it is?” Bill replied “I don’t know.” The object got nearer and nearer and it looked like it was on a direct collision course with them. It reached the edge of the highway and then flew directly over the top of the car at approximately 80 mph! The object was very low in the air and quite large in size, definitely bigger than the car. It was hard to clearly make out the shape of it as it was dark, but it reminded Bill of two pontoons alongside one another. Despite the closeness of it, it was completely silent. Bill sensed some kind of electrical energy as it went over. Witness drawing of the UFO as it flew over the car Panicking, Bill looked out of the driver side window. He could see the object moving away from the road. Now two green lights were visible. It was clear that the object had two red lights at the front and two green lights at the rear. Initially Bill thought the incident was over and the object would just fly away. But then it changed direction and began heading towards them again! Witness drawing of the UFO behind the car Bill was driving at around 70 mph but it gained on them and once again flew silently over the car! It was a little clearer on the second pass. He and Rachel definitely saw either a single object with two distinct halves to it, or two long objects flying alongside one another. The same electrical sensation occurred again, this time more noticeable. Bill says it felt like his “brain was being cooked by a microwave” as it went over. Now that it had approached a second time both Bill and Rachel were extremely fearful of it, not knowing what was going on. Bill continued to drive along the road just frozen in shock and breathing heavily. He says that he did not stop to try and capture it on camera because it would have been dangerous to do so, there was no hard shoulder. He also was concerned it might come back a third time and wanted to keep on the move and get back to a populated area as soon as possible. About a minute went by before either of them spoke, Then Bill blurted out “What the hell was that?!” Rachel replied “I don’t know!” “Did you see it?” asked Bill. “Yeah. I saw these two long things.” “Yeah I saw that too.” By now Bill was familiar with the phenomenon of missing time. He checked the clock in the car just to make sure that the time was what he expected it to be. They did not appear to have lost any time. Here is Rachel’s recollection of what took place on that night. “I remember seeing the object in the distance off to the left. It was lower than a plane would go. Initially I thought it might be a drug cartel plane flying low to stay off the radar, or a crop duster. There are lots of rich people in the area so maybe it was a private aircraft. It crossed over the highway onto my side super low, buzzing the car as it did. Bill said it looked almost like pontoons but I don’t remember seeing that. I just remember it looking like a glowing white light. The object then began following us along the road for at least five miles. It was like we were being chased by it. Bill was freaking out, it caused him a lot of anxiety. I wasn’t too frightened by it, but it was unusual. Planes would usually do their own thing. This light appeared to be following us. I don’t recall it leaving. It was just there a while and then it went.” As you can see there are some interesting discrepancies with Rachel’s recollection of events. The most obvious difference is she remembers it having a white light on it, not multiple red and green lights. Also she does not recall it coming back and flying over the car roof a second time, she just remembers it following along the road behind them for a while. I spoke with Bill about the discrepancies between Rachel’s and his own recollection of events. He responded with the following thoughts on them. “I have a crystal clear memory of what happened. And the funny thing is that when it went back over the car the second time is when she actually got a good look at it. And I remember us talking about the green and red lights. I have been cursed with an eidetic memory, and I can replay memories in my mind like a video tape as crystal clear as the moment they originally happen. It tends to get a little less perfect after 20 years or so but it is still way better than most people's recall of past events. And I remember every single second of that experience like it happened this morning! The strange thing about that experience is that Rachel acted real strange afterward. I would pine on and on about it and she would change the subject or act frustrated like she didn't want to talk about it. What I remember clearly happening is when it went over the first time I asked her if she got a look at it. She said no. And then I saw it turn around and started to panic. The heat really turned up in the car and we both panicked when I yelled it was coming back. And it went over us again and that is when she said she saw the pontoon like things. So right after that happened she seemed so calm. I was freaking out! But she calmly said she didn't think anything of it. And I never understood why. And now I kind of think it was one of those moments where it is so intense and rather absurd that her brain just shut it down and wouldn't let her process it. I kind of felt like then, and I definitely feel like now that I have read her testimony. What I saw was a big deal, and very very scary. She was super scared also. She said originally that she thought we were both going to be abducted. But maybe once we weren't, or at least thought that we weren't, she wrote the whole thing off to nothing in order to deal with it? It's hard to say.” Whether the object had red and green lights (as Bill recalls) or white lights (as Rachel recalls), these are of course all standard navigation light colours for aircraft. However Bill does not think this is what it was. When it went over the car the first time he thinks it was only 10 feet above them. At that distance if it had been an aeroplane or helicopter they would have been blown off the highway with the draught of it, and they would have certainly heard the jet engines or rotor blades. Bill also believes that it was much too large in size to be a drone. He owns two drones which happen to have red and green lights on, so is familiar with how they look after dark and at different heights. It seemed to be too controlled and moving too quickly to be some kind of lit inflatable. Due to the proximity of the object it was a really scary experience and one which he remembers really clearly. Beam of Light Video In late 2017 Bill worked as a Security Officer for Disney Cruise Lines at Port Canaveral in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral. He used to work an early morning shift. On 16th December at 4.30 am he arrived for work at Cruise Terminal 8 car park. Aerial map of Cruise Terminal 8 As he parked up, he immediately noticed a bright light in the sky to the North North East. It was coming from the direction of CCAFS Space Launch Complex 41, but Bill was used to seeing lights from this. It appeared to be coming from further away out over the ocean. Even more interestingly, the light seemed to be split into two distinct sections, with a vertical band of unlit sky in the centre. Aerial map showing Cruise Terminal 8 car park (A) and CCAFS Space Launch Complex 41 (B) Bill stepped out of his car and started to film the light on his mobile phone. He filmed for 65 seconds. Realising the light would probably remain visible for a lot longer he stopped filming as he had to start his security duties. Below is the video that Bill captured: The light is very unlikely to be UFO related in any way, Bill just thought it was interesting and unusual. While he says that it appeared further away than Launch Complex 41, I feel that this still remains a possibility. Perhaps they had a large floodlight on for one reason or another, and there was something blocking part of the beam, leading to the split into two distinct halves. While this is the most likely explanation, it is interesting that Bill never saw anything similar for the remainder of the time he worked at the location. UFO over Portland Video On the morning of 20th November 2018 Bill was downtown in Portland on his way to work on a bus. After crossing over the river he at the corner of 4th and Harvey Milk Street at 6.57 am he spotted an odd looking shape hovering in the sky to the East. He grabbed his mobile phone and took some footage of the sight. After filming it for several minutes he had to go and click in to his work place. When he checked outside again it was no longer visible. Bill knew one of the hosts of a Paranormal News YouTube channel. He would regularly watch the videos on the channel and contact the host via E-Mail. About 4 days after the experience he got in touch and shared the details of the experience with them. Soon afterwards they featured Bill’s sighting in one of the episodes. Below is the written statement which Bill provided for them: "It was last Monday at about 6:57 AM Pacific time. I was in downtown Portland Oregon at the corner of 4th and Harvey Milk looking East. I saw this thing hanging in the sky. I had just came over the river on a bus and was thinking to myself how clear and beautiful the sky was at sunrise, so I'm sure there wasn't a cloud in the sky that morning. I actually face the direction the object was (when) sitting on the bus; so I know it wasn't there just 8 to 10 minutes earlier. It was very strange at the time and definitely a head scratcher when I was sitting there watching it. It looked solid but had these horn shaped protrusions. I had to run and clock in at 7:00 AM so I had to cut the video short. By the time I got back out there 5 minutes later it was gone! Man I wish I got video of it taking off or disappearing or whatever it did!" Bill estimates that the object was less than 1000 feet up, and that it was either directly over the river or a short distance beyond it. Aerial map indicating Harvey Milk Street and estimated location of the object Here is the video that he managed to take: Zoomed view of the object taken at 2 seconds into the footage: Zoomed view with edge find: It certainly looks odd and I can see why Bill decided to capture it on camera. The first possibility worth considering is that the object was an unusual cloud catching the morning sunlight. Bill says that while this theory cannot be entirely ruled out he was puzzled as to why the object did not change shape at all, and the fact that there were no other clouds in the sky at the time. It is also interesting that it vanished within the space of 5 minutes. Another possibility is a murmuration of birds or swarm of insects. However in both cases it is likely that there would be noticeable movement in this over the period that it was filmed for. Here is a video of a murmuration of birds as a comparison: It was clearly not an aircraft, and was too strange a shape to be a balloon or other inflatable. It also looks too large to be a novelty balloon. Pyrotechnics can sometimes create very pronounced smoke shapes in the sky, however given the time of morning that the sighting occurred this seems unlikely. Despite Bill’s continued belief that it was not a cloud, I am not so sure. Certain cloud types such as lenticular clouds can look quite solid in form and appear in a relatively clear sky. It was a still morning so with no air currents to blow the cloud around it could have maintained its shape for the period of the video. And it could conceivably have dissipated by the time Bill stepped back outside. Silver Sphere Video By 2019 Bill had moved to a house on North East 15th. He worked in Lents and every week day afternoon his friend would drop him to the Lents Town Center train station on Southeast Ramona Street so he could catch a train home. Aerial map of Lents Town Center train station At 4.30 pm on 1st May 2019 he was standing on station waiting for his train. It was a clear and pleasant afternoon. The station was very quiet, there were only a couple of other people at the other end of it, and nobody was close by. To the East of his location between a quarter to half a mile away Bill suddenly noticed a spherical object. It was at a height of about 500 feet and moving on a straight course about 30 mph. It looked quite small in size, perhaps 5 feet across. It was a shiny silver colour and was reflecting the sunlight. Bill grabbed his mobile phone and began to film the object. It travelled to the South, not altering its height or course at all. After 32 seconds it vanished from sight, probably due to the distance. As Bill was waiting for his train he did not change location to see if he could see it again. Here is the video footage which Bill captured: Still of the video taken almost immedately. The object can be seen right at the top: Zoomed view of the UFO at the start of the footage: Zoomed image with edge find: As you can see the object appears to be spherical in shape. The darkened area towards the base is likely to be due to shadowing caused by the curvature of the surface. Due to its appearance it is clearly not a normal aircraft or helicopter. It can be seen clearly enough to also discount a drone or bird. However Bill agrees that it may have been a silver coloured Mylar balloon. It seemed to be travelling on a very straight course, but this may just have been because it was caught in a strong air current, it does not necessarily mean it was under controlled flight. Distant UFO Video Later in the year on 27th May Bill was once again waiting for his train at 4.30pm. There was nobody else on the station at the time. Again it was really nice sunny weather. Bill suddenly noticed an object appear in the distance to the East. After being unable to determine what it was he decided to start filming it on his mobile phone. Initially he could only see it with his naked eye and it was not coming out on camera. However after 9 seconds it could be made out making unusual manoeuvres which change in course numerous times. After watching for a further 24 seconds the object was no longer visible. He continued to film for several seconds but realised it was probably not going to re-appear so stopped. Here is the footage which Bill took of the UFO: Still of the footage at 11 seconds in. The object is about 2/3 of the way across the image: Zoomed view of the object: Zoomed view with edge find: Due to the fact that it was changing directions rather abruptly an aeroplane can be discounted. The movements seemed too erratic and unusual for a helicopter too. I suggested to Bill that it might be a bird. He said that if so then it looked odd to his naked eye – to him the movements felt too directed, and no flapping of wings was observed. Another possibility is that it was a distant drone. This would be able to perform such manoeuvres, although Bill felt the movements looked wrong for this (and as a drone pilot he is familiar with how they appear at a distance). A drifting balloon caught in conflicting air currents could also be possible. Unfortunately the object is too distant to maker any definate conclusions. High Altitude UFO Video On 6th October Bill would manage to capture yet another UFO on video while waiting for his train. He happened to look up and saw a white or reflective object at very high altitude, at an angle of 80 degrees. Bill estimates it was at around 20000 feet just below the upper cloud layer. It was moving towards the South. At the height it appeared to be it was clearly quite large in size. Immediately Bill felt it did not look right for a distant aeroplane. Usually even at high altitude the wings would be visible, making a cross-like shape in the sky. With this object no wings were visible. He lifted up his mobile phone and began to film it. The object moved on a straight course. Bill continued to film it until it had vanished from sight. Below is the footage which Bill managed to capture: Still of the footage taken at 2 seconds. The object is nothing more than a white dot near to the centre: Zoomed view of the object: Zoomed view with edge find: I agree with Bill that an aeroplane, or helicopter, would have a recognisable shape, even at high altitude. With his background as an aircraft mechanic Bill is very familiar with the appearance of aircraft at a distance and he would not have been bothered to even start filming if this is what it was. He also says that it was far too high up to have been a bird or drone in flight. However there is the possibility that this was a white or silver coloured balloon or inflatable reflecting the sunlight and drifting on an air current. Bill admits that this possibility cannot be fully discounted. Possible Implant Back when Bill was a security guard in 2015 he would walk up to 30,000 steps a day. After a while he began to suffer from Plantar Fasciitis, inflammation of the heels and arches of the feet. He put up with this for a number of years but in 2020 the pain became too much to bear so he decided to visit his GP about it. His GP put him in touch with a podiatrist, who he visited in September. The podiatrist had an in-house X-ray machine which they used to X-ray his feet to look for bone deformities. After undergoing the X-Ray they were able to view the image immediately on a computer screen (Bill was not able to see the screen directly). The first thing the podiatrist asked him was whether he’d ever injured his right foot. Bill confirmed that to his knowledge he had not. The podiatrist said to him “There’s an object in there. It looks like glass.” Bill asked “Could it have happened without me knowing? Like if I dropped something on my foot?” The podiatrist responded “No, your foot would have been hurt pretty badly.” Bill does not currently know the size, position or shape of the object, just that there was something present. Contactees have often found small metallic objects within them after experiences, commonly referred to as “alien implants”. Often the presence of these objects will be unknown until they are randomly spotted on X-Ray photographs, just as with this situation. While there is always the possibility that the objects are accidental metallic splinters, there are sometimes unusual aspects to them which indicate otherwise. I asked Bill to use a stud finder on his foot to see if he could detect the continued presence of a metallic object. This came up a negative. This does not necessarily mean that the object is not there, or that it is not metallic. Stud finders are only capable of detecting certain ferrous metals. If the object is made out of other metals it would not show up. Also there is the possibility that, if it was a genuine implant, it used to be present but has since been removed. At the time Bill did not think to ask for a copy of the image, but he believes it should still be in their records. He has attempted to get hold of this image but has so far not had much luck. He spoke with the records office and they asked him to come in and sign a form to get the images released, which he did. They provided him with a disc. However when he tried opening this on his computer it failed to work. He contacted them via E-Mail and they attached the images as a PDF instead, but when he opened them he found the images were of the MRI scan not the X-Ray picture. He contacted them back and they informed him he would have to speak directly with the podiatrist to obtain this. However they have not yet responded to repeated voicemails. Rachel needs to visit the same hospital soon, and has agreed to attempt to obtain the X-Ray image on his behalf. I am hopeful that soon we will soon be able to obtain the photograph, which should give us an indication of the size and positioning of the object that was discovered. If we do succeed in this endeavour the picture will be added to this section of the report. Visual Distortion One early morning in either December 2020 or January 2021 Bill suddenly awoke. He found himself sitting on the side of the bed with his feet on the floor, staring at the bedroom door in front of him. The room was lit like it was daylight outside, but it felt too early for that. Even stranger around the edges of his vision Bill could see a strange glowing curved line. It was most predominant to the right but he could also see it a little on the left too. The line looked really artificial like it was electrically powered. It was glowing an amber colour and the glow seemed to pulse in brightness. Bill looked around puzzled by its presence. It almost looked like he was staring at the bedroom via a screen. Witness drawing of the glowing line He started to panic, thinking there was something very wrong. As if to counter this panic, he then heard a voice inside his mind. It sounded female, gentle and kind. The voice said to him “Everything’s fine, you’re ok. Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing to worry about. Go back to sleep.” Bill found the voice very comforting. He lay back down, closed his eyes and managed to drop back off. When he next awoke it was 8am, the time he would usually wake up at. Due to the time of year it was still dark outside, which proved to him that the light he had seen when he awoke before had been an anomaly not natural daylight. Later on he looked into possibilities for the strange jagged line he had seen online. He came across something known as Ocular Migraine Auras. When experiencing this it is possible to see shapes, colours or motion around the edges of your vision. It may sometimes move or change in size. It is also possible for sections of your vision to go dark entirely. They can last for up to 20 minutes and do not always precede a headache. An example mock up of an Ocular Migraine Aura: However Bill has never experienced this before or since, it only occurred on this one occasion. The distortion also looked somewhat different to any example drawings he could find online. And even if this this might explain the glowing jagged line it does not explain the calming voice he heard or the fact that the entire room seemed to be lit up like it was daytime. These aspects fit closer with the possibility that this was a contact experience of some kind. It is hard to say for certain. Repeated Dreams Between July to October 2021 Bill had a number of vivid dreams with repetitive noticeable aspects and after effects. He is unsure of the meaning of these dreams at present but they may potentially be linked with previous contact experiences he has had. All four of these dreams involved a series of strange events and took place at unfamiliar locations, as many dreams do. However they were all extremely vivid and Bill could remember them in great detail. They also all involved a girl with long dark coloured hair and large blue eyes. She was always present, despite the fact that Bill did not recognise her. In some of the dreams she was his girlfriend, in others just a friend or present in the situation. Bill sensed a deep connection with her for an unknown reason. Every dream ended with Bill waking up suddenly between 12.40 am and 1 am in the morning. He wears a mouthpiece during the night to prevent snoring, and each time he would find that he had spat it out and it was on the bed. He would also find that his dog Stella was sitting on the floor, which again was odd as she always sleeps up on the mattress. He would sometimes find that his spit was off-colour, almost black. This would last for less than a minute before returning to normal. At the end of the first dream which took place on 14th July Bill clearly recollected a series of numbers which he wrote down: 290047461674 . He has no idea what these numbers mean. The fourth dream which happened on the night of 28th October involved a huge white coloured Tic-tac shaped craft. In the dream the craft landed and he emerged from it and explored a futuristic-looking city. Witness drawing of the landed craft with open doorway Witness drawing of the craft doorway with descending steps It is unknown whether the inclusion of this craft in his dream has anything to do with his experiences or prior knowledge of the now infamous USS Nimitz incident, which involved a much smaller craft of the same shape and colour. Domed Disc Sighting On the afternoon of 31st October Bill was driving East along Interstate 84 heading to the town of Sandy for a date. He had just passed the junction with Northeast 181st Avenue when he noticed an object rise up from behind a ridge to the North East East about a mile away from his location around the area of Lawton Creek. Aerial map showing where Bill was on Interstate 84 (A) and Lawton Creek (B) The object appeared to be silver in colour, a domed-disc shape and about 20-25 feet across. It moved upward until it had just cleared the hill no more than 1000 feet up. It then seemed to start moving away to the North East down the gorge. Witness drawing of the UFO flying along the gorge In total he watched the object for 10-15 seconds. He briefly lost sight of it as he had to turn off the highway. When he looked back 2 seconds later it could no longer be seen. Bill is familiar with flight paths for aircraft in the area as he used to live near to the gorge and would often see planes take off and land. He informed me aircraft are not allowed to fly over the gorge where the object was seen. At the time of the sighting he had a dashcam active. The camera runs on a repeated 3 minute loop and is designed to capture evidence in the event of a crash. Bill realised that the object may have been captured on it, so he unplugged it after the sighting was over. Unfortunately although footage was recorded it was too low quality and pixellated to see the object, so Bill did not keep it. While the dashcam sadly did not manage to pick up the UFO, it is still an interesting, if distant sighting. Due to Bill’s military background I am certain that he would be able to recognise what an aeroplane or helicopter would appear like at that distance. That said, as the object did not perform any manoeuvres which would definitely indicate it was under intelligent control, a large inflatable of some kind cannot be ruled out. Turquoise Lights Incident On the evening of 11th November 2021 Bill travelled out to Sandy to take his new girlfriend out on a date. He picked her up and then they drove along Highway 26 to Skyway Bar & Grill near to Zigzag. Aerial map of Skyway Bar & Grill Photograph of Skyway Bar & Grill They left the establishment about 7.30 pm and began the drive back West towards Sandy. The weather was clear and pleasant. Due to the time of year the sun had already set. There were very few other vehicles on the road. Bill was driving about 60 mph. Around the area of Alder Creek Bill noticed a glowing light at the top of the ridge of trees off to the left of the road in a South West direction. For a moment he assumed it must be a helicopter but quickly realised that it was the wrong colour. Normal navigation colours of white, green and red were not visible. Instead the light was a strange turquoise colour Bill had never seen before in the air. Aerial map showing the route along Highway 26 between Skyway Bar & Grill (A) and Alder Creek (B) Witness drawing of the turquoise light The light seemed to be about 500 feet above the top of the ridge, meaning that it must have been about 1500 feet up. He only noticed it briefly before it was lost from view behind the trees. He did not mention it to his girlfriend, he just thought to himself “That was weird!” Photograph from Highway 26 in the direction the light was seen At the time Bill was streaming some music from his mobile phone to his car radio. About 30 seconds later the signal seemed to drop and the music stopped playing. He checked his phone and realised the battery had completely ran out. Bill says that this was highly unusual. He’d charged his phone that morning so he was puzzled as to why it had now ran out, it would usually last until the following day, even when streaming music. At around 8 pm Bill dropped off his girlfriend in Sandy. They chatted for about 15 minutes and then he got back on the road again. Once again he was driving West along Highway 26. About 8.30 pm he was approaching a part of the highway which briefly splits into two near to Anderson Road. Aerial map showing the locations of Alder Creek (A) and Anderson Road (B) He happened to glance to his left and was amazed to see what appeared to be the same glowing object as before! This time it really caught his attention and he slowed down the car to take a better look at it. The light appeared to be less than a quarter of a mile away from him to the South West. It seemed to be stationary. Witness drawing of the second light Photograph from Highway 26 in the direction the light was seen Bill stared at it for about 15 seconds until he reached the split in the road. While the road was split it curved round to the right and he was no longer able to see it from the front windows. He continued on his way, surprised that he had seen the strange light a second time. By 8.45pm he was driving West along Highway 84 through an industrial area alongside Northeast Wilkes Road. There was no other traffic around. Suddenly he again noticed the turquoise light! This time it was off to the right of the road to the North West West over the area of Argay. It seemed to be quite low down, about 500 feet off the ground. Aerial map showing the locations of Anderson Road (A) and Northeast Wilkes Road (B) Photograph from Highway 84 in the direction the light was seen a third time As he continued to drive the surroundings became more residential. There was lots of trees, but he continued to catch glimpses of the light from time to time. Eventually he arrived at a gap in the trees. It was now that the object was at its closest. It seemed to be about a quarter of a mile from his position. He could now make out that it was in fact two turquoise lights alongside one another. The lights were very bright with a glowing haze around them. Even though Bill could only see the lights he estimates the object they were attached to was at least as big as a helicopter, too big to be a drone. Witness drawing of the two turquoise lights beyond the trees Bill had the distinct feeling of being followed by the object. Due to the rarity of the colour of the lights on it he assumed that it was the same object in all three sightings. He considered stopping to get a better view but he says that it is a particularly dangerous stretch of highway. There is a breakdown lane but it is narrow and there have been many accidents over the years in the area. After a few seconds the lights were lost from sight as he had driven past them. He arrived home and checked the clock just to ensure there was no missing time. It was 9pm, the time he expected to arrive home at. He would usually drop off to sleep about 10pm but felt excited by the sightings he had experienced and stayed up until midnight before contacting me via Facebook messenger to mention what had taken place. It is impossible to say whether it was the same object in all three sightings or different objects which were either related or just happened to have the same lighting colour. Bill felt that it was following him, however there was no obvious direct interaction, and at no point did he see it at close proximity. If it was the same object then it may have been moving in roughly the same direction as him and he happened to keep spotting it at various locations. The lighting colour observed is very peculiar and does not fit with standard navigation lights at all. Also if it was a helicopter then according to Bill it would not have been allowed to have been flown so close to residential homes due to the level of noise. If it was the same object seen all three times then it appears to have been moving too rapidly to be a lit inflatable. I feel it is unlikely that the lit object was anything to do with the draining of Bill’s mobile phone battery. Although craft have often been noted to cause electrical disturbances in their vicinity, this would usually only occur at close proximity. The light which Bill initially saw was quite distant. Further Body Markings In 2017 Bill noticed a scar-like marking on the left side of his chest that he had not seen before. It was ¾ inch long and looked like an incision which had healed over. Bill says that he associates it with the abduction recollection he had back in 2007/2008, but is unsure why. Witness drawing of the chest marking Photograph of how the scar looks today: In late October 2021 during the case investigation Bill awoke to find a strange imprint on the right side of his body. It looked like a pressure mark of finger-wide concentric shapes. This side of his body had been against the mattress during the night, but he had never woken up with shapes like this before on himself, and there was no sign that they had been caused by folds in the bed covers. Witness drawing of the grooves on the right side of his body The imprints were so deep that when he ran his finger over them it made a noise. They faded away throughout the day. Sadly he did not take a photograph of them. On the night of 4th November Bill had a strange dream about a red and white coloured UFO which flew up into the clouds. When he awoke he found that he was uncovered, despite the fact that it was quite cold in the room. He also found that like previous occasions his mouthpiece was out and the dog was on the floor instead of up on the bed. He went to the bathroom and discovered a strange indentation in the right side of his body. Photograph of the indentation taken in the bathroom mirror While the above could possibly be linked with a contact experience, as Bill is interested in the subject and had recently been discussing his experiences with me it is possible that the UFO he’d seen was just a dream, he’d spat out his mouthpiece andpulled the covers back in his sleep, and the dent was nothing more than pressure of sleeping on his side during the night. On the morning of 17th November Bill found three scratch-like lines and a small round bruise on his inner right arm quite close to the original scar-like marking. They were quite painful which is how he first noticed them. He is certain they had not been there when he got into bed. Photograph of the lines and bruise Weeks on, the markings were still visible, showing how substantial the injuries must have been. Photograph taken on 29th November Photograph taken on 7th December Bill’s pet dog does sleep in the room at night but he confirmed that he never jumps up or scratches him with his claws, and even if he had done then surely he would have woken up during the night? He does not have any recollections of anything unusual happening at all, so while there is no direct link with contact, the cause of the injuries remains a mystery. Something in the House At the start of March 2022 Bill once again moved house to an apartment on T Street, Vancouver, Washington. Aerial map of T Street One night in early May he awoke suddenly with a shock at 2.03 am. He realised he had been having a very vivid dream but could not remember the details of it. Usually in such a situation he would just settle back down, but he then heard the dogs barking. They seemed to be extremely agitated like there was someone else present in the house. Bill also noted that the air smelt unusual, although he finds it hard to describe how. It was not a pungent odour but just smelt different in some way. Due to what was taking place he became nervous that there was someone else there, to the point that he grabbed his pistol and started searching around the apartment. As he did so the dogs stuck really close to his side, which he said was unusual behaviour for them. After looking in all the rooms and finding nothing they seemed to settle back down and Bill went back to bed. Looking back at the incident Bill wonders if he had experienced a visitation, and the dogs were picking up on the presence of one or more beings who promptly left the vicinity. While there is no direct evidence to support this theory, it is still a possibility given Bill’s many previous encounters. Click here to go to Part 4 Copyright Dave Hodrien 2022

Continued from Part 3 Sighting from the Air On 31st August 2022 Bill and Rachel travelled to Denver by aeroplane for a yearly multiple-day musical event organised by the band Phish. Around 9.30pm they were on the approach to the airport between 3-4000 feet up. They were sitting in the very first row of the plane on the left hand side, with a wall in front of them separating the passenger section from the flight attendants. Bill was nearest the aisle, Rachel was to his right, and there was another lady sitting in the window seat. On this wall they could see a light reflection from the window. Aerial map showing Denver and the airport off to the East Suddenly the reflection moved to the right, indicating that something was disrupting the light from outside of the plane. Bill leaned forward and looked out of the window past Rachel and the other passenger. He was surprised to see an extremely bright glowing orb of light near to the plane. Initially he thought it was another aircraft coming straight at them, but soon realised it was between 1000-2000 feet away. It appeared to be following along at the same speed as the plane. Amazed by the presence of the object Bill said “Whoa!” which caught Rachel’s attention. Upon seeing the mysterious light, and knowing about Bill’s previous experiences, she exclaimed “What the hell, we haven’t even got to Denver yet!” They continued to watch the light for about a minute. It remained in place alongside the plane. Bill considered getting his mobile phone out and attempting to record it on video, but did not want to upset the other passenger, especially as they were just coming in to land. Finally the light drifted downward and to the left out of sight. Bill was so excited by the sighting and continued to speak with Rachel about it as they disembarked. About 30 minutes later, after they had collected their baggage, he was able to step outside. He looked in the sky everywhere for the light but there was no sign of it. Bill is convinced that the object was not another aircraft which happened to also be landing or taking off. He says that it would have been possible to see green and red navigation lights or flashing strobes. Also there was the way in which it seemed to keep pace with the plane, like it was matching their movements. The area they were in at the time would clearly have been within controlled airspace, reducing the chances of it being an unauthorised private aircraft or drone. Also Bill says the light was far too bright for it to have been a drone, and he is certain that it was not a bright star or the moon. Brief Red Orb Sighting The musical event took place at Dicks Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City. On 1st September after the first evening’s show Bill was standing at the South East corner of an open area of ground to the West of the stadium which was being utilised for food and merchandise vendors. He had separated from Rachel for a while to go take a look at the band merchandise. Dick's Sporting Goods Park indicating the postion Bill was standing at It was approximately 11.45pm and was fully dark. It was a very clear evening with the stars visible in the sky. There were many other attendees around. Bill was facing to the South. Out of the corner of his eye at the right side of his vision he suddenly noticed a bright orb of red light in the sky. As he turned his head to look at it, the object instantly shot away to the North at an incredible speed! Photograph of the area of ground alongside the stadium from near where Bill was situated Bill says that he does not get any visual distortion in the corner of his eyes, and is certain that it had not been some kind of light reflection. It moved much too fast to have been a drone. There was actually a police drone in the vicinity to the North of the area with red, green and white lights on. It was keeping watch from the air over the event, but this was clearly something completely different. Even though this sighting was only very brief, Bill was impressed by the speed that it had shot away. It had moved far too fast to have been an aircraft, drone or lit balloon, and there were no lasers being fired up from the event. Even if there had been, there were no clouds in the sky for which a laser to have been reflected off. White Linked Orbs Video On 3rd September 2022 about 4.30pm Bill and Rachel were standing in a queue along the left hand side of the stadium waiting for the evening performance to commence. It was a very hot, clear and sunny afternoon. The show wasn’t scheduled to start until 9pm but as seats were not reserved they wanted to make sure they got a good position. The queue was facing to the South along the side of Victoria Way. Aerial map of Victoria Way indicating the position Bill and Rachel were standing in the queue Just North of the stadium is a rectangular-shaped 3 storey building which is utilised as a back stage area for bands. Bill happened to glance up into the sky above this building off to his left. It was now that he noticed something strange – a white orb of light which did not have the same appearance as a distant aircraft. It was at an elevation of about 25 degrees and appeared to be several thousand feet up. Photograph of the edge of Victoria Way along which the queue was situated Bill continued to watch the object, initially wondering if it was Venus, even though it was a little too early for stars to appear in the sky. After a miunte the orb suddenly seemed to fade out and vanish. At this point he realised it was not a star. He continued to watch, and about 30 seconds later it re-appeared! At this point he decided to draw Rachel’s attention to it. He asked her “Do you see that in the sky?” pointing at it. She replied “No, I can’t see it. I bet you’re the only one who can see it!” However she didn’t have her glasses on at the time. Bill disagreed saying “No, that’s an obvious thing in the sky.” In order to prove that it was there he turned to the people behind them in the queue and pointed it out to them too. They could see it and asked Bill whether he thought it could be an aeroplane. The object was moving very slowly to the South West West in their direction and also slowly descending in altitude. Bill grabbed his mobile phone and tried taking some photographs but the object only appeared on one of them due to the distance. A minute later he decided to attempt to get the object on video. 32 seconds later the queue started to move, and due to his change of position he lost sight of it behind the nearby trees. He considered moving to try and continue filming but this would have captured the other people standing in the queue, and he didn’t want to upset them. Below is the photograph which Bill initially captured that shows the object (ringed in red): As you can see in the photo it is barely visible. However it can be seen more clearly in the video footage which he subsequently took: Below is a still taken at 10 seconds into the footage: Here is a zoomed view of the object, and the same zoom with edge filter: It appears that it is actually two objects in close proximity which appear to be linked in some way. The lower orb appears to move back and forth under the upper one as the footage progresses. Due to its appearance both myself and Bill do not believe that this is a distant aeroplane or helicopter. Nor does it appear to be a drone. I suggested to Bill that it might have been two balloons tethered together and reflecting sunlight. However the wind at the time was to the North North West, as shown by the below weather chart: This object therefore appears to have been travelling against the wind, suggesting it was under powered flight. Also it seems improbable that balloons would have faded out for 30 seconds before re-appearing, even if taking reflection from sunlight into account. Unfortunately due to the distance of the object or objects it is impossible to say for certain what it may have been, so at present it remains a mystery. Conclusions As you can see, Bill has had an incredible amount of experiences! This is by far the most comprehensive and detailed case I have ever looked into. Many of the UFO sightings he has experienced are impressive either due to their appearance or the manoeuvres they performed. It is also worth remembering that Bill served in the military as an Aircraft Mechanic on active tours of duty, so is extremely familiar with how aircraft appear at various distances and under different weather conditions. His early experiences involving the unusual children in the tree, as well as some of his later experiences involving missing time and abduction recollections, leave me in no doubt that he is a repeat contactee. This is possibly the reason for why he has had so many UFO sightings, although it is clear that in many of these incidents other witnesses have also been present. Bill is clearly still un-nerved by his experiences, while at the same inquisitive about them. He found some of the drawings I asked him to do particularly difficult as they brought back the memories and emotions of what occurred. I would like to thank him for taking the time to discuss everything with me in such good detail. It has taken considerable effort to document everything, and Bill has been really open to discussing these incidents in depth. It was also great to speak with Rachel regarding the experiences she has been a part of. I am absolutely convinced that these experiences have happened as described and have not been embellished in any way. Both Bill and Rachel responded to my questions without hesitation, it was clear that they were re-living actual events in their mind when going through things. Due to the regularity of previous incidents, it is extremely likely that Bill will continue to have further experiences going forward, so this report will very likely be updated in the future. I’ll leave the closing words to the man himself… “When I first contacted Dave I had no idea the journey I was about to take. And I have come a long way since that day. I watched a video on a ghost channel of all things, that included a case Dave had investigated. And when I saw what happened to that person I couldn't believe my eyes. I was compelled to watch it over and over again obsessively. It seemed familiar. It literally scared me to death yet I couldn't stop watching it! And it dawned on me. I experienced the same thing. I didn't know why I knew, but I knew. And I had to look Dave up and contact him. I'm not sure how I found his info but I was able to get in touch just to ask a few questions. And of course he started to ask me some questions. Many questions. He seemed very interested when I mentioned I had seen several UFOs. I thought everyone has seen several UFOs. Boy was I wrong! I've had some strange things happen to me almost my whole life. I can't explain what it is and I can't tell you why they happen to me. They just happen. And I had no idea just how extraordinary it all was until I spoke with Dave. He was able to pry experience after experience out of me. I would tell him one thing, and in doing so remember another. It was very overwhelming to me to relive those experiences. And I had a hard time reliving them. But I began to feel, as our conversations went on over the course of many months, that it is important for people to hear about my experiences. And, just as it was important for Dave to document the case that to lead me to him, maybe my experiences will open up a memory for you or spark a desire to tell someone else. I feel like I am mostly at peace with my experiences. This journey of investigation has helped a lot. When I think about it I don't ever feel like I have been in danger. I am very open to having that one experience where I get to ask THEM questions for once. Figure out what they are all about. Where do they come from? What are their hopes and dreams and desires? Why have they been doing this to me since childhood? It will hopefully be my turn someday.” Copyright Dave Hodrien 2022

Continued from Part 1 Metallic Object A couple of months after witnessing the lit UFO, Bill was at his friend "Simon’s" house on Fieldstone Drive, Londonderry. They were walking through the woodland North West of the back yard smoking cigarettes when suddenly Bill stubbed his toe on an object on the ground. He thought to himself “What the hell’s that?” and looked down to see what he’d bumped into. Aerial map showing the house Jason used to live at (A) and the location the object was discovered (B) There was what looked like a curved object made out of clay. It was 9 inches long and looked like part of a loop of pottery, maybe the rim off a large jar. He reached down and picked up the object to examine it. Witness drawing of the curved object He then threw it at a rock expecting it to shatter into pieces. Instead there was loud “ping” sound and the object bounced right off! Bill walked over and picked it back up. The outer surface of the object had been broken off where it hit the rock. Underneath he was surprised to see shiny gleaming metal. After showing it to Simon he decided to take it back home to examine it more closely. Back home in his basement he tried cutting through the object with a hacksaw. It felt like cutting through a solid block of metal. Small metallic flakes were falling off as he sliced away. Whatever the object was made out of, it was both extremely strong and very light weight. He broke several saw blades but in the end managed to slice right through it. Postion the cut was made The object was solid all the way through and had a concave shape. The outer layer which looked more like clay was about 8mm thick. Bill wondered if the metal had oxidised forming this skin-like surface. He considered the idea that it was some kind of debris that had fallen from space. He showed the object to his father who thought it was interesting and could not identify it. Cross section of the object Later on Bill once again called up MUFON to tell them about the object. Two days later the same man and woman who had visited before turned up again. They asked him if they could take away the object with them to be tested. Bill agreed to this as he trusted them to perform this testing and return the object to him. A couple of months went by and he had heard nothing. He decided to give them a call. They informed him that they’d sent it to a friend of theirs who worked in a laboratory, and that they had not yet heard back from him. Bill was fine with this update and so ended the call. Another few months went by before Bill rang them again. This time they said they did not know what had happened to it. They brushed it off saying it wasn’t anything special and that it must have got lost after it was sent to the lab. Bill was rather upset at this but there was nothing he could do. He wondered whether it had been something unusual and they’d made up the story about losing the object, but of course could not prove this. USS Saratoga Sighting When he was 17 years old Bill joined the US Navy as an Intermediate Aircraft Maintenance Mechanic. For 7 months he trained in Tennessee, after which he was stationed aboard the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier for 4 years. This carrier was decommissioned in 1995. Photograph of Bill in his Naval bootcamp uniform Over these 4 years performed active duty on two tours. The first tour was 9 months out in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Storm. The second tour involved a 6 month cruise in the Mediterranean. Photograph of the USS Saratoga While aboard the aircraft carrier Bill spent most of his time below deck in an airframe shop on the aft end of the ship making aircraft parts out of sheet aluminium, shelving units for officers and sometimes tyres. While in port he performed general maintenance tasks and also volunteered as a fire fighter. Out at sea he chose to work the night shift as it was a lot quieter. The queues for food were shorter and he had some free time to go out on deck and check out the stars. In 1993 when he was 21 years old and on his second tour of duty he had a UFO sighting. The carrier was South of France in the Balearic Sea heading towards the Adriatic Sea between Italy and Croatia. It was between midnight and 1am and Bill was taking a mid-shift break. He stepped outside onto the starboard (right) side deck of the carrier for a cigarette. Aerial map showing the Balearic Sea (A) and the Adriatic Sea (B) It was a beautiful clear night with the stars fully visible in the sky and no cloud cover. There was nobody else out on deck at the time so he was on his own and it was incredibly peaceful. Suddenly he noticed a light coming in from the left of his vision near the horizon. The light appeared to be really low down, at most 300 feet off the surface of the sea, and was within several miles from his location, probably about a mile away. The light seemed to be moving about 40 mph. It was travelling on a straight course from his left to his right. After about 15-20 seconds as it got level with him it suddenly halted. It hung motionless for several seconds. Then without warning it shot upward into the sky, moving away from his location as it did. Bill says it moved at hundreds of mph and the acceleration was instantaneous. Within a second it had travelled so far that it was no longer visible. Witness drawing of the light in the distance viewed from the starboard side deck A moment later Bill witnessed a military helicopter being launched from the ship, which moved away in the direction the light had dispersed. To all intents and purposes it appeared like an attempted intercept of the object. Bill says that the carrier had advanced radar systems aboard and that providing the object was detectable on radar it would definitely have been observed. However after the sighting he heard nothing. Nobody mentioned seeing the object, either visually or on radar. There are of course a number of possible explanations for this. Perhaps the object was radar dark, and so was never detected on radar. Maybe it was recorded on radar but Bill did not have the right contacts on board to find this out. Or perhaps it was observed, but was then covered up. Bill is certain that the object was not something mundane such as a distant aircraft, helicopter or drone due to the speed of the manoeuvres it performed. It was also clearly under control rather than a drifting object such as a lit balloon, and it would make no sense for it to have been this considering the location the carrier was at. It is truly a anomalous, if distant, sighting. Communion In 1987 the American abductee Whitley Strieber released his infamous book Communion. If you aren’t familiar with this, the book covered his numerous un-nerving contact experiences. On the cover of the book was a drawing of one of the Grey beings which he saw during these experiences, as you can see from the below image: It was the mid-1990s when Bill noticed the book for sale in a shop. When he saw the front cover it immediately made his skin crawl. He had an intense feeling of fear right down in his gut. The sensation was really strong, but he had no idea why. He just thought to himself “That is one book I am never going to pick up or read!” A number of years later he bravely decided to watch the movie of the book starring Christopher Walken, still remembering how the book cover had made him feel. Even though he is usually fine with watching creepy or dark horror movies, he was only able to watch about 10 minutes of the film before switching it off. Around this time of his life any imagery of Grey beings would evoke a strong reaction in him. This emotion felt irrational but he could not stop it from happening. In more recent years the reaction is not as strong, Bill feels he has since become a bit de-sensitized. The cover of Communion is notorious for causing extreme reactions with contactees. Many people who had previously experienced contact have reported feeling deeply disturbed by it. Bill’s reactions to both the book cover and the movie are another sign that he had experienced contact prior to this point. White Orb & Missing Time In 1995 Bill lived in New Hampshire. In July he decided to drive to Portland on the West coast to watch a number of gigs by the band Phish and follow them from place to place on tour. It was around 3 am and he was driving along Highway 80 on his own in his Ford Escort GT. He was in Wyoming on the stretch of road between Elk Mountain and Sinclair heading West. Either side of the road was open desert which was impossible to see due to the time of morning. Photograph of Highway 80 indicating the surrounding landscape Suddenly a bright white orb of light descended down to about 300 feet. It was about a quarter to half a mile behind the car and visible in his rear view mirror. It seemed to begin to pace his car, keeping the same distance behind him. Bill was really frightened of the light as he was in the middle of nowhere. Witness drawing of the white orb descending in the rear view mirror As he went round a turn in the road he temporarily lost sight of the light, but a couple of minutes later it was back again. It seemed to follow his car for between 20-30 minutes. By this time he was beginning to panic, so he sped up in an attempt to get away from it. His next recollection was of sitting in the car in the parking lot of Sinclair petrol station in Rawlins. He was relieved to finally be back in civilization, but really confused about what had taken place. He sat still in the car for about 30 minutes before finally getting petrol and continuing on his journey. At no point did he think about checking the clock. Photograph of Sinclair Gas Station Back on Highway 80 he continued driving. Very soon after heading on his way the sun started to come up. At this point he realised that the time must be between 5.30 - 6 am. This confused him even more. He knew that the journey to Rawlins from where he saw the light should have taken him no longer than an hour. With his stop of 30 minutes at the petrol station the time should have been no later than 4.30 am. Yet the sun was now coming up, meaning that there was between 60-90 minutes he could not account for. Aerial map of Highway 80 indicating where Bill saw the light (A) and Sinclair Gas Station (B) There was nothing Bill could do other than continue on his way. As he drove he wondered whether the glowing object which had followed his car had interacted with him in some way and then blanked his memories of the event. The remainder of the journey went by without incident. This is a classic case of missing time following a UFO sighting. While it would have been possible for Bill to “zone out” behind the wheel for a short distance, it is extremely unlikely he would have done so for such a long section of road, and under the circumstances with the presence of the unexplained orb of light. Also for this to have been possible, he would have also have then had to drop off to sleep at the petrol station for at least an hour without having any sign that he had done so. Therefore I feel there is a good possibility that Bill was abducted during this experience, and has had the memories blocked out exactly as he suspected may have happened. Light over the Tent By the summer of 2001 Bill had moved to a house on Southeast Schiller Street in Portland. Aerial map of Southeast Schiller Street Him and his partner at the time, Rachel, had gone on a road trip and were travelling back from San Francisco. They were driving north along Highway 5 and stopped at Chevron on West Lake Street in the town at the base of Mount Shasta for petrol. It was quite late by this time and Bill was considering breaking up the journey and booking into a local hotel for the night. Aerial map of Mount Shasta, the town and Highway 5:Aerial map of Mount Shasta, the town and Highway 5 Aerial map of Chevron gas station Another truck pulled up at the station with a couple in. Bill started talking with them and informed them of his plans to book a hotel room. They said to him that they were camped up on the mountain at Red Fir Flat Group Campsite and invited Bill and Rachel to join them. They had a tent with them that they’d used previously on their trip so agreed to this. Photograph of Chevron gas station After filling up with petrol they followed the other car along Everitt Memorial Highway which led up the mountain to the campsite, which is close to where the ski-ing on the mountain takes place. The area is surrounded in natural forest trees and is very picturesque. It was a wonderful clear evening. They got a campfire going and spent a number of hours chatting before retiring for bed around 11.30 pm. Aerial map showing Chevron gas station (A) and Red Fir Flat Group Campsite (B) Aerial map of Red Fir Flat Group Campsite During the night Bill woke to the sounds of movement. Running footsteps in the woods and the crunching of leaves. There was a sudden loud thump sound which caused Rachel to stir too. Suddenly the tent lit up with bright light coming from outside. At first Bill thought it was car headlights but soon realised that the light seemed to be coming from above them. Bill was terrified, not wanting to look outside and come face to face with whatever was there. This was the last memory he has of the night. His next recollection was of waking up between 7-8am. He woke Rachel up and asked if she remembered the light and noises. She confirmed that she did. He then asked her “Do you remember it stopping?” Just like him she had no memory of this, despite the fact that they had both been frightened. Because of some of the things that had happened earlier in his life, the situation felt familiar to him. The confusion of not fully knowing what had taken place. Photograph of Red Fir Flat Group Campsite They got out of the tent hoping to ask the other couple if they had heard or seen anything. However, according to Bill, they found they had already packed up their things and left. They left the camping site and continued on their journey home, thinking about what had taken place in the night. Rachel took a spiritual stance to the experience, putting the noises down to forest spirits. But due to his other experiences, Bill wondered if the light had been a UFO over the tent and that they had experienced missing time. I asked Bill if the sounds he heard could have been wild animals. He said that the footsteps sounded too loud and heavy for wolves or coyotes, and it was very unlikely to have been multiple bears. I also suggested the possibility that the sounds and light they’d seen could have been their friends packing up and getting into their car during the night for whatever reason. But Bill is adamant that the sounds were coming from around them in the trees not from where their friends had camped up, and was certain that the light had been from above not from where their car was parked. Also if they’d started up the car they would have heard the sound of the engine? Below is Rachel’s testimony on what took place. “We both woke up in the middle of the night. I don’t know what it was that woke us up. The whole tent was flooded in blue light. It looked very different to how headlights of a car or a helicopter search light would look. Both of us were too scared to see what was going on outside. There was no sound with it, not that I can remember. It seemed un-naturally quiet outside. Usually you’d hear the breeze in the trees or animals scuffling around, but it was silent. I buried my head in my pillow. It was super scary. We both hid under the covers, and must have dropped back off. The weirdest thing was when we woke up in the morning the other couple didn’t mention anything. We ate breakfast with them like nothing had happened. We were waiting for them to bring it up but they never did. We didn’t talk about it until we were back in the car and leaving.” It appears that Rachel did not hear the loud sounds that Bill heard, but he did say that he thinks this is what initially woke her up so that is no surprise, perhaps as she awoke the sounds ceased. As you can see there are a couple of discrepancies. Bill described the light coming down from above in the trees, whereas Rachel cannot recall detecting any particular location for it, she says the entire tent was illuminated seemingly from all directions at once. It is also clear that Rachel remembers the couple still being present in the morning and having breakfast with them, whereas Bill thinks that when they woke up in the morning the couple had already gone. Mount Shasta is a known hot spot for UFO sightings. Many incidents have occurred in the area over the years and been documented by various UFO organizations. According to the book Mount Shasta Sightings by Brian David Wallenstein, which came out in 2012, Mount Shasta ranks as 13th out of 300 known hot spots which were analysed. The bright blue light that Bill and Rachel experienced combined with the un-natural silence could well have been from a craft hovering over the campsite. It does not appear that either Bill or Rachel were abducted on this occasion, but due to the missing time phenomenon this cannot be entirely ruled out. It remains a very intriguing incident. Domed Room & Body Markings In the months following the Mount Shasta incident, Bill began to experience strange dreams he could only vaguely remember. He would find himself in the centre of an enclosed dome-shaped room. He is unaware of whether he was on anything or not. The room would be dimly lit, with no discernable light source. The walls of the room appeared to be a dull grey colour. He would always be alone in the room with nobody else present, human or otherwise. Witness drawing of the domed room Bill would then suddenly awaken in the night in shock, not knowing what was going on. After realising he was in his bed he would settle back down to sleep. Sometimes in the morning he would feel extremely fatigued despite seemingly sleeping for many hours. Around the same time period Rachel would also wake up feeling fatigued, with red sore-looking marks on her body. They would often develop into bruises over a number of hours, which would then gradually fade over a few days. Sometimes the markings would be round in shape, as the following drawing shows: Other times there would be multiple long oval markings which almost looked like grip marks from fingers: After a while both Bill and Rachel began to realise that these seemed to occur on the same nights. Rachel was convinced that Bill was not panicking and accidentally hitting her during the night. At the time she worked at a children’s hospital. However the children would usually be on ventilators so would not reach out and touch or grab her. Below is a statement from Rachel regarding this series of events. “Bill would tell me about his dreams in the morning, he would never wake me up during the night directly after they had happened. From what he described, the dreams were always of a clinical or sterile environment. They would have repeated themes to them. He would usually be frightened and running away from something. “The markings were usually around the size of an American dime, there was a regularity to them. They would appear all over my body, usually on my arms or thighs. There would be up to three of them on me at any one time. There was no reason for them to be on me. I was sure I hadn’t bumped into anything on the evenings before they appeared, and on other occasions when I did the resulting bruises would be unusual shapes, not circular like the markings. We would both sleep in much later than usual. We would find it difficult to wake up, both of us would be really tired. This became so much of a pattern that I would know in advance that Bill would describe having a strange dream and I would find one or more markings. The dog used to sleep in the room with us up on the bed. She would react to any sounds in the house, for example if our roommate came home she would get up and go and stand by the bedroom door until we opened it. On the nights before I found the markings the dog would stay fast asleep and not react. I do wonder both us and her were switched off, and that things were being done to me in the room directly.” It is entirely possible that the dreams Bill was experiencing were either repeated abductions, or a repeated flashback to a previous abduction. Many abductees have described cramped dome-shaped rooms aboard craft. While the markings found on Rachel were not obviously artificial, they did seemingly have a repeated shape and size. I do not believe they were caused by bed bug bites. These tend to occur in greater numbers, look raised in the centre, and would logically have been found on Bill too. Example photograph of several bed bug bites It is intriguing that the markings appeared on Rachel’s body on the same nights as Bill’s dreams. This may suggest that she too was being taken at the same time, but having the memories of such completely blocked out. Heavy fatigue is commonly reported as an after effect of abductions, so this would fit this theory. Sphere Sightings For several months in the summer of 2002 Bill and Rachel lived at their friends "Derren" and "Julie's" house on Southeast 63rd Avenue. Bill and Rachel both claim that while they were staying at the property they would have extremely regular sightings of unidentified spherical-shaped objects. They would be at different heights, sometimes around 500 feet, other times much higher. They would sometimes hover motionless in the sky, and on other occasions would fly in a North or South direction. Often they would be individual, but occasionally up to five would be seen at once. There was no pattern to the time of day or weather conditions they would appear under. The spheres seemed to be several distinct types. Some were entirely black, some a silver colour, while others seemed to be half white and half black. Bill says that he was certain the black was not due to shadow on the underside of them. They seemed to be quite small in size, no bigger than 3 feet across. They would usually rotate as they moved across the sky. Bill says that he tried filming them but the camera on his mobile phone was so low quality they did not come out. They had no other camera equipment they could use to try and capture them on film. Witness drawing of two of the silver spheres Witness drawing of two of the rotating black and white spheres In one incident, witnessed by both Bill and Rachel, they looked up to see a small Cessna aircraft crossing the sky. However they then noticed that there was what looked like a black coloured sphere tailing the aircraft. It was flying along in the same direction maintaining its distance from the plane. Example photograph of a Cessna light aircraft Witness drawing of the black sphere behind the tail end of the aeroplane During some incidents their house mates also saw the spheres. Rachel’s friend "Emma" was quite sceptical of the UFO subject. One day Bill asked her to stay outside a while and watch the sky with him. While she was out there a formation of the spheres suddenly emerged from a cloud, close enough to make out detail. They flew across an open patch of sky before disappearing into another cloud. Emma turned and said to Bill “I don’t want to ever see that again!” before heading back inside. She had clearly been disturbed by what she’d just witnessed. Witness drawing of the formation of spheres In 2008 when Bill and Rachel moved into a house on Southeast Cora Street the sightings seemed to start up again. Bill says they didn’t seem them as regularly, possibly every other day. However they did have many other sightings of the spheres over the two years that they lived at the property. Aerial map of Southeast Cora Street In early summer of 2008 Bill worked as a Sound Engineer for a band named Big Island Shindig. They flew Bill down for a music tour which began in Oakland. Bill was on a plane making its final approach to Oakland International Airport. He had a window seat on the left side of the aircraft. It was morning time and they were out over the bay, with the buildings of Oakland visible to their left. Suddenly he noticed one of the half-black-half-white spheres about 100-200 feet below and off to the left of the plane. The object was rotating chaotically, rolling on its axis. Like the spheres seen in Portland it looked quite small in size, a few feet across. It was heading in the same direction as they were, but the plane was faster and so overtook it. Bill felt that it was close enough that the pilots must have been able to see it. Witness drawing of the black and white sphere seen from the aircraft window When I spoke with Rachel about these sightings, she provided the following insights. “I was present for many of the sphere sightings. We would see them both during the daytime and evening. We would often sit on the porch reading and smoking, it was a general hang out area for us at the property. While out on the porch we would just happen to look up and spot them. Sometimes they would stay in the sky for a long time without moving before finally fading out. Other times they would seemingly trade places with one another or perform directed manoeuvres. They would be a mix of colours – mainly silver, white or black. We would always try to question what we were seeing and rule out mundane explanations such as balloons. They would sometimes sit still for too long. On one occasion one of them remained in the same spot for over five minutes. We were also sure they were objects in the atmosphere. We didn’t own cellphones with good cameras back then as we were broke. There may have been a camera in the house but we never bothered trying to film them, probably due to the distance they were at.” Due to the regularity of the sightings It is certainly possible that some of the objects seen were down to drifting balloons, especially due to their apparent small size and rolling movement. However there are some interesting aspects including the fact that they would sometimes hover still for extended periods of time. This suggests that in some cases they were actual controlled objects which were being flown repeatedly in the area. Abduction Recollection One night in the winter of 2007 / 2008 Bill had a very profound experience. It felt like an extremely vivid dream, far more vivid than anything that he’d previously recalled. He found himself in a square shaped room which was 15 foot across with a low 7 foot high ceiling. The walls and ceiling were grey in colour and covered in wiring and pipes. Around the edges of the room were cabinets with flat tops. There were strange looking devices on the tops of these cabinets which looked a bit like laboratory microscopes. Ahead of him and off to the left was an open doorway, rectangular with a rounded top. The room was lit but there were no obvious sources for this light. Bill found that he was unclothed and was sitting on the edge of a cold metallic table in the centre of the room. He looked around wondering how he had arrived in this strange room and why he had no clothes on. He was understandably un-nerved by the situation and wanted to find a way out of it. He stood up off the table and ran towards the door. Witness drawing of the initial room and the doorway he walked through Passing through it he found himself in a short corridor. It was a little taller than the room, around 9 feet. It had the same grey colouration to the walls, ceiling and floor as the room he had been in. Everything had a moulded feel to it with no sharp corners or joins. Witness drawing of the corridor The corridor headed off in both directions. With no clue as to where he was Bill decided to head to the left. He ran along the corridor. At the end it opened up into an absolutely huge open room which reminded him of an aircraft hanger. Like the initial room it was square in shape but now about 100 feet in length and width with a much taller ceiling. He noticed a blue glow coming from the floor. With no other furnishings visible in the room he ran towards this to see where the glow was coming from. There was the imprint of a square in the floor roughly 10 feet across. Alongside this was a small blue glowing square, only 6 inches wide. Witness drawing of the larger room and square on the floor Bill does not know why but he tried stepping on this lit panel of light. When he did railings emerged and ascended vertically from three sides of the larger square on the floor. He assumed the square was an elevator of some kind and so stepped onto it. Sure enough it began to slowly descend downwards into the floor. He assumed that the railings were to stop anyone falling in to the hole. Witness drawing of the elevator with raised railings The elevator slowly descended down 15-20 feet until it became one end of another long corridor. There were several doors in the walls but they had no handles or apparent way into them. Bill ran along the corridor. At the other end was a staircase going upward. He could see glowing light coming from wherever this led. He began to run along the corridor. However before he reached the staircase he heard sounds of movement coming from upstairs. Frightened of getting caught he looked for an alternative route. He noticed that the last door on the dirgjht was open so ran inside. Witness drawing of the corridor and staircase Inside there was a row of long flattened tables with a bench alongside each. It reminded him a little of a cafeteria. The room was not lit – the only light was coming from the corridor. He heard the sound of footsteps coming down the staircase behind him. With nowhere left to run he crouched down on all fours and hid underneath the furthest table from the door. Witness drawing of the line of tables in the room He saw the silhouette of a figure appear in the open doorway. Bill became even more frightened as this figure proceeded to walk across the room towards the table he was hidden under. It was clear that whoever it was had spotted him. When the figure was right alongside the table Bill realised the game was up. He slid out from under the table. Even up close it was hard to see the appearance of this individual due to the darkness in the room. Bill was only able to see the legs clearly which were clothed in a dark coloured jumpsuit of some kind. In its right hand the figure was holding what appeared to be a pole with lit wires coming out of the end of it. Witness drawing of the figure holding the implement He began to stand up and apologise for hiding. Suddenly the figure swung the implement towards him and it hit him in the chest. He immediately felt an extremely strong flash of pain spread throughout his body. Immediately he woke up in shock screaming in agony. He sat up and found he was back in his bed. He woke up Rachel and explained what had just happened. She did not dismiss it as a dream and instead, like Bill himself, felt that something more profound had taken place. After remaining awake a short while to calm down they both settled back down to sleep. In the morning Bill remembers that Rachel found a number of bruises on her body like on previous occasions. I asked Rachel about this occasion but she cannot remember it specifically, she just said that Bill would have this kind of experience extremely regularly. While it is tempting to just put this experience down to a vivid nightmare, there is the possibility that this was more than this and he was recollecting an abduction experience, either one which had just happened or one which had taken place on a previous occasion. Contact often seems far more vivid and real than dreams, exactly how Bill described. It is also interesting that Rachel discovered more bruising on her in the morning, just as with previous occasions. Descent into the Cemetery In either the spring or autumn of 2008 Bill was sitting alone in the upper floor living room of the house. Rachel was out walking the dog around the local area, and their two housemates were also out. There was a narrow band of sky visible through the window to the South. He suddenly witnessed a bright blue-white coloured light descend downwards towards Multnomah Park Cemetery, just one block to the South. However he did not think much of this at the time. Aerial map showing the proximity of Southeast Cora Street (A) to Multnomah Park Cemetery (B) Witness drawing of the light descending into the cemetery After a while he decided to go out on to the balcony for a cigarette. It was now that he noticed a blue-white coloured pulsing light coming from the cemetery. It was down low in the centre and hidden behind the trees along the Northern edge. Photograph of Multnomah Park Cemtery The cemetery was completely fenced off on all sides so there could not have been a ground vehicle inside its perimeter causing the light. And it could not have been a helicopter either as at that distance the sound of the rotor blades would have been heard. He watched the slowly pulsing light for about 3-4 minutes. At that point the phone rang and he went back inside to answer it. He did not return outside after the call ended. However when Rachel returned from her walk he discovered that she had seen the same thing too, but at much closer proximity. Here is what Rachel described seeing. “I was walking the dog past the cemetery when I noticed a blue glowing light coming from within it. I looked towards the light and through the gaps in the fir trees I could see a large dark object with a curved convex base hovering over the gravestones. It appeared to be about 5 feet above the tops of them and took up most of the cemetery. On the base of the object was a long strip of bright blue light. As I stood there looking at it two of our neighbours who were out walking happened to approach me. I pointed out the object with the glowing light to them and said isn’t this crazy, shouldn’t we be scared? They turned and saw it too but didn’t seem that interested by it and just carried on walking. I was surprised by how little they seemed to care. I continued to watch it for a minute before continuing walking.” Bill and Rachel discussed the incident for a good while afterwards and also told their housemates about it when they returned. One thing which bugs Bill to this day is why he did not walk or drive to the cemetery to have a closer look. He says that he is quite an inquisitive person and would usually have done this in such a situation but for some reason did not. It is quite common for witnesses to act in an unusual manner during experiences, and this might be indicative of this pattern. Blue Orb Video On the evening of 11th June 2013 Bill headed to the house of his friend "Timothy" in the area of North Mississippi, North East Portland. It was a really pleasant evening with a clear sky. He arrived between 8-9pm. As he pulled up and parked, Timothy came out to greet him. Bill was parked on the West side of the street, so as he got out of the car he was facing to the West. He noticed a blue glowing orb of light in the sky visible through some nearby trees. He estimated it was between 500-600 feet up and about 3-4 blocks away from his location. It seemed to be stationary and no sound could be heard. Realising it may be something unusual Bill quickly grabbed his Android mobile phone and began filming. Timothly also noticed the light after seeing that Bill was filming. After a couple of seconds the phone focused in on a nearby street light and the object went out of focus. He ran to a different position to try and capture better footage of it. After filming for 30 seconds he decided that it wasn’t going to move any time soon, so stopped filming and headed inside with Timothly. Below is the footage Bill took (Note: The audio has been removed to protect the identity of the additional witness): Here is a still of the orb from the start of the footage. It is quite small in size and roughly central: A still from 10 seconds into the footage after Bill has moved position. The orb is situated to the right of the upper street light: Zoomed view of the blue orb: Zoomed view with edge find: The light could not have been an aircraft as it remained stationary in the sky, and neither aeroplanes or helicopters have blue lights, they only have white, red and green navigation lights. Also Bill thinks that at that distance he would have heard the sound of jet engines or rotor blades. I asked Bill if it could have been a blue coloured LED balloon. He does not believe it was this due to the fact that it remained completely still. However it was quite a pleasant night so maybe there were very little air currents and this was the explanation. Another possibility is that it was a drone with one or more blue lights on. Drones do make a loud humming sound, but if it was several blocks away he may not have heard this. Bill agrees that this may have been the explanation. Amber Rectangular UFO Video On Chirstmas evening 2014 between 8 - 9 pm Bill headed outside to the back yard for a cigarette and to let the dog out. It was a very clear evening. He happened to look up into the sky to the North. There was only a narrow area of sky visible between the neighbouring houses and trees. At that exact moment he saw a red-amber coloured rectangle shaped glowing object come into view from the right. It appeared to be around 600-700 feet up and was brightly emitting light. Bill estimates it was about 2 feet in height, so not a particularly large object. The object was gliding really slowly in a Westward direction on a level and straight course. Bill immediately took out his mobile phone and began to film the object. After a number of seconds it drifted out of sight behind the trees. He did not run out into the front yard to see if he could spot it as he didn’t want the dog to be out of the front of the house. Photograph of the house showing the strip of sky Bill filmed the object pass across Here is the video footage which Bill managed to take: Zoomed view of the UFO taken at 1 second: Zoomed view with edge find: As you can see the object appears and moves as Bill reported. What could it have been? It was clearly not an aircraft or helicopter as these would have the standard white, red and green navigation lights visible. I first entertained the notion that it was a Chinese lantern. It was about the right size and shape for a lantern, and moved slowly on a straight course as lanterns tend to do when caught in air currents. It was also Christmas - Lanterns are often launched on celebratory days such as this. This is something which Bill suspected too. He had not seen a Chinese lantern up close at the time of taking the footage, but afterwards went and watched some lantern videos online. However there were a number of differences. Lanterns are usually a fiery orange colour and tend to flicker in brightness. The object he had seen was more reddish in colour and remained constantly lit, as can be seen on the footage. That said, this cannot be entirely ruled out. An LED balloon is another possibility. However you would expect this to be a definite clear colour like bright red or orange, this was somewhere in between. Also most LED balloons are the shape of a normal party balloon, although it would still be possible for a rectangular one to exist. I asked Bill whether he thought it could be a drone. He informed me that he owns two drones himself so knows what they look like after dark. He says that at that distance there would be a bit of wobble in the movement. Despite the fact that it is not flickering I think that the most likely explanation in this case is a Chinese lantern due to the similarities in size, shape and movement. Bill only managed to observe it for a short time so maybe the flame inside it happened to be burning quite strongly, leading to the constant brightness. It is also possible that the outer shell was dyed instead of the standard white, leading to the darker amber colour. Silver Disc In the summer of 2015 Bill worked as a security officer at The Lot at Ziddel Yards, an events area on the bank of Wilamette River. There was a food festival called “The Bite” which Bill was asked to provide head parking officer duties for. Half of the grounds were turned into a parking lot for the event. Photograph of Bill in his security guard uniform It was around 3pm on the first afternoon of the event. It was sunny and still, with a clear blue sky. Bill was at the entrance of the car park and was waving vehicles in as well as checking on the other parking attendants. Aerial map of The Lot at Ziddel Yards For an unknown reason he looked up into the sky and right at that moment realised that there was an object nearly overhead. About 1000 feet up Bill saw a silver coloured disc shaped object. It appeared to be between 20-30 feet in diameter. In the base of the object were several concentric rings which appeared to be at different levels of depth. The object moved towards his location at a fast speed and then came to a halt directly overhead! Bill loudly exclaimed “What in the fuck is that?” At this the parking attendants looked up and also saw the disc. Bill felt like it had purposely stopped to look at them. The object hovered completely motionless for 10 seconds. As soon as the initial shock of seeing it died down Bill fumbled in his pocket for his mobile phone in an attempt to video the UFO. He managed to grab his mobile and unlock it. He was about to aim it upwards and start recording when the object shot away silently to the East at an incredible speed. There was no sonic boom or whoosh of air. Within a second it had disappeared into the distance. Witness drawing of the disc-shaped UFO and its route Bill was disappointed that he had not managed to film the object, but at the same time excited about what they’d just seen in broad daylight. He asked the other attendants “Do you know how cool that was?” One of them responded saying “Yeah that was pretty cool!” But after this everyone just carried on working as if nothing had happened. Still amazed by the experience Bill called Rachel and informed her of what he had just seen. I asked Rachel if she recalled having this phone call with Bill but she did not. She said that Bill would experience things so regularly that this would not have made a huge impression on her. Due to the appearance of the object and the manoeuvres it performed there is a good possibility this was a genuine sighting of an advanced craft. The object was too large and moved much too fast to be a remote controlled model or a drifting inflatable. It was not an aircraft as it stopped still for a period of time, and was clearly not a helicopter. It was low enough to see proper detail and no rotor blades were heard. It is a shame Bill did not manage to capture the UFO on camera. This may have just been coincidental, but I have investigated many cases where witnesses have claimed that at the moment they decide to attempt to take a photograph or video the object has flown rapidly away or vanished from view. There is the possibility that its occupants knew it was about to be filmed and left the area before Bill had the opportunity to do so. Click here to go to Part 3 Copyright Dave Hodrien 2022a

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 31/08/2022 Last Updated: 02/09/2022 Note: For reasons of anonyity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses Introduction Bill Turtle first got in touch with me on 6th October 2021 via the BUFOG website contact page. When I first reached out to him via Facebook Messenger I had no idea what to expect or what would come of it. Bill has a military background, and previously worked for the US Navy as an Aircraft Maintenance Mechanic. In 1993 he experienced a UFO sighting while aboard the USS Saratoga. However this barely scratches the surface of what he had to share with me. His experiences, which go right back to his childhood, include visitations, abduction memories, many other UFO sightings (some of which he has managed to record on video), visual anomalies, body markings and even a possible alien implant. Towards the end of the investigation I was also put in touch with his ex-partner Rachel, who willingly provided additional testimonial evidence for some of the experiences. This extensive report goes over everything in depth, including many witness drawings, maps, photographs and videos. Bill’s experiences are covered in order starting from his childhood. Due to the extent of the report it has been split into four sections. A link at the base of each section will lead on to the next. Fear of the Dark Bill was born in Boston but in 1976 at the age of 4 moved with his parents and younger sister to a house on Oak Drive, Lichfield, New Hampshire. At this property he had his own bedroom, and his sister slept in an adjacent room. Aerial map of Oak Drive indicating the house Bill used to live at Bill recalls that he began to get absolutely terrified of the dark in his room at night. His mother would switch the light off in his room and he would then completely cover himself in his bed covers. He has no idea where this extreme fear came from. He recalls speaking with his sister and finding out that she did not have this fear. He was puzzled as to why she did not feel the same as he did. Modern photograph of the house Now of course many children are scared of the dark, and the usual solution would be to leave the bedroom door open with the landing light on. However Bill says that he was insistent that his door was fully closed when he went to bed. He was frightened that something was going to come into his room if the door was left ajar. When he was a little older he even asked whether he could put a lock on the door to ensure it stayed closed, but his parents refused. He does not recall asking them for a night light. There is no proof that this is anything more than natural childhood fears, however due to things which happened later on there is the possibility he was subconsciously aware of contact experiences which had taken place and then been removed from his mind. The Kids in the Tree For several years between 1977 and 1980 Bill recollects numerous repeated experiences which he claims happened roughly three times a year. During these experiences he recalls walking along Oak Drive during the night, being led by someone he trusted. This figure was humanoid and clothed, but Bill cannot recall precise details. Photograph of Oak Drive Today the South East end of Oak Drive connects to Garden Drive. However Bill informed me that back in the late 70s the road ended in a short cul-de-sac after the junction with Acorn Way. At the end of the road was a large oak tree. Aerial map of Oak Drive indicating the route Bill walked and the part of the road which used to be sealed off He remembers being led to this tree and seeing two odd-looking children sitting up in the branches. He sensed that one was male and the other female, yet they looked identical to one another. They were clothed but Bill cannot clearly remember exactly how they were dressed. Their faces were wider than normal and pudgy looking. They had very pale coloured skin, with blue eyes larger than normal. They had thin wispy hair on their heads. Witness drawing of one of the children Bill would climb up the tree and sit with them. There would be a putrid smell which he finds hard to describe. However despite the smell, he used to feel happy with the situation like he was among friends. He recalls having conversations with the children but does not remember them audibly speaking – he thinks this communication was telepathic. Witness drawing of him and the children in the tree with the older figure waiting below He cannot recall exactly what was said, but thinks that it was something profound and exciting to him, potentially complex in nature. For many years of his adult life Bill has had an interest in metaphysics and quantum mechanics, and he wonders if this stemmed from these conversations. He is unsure why he makes this connection. However he is certain this interest did not come from things his parents shared with him, he says that they were not particularly interested in science. Many years later Bill spoke with his mother asking her about his childhood. She informed him that on numerous occasions she had woken up during the night and found him in the kitchen washing his hands. When she asked him what he was up to he said to her that he had to wash his hands when he came in from outside. While his mother of course put this down to sleep walking, Bill relates this directly to his experiences with the children sitting in the tree. She informed him that after it happened several times she had actually moved the door latch to higher up on the door so it would be too high for him to reach. She says that after this she no longer found him in the kitchen at night. However Bill thinks that his experiences with the strange children continued for a good while after this until he was 7 years old. During the investigation Bill said that drawing the pictures of the children above made him feel very uncomfortable. He also said that when he thought back to the smell he had a flashback to a different memory he had never before recalled clearly, although he feels that he has temporarily remembered it before. In this memory he was standing alongside some other people who were busy loading cloth-wrapped bundles into an open storage compartment of some kind. The doors to this were open wide. The bundles reminded him of babies but they were not moving so he doesn’t think they were alive. Bill has no idea where this memory could be from or how it relates to the smell. There are many aspects of these vivid memories and Bill’s reactions to them which suggest that he experienced repeated childhood visitations. The strange children in the tree sound very much like two alien-human hybrids which have been described by many contactees over the years. Many aspects of their appearance including their pale skin, larger eyes and faces, and thin wispy hair would fit with this. Or they may have been an unusual humanoid species of some kind. The fact they spoke to Bill telepathically would fit with this. Also the strong pungent smell that Bill describes has been mentioned before in many cases (although is not always present). If these were indeed visitations by beings, it is unknown why they would choose to lead Bill out of his house and along the road to the oak tree instead of just appear in his room. Maybe this was done to make the incidents seem more like playing with other children from the neighbourhood rather than something to be frightened of. However another possibility is that the entire scenario was a screen memory and on these occasions Bill was either still in his room or even aboard a craft. If this was the case, they may have used the scenario of the oak tree as it was somewhere familiar to Bill. The other flashback he remembered in late 2021 during the investigation is also very interesting. It does not seem to be situated at the same location and seems to involve other humanoid figures. It is possible that this is a fragmented memory of a completely different contact experience. Perhaps the strong smell was present with both so his brain is making the connection, there is no way to know for sure. It is possible Bill will remember further details in due course. When I asked Bill about how the flashback felt he said “It's weird to all of a sudden remember something. But what I remember is that I have spent many times thinking about it over the years, but then forgotten about it. It's like I've been reminded of something that I have done a lot of thinking about in the past. I'm having difficulty explaining the feeling it gives me.” Snaking Light One night either age 6 or 7 Bill awoke during the night to hear a noise out on the landing. He assumed that his mother was up so got out of bed and opened his bedroom door. At this point he realised that there was nobody there and the landing light was off. He then noticed a strange light projection on the ceiling of the landing. It was blue in colouration and about 2 foot in length. It looked like a wavy snake-like shape. The light began moving along the ceiling towards his room. Upon seeing this Bill quickly shut his bedroom door and leant against it to prevent anything from entering his room. Witness drawing of the light on the ceiling He remembers leaning against the door for a while, and assumes that after this nothing happened and he got back into bed, but has no clear recollection of this. Bill confirmed that there was no window anywhere near where the glowing shape was situated, so it cannot have been something shining in from outside such as an unusual reflection off something nearby. There was also no electronic devices within the house which could have accounted for it, and he was not wearing anything which could have caused a reflection. He never saw the light again after this, and the incident remains a bizarre mystery. Rectangular UFO The first of many UFO sightings which Bill has had over the years took place in the summer of 1977 or 1978 when he was 6 years old. It was a very pleasant and warm late afternoon and he was playing out on the front yard with his neighbours "Graham" and "Steve" and his younger sister. Bill looked up into the sky and noticed a strange object at an elevation of 30 degrees moving slowly in their direction down the road from the North. He pointed it out to his friends and sister saying “What’s that?” The object was rectangular in shape with sharp edges. It appeared to be 1000-2000 feet up and 50 feet long by 10 feet tall. Its surface was covered with what seemed to be a bank of multi-coloured sparkling lights, almost like a giant moving LED panel. Witness drawing of the UFO over the front yard Everyone stared at the object for about 30 seconds as it slowly moved towards them. By now it was almost directly overhead. The object appeared to be completely silent. Bill thought it was time to call his parents. He knocked on the front door and called out. Within about 20 seconds both his mother and father came outside. As soon as his mother looked up and saw the object she was clearly disturbed by it. She said “Alright kids let’s go inside”, and then pulled Bill, his sister and his neighbours into the house, closing the front door behind them. Bill was angry at this as he was fascinated by the object. He does not know how long the UFO remained in the area for. When they were allowed back out it had vanished from sight. What could the object have been? It clearly was not a normal aircraft or helicopter. The shape of the object and lack of any wings or tail confirms this, and also his mother’s reaction to it confirms this. A hand glider doesn’t seem likely as it would have been possible to spot someone hanging under it at the height it was at. It moved on a straight and level course without descending so a parachute is again improbable. I asked Bill whether it could have been a large kite of some kind brightly reflecting the sunlight. He says that there were too many trees in the area to fly a kite. He is also convinced that the object was covered in lights not just reflecting the sun. He says that by the time of the sighting the sun was low in the sky, and the glow coming from the object was very bright and clearly artificial in nature. Many years later Bill brought up the incident with his mother, asking what it was. She initially dismissed it saying “I don’t know, it was some kind of advertising balloon or something.” Bill responded saying “If it was just an advertising balloon why did you pull us inside?” She denied doing so saying “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” It was clear that she didn’t want to discuss the incident further. I did consider whether a blimp with some kind of video display on it could have been responsible, but it seems unlikely given the shape of the object and the fact that there was no recognisable wording or images in the lights. It was also an area of low population, not the sort of location where advertising balloons would have been launched. And, as Bill says, if it was just this why would his parents have acted in such a manner? Blue-White Glow On several occasions between the age of 7-14 Bill recalls his bedroom becoming flooded in bright blue-white light during the night. He assumes that on these occasions the light was coming in through his bedroom window. He used to leave the curtains open at night as by this age he was fascinated by the stars and used to love looking out at them after dark. He does not relate these incidents with his memories of the children sitting in the tree and does not recall anything else taking place, merely the sudden bright light. Contact experiences often begin with glowing light illuminating the vicinity. It is entirely possible that the light Bill saw during these incidents was from a nearby craft hovering outside, and that they preceded visitations or abductions which were subsequently blocked out. Glowing Orbs In his childhood Bill was fascinated by the night sky and would often peer out of his bedroom window at night looking at the stars (while at the same time as continuing to be frightened of the dark in his room). One night in 1978 he was finding it hard to sleep so got up and peered out of the window. It was a very clear and still night with no clouds visible. Suddenly two glowing blue-white orbs of light appeared over the tops of the trees on the opposite side of the road travelling towards his location from the West. Bill felt that the two orbs were connected somehow, although there was nothing visibly linking them together. They appeared too big and bright for satellites, and Bill was convinced that they were in the atmosphere at an altitude of around 10000 feet, rather than out in orbit. They moved slowly and gently, different to how a normal aircraft would appear. And if they were at the height they appeared to be then other red and green navigation lights should have also been visible. Witness drawing of the orbs visible in the window The orbs slowly moved towards his house until they were lost from sight above the top of his window. He assumed that they continued on a straight course and passed over the roof of the house. He was intrigued by them but was too frightened of the dark to head outside and continue watching them. Within a year of this first sighting Bill saw the glowing orbs again! Once again they appeared from the same direction, travelled at the same slow speed and were the same colour and configuration. However this time before they reached the road they seemed to slow down and stop in the sky then ascend away into the distance, merging into the stars. They seemed to fly towards and merge with a particular group of three stars which were clearly visible. In the years following this sighting Bill used to refer to these particular stars as “his stars”. He thinks he was drawn to them because of the fact the orbs had stopped and disappeared around them. Could the pair of orbs have been the same objects on both occasions or was it merely coincidence that they looked the same? If they were the same objects then they of course could not have been bright satellites or an aeroplane as they halted during the second incident. Due to Bill’s military background I feel confident that he would be able to look back at his experiences and put them down to one or more distant helicopters if this is what they were. However he feels certain that they were something else. LED balloons were not available back in the late 70s so could not have been the explanation either, and they were the wrong colour for Chinese lanterns. Lightning Strike At some point between the two sightings of the glowing orbs Bill recalls another unusual event. One night there was a violent lightning storm. He was extremely frightened of the lightning strikes which were lighting up his room whenever they occurred. Suddenly there was a very bright white flash of light. For a moment he of course thought it was a flash of lightning which was particularly close to the house. But the light remained on, shining brightly like a spotlight through his bedroom window. Bill stared in fear at the white light for a number of seconds wondering what was taking place. When he thinks back to the incident this is the last thing he can remember happening. He does not recollect stopping looking at the light or dropping off to sleep. His next memory is of waking up in the morning. Could this have been the start of another contact experience, similar to the blue-white light he had seen on a number of previous occasions? Perhaps the memories of this experience were wiped from his mind, as often occurs with these incidents. Floating Dreams Around the same time period Bill also had several recurring dreams in which he found himself floating down the landing. The dreams always began the same way. He would be at the end of the landing outside his room and floating face down several feet off the floor. It was during the night and the landing light was off. He would be unable to lift his head up to view the landing and would just stare at the floor. He would then start to float slowly along the landing. He did not will this to happen it would just occur. He would stick his arms out like superman in an attempt to fly away but would continue drifting forward at the same speed. It was very frightening as he felt out of control of the situation. This is where the dream would end. It is interesting that these dreams occurred around the same period of time as the other incidents with the glowing lights. There is the possibility that they were either a repeated memory of the start of an abduction which had taken place, or multiple abductions which started in a similar fashion. Mother’s Sighting The strange incidents taking place around this time in Bill’s life did not only involve himself. On occasions others were involved or were key witnesses in their own right, as with the rectangular UFO incident. One evening his father took him and his sister out to a new Chuck E. Cheese pizza restaurant which had opened in the area. His mother remained back at the house. They arrived home around 8 pm. When they entered the house they found his mother in a very panicked state. She had stacked a big pile of furniture including the sofa and television in front of the big living room window. She was visibly shaken by something she seemingly seen outside. Bill’s father told him and his sister that it was time to go to bed and they headed to their rooms. In the morning his father explained to him what had happened. He said to him that his mother had thought she’d seen a glowing light move along on the opposite side of the road. He largely played down what had happened saying she had over-reacted. However Bill is certain that she would have not done this. He says his mother is a very rational lady and would not scare easily. He says that she must have been truly frightened by something to make her react in such an extreme manner. At the time Bill did not speak with his mother about what had happened, but many years later he brought it up with her. She informed him that she had seen a brightly glowing object light up the trees on the other side of the road and then come across the road to the front yard before moving upwards out of sight. Bill wanted to ask her other questions but she seemed resistant to this and quickly changed the subject. Arm Marking One day when he was 8 years old Bill noticed a red and sore patch of skin on the inside of his upper right arm. It was roundish in shape and ¼ inch across. Rather than disappear after a short period of time the marking remained. However it has faded over the years and is now barely visible. Photograph of how the arm marking looks today: Bill has no idea of what caused the marking but it was clearly quite significant or it would have healed up quite fast and disappeared completely. He cannot relate it to any particular incident that occurred around that time of his life, however there is the possibility it was contact related, and that he has memories which have been blocked out. The Circle One night when he was 11 years old Bill had a really vivid and unusual dream. He found himself walking across the road outside his house. It was dark so clearly night-time. He was a little un-nerved by this but not particularly frightened. Bill is unsure of what clothing he was wearing, but as it was night-time he thinks it might have been his pyjamas. To his right was a humanoid figure who he was following. Just like the incidents with the children in the tree he cannot recall what this figure looked like, he only knows that they were quite tall and slender. They also felt familiar to him, and he trusted them instead of being afraid of them. They walked together along about 300 feet along a gradually sloping trail which led past the edge of the house opposite to his house. The area was heavily wooded and surrounded by trees on both sides. They came to a sloped clearing in the trees covered in dry ground. The figure stopped, crouched down and then drew a 3 foot wide circle on the ground either using his hand or a short stick he was holding. Suddenly the circle of ground dissolved away. In its place was glowing blue-white light, almost like a tunnel or portal. This light appeared brighter in the centre of the circle, almost like it was emanating from this central point. The being pointed towards the glowing circle but did not say anything. Witness drawing of the figure creating the circle of light on the ground At this point the dream ended. When he came around he found it was morning time. He immediately remembered the dream in vivid detail. It had felt extremely real to him, like his senses were on high alert. It was far different to most dreams he had experienced before and he wondered what the significance of it was. After he had got dressed he decided to walk to the place he had walked to in the dream with the figure. When he arrived there he was astonished to see that there was a circle drawn on the ground at the exact position it had been in the dream, and exactly the same size! It had a small indent in the centre, like someone had traced it out using two sticks joined with a string to make sure it was precise. Witness drawing of the marking found on the ground Bill could barely believe what he was seeing. Excitedly he ran to his neighbour’s house and his friend to come and see. While they walked back to the clearing he explained what had happened during the night. When Bill showed him the circle on the ground his friend became intrigued, asking him if it was a doorway of some kind. Bill touched the marking on the ground and confirmed that it was nothing but dirt. This is a bizarre series of events. Could the incident have been nothing more than a particularly vivid dream, and it was merely coincidental that someone had drawn a circle at the same spot on the ground? Or perhaps Bill even sleep walked while experiencing the dream and drew the circle on the ground himself without realising. This explanation cannot be entirely ruled out. Yet this experience did have interesting similarities to his previous experiences with the children in the tree – like these incidents he was being led at night by a figure he could not remember the appearance of but which he trusted. Light over the Highway Every summer up until 1990 Bill would go on holiday with his family to Newfound Lake in central New Hampshire. They would stay in a holiday cottage on the Western shore of the lake. Aerial map of Newfound Lake Aerial map indicating the approximate location of the holiday cottage: In 1984/85 when Bill was either 12 or 13 years old they were on their way to the lake travelling along Highway 93 in their classic station wagon. His father was driving, his mother was in the passenger seat, and he and his sister were in the back. They were heading down the North West edge of Manchester. It was after dark and there was no other drivers near to them on the road. Suddenly a bright white light came down from the sky 500 feet ahead of the car off to the left of the road. His father immediately slammed on the brakes of the car, startled by the sudden appearance of the light. It swept across the road ahead of them and quickly moved off to the right in a North Westerly direction. It was soon lost from sight and the darkness returned. Bill asked “What was that?” His father responded saying “I think it was a UFO!” He started the car and they continued on their journey. Bill thinks that they did not really discuss the incident afterwards. He says his parents are quite sceptical of the subject and probably soon dismissed it. Bill is unsure if either of his parents actually saw an object, they may have had a clearer view from the front seat. To him it just looked like a bright sweeping light. While it may have been an advanced craft there are of course other possibilities including a meteorite coming down to a low altitude or low flying aircraft travelling at a fast speed. Beam Communication Bill also had a number of experiences while staying at the lake itself. By 1987 his family no longer rented a cottage but owned a property on Lakeview Avenue. In the summer of that year or the following year Bill was on holiday there with his family. Aerial map of Lakeview Avenue indicating the holiday home Bill’s family used to own Modern photograph of the property largely hidden by foliage At the time he had two friends, "Jeremy" and "Nicola", who lived in houses on Bumpi Road just North of their house. One evening he had walked over to Nicola’s house to hang out with them on the front steps. The sun had set and it was a dark night with no moon or stars visible. There was some cloud cover but this was hard to see due to the darkness. All of a sudden they began to see what appeared to be lines of chevrons of rainbow coloured light shooting back and forth between two clouds. These unusual beams continued going on and back off silently intermittently. Bill and his friends were dumbfounded by what they were looking at. It almost looked like there were two objects hidden up in the clouds which were “communicating” with one another by firing light beams at each other. There were up to 3 beams seen at any one time, and anywhere between 3-30 seconds between them. Witness drawing of the chevrons shooting between the clouds Bill exclaimed “What the hell is that?” Jeremy said “Oh it’s the Northern Lights right?” He had never seen the Northern Lights so had no point of reference and assumed that this must be what they were witnessing. But of course it was nothing like how the Aurora Borealis appears. After about 5 minutes the beams just seemed to stop without warning. They were mystified as to what they had just seen. Later on Bill and Jeremy discussed the incident on the way back to their respective houses. The beams were clearly artificial in nature as opposed to just lights glowing in the cloud layer, such as sheet lightning. If the beams had been caused by helicopters they would surely have remained on continuously not flashed on and off as they were seen to do, and would have looked like normal spotlights not lines of chevrons. I asked Bill if the beams could have been a display lights or lasers coming up from the ground. He is convinced that this was not the case. First of all the beams were horizontal, not angled up into the sky. And Bill says that there was no festivals or nightclubs anywhere nearby which could have been shining projections into the sky. The Dome By early summer of 1989 Bill had moved house with his family to Partridge Lane in Londenderry. He had also learnt to drive and his parents had also bought him a pickup truck. Aerial map of Partridge Lane indicating the house Bill used to live at One evening he was invited to an unauthorized outdoor party which was organised to take place in the woodland on the Western outskirts of Londonderry. He headed there around 9pm, giving his friend "Pete" a lift. As there were no roads which led right up to the location, Bill decided to park on Stonehenge Road to the North West. It was possible to drive along tracks through the woods to reach the location, but Bill was concerned that the police might show up, and if his vehicle was parked right there he would get in trouble. Pete complained at how far away they were as they then had to walk a distance to reach the party. Photograph of Stonehenge Road where Bill parked the truck It was a very pleasant evening with a clear star-filled sky. They had no flashlights with them but there was enough light from the moon to be able to make their way along Hardy Road and Trolley Car Path to reach the location in the woods. Aerial map showing where Bill parked the truck (A) and the route they walked to reach the party location (B) Photograph of the end of Trolley Car Path When they were nearing the end of the path they could see the light from the bonfire at the party. There were about 50-60 people there. Over the next half an hour Bill socialised with other party goers and had a couple of drinks. At around 9.30pm his fears turned into reality when a police car suddenly emerged out of the darkness on of the woodland tracks! Someone shouted “SCATTER!” and everyone ran off in all directions through the trees. In the ensuing chaos Bill was separated from Pete. He ran away a short distance, ducked down behind a large tree and hid. Pete ran off in a different direction. For the next 20 minutes Bill sat in silence praying the police would not walk in his direction. Luckily they were more concerned with the people who had brought cars along to the party. After a while they left the area and Bill found himself alone in the darkened wood. He thought to himself that Pete would no doubt have escaped and headed for the truck on Stonehenge Road and that he would meet him there. He managed to find his way back to Trolley Car Path and started walking back along it to the North West. As he walked something suddenly caught his eye. He looked up into the sky and was astounded to see that the entire sky looked extremely unusual. It looked almost like a glass dome with a surface of wavy white light. It was so vivid and amazing to him. He stopped walking and stood there staring up at this anomaly. It was almost like he was standing in the centre of a giant snow globe. Witness drawing of the light dome over the pathway After a while he realised he would have to keep moving as Pete would no doubt be waiting for him. He stopped looking up at the sky. Bill does not know what happened next. His next recollection was of walking up to his truck on Stonehenge Road. It was still night-time but the sky looked completely normal, and Pete was nowhere to be seen. Puzzled by the break in his memory, he got into the truck and waited a few minutes. He felt certain that Pete would have beat him back to the truck and was confused as to why he was not there. After waiting another couple of minutes before setting off for home. When he arrived and entered the house he heard the sound of his mother coming out of her bedroom. She asked him “ Why are you home so late?” He was confused by this as to him it felt like it should be between 10.30 – 11 pm. He checked the time and found out it was 12.30 am. There was between 60-90 minutes he could not account for. He thought back to the anomaly he had witnessed in the sky. There was something about it which had been really intense and beautiful. He could not explain why he was back so late and so got told off by his mother. The following morning he talked with Pete about what had happened. Pete informed him that he had reached the truck and had waited about 15 minutes for him. At this point another friend had driven by and offered to give him a lift back home. He assumed at the time that Bill had been arrested by the police and taken back to the station. Bill says the light anomaly he saw was nothing like the Aurora Borealis. The Northern Lights are usually hues of green, blue or red, whereas what he saw was shimmering bright white. Also he has seen the Aurora Borealis with his own eyes and is convinced this was something else entirely. Bill also confirmed that he had not taken any recreational drugs prior to the incident, and had only had a couple of drinks so was not drunk when it took place. It is fascinating that immediately after witnessing this anomaly Bill then seems to have experienced at least an hour of missing time. This could suggest that the unusual light he saw in the sky was in some way contact related, and led to him potentially being abducted, although to this day he has no memory of this. Twin Lights In either the autumn of 1989 or spring of 1990 Bill had another UFO sighting, again alongside other witnesses. His best friend at the time, "Luke", also lived on Partridge Lane across the street from his house. Bill would regularly hang out in the yard with him chatting and having sneaky cigarettes. One evening around 8.30pm he was there with Luke and his younger sister. It was clear and still weather, and due to the time of year the sun had already set. Bill suddenly noticed a bright white light coming from the South at a very slow speed. The area lies within a flight path for aircraft beginning their approach to Manchester airport. However Bill says that at this point the planes would still be at 10000 feet and would not have put their landing lights on, so the normal red blue and white strobe lights would usually be visible. This light was at a much lower altitude, he thinks around 2000 feet, and there were none of the usual navigation lights visible. Modern photograph of the front yard of the house As the object got nearer the witnesses could see two white lights in close proximity to one another, both attached to a single object which could not be seen clearly due to the darkness. It took 5 minutes to reach them so must have been travelling no faster than 20 mph, too slow for an aircraft. When the lit object was overhead it suddenly came to an abrupt stop. It was possible to see a solid object between the two lights but Bill was still not able to clearly make out the shape. Luke’s father had served in the military as a helicopter pilot. Luke ran into the house and excitedly grabbed his father to come and take a look. They both came back outside. Shaun pointed at the UFO and asked his father “What kind of aeroplane is that?” His dad simply said “I have no idea!” and walked back inside leaving Shaun standing there. They continued to stare up at the object wondering what it could be. After about 2 minutes it suddenly began moving again but at a different angle to its original trajectory. It was soon lost from sight over the roof of the house. Witness drawing of the lights indicating their path The object had clearly not been a helicopter as they would have heard the sound of the rotor blades, would have seen other navigation lights, and Luke’s father would clearly have recognised it. Drones were not available back in 1989 and it looked too large to be this or a remote controlled model of some kind. The following day Bill asked Luke if he could get his father to call the military. He did ask but his dad didn’t want to help. So instead Bill looked up a MUFON Investigator who lived in Londonderry and got in touch. The man sounded interested in discussing the experience with him. Two days later he and another lady turned up and interviewed him and Luke about what they’d seen. They were both asked to fill in a sighting report form and draw a picture of it. The investigators from MUFON informed them that it sounded like they’d seen something unusual. Bill does not know if a report was ever released, if it was he never saw it. The incident was probably just added to their case records. Click here to go to Part 2 Copyright Dave Hodrien 2022

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 28/02/2016 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used and certain location details have been omitted Introduction Contact is often only experienced by a single individual. However sometimes entire families can be affected by it. This is one such case from Scotland in which a mother, her two daughters and son have all had, and continue to have contact experiences. These experiences have included visitations, UFO and being sightings, psychic phenomena and many abduction related dreams. This extensive report contains many testimonial statements from the family as well as numerous drawings and photographs. Grandparent’s Visitation This case does not begin with Lisa or her siblings, it in fact begins with her father’s parents. There is a story which would regularly be told over the years at family gatherings.  Lisa’s grandmother Dorothy was the youngest of 13 children. In 1925 when she was five years old she used to share a bed with several of her sisters at the rental house which they all lived at. One night her father walked past the bedroom door and looked into the room. He was horrified to find a grey coloured figure standing next to the bed and holding one of the girl’s dolls. He shouted at the girls to get out of the room, and they all fled from the house. Despite her young age, Dorothy was able to recollect this incident and used to talk about being herded up the street alongside her sisters in her nightgown. Her parents took them to their Aunts house. They refused to ever set foot in the property again after what had taken place, and the very next day gave the key back to the landlord. Dorothy would always relate the incident to a ghost, but looking back at it Lisa wonders if it was a visitation by an ET being. This is entirely possible, especially as the figure had picked up one of the dolls, so appeared to be physically there in the room. When I spoke to Lisa’s mother Anne on the phone I asked her about this incident. She too remembers the story which her husband’s mother would mention from time to time. Below is her testimony regarding this: “Every time there was a few of the family together this story would come out. My husband’s mother shared a room with two of her sisters. They remember waking one night to find a tall dark grey figure at the bottom of the bed throwing dolls at them. They must have shouted for their dad, as he came in, got them all out of the bed and took them to some relatives in their night clothes. They never went back to the house after that, they would never go back there to live.” Contact experiences often run through multiple generations of a family. Was this experience a visitation by a Grey? If so then it is possible that Lisa’s grandmother was also a contactee. Initial Abduction In the summer of 1969/1970 when Lisa was 6/7 years old she went on holiday with her parents to Lake Windemere in the Lake District. They stayed at a caravan at White Cross Bay on the shore of the lake. Aerial map of White Cross Bay: Photograph of White Cross Bay holiday camp: One morning she awoke with a feeling of extreme nausea. Immediately the details of a very vivid dream came back to her. She had been aboard a craft hovering low above the roof of the caravan. Initially she believed it to be a helicopter completely made out of glass which she could see through, although looking back at it this of course makes no rational sense. The area she was in was oval in shape and only about 8 feet across. She found herself sitting down on a white bench-like seat, with her lower legs covered in a thick gel-like substance which filled the base of the craft. Alongside her on the bench was the 18 year old boy from the neighbouring caravan. He was being violently sick, which made her anxious. In front of them on a bucketed seat was a dark figure who she assumed was the pilot of the craft. She could not remember any details about what this figure looked like other than the fact he/she was small and was facing away from them. She did not recall communicating with either the boy or the pilot. Witness drawing of the craft interior and the caravans below: The next thing she knew, Lisa found herself looking back into the craft from the outside of it. She was not yet on the ground, but believes she was in the process of being put back. The walls of the craft were still transparent, and she could see the other boy still being sick aboard it. During the day she felt terribly sick, and shocked at how real this unusual dream seemed. She wanted to get her mum’s attention and tell her about it, but she was distracted with other friends who were there. She wanted to check the boy from next door to see if he showed any indication of illness or remembering the same as her. It was a rainy day so he did not appear outside until the afternoon. He did not seem to be ill, he just looked solemn. Due to her young age, Lisa did not have the courage to go and speak with him directly. She thought that if he could not remember anything he may think she was mad. Lisa was not able to speak with her mother in depth about what she remembered until they had travelled back home. I spoke with Anne about this incident, here is what she recalls about it: “Lisa was trying to tell me but I had friends at the caravan, and she couldn’t get my attention as much as she'd liked. I remember on the day her telling me that she was feeling sick and didn’t want anything to eat. She told me about what happened when we got back home. She told me she had been somewhere with the boy from the caravan next door, she said she’d been in a spaceship. She said the boy was being violently sick the next day. I didn’t take it all in at the time as I was distracted.” Lisa says that after this incident she would panic whenever she felt ill as it reminded her of what happened. She also says that at the time you could buy a pink-coloured chocolate bar in the shape of the Pink Panther, and for some reason this would immediately remind her of that night. She has never found out the reason for this. Taken as an individual experience, one could easily interpret this incident as nothing more than a dream, with coincidental feelings of sickness the following day. After all, Lisa saw no evidence that the boy was feeling ill the next day or could recollect the same as her. Also certain aspects such as the thick liquid in the base of the craft were very unusual. However contact experiences often come back as feeling like vivid dreams, and a feeling of nausea is commonly reported following abduction. Also there have been numerous other contact cases reported where people have been able to see out through the walls of the craft like they are invisible, such as the room which abductee Travis Walton reported entering. Regarding the pink chocolate, I do wonder if the colour was the same colour as the gel-like liquid around her legs. Again pink coloured gel has been mentioned a number of times by different contactees, there is one case from Buxton which I investigated where a woman was seen floating in a container full of a pink coloured substance. Since this initial experience Lisa has had many other contact experiences which have come back to her in a similar manner, as you will see later in this report. Nosebleed Dreams For a period of months following the incident at Lake Windemere, Lisa experienced vivid recurring identical nightmares. In these dreams she found herself in a dark environment. She could barely see anything past her own face, but it did feel like a clinical environment of some kind. She would be sitting in a reclining chair of some kind. She could see small triangles passing close to her face within two or three centimetres of her skin.  They seemed to move from the outside of both of her cheeks towards her nose.  Lisa is fairly sure that the small triangles where attached to very slim rods, as she could see the rod also move across her face.  She has no idea who was performing this procedure. During one of these dreams she remembers two very small semi-circular light coloured objects falling from her nose and then blood trickling out.  She knows that she didn't catch them in her hands, she assumes they must have fallen into a dish positioned in front of her face.  She was unaware of feeling any pain associated with this, though she did feel very anxious. Witness drawing showing the rod-like instrument, position it was placed on her face, and the small objects which dropped out of her nose: After experiencing one of these dreams Lisa would wake in a panicked state. They occupied her thoughts and she felt the need to understand their significance. She remembers asking both her mother and grandmother about the possibility of objects falling out of your nose. On one particular occasion she remembers asking her grandmother “Nan, are you sure things can't just drop out of your nose like in my dreams?” Her gran turned to her mother and asked “Anne, do you think she means adenoids?” Turning to Lisa she asked “Have you got a friend who’s just had her adenoids out?” Lisa had no idea what she meant by this and responded “No I haven’t but tell me what adenoids are Nan.” Her gran replied “I don’t really know, but I think they are up your nose.” Lisa does not remember waking up with a nose bleed after any of these dreams, though she does remember a particularly bad nose bleed which happened at school around that time. The head master had to take her home because of it. She experienced a second one the following day. Anne cannot recall too much about this, but does remember Lisa mentioning these dreams. “I remember Lisa going on about things coming out of her nose. She would ask her gran about it. It only went on for about a year. I just thought she’d been having dreams. I asked her what she thought it was. She said she didn’t know.” It is possible that these dreams were flashbacks to having one or more implants placed in her nose, possibly during the abduction experience at Lake Windemere. Implants are sometimes placed in the bridge of the nose by the ETs using a metallic rod-like instrument. There are a number of cases on record where contactees have reported having nosebleeds and these objects falling out, very similar to what Lisa dreamed about. Sleep Paralysis Contactees often report experiencing sleep paralysis, and some believe that the two are directly related, although there is substantial evidence which proves they are very different experiences. Between 1972-1976 Lisa experienced a number of incidents where she would awake in the night to find that her legs were paralyzed. They would feel very heavy like they were being pressed down against the bed. This occurred about once or twice a month. She would feel terrified that something was in the room. During these experiences she would keep her eyes tightly shut until she dropped off to sleep. She would convince herself that it was the ghost of their pet dog come to lie across the bed to keep her company. She never called out for her parents as her father would have been angry at being woken up. On one occasion when she was 9 or 10 she became aware of something standing on the left side of the bed. She initially assumed it was her mother. When she turned to look she was terrified to see a dark hooded figure looking down at her. The figure was quite short so Lisa assumed it was female. The hood hung down in folds hiding the face. Witness drawing showing the hooded figure alongside her bed: Panicking she pulled the covers up over her head. She remained there for some time before daring to peep out again. To her horror the figure was still standing there. Once again she hid and in the end must have dropped off. In the morning she was adamant that she had been awake and that there had been a figure standing in her bedroom. She told her mother about it and drew a sketch of what she had seen. Anne still remembers this but sadly the drawing has been lost. While what is described above could be considered “classic” aspects of sleep paralysis, there is the possibility that the hooded figure was a visitation by an ET being. Flying Triangle Sighting In 1978 when Lisa was 14 she and her parents witnessed a UFO from the living room window of their house in South-West Durham. It was just after 6pm. Lisa remembers that her father Leonard had just finished watching the news and was watching the following programme on TV. It was a pleasant dry and calm evening. Lisa looked out of the window to the South and noticed an object hovering above the large grassy field on the opposite side of the road. It was about three quarters of the way across the field and to the Western edge of it. The object was quite low down, about 300 feet off the ground. Witness drawing showing the triangular UFO through the window: At first glance Lisa assumed that the object was merely a helicopter. As it was rare to see helicopters in the area she continued to look as she was interested to find out why it was there. However she quickly realised that the object was not a helicopter. It appeared to be an equilateral triangle, at least 20 feet across. It was dull dark grey in colour. There were no visible markings or windows, or any lights on it. The UFO was absolutely stationary and not turning at all. Lisa was fascinated by what she was looking at, and immediately sensed that it was something out of the ordinary. She started to call for her father to come and see the object but he was busy watching TV. However she was determined so continued to call, saying things like “Dad you need to come and see this, there’s a triangular shaped thing just hovering over the field. I don’t know what it is. It’s like a flying triangle…it’s really odd. You need to see this, it’s still there!” After about 30 seconds Lisa decided to also call her mother Anne to come and see. Anne was in the kitchen doing the washing up at the time. She came on through into the living room and started to observe the object. She too was extremely confused by it. At last Leonard started to take notice of what was going on so came on over to the window. The UFO immediately had his full attention. He turned to Lisa and asked her to go and quickly fetch the telescope that she owned. Lisa left the window and ran to her room to find the scope. It took her a couple of minutes to track it down in the old toy cupboard. She was afraid that when she returned to the living room the UFO would have gone. However on returning to the room she was relieved to see that it was still present in the sky. She handed the scope to her father. A moment after he started to view the object through the telescope he began to excitedly describe what he was observing, saying “Good God, I’ve never seen anything like it! It’s like a massive fuselage, it’s like a V Bomber…but…just a massive fuselage which forms into the wings. That’s not from here, there’s no way that could hover like that, not for that length of time. That’s a UFO, there’s no doubt that’s a UFO….My god, where’s that come from?” They all continued to watch the object for about ten minutes, during which time it had not moved at all. Suddenly without warning the UFO shot away Eastwards towards the coast at an incredible speed. It was gone from sight in a split second! Leonard mentioned that it was impossible to follow using the scope. In total they had observed the UFO for between 15-20 minutes. Anne owned a camera, but would only purchase film for it when going on holiday, so sadly they were unable to take any photographs of the object. Immediately after the sighting Lisa and her parents were both excited and stunned by what they had witnessed. Soon afterwards Leonard contacted Teeside Airport to see if they could offer any explanation, but he only got a minimal response to this request. Lisa’s parents used to run their own business. The following day Lisa overheard her parents discussing the sighting with an employee. He informed them that someone else had reported seeing the same object and he had heard about it on the radio. Soon afterwards Lisa remembers seeing a newspaper article about it too, so there were clearly other witnesses. One explanation which was put forward was that the object had been a weather balloon. Obviously this was nonsense due to the way in which it had left the area, and Lisa remembers that Leonard was quite disgruntled by this suggestion. After this sighting both Lisa and her parents changed their views on extra-terrestrial life. They were all convinced that what they had seen was an advanced craft of alien origin. Lisa expected her school friends to be as intrigued as she was. While riding the bus to school she mentioned the sighting to her friends. However they were very sceptical towards what she had seen and made jokes about it. She was very disappointed that they would not take her more seriously. Determined to get them to believe her, she went on a day trip to Newcastle and returned with a copy of Eric Von Daniken’s famous book, "Chariots Of The Gods" . She tried to show her friends on the bus but they still laughed at her. After this she realised that it would probably be best if she kept quiet about the sighting or the subject in general. According to Lisa, Leonard often spoke about the incident with friends and acquaintances right up to his death in 2014. Leonard had served in the Royal Air Force and held a private pilot, so he was certainly aware that what he had seen was not an ordinary aeroplane of any kind. Anne still remembers seeing the UFO with Lisa and her husband. When I spoke with her on the phone she informed me of the following: “It was evening time, still quite light in the sky. Lisa spotted something outside through the window of the house. I came on through to take a look. I could see a V shape in the sky. It looked strange, something I had never seen before. Lisa was trying to get Leonard to come and see. In the end he did come on over. Lisa went and got a telescope. It just looked very dark grey or black in colour. It had very straight edges, quite angular in shape. There were no markings or lines on it. I never saw it through the telescope. I thought it was something strange, I didn’t put a title to it. I couldn’t understand what it was or how it stayed in the same position. I looked for about thirty seconds and then went back into the kitchen.” Due to the appearance of the object and the incredible manoeuvre it was seen to perform from a stationary position it is likely that what Lisa and her parents observed was a Flying Triangle, one of the more commonly reported types of UFO. While some believe these to be secret craft operated by the military, I have dealt with and heard of other cases where they have been directly linked with ETs and abductions. Premonitions Since early childhood Lisa has felt that she is very intuitive and sensitive towards other people’s thoughts. She finds it very draining to be among crowds and tries to avoid situations such as this as much as possible. Being among so many people can sometimes lead to migraines. She can usually pick up a lot about a person very soon after meeting them for the first time. One night in 1983 Lisa had a strange dream. In this dream she watched as grave diggers dug a grave for her grandmother Susan. In the morning when she awoke she felt unsettled but put it down to nothing more than a nightmare. At about 10am her father received a phone call. It was the neighbour of her grandmother. They informed him that Susan’s curtains were still closed. Her father drove around to the house and discovered that Susan had passed away in the night. Anne remembers Lisa telling her about the dream shortly before finding out about Susan’s death: “In the morning Lisa told me about a dream – something about a cemetery, things happening in a cemetery relating it to her gran. Soon after we got the news that nobody was answering the door around her house. It felt very strange.” Later the same year something extremely similar happened. Lisa dreamt that her elderly uncle came to her and said that he was in heaven now drinking beer, and it was only a penny a pint. She told her mother about the dream when she awoke. Soon afterwards the family were informed that her uncle had passed away the previous night. Again Anne has the following to say about this incident “Lisa had had a dream and in this dream her uncle had been saying it was very nice up in heaven and beer was only a penny a pint. He was very frugal so that made sense. Quite soon afterwards, could have been the following day, we found out her uncle had died.” To have a dream of someone dying just before it actually taking place is interesting enough, but for it to happen twice within the same year seems unlikely to be coincidental. It appears that Lisa may have certain psychic abilities. This is very commonly reported by contactees and there appears to be a direct link between this and contact. There is also signs that one of Lisa’s daughters, Gemma, may possess psychic abilities. In 2014 she asked Lisa to take her to school by car so she would not have to take the bus. When Lisa asked her the reason for this she said that she does not want anybody to know what she is thinking about. Lisa asked her why she believes they would be able to do this and she replied “Well, because I know what they are thinking.” Lisa has also informed me that Gemma can sometimes see coloured auras around individuals, and can sometimes literally see through people. Beam of Light By 1988 at the age of 24 Lisa had got married and moved into an upstairs flat. Thinking back to this time Lisa has a strange recollection which seems more like an actual memory than a dream. Here are Lisa’s own words on what she remembers: “I was in the front court yard near to the front gates. It was day time, my father was also there. I was bent down, kind of sitting on my heels, and I seemed to be feeling about on the ground for something, or maybe I was using my hand against the ground to steady my balance, I am not sure.  I remember looking into this intense beam of white light, similar to bright sunshine, though much more intense. My father was just standing there, looking on dreamily, sort of on the edge of it. I do not know if he was on the inside of the shaft of light or the outside, it was hard to tell as everything looked so bleached of colour.  The beam was probably five or six feet in diameter. It was hurting my eyes to look up and my faculties seemed to be slowed and dulled.  I have no memory of anything after that image.” Ever since this time of her life Lisa has had recurring dreams in which her whole body is electrically charged. During these dreams she feels herself being dragged through the air by an electrical force which seems to focus around her chest and pull her upwards. On many occasions she wakes up in a panicked state with her body almost buzzing with static electricity, and is relieved to find herself in bed. It is possible that the bizarre recollection of the beam of light is a flashback to the start of an abduction experience. Lisa says that she informed her father about it, but he clearly has no recollection of anything taking place. However it is possible that he was “shut down” during this experience, something which has been reported many times before. This could explain why he has no memory of anything taking place. Perhaps the dreams which have followed this until the present day are memories of being taken up into craft, either on this occasion or on later occasions. Missing Time In 1992 when Lisa was 28 she, her husband Simon and 2 year old daughter Dawn moved to live in Estepona, Spain for a year. Simon’s boss owned a large residence in the outskirts of Esteopona on the A-7 coast road. In the gardens of this residence were a number of holiday cottages. In May Simon had to travel with work for several days, and his boss offered Lisa the chance to stay in one of the cottages in exchange for help in the gardens. On the Saturday morning Lisa did several hours of weeding on the front driveway of the residence. It was a warm sunny day so perfect weather to be outside. After lunch she put Dawn down for a nap. Later in the afternoon at around 4.30pm she decided to walk into Estepona with Dawn to get pizza for dinner at the harbour. The walk to Estepona took about 30 minutes. It was a very quiet walk along the edge of the road which hugged the coastline. There were not many pedestrians around but there was regular traffic on the road and very pleasant surroundings. Aerial map showing the A-7 coastal road leading to Estepona: Modern photograph of the road showing the typical surroundings. Lisa says the area has become far more developed since she was there: They arrived at the pizza restaurant about 6pm and ate dinner outside in the sunshine. Afterwards they immediately set back off home to the cottage. Lisa thanked the waiter, left the table and set off towards the coastal road. The next thing she became aware of was of being back in the living room of the cottage. It was very dark. She had no memory of how she had arrived back home at all. She stood there with a truly surreal feeling of confusion and strangeness. She looked around in the darkened room for a clue about what was going on, and found Dawn standing next to her quietly. All of a sudden her mind kicked back into action. She put the light on and looked at the travel clock. She was shocked to find that it was now 9.30pm. She could not understand where she and Dawn had been for the last few hours. She frantically attempted to think back to what had taken place, but could not recall anything. The strangeness of the situation sank in and she began to feel a little frightened. Lisa put Dawn to sleep and then tried to settle down herself but could not. She felt terrible and her mind was continuously trying to work out what had happened. She could barely wait for the morning to arrive. The following day she was still feeling distressed so decided to leave the cottage a day early and head back home. She was planning to call for a taxi when Simon’s boss turned up to see how things were going. He explained to her that he had come to the cottage during the evening, and when he had found it empty he had become a bit concerned. He asked her where she had been. Lisa just stood there dumbstruck. She didn’t really know how to explain what had happened so simply said “I don’t really know, the time was all wrong.” She could tell he was confused by this response, but didn’t know what else to say. She managed to tell him that she wanted to head back home, making the excuse that Dawn was not feeling well. Rather than call a taxi, Simon’s boss offered to drive them back himself. Lisa’s confusion remained and she found it hard to concentrate on anything else. She also noted that Dawn was also quieter than she would usually be. Later in the day once she was back home she rang her mother about what took place, and when Simon returned home she went over everything with him too. Lisa says that in the months following this incident the feeling of her body being electrically charged at night intensified, and on many occasions she woke up feeling exhausted even though she was getting enough sleep. It seems clear that Lisa experienced several hours of missing time. Dawn was too young to properly discuss what had happened during this time, yet must have also experienced it. It is unlikely that she got the time wrong and left the restaurant later than she thought she was because she knows she set off for Estepona around 4.30pm and that the journey time on foot was about 90 minutes. Lisa is also aware that they left the restaurant straight after the meal. Also the fact that Simon’s boss came round to find the cottage empty during the evening shows that they were missing at that time, much later than they should have been back. It had been a bright sunny day which involved lots of walking and outdoor activities. Could Lisa have suffered from heat stroke and collapsed for a while before getting back up in a daze and walking back home? This seems pretty unlikely for a number of reasons. She was not feeling unwell when she set off back to the cottage, if she was about to collapse it is likely she would not have felt right beforehand. If she did collapse then surely someone would have spotted her with Dawn standing alongside her? While there weren’t many pedestrians around Lisa says that there were cars driving along the road. And even if she had been dazed when she got back to her feet she would surely have been able to remember something, no matter how hazy. Yet the memory of how she had returned home was completely gone. Lisa also noticed that Dawn was acting strangely and was quieter than usual. Even though Dawn was too young to confirm why she was acting this way, it is possible that she was affected by whatever had taken place. Given Lisa’s many other contact experiences, it is certainly possible that she and Dawn were abducted while walking back along the coastal road, and were then returned back to the cottage where they were staying with the memories of the experience blocked out. This is an extremely commonly reported aspect of contact, so even though no craft was seen and Lisa had no other indication she had been taken this is still worth considering. Missing Baby In 1995 Lisa found she was pregnant. The pregnancy was progressing well and there were no concerns. He was going for regular check-ups and scans. However when she was 14 weeks pregnant the baby seemed to have disappeared overnight. She woke in the morning immediately sensing that she was no longer pregnant. Lisa kept telling herself that she must be wrong. Her work skirt had not been fastening properly because of the baby. She decided to put it on to prove to herself that she was mistaken. But when she did to her horror the skirt fastened up. She knew that it had not the day before. She contacted her doctor, who attempted to reassure her that it was unlikely she had anything to worry about, as there was no sign she had had a miscarriage. The doctor arranged for her to have a scan at the hospital. The person performing the scan paused before asking "Are you sure about your dates?"   When Lisa confirmed that she was very sure, she then said "You must have lost the pregnancy." Lisa could not make sense of what had happened, as she felt certain she had been pregnant 24 hours previously, and she had definite confirmation that the baby was there on her most recent scan, which had taken place the previous week. At the time she had no choice but to accept this explanation. However she now wonders whether the baby was taken from her by the ETs. While this may seem like an extreme explanation for what happened it is still worth considering. Lisa was going for regular scans and was also aware that her dress had not fastened correctly on the previous day. It is possible for babies in the early stages of development to pass away and get re-absorbed into the uterus, however at 14 weeks it seems unlikely this would have happened entirely in such a short space of time. Driving Mystery By the winter of 1999 Lisa had separated from her first husband and living with her mother. She had recently started to see her present husband Gavin. Due to the time of year and the fact that the road home from her work place would be quite lonely, Gavin used to regularly meet her in his own car about 8.30pm and then escort her home to the top of the road which her mother’s house lay on. One evening they were on their way back home like usual. It was fully dark but the weather was fine. Lisa was suddenly shocked to find the car moving along the road but with the engine switched off. The car did not slow down at all, she merely felt for the ignition key and restarted it. She felt that she must have had a temporary lapse in concentration and that something was wrong with the car. She immediately looked ahead for Gavin to flag him over and inform him that her car may be playing up. But when she looked she could no longer see his car ahead of her, or in the rear view mirror. This was bizarre as she was on a long straight road at the time. She reached the roundabout at the top of her road. There was still no sign of Gavin’s car so she turned off and headed for home. Anne was already in bed, so she too went off to sleep. In the morning Lisa informed Anne about what happened. Anne was surprised as it was not at all like Gavin to leave Lisa to travel home on her own. Later on Lisa met up with Gavin and brought it up with him. Upon hearing her story Gavin became very confused. He said that he was sure her car was right behind his right up until the roundabout. This clearly contradicted what Lisa recalled taking place. It all seemed extremely strange. There is no evidence that this incident involved contact but it is unusual so it has been included. Gavin seemed adamant that he remained ahead of Lisa right until she reached her road. Could she have somehow not noticed his car ahead of her? Maybe she stalled the vehicle and so Gavin was a short distance further ahead than he would usually be and was lost from sight due to the darkness. Or could there have been some kind of mix up involving another car, where Gavin began driving ahead of a different car mistaking it for Lisa’s car? We are unlikely to ever know for sure. Early Signs Lisa’s second daughter Gemma was born the following year. By 2004 the family had moved to a remote area of Scotland. It was around this time that Gemma became a vegetarian overnight. One morning she told her mother that she could never eat meat again. Below are Gemma’s comments on this. “My mum tells me I ate meat regularly up until the age of 4 years old. I have one vivid memory from when I was very young. I was point blank refusing to eat the meat my mum had cooked for me. My mum kept telling me if I didn't eat it, I wouldn't be allowed to go with my dad to feed the neighbours fish. I repeatedly told my mum I just couldn't eat it. Since then, meat has never been an option at all for me.” You may wonder why this has been mentioned in the report. Quite often contactees develop strong feelings towards protection of the environment, which often leads to them becoming vegetarian. Obviously it cannot be said for certain that this was related, but it is a sign that perhaps Gemma was experiencing contact from this age and possibly even before. Two years later at the age of six Gemma developed a profound interest in outer space. She became obsessed with watching the night sky and would regularly ask to be taken outside to look up at the stars. Here is what Gemma has to say about this: “For many years, from an early age the sky in general fascinated me. I remember pleading with my parents, begging them to take me up this hill just passed our village to watch the night sky. It was pitch black when we would climb up with our head torches hoping to catch a glimpse of any movement above us. If we happened to see either the Northern lights or a shooting star, I would shake uncontrollably with excitement. I remember it being about four in the morning when I was still begging my parents to take me out one last time before I went to bed. Ever since I was younger I have had this habit of having to stand against a wall or have something behind me when I am in the dark because I feel like someone is behind me. I am still fascinated by the sky and seem to know instinctively when something is there before I even look, whether that be a plane or helicopter etc.” Again contactees regularly report having a fascination with the stars, which is possibly a subconscious knowing that this is where their contacts have come from. Owls As a child Gemma loved to play with Sylvanian Families animal figurines. Among these toys were a family of owls. Lisa remembers a number of times where Gemma told her that when she was in bed at night full sized owls which looked like her toys would sit on top of her wardrobe and fly across the bedroom. Photograph of the Sylvanian Families owl family: Below is Gemma’s testimony regarding these experiences: “The owls I witnessed in my room were not real animal type owls. I had Sylvanian Families when I was younger and had a family of owls. I remember telling Edward, my brother, I had seen the owl ‘mum and dad’ sitting on top of my wardrobe then flying across my room. I don't remember what age I was exactly, but I had Sylvanian families in my room from about five/six to about ten years of age. I remember seeing this about twice.” The Greys often utilise “screen memories” to mask their true appearance, so that the contactee remembers seeing something else entirely. They regularly seem to choose appearances that will be familiar to the individual, perhaps in an effort to reduce the fear of the situation. It is possible that these incidents were visitations, and that the beings had taken this form to put Gemma's mind at ease. It is also worth noting that many contactees have reported seeing normal looking owls, and this is one of the forms that the beings will sometimes take. Family Contact From 2006 onwards there are signs that Lisa, both of her daughters Dawn and Gemma, and her son Edward have independently experienced contact seemingly involving visitations by beings and sometimes detailed abduction recollections. Gemma began to develop headaches and would wake up with nose bleeds.  One week she had a nose bleed every day for an entire week. On a night soon afterwards during the early hours she came into Lisa’s bedroom clearly distressed.  She told Lisa and Gavin that she and Edward had been exploring a rocky terrain with small alien creatures. Here is Gemma’s testimony regarding this: “I remember very clearly waking up with nosebleeds a lot when I was younger. I remember one week I had them several times every day. I remember the night of the dream, waking up in a lot of distress and going through to my mum’s room to tell her about it. My dad was away at work at the time so I slept with my mum for the rest of the night. I remember the dream very clearly. Myself and Edward, who was about 4 at the time, were in this rocky, unearth-like terrain surrounded by stalagmites. There were small alien beings with us, who carried small pistol like devices. On multiple occasions Edward informed Lisa that he had seen figures standing next to his bed during the night. He said that they would reach out and touch the top of his head while he was lying down. Below is Edward’s testimony regarding these incidents: “I would usually see one or two figures. Sometimes it was before I dropped off to sleep and at other times I would wake up and know they were there. Sometimes I wouldn't see them, but they would put images into my head so as not to frighten me. It was usually dark but I could still make out their big eyes, no nose, instead they just have like small nostril holes and the shape of their heads, they were heart shaped without the dip at the top. I could just see the outline of their bodies, I think four feet or smaller. I did not shout out because as soon as I felt afraid they would cause me not to be able to shout. I always intended to shout the next time they came, but I never could. Even though I sometimes felt afraid I never felt they were there to hurt me. I can remember them being there vividly about four times or so when I was little, but I know it has been loads of times. They did speak to me through my mind, but I can't remember exactly what they said, it was more "knowing" and I knew what I had to do.” Frequently Lisa would wake up in a panicked state, certain that something was there in the bedroom. Often she would feel as though she had just been dropped back into bed and could feel a buzzing vibration racing through her body as well as the bed. On these occasions she would keep her eyes tightly shut as she did not want to see whatever was there.  She would have fragmented dreams where she found herself in a learning environment, and would regularly suffer from strong headaches. When Edward was seven years old he told Lisa how he had woken in the night and come into her bedroom. When he did so two beings came from the side of the room and reached out to grab him. He said he was terrified when he had seen them and he had tried to turn and run back out into the hall, but the bedroom door had shut behind him. He then showed Lisa how he had tried to avoid them by curling up in a ball behind the door. He said he then woke up back in his own room. Edward cannot recollect this incident in much detail but here is his testimony regarding it: “Gemma and mum remember me telling them about this happening, though I can't remember it very well now.  I remember I would sprint between rooms and slam the doors behind me. Mum would tell me off for doing this, but I would see images in my head and I knew they were there, and the faster I moved the less likely I thought they would be able to take me.  I always thought one of them looked like a lion and I remember seeing it in mum's room.” The description of the lion-like being in this particular incident is very interesting. It is possible that this being was using a screen memory to mask its appearance, perhaps to appear less unusual, but if so why did only one of the beings appear in this way? Another possibility is that the lion-like being was displaying its true form. There are a number of contact cases on record where people have met with feline-like beings. These cases are quite rare but they do exist. Could this have been one of these? As you will see, this would not be the last time which he would encounter this being. Hooded Figures One day in either the autumn/winter of 2008 Lisa had the evening to herself. Gavin was out at work, Dawn was out with friends and both Gemma and Edward had gone to bed. She sat watching TV for a while. Dawn came home and after speaking briefly went up to bed. Soon afterwards Lisa also decided to head on up to get some sleep. It was between 10.30-11pm. She had only been lying down for a short while and felt very much awake. She could hear Dawn still moving around in her room. Lisa was lying on the left hand side of the bed facing the window. As on many other occasions she left the curtains open to look at the night sky. With her eyes still open, Lisa rolled over and as she did moved across onto the other side of the bed. Immediately she was shocked to see three figures step out of the darkness towards the lower right corner of the bed. They were all wearing dark robes with hoods that hung over their faces, similar to the figure she had seen when she was 9 or 10. Two of the figures were about 4.5 feet tall. The third figure stood behind them and was about a foot taller. Witness drawing of the three hooded figures: Lisa was immediately filled with absolute terror. She began to scream out “No! No!” and jumped up out of bed, running out onto the landing through the open doorway, hitting the light switch to the bedroom as she did. In fear she ran several steps away from the bedroom along the landing. She suddenly stopped, and as she did an instant feeling of calmness came over her. All she could think was “You must stop this behaviour. You’ll frighten the children!” She calmly called out “Sorry Dawn, I think I saw a spider!” She then walked back into the bedroom. The figures were nowhere to be seen. She switched off the light and got back into bed, and remembers nothing more taking place. Lisa is still mystified why she went back to bed after what had happened. The following morning she felt deeply unsettled, even afraid. She felt that the figures had been ghosts and that the house must be haunted. She discussed what she had seen with Dawn. Dawn informed her that she had felt dizzy and unable to move from her bed at the time. However she had heard her mother shout out and heard her footsteps as she ran along the hall. There are a number of very interesting aspects to this experience. There are a number of cases on record where people suffering from sleep paralysis have seen shadowy figures in their room and felt extreme fear. However it is clear that Lisa was not paralyzed at the time of seeing the figures as she immediately jumped up out of bed and ran out of the room. The fact that Dawn remembered hearing this happen proves that it was not just a nightmare and she had physically reacted to something. Also there are signs that Dawn may have been under some form of control at the time, perhaps to prevent her from interfering with whatever was taking place. It is also possible that Lisa was under control, she cannot understand why she would have re-entered her room after leaving it, it was as if the fear of seeing these figures in the room was completely removed. It is very common for contactees to act in an unusual manner during experiences, they often become complacent to what is taking place exactly how Lisa describes. The entities were of different sizes, perhaps indicating that Lisa was visited by two different “types” of being, although she could not see their features so there is no way to determine this. I have investigated other cases where people have reported seeing ETs wearing dark hooded robes, again suggesting contact took place. Surgery Recollection In 2010 Edward had to undergo emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. Lisa says that in his first conversation after the surgery he began to talk of travelling in a space craft high above a forest at incredible speed. He said that he was among strangers and desperately wanted to return home to his parents. Here is what Edward recalls about this incident: “I remember waiting to go into surgery to have my appendix removed.  Mum and dad were talking to me and I knew everything that was going on. I remember the doctor put the mask on to make me fall asleep and then I remember it all going white. Straight afterwards I found myself in mum and dad's bedroom and I was talking to a tall man, but I can't remember what was said.  He was wearing a large suit, it had a really big collar and it was pulled up to cover his face.  He also had a porkpie hat on. The being which reminded me of a lion was also there with him. Next I found myself on a space craft, I was in an empty room which was curved. I remember the middle of the craft was an empty space and there were control panels all around the edge.  I don't know how I knew they were control panels, I just knew. The whole of the inside of the ship glowed purple. The window was a large curve, it went about an eighth of the way round the ship and I was alone and looking out of it. The craft was flying very fast and very low over tree tops, I could see trees for miles, I felt we were flying so low, I could have touched the leaves, I remember looking down and I just knew they were oak trees. Next I remember being with people who were strangers, I thought they were old because they were small. I think there were three or four of them and I kept asking if I could go home to mum and dad. I'm sure this was not a dream and I'm sure I was on that space ship, it was so real and I still remember it so clearly. As soon as I woke up I felt fine and wide awake and I told my mum straight away.” Even though Edward feels certain he was not dreaming, this cannot be fully ruled out due to the fact that he was unconscious and undergoing surgery at the time. There is no sign that he was abducted while in the hospital, and it seems unlikely that this would happen without anyone becoming aware of his absence. However there are other possibilities worth considering. Perhaps this experience was not a dream but was in fact a memory of a previous abduction experience which had now come back to him. There is also the possibility that this was what is known as a meta-physical abduction. This is where the individual appears to have undergone a contact experience but has clearly not physically been taken. Lisa has also considered the idea that this was a near death experience, and that the ETs somehow saved Edward’s life. The surgery was apparently quite dangerous and something not everyone pulls through. Realisation By 2013 the family had moved to the West coast of Scotland. One day Lisa watched a documentary about alien abduction. She was amazed by what she saw. Lisa has the following to say about it: “I remember being stunned by this documentary. It left me fascinated and I could not get the idea out of my head that I could relate to so much of it. The more I thought about it the more everything just added up, not just for myself, concerning the kids as well. It was as though the penny had finally dropped with regard to years of strange events and being puzzled over them. I suppose everything just seemed to fit into place, almost as if it was meant to do so. I realised there are other people out there who have had and continue to have very similar experiences. Of course I had moments of "No, surely not....?"  Yet I could relate to this phenomena in a way which seemed to be second nature, as though ‘yes! I know what they mean inside out’. It was almost effortless for me to understand and I began to watch more documentaries of this nature, looking to compare my experiences with others. I think far from feeling afraid, I almost felt liberated after years of experiencing phenomena I was unable to understand. I was now beginning to develop a new understanding which I am very grateful for.” Lisa decided from this point onward to keep a log of anything unusual which took place. It was good that she decided to do this because in the following years the amount of contact experienced by the family increased further. Passing Tests Throughout 2013 Lisa experienced a number of dreams in which she was in a learning environment with other people. One dream in October stood out in particular for her. She was in a row of people seated alongside one another. They were sitting at computer devices moulded onto curved white tables. These tables were situated in a long curved and narrow room. She did not recognise the people around her, but they seemed familiar to her. Most of them were female. Witness drawing of the row of seated people using the devices: Everyone was there to learn. Some had already passed their tests while others were working towards passing them. Somebody in charge told her that she had passed her tests. It felt to her like she had been working towards them for many years, so could barely believe what she was being told. The people around her congratulated her. Lisa cannot recall what the person in charge looked like and whether or not they were human. Travelling Aboard Craft One morning in January 2014 Gemma came downstairs and informed Lisa that she had had an amazing experience. Something had stirred her from her sleep during the night. She felt certain that she was wide awake. Edward was sleeping on a mattress in her room at the time as his was being redecorated. Gemma checked her brother and found he was still asleep. She had a strong feeling that they were not alone in the room. Looking to the front of the room she was shocked to see three beings staring at her and Edward. There was a fourth on the landing visible through the open bedroom doorway. Gemma immediately sensed that they were telepathically communicating with her as well as with each other. A sensation of calmness came over her and she rolled onto her side. The next thing she became aware of she found herself aboard a craft. She informed Lisa that the beings had taken her to see a number of things including the International Space Station and two stone pyramids at different locations on Earth. She was also shown a number of star maps. One of these had a small group of stars and a planet indicated on it, which she believed to be their home. The beings pointed out this group of stars through the window. She was only able to make out six stars, but the map appeared to have at least two more on it. Throughout proceedings the beings spoke with her telepathically and appeared to be interested in her responses. In the morning when she was getting ready she discovered two small cuts or burns on her lower lip. They were tender and had a burnt taste to them. She felt certain that they had not been there the previous evening. While Gemma was informing Lisa about what she remembered, Lisa’s eldest daughter Dawn rang up to say she had seen something during the night! She said that she had awoken and realised she was being watched through the bedroom window by numerous figures. She instinctively sensed that these figures were not human and that they were there to take her away. She did not panic, and was more upset by how tired she was at being woken in the middle of the night. This was the last thing she could recall happening. Below is Gemma’s extensive testimony of what took place: “I remember this really clearly, this was not a dream. I woke up in the middle of the night and felt the presence of something in the room. I remember three tall, bald headed beings wearing black suits stood in front of my bed, and another one, the exact same stood on the landing outside my bedroom. They all looked pretty much identical. The being on the landing kept looking into my room then would look down the stairs. It was hard to tell how tall they were, I'm 5ft7ins and I believe they were a few inches taller than me. They had very broad shoulders, the suit arms seemed unreasonably long and they were very pale skinned. I was afraid to look and at this point I realised they were putting images into my mind so I was able to see what they were doing and what they looked like. I felt them telling me to go back to sleep and I didn't question them being here at all as if it felt normal. I turned over and went back to sleep. The next thing I knew I was on board a craft. I was by the window sitting on what must have been a chair or stool. I can't remember what I was wearing. One of the beings seemed very familiar and I felt I had a real connection with him. He seemed very interested in my emotions and I would catch him watching me often. I've met him since and feel some sort of connection as if he could be like a brother to me. I felt as if the other beings did not know how to express emotions although I didn't find them scary at all. The craft felt very big and the interior was curved. I remember inside the craft seemed very bright and clear. I don't know where the light was coming from. There were some sort of desks, where beings were sat getting on with their own work on computer like devices. They all looked the same as the others although I didn’t pay as much attention to them. One particular being communicated and stayed with me throughout the experience while others carried on with what they were doing, although I felt they were all very interested in my responses. I knew this was not a room on Earth as I would find myself observing things from above and then from space. I didn't feel scared at all, I was amazed at what I was getting to see and it almost felt sort of natural. I felt instinctively, that this whole trip was a treat. Throughout the whole trip, I was constantly being fed information although I don't remember a lot of it. I was taken to see the space station and the view was really clear. We hovered, near enough that the view was really clear. Some of the information given to me was an explanation of how they travel and where they come from. I was shown maps of the moon, and told what happened in certain areas of the moon but I remember very little about that. I was shown a picture of a constellation and told this is where they were from. I cannot remember what this looked like but I drew a picture of it the next day and gave it to my mum but she has lost it and is still trying to find it. I was also shown a map like thing which showed different vortex like tunnels going from different locations on the Earth's surface to different locations in space. I was told that certain people on Earth are aware of these routes and also know that aliens are regular visitors to this planet. They told me to tell my friends that they are here but I haven’t done so yet because I'm worried about what their reactions will be. The craft felt as if it was stationed because it kept the same pace as the space station. Whenever the craft began to move, I knew I was to sit down as they told me telepathically we were moving too fast. All communication was telepathic. It seemed if I had any questions, they would be answered before I asked them like they knew what I was thinking. When we went to see the pyramids, I don't remember the travelling part, I just remember being there. Both pyramids I went to see were flat topped and seemed to be located quite high up. One of the pyramids I saw was in a very isolated area of what I believe to maybe be China. It was high above the regular tree height and it was surrounded by mist which was rising out of the forest. I don't really know why I feel as if this pyramid is undiscovered, that's just the feeling I got from it. There didn't seem to be any way to get up to this pyramid from the ground. There were no other people here. The second pyramid I went to see was similar but clearly a tourist attraction. It was high up above trees again but I remember no mist and it was definitely in a different location. We seemed to get closer to this one as I could see tourists below us very clearly. I remember a blonde girl with a green backpack observing the pyramid, then turning round looking straight at us. Her facial expression never changed, she showed no shock or confusion. It was basically as if she could not see us. Both pyramids also had a square base. I’m not sure what distance we were from the pyramids but it was close enough to see what was going on clearly. The last part of the journey I remember before waking up was seeing the blonde woman on the pyramid steps looking up at us. The next thing I remember is waking up and going down stairs to tell my mum what had happened during the night. I really believed I had experienced this through the night as everything felt so real. The day after, I had sore burn like marks on my bottom lip. They were brown indentations and they tasted burnt as well. I do not remember anything happening to my lip during the trip, but the marks were not there before I went to sleep that night and they remained there for about two or three days after. In the middle of explaining to my mum, my sister phoned to tell her what had happened to her the same night. She said that whilst in bed, she had seen figures outside her window and that she instinctively knew they weren't human and they were there to take her away. Her immediate response was “Oh no, not tonight, I'm shattered and I just want to stay in bed”. Gemma’s recollection is very detailed and it may be hard to believe that this was nothing more than a vivid dream. However it is important to remember that prior to the recollection of being aboard the craft Gemma experienced a visitation and felt that she was wide awake. We have to take into account that on the same night her elder sister also appears to have experienced a visitation. Perhaps she too was taken but had the memories of this blocked out. Regarding the initial appearance of the four beings, Gemma was clearly not experiencing sleep paralysis at the time as she was able to move freely and look around the room, so I believe this can be excluded as a valid explanation for what took place. I sent Gemma a number of photographs of flat-topped pyramids in an attempt to locate either of the ones she had seen. She says that one of them looked similar to the below photograph, which is a stepped Mayan pyramid located in Mexico. However she says it was not this particular one which she was shown, the one she saw appeared to be at high altitude and surrounded by jungle. There was also the small wounds on her lip which seemed to have appeared during the night. Unfortunately neither Lisa nor Gemma took a photograph of these markings. But could these have been from an examination procedure which Gemma is currently unaware of? Here is Lisa’s testimony about the markings: “The burns/cuts on Gemma's lip were very visible. There were two of them, each about half a centimetre long (vertically) and about a centimetre apart just inside her bottom lip. Gemma complained about them all day, she constantly checked them and puzzled over how they got there. I think it took a couple of days for them to be gone completely.” Many aspects of the experience certainly fit in with other contact cases I have investigated or heard about over the years, including the appearance of the beings and the craft surroundings and the way in which she was shown star maps. Taking these facts into consideration it is certainly possible that Gemma was abducted and this incident took place as she recalls it. (Continued in Part 2 ) Copyright Dave Hodrien 2016

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 28/02/2016 Last Updated: 23/06/2020 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used and certain location details have been omitted Continued from Part 1 Unexplained Lights Later in the month Lisa unfortunately broker her ankle so had her leg in plaster. The house was undergoing renovation at the time so her and Gavin’s bed was temporarily set up at the back of the living room. Lisa woke up during the night in extreme pain. She looked down at her foot and was surprised to see a blue coloured beam of light projected vertically down onto it. The beam had clearly defined edges and was about an inch across. Suddenly the pain seemed to dissipate completely and the beam of light went out. She then realised that the staircase was lit up in an extremely bright light coming in through the window. She was used to the brightness of the outside security light, but this was something else entirely. She could not see the source of this light and did not go and investigate due to the plaster around her leg. Looking down the bed she saw that her pet dog had not stirred. Lisa says this in itself was unusual as he would usually not miss a thing. After about 30 seconds the light on the stairs abruptly vanished and she dropped back off to sleep. In the morning she mentioned what had happened to Gemma. She was shocked to find that Gemma had woken during the night to find her bedroom window glowing with white light. Here is Gemma’s testimony regarding this incident: “When I woke up in the night, I had no idea what time it was but I'm guessing it was the early hours of the morning.  My curtains were closed over but my window was lit up in a creamy/ white light just like the sun on a sunny day. The light did not light up my room but the window was very bright. I don't know why I woke up but when I did, I looked straight towards the window to find it lit up. It didn't really shock me much and I thought there was probably a clear explanation for it until the next day when me and my mum were talking about it and we just couldn't think of anything it could have been there to light up both the front and back of the house with such a strong light. I watched the light for about ten seconds or so then rolled back over to go back to sleep. The following night, once it had gotten dark, me and my mum tried to recreate the light we had witnessed. The security light did not reach round to the back of the house. We shined lights up at the window but that didn't recreate this light either. We were extremely confused by it.” As Gemma has mentioned, her room is at the back of the house so this means that there would have been light entering from two different positions. The light that she saw could not have been from a nearby vehicle as the hill behind the house is extremely steep and covered in trees. Could the light that both Lisa and Gemma saw have been from a craft hovering directly over the house? If so this could explain why it was observed via two different windows. Perhaps the ETs were there in order to assist with Lisa’s recovery from her injury. Craft Over Front Garden One morning in February 2014 Edward informed Lisa of a recollection from the night. As with other occasions it felt like a very vivid dream. He remembered waking to find himself and Lisa standing in the living room. Looking outside through the window he saw a craft hovering in the air over the front garden. He shouted out for Lisa but she seemed not to react to this. Suddenly three beings appeared in the living room and he became very afraid. One of the beings began to stare directly into his eyes, which is the last thing he remembers. Here are Edward’s comments about this incident: “I am struggling to remember some of the details and this makes me frustrated. I am annoyed that they make my memories fuzzy and they have no right to. It felt like it was morning in the dream because it was light outside. I can't remember if I was in the living room or the conservatory. Our living room goes through into the conservatory in an open plan fashion. There are no curtains at the conservatory windows. I remember there being a mist over the garden. The craft was hovering about level with our roof. I don't remember any lights on the craft, it was a circular shape and I remember just watching it feeling worried. The next thing I remember is the aliens already being in the living room, one of them was right in front of my face and all I was looking at was its huge black eyes. There was another one behind it and there might have been a third, I can't quite remember. I felt really scared because I did not know what was happening. I'm sure mum was already in the room with me and I know I shouted for her this time, yet she didn't respond. They were Grey aliens, I think they were a bit shorter than me and I felt I knew them.  I remember waking up and thinking it was definitely more than a dream and I told my mum about it straightaway.” If Edward’s memories were more than a dream and he and Lisa actually experienced a visitation, it appears that the memories of this incident were completely blocked out of Lisa’s mind. Examination Procedure Later in the same month it appears that Edward underwent an abduction experience. Just before going out to school he informed Lisa that he had woken up during the night and found himself on a bench-like table surrounded by beings. They appeared to be performing an operation of some kind on his backside. The next thing he became aware of he was waking up in his own bed rigid with fear. His backside felt very sore. Below are Edward’s direct words regarding what happened: “I found myself lying face down on a bench. I woke up and found myself like that. I can't remember what it was made of, I think it was a greyish colour. My head was laid to one side, looking out to the left. I remember trying to look around and my vision being really blurry, though I do remember clearly seeing a Grey alien walk right by my head. I felt they were familiar, though it was the tall ones with the grey skin and big heads. I could sense more than I could actually see because I knew there were more aliens behind me and I knew it was some sort of medical examination. I don't think I was wearing anything. My mind felt quite hazy and it was hard to stay focused. I was not in any pain at the time, though I was scared. Then the next thing I remember is waking up.  My body felt really odd and really tense. I felt panicky because I remembered straightaway as soon as I woke up.  I knew it had really happened because my backside felt really sore and I was frightened I was hurt. I got up straightaway and was shouting for mum as I went downstairs. I got told off because I was swearing so much. I felt really upset because I was shocked and I was really mad at them.  My mum seemed really shocked as well at first and I could tell she didn't know what to say. I kept telling mum I couldn't go to school because it was so painful. Gemma had heard me and came down stairs and she was saying she knew they were there last night because she had woken up and she could feel them in her room and they had ‘told’ her to go back to sleep. Mum kept telling me I would be ok and they wouldn't do anything to hurt me, though she still made me go to school and it felt really sore all day. I know I couldn't go to the doctors because they would have thought I was mad.” This extremely personal testimony highlights the dreadful things that contactees sometimes have to endure, and how hard it is to speak about such things with others due to fear of ridicule or embarrassment. Gemma overheard what Edward was saying to Lisa. She interrupted, saying that she had woken up in the night and immediately realised that there were beings present. She could not see anything but could feel them there. She was extremely frightened by what was taking place. She then heard a telepathic voice in her head telling her to lie still and go back off to sleep. Upon hearing this she blacked out and did not wake up till morning. “When I woke up in the night, I had no idea what time it was but I know I wasn't awake for long at all. Probably about twenty seconds. I sensed the beings in my room and kind of just knew I was to go back to sleep. I didn't feel any need to run out of the room or shout for my parents. It all just felt kind of normal at the time.” As with numerous previous incidents two family members again had experiences on the same night. This combined with the physical after effects suggests that something real took place rather than it just being down to a dream. Gemma’s testimony once again highlights the fact that during contact witnesses often act differently to how they would usually act, and are sometimes complacent towards what is taking place. Holding Areas In March 2014 Lisa had another dream or recollection which she believed was linked with contact. She remembers this dream quite vividly and has since had other dreams in the same location. She found herself in a winding corridor with very high walls and a curved ceiling. Everything was bright white but she did not see any source for where this light was coming from. The corridor was about 20 feet wide. On either side of it were partitions 8-10 feet in width. In each partition were about 6-8 people of different ages. These people seemed to be separated by race. Lisa walked the full length of the corridor in a group of 15-20 others. They were following somebody in charge, but Lisa has no idea of who this was.  She chatted with the other people as she walked and it felt fine to do this. As she walked she looked into the partitions. Some of the adults were holding babies and there were children among them. The atmosphere was very calm and she does not remember being aware of any noise from anywhere else. She knew she was there for learning, yet she felt the people in the partitions were there for another reason, perhaps waiting to be examined. The environment was very calm and she was not frightened. She felt that she would be taken home safely. The Flying Boat The following month Lisa again had a dream, but this time she was much younger, she feels around 15-16 years old. She was among other people in a huge domed hanger-like building with a metallic ceiling which was seamless and smooth. There were no observable windows. Where the curved ceiling came down to the floor it dipped slightly like a drainage channel all around the edge. There was very little noise and the lighting was dim.  There were about 60-100 others there with her. There were no babies or small children, only adults of various ages. Everybody was standing quietly and calmly, some alone, others in small groups.  Lisa could move about freely and actually walked over to some beings who she initially mistook for her school friends. It was only when she got closer that she realised they were not human. Suddenly she found herself standing in a long wide corridor, with a high roof curving down to the floor, made of white coloured metal. This corridor was more brightly lit, yet Lisa does not remember seeing any lights.  She was waiting with a man who appeared to be in his early forties. Lisa was aware that there were concealed doors in the walls of the corridor. She and the man were walking along touching the walls and trying to find these concealed doors while discussing how clever the design was. Lisa felt that she aboard a boat down in the hold. She knew the wall at the end of the corridor was actually a door. She was waiting for it to open so she could return home. She knew that it was night time and was worried that her father would find that she was missing from her bed and would be angry with her. Her next recollection was of standing on the deck of the boat standing alongside other people. She looked down and realised that the boat was rising up out of the water, which appeared almost black in colour as they moved away from it. As the boat climbed higher into the air Lisa could see a road near to the shore and then a town passing beneath them. She felt confused by the boat’s ability to fly. This was all she could remember taking place. This is a very interesting dream and one which may well be linked with an abduction experience which Lisa underwent earlier in her life. It is possible that the hanger she was standing in at the start of the dream was actually a craft. And it seems probable that the boat she was on was also a craft, perhaps the same one, hence why it took off and started to fly. Perhaps it was a smaller craft which was taking her back home after an abduction, although this would of course just be speculation. Perhaps the ETs were using a screen memory so Lisa remembered it as a boat rather than a craft. Another possibility is that it was a mix of a dream and a recollection of a contact experience. Suited Beings In 2014 Gemma would regularly go out to a local youth club with two friends. One morning in May directly following a youth club evening she spoke with one of these friends. Her friend informed her that she could hardly remember anything from the previous evening. Gemma then realised that she could barely remember anything either. All she could remember was three strange dark-suited figures walking past them on the opposite side of the road. As they approached she realised they were not human, and were the same beings she had seen in her room on previous occasions. As they passed, her friends seemed to react by stopping talking and staring down at their phones in unison. Here Gemma explains what took place in her own words: “The next morning, whilst I was still in bed, I was talking to my friend on Facebook who I was with that night and she was telling me she felt really weird and couldn't remember anything from the previous night. Once she told me this, I realised I also could not remember anything either, though I did remember seeing three strange looking men in suits walk past me but I did not tell her this. After this conversation I went downstairs to tell my mum. I told her I could barely remember anything from the night before. I know I had been to the youth club. The only part of that night I remember is walking from the youth club with my friends although I honestly can't remember where we were walking to at all. I was about a two or three minute walk away from the youth club when I remember passing three very pale, strange looking men on the opposite side of the road all dressed in identical suits, all the same height (roughly six foot), same body build and all bald headed. They were all staring directly ahead. Immediately, I recognised them to be the beings that I had seen previously in my bedroom. As we passed the beings, my friends seemed to stop talking all of a sudden and became totally focused on their phones. I felt strongly that these beings knew that I knew who they were even though no communication was used. I can't remember anything after this. When I saw them, I didn't feel scared at all, I just remember looking at them and knowing who they were. The following Monday we were out of school for lunch when one of my friends started the conversation about what had happened that Friday night. I had totally forgotten about this again until it was brought up. She was saying how she also couldn't remember anything and I remember her clearly stating ‘Isn't it just so weird how no one can remember anything from that night’. I never mentioned the beings to my friends, I just told them that I also remembered very little from that night. I should also add that there was no drugs or alcohol involved.” This fascinating experience has many unusual aspects to it. If Gemma really did see two of the beings from previous visitations while outside walking to another location then what were they doing there? It seems likely that they were observing or monitoring her in some way. But it is odd that they would feel the need to disguise themselves as humans and physically walk past her to do so. Maybe they were gauging how she would react in this situation, we have no way of knowing for sure. The fact that Gemma and her two friends independently felt strange about the evening and appeared to forget much of what took place is compelling evidence that something definitely occurred. Gemma has not informed her friends about her contact experiences so there would be absolutely no reason for them to make anything up. Also the way in which her friends both stopped talking and stared at their phones as the beings walked past suggests that they may have been controlled in some way, perhaps to prevent them from realising that the figures near to them were not human. It is unknown whether it was intentional for Gemma to recognise them or not. The choice of attire for the beings is also an interesting point. Numerous witnesses over the years have reported visitations from the infamous “Men In Black”. A lot of the time these are reported as just being men in dark suits. However on some of these occasions these figures have had an odd appearance or acted in an unusual manner, causing the witness to believe that they were actually ET in origin. Could this experience be related? Examination Dreams The following month Lisa had another vivid dream which could well have been flashbacks from an abduction experience. On the night it took place she was feeling restless and found herself drifting in and out of sleep. She dreamt that she was about 7-8 years old and wearing her nightie. She was standing barefoot on soft cool grass. She was being led towards a craft by two short beings either side of her. She did not look at them directly but feels that they must have been short Greys. They were lightly touching each of her elbows as she walked. She felt quite numb of emotion so did not fight back against this. They were slowly walking towards a hovering craft. It was night time so it was quite difficult to see her surroundings or the craft clearly. However she could make out a dark grey/black shape hovering about 30 feet off the ground and 20 feet in diameter. On the underside of the craft was a circle of dim blue and red coloured lights. It appeared to be completely silent. She next she found herself in a room with metal walls, ceiling and floor. However she was no longer a child, but appeared to be her current age. The room was about 15 feet across. It seemed brightly lit although no light sources were visible. The walls and ceiling were smooth, white and metallic. The ceiling was flat rather than domed, and was quite low. She was sitting down on a white moulded bench. There were about 6-8 other adults of varying ages ranging from 30-60 years old, also sitting on benches of differing heights. She cannot remember what she was wearing but recalls that one of the men near to her had a white coloured towel on his lap. Lisa knew that they were all waiting to be examined, and knew that there were beings in an adjoining room. She was not afraid to be there and was hoping that she would be next so she could return home. This was all she recalled, she did not actually see the beings on this occasion. One month later it was Gemma’s turn to recollect an examination procedure. As with Lisa, the memories came back to her as a vivid dream. She recalled lying down in a location that was not her room. There were other people also present but not near to her. She was being examined by two beings. Here is Gemma’s testimony about what happened to her: “I remember very little about this now. I remember telling my mum about it and I specifically remember telling her about a device which reminded me of a rubber hose. I cannot remember what it was used for but I think it was about the length of my arm roughly and about an inch in diameter. The hose type device was hand held rather than attached to anything, I was face up. I also remember the small grey being. It was about three foot tall and sort of chubby. It was very wrinkly and its skin reminded me of elephant skin. I sensed this being was old and it seemed to be in charge of the taller, younger being although I don't remember much about the other being, except I think it was a typical Grey. During the examination I felt no pain and I felt able to move okay. This is all I seem to remember about this now. After speaking about this to my mum, I've lost most of the memory of this but I do however remember waking up with a really sore throat and having it for a few days.” This incident could of course be looked at two ways. Some may feel that she caught a sore throat the previous evening which developed during the night. This could have disturbed her sleep and caused her to have a dream about something being done to her throat aboard a craft. Alternatively this may be evidence that the experience really had taken place during the night, and the sore throat was an injury she had sustained from the examination procedure. Abduction Travel In July 2014 Edward recollected standing in the back garden during the night. There was a craft hovering above him which had coloured lights on. These lights were bright enough to light up the grass. The craft shone a bright beam of light down onto him. He sensed that he was going to be taken up into it. Here is Edward’s direct testimony regarding this recollection: “The first memory is of actually being in the back garden. I was just standing there looking up at the craft, it was hovering just below the height of the roof. It was definitely circular and it was beaming down a very light bluish strong beam of light. There were also dimmer lights coming from the side of it the same colour. I remember seeing the grass had turned a reddish colour. It was dark and I don't remember what I was wearing. I think this was the same craft from the front garden that I saw before. I felt kind of switched off and dazed and I was standing by myself, though I knew they were around. For some reason, I kept looking up at Gemma's bedroom window as if I knew they were about to go in to her bedroom.  It was as if I was tuning in to their thoughts. I don't remember being taken into the craft, it was more a sense of I knew it was about to happen and at that point I felt more interested than scared. I don't remember actually being on board, it was more just knowing that I definitely had when I woke up. It felt very different from a dream, I can always tell the difference.” Lisa says that Edward paced out the estimated size of the craft, which she then measured. He thinks it was about 15 feet in diameter. Sadly there was no physical evidence which would suggest that Edward had been outside, however it could well have taken place as he recalls. Heart Beat During the following month Gemma had another vivid abduction-related dream. She found herself once again lying down surrounded by beings who were examining her. One of the beings was very familiar to her and she had seen it on previous occasions. She could hear them telepathically speaking to one another. They discussed the beating pattern of her heart and her Juvenile Spring Eruption disease (an allergy to sunlight and pollen). When she awoke she found dried blood on her right nostril, which she showed to Lisa. It is possible that this was an after effect of another part of the examination which she cannot currently recollect. Below is what Gemma has to say about this incident. “The memory of this has faded quite a lot. I remember they were discussing my Juvenile Spring Eruptions disease with me but I don't remember much of what was said. I was diagnosed with this condition when I was about 6 or 7 although it hasn't affected me severely for about 2 or 3 years now. I didn't have any symptoms of it at the time this experience happened. The same familiar being pops up a lot when I have these types of experiences. I was telling him how I love to watch the sky and he told me he already knew. I feel a stronger connection with him than all the others. The only times I seem to get nose bleeds is after I have these dreams or experiences.” Learning Dreams Later in the month Lisa had another learning-related dream. She was again inside the large open domed building she had seen on previous occasions. She was among many different people of varied races. Some of the other people were only semi-dressed, wearing pyjamas or towels around them. Everyone appeared to be calm. They were all walking towards an elevator at one side of the building. The area around the elevator was very brightly lit but no light sources could be seen. The elevator looked large enough to house quite a number of people. Rather than containing a lift, it had steps which were floating vertically upward continuously. At the top of the elevator Lisa found herself in another white coloured room near the top of the dome. A man said something to her. She felt that she had met this man before somewhere, but could not remember clearly.  She was aware of occasional quiet chatter going on around her. This was a learning area with a number of consoles. She next found herself in a wide brightly lit corridor. There were no windows. She knew she was waiting for a number of mental assessments. There was a double door at the end of the corridor behind which the assessments were taking place. She and the other people there were not queuing, they would be taken through the doors when the beings required them to be. The same man that had spoken to her at the top of the elevator approached her and asked her to follow him. He took her to see some unusual plants in large planters. She was amazed as she had not seen anything like them before. They looked similar to a large rubber plant, but had strange pods which were open. The inside of the pods was lined with thick brown fur. The man informed her that these plants were used for nurturing some kind of living creature. Lisa responded saying “Oh yes, they think of everything!” The figure who came to get her for the mental assessments was humanoid and female, but she cannot recall any specific details about her. She did not recall the assessments themselves. Her next memory was of being seated aboard a craft which was returning her home.  There were three other people present, and a being piloting the craft who was facing away from them. Thinking back to this dream, Lisa now realises it was the same type of craft that she had been aboard as a child over the caravan site. The walls were clear and she could see the surroundings. They were in a huge open structure with a high curved roof. The craft was moving along as part of three “lanes” of other craft. All these craft were moving along at the same speed and everything felt controlled and organized. She woke up and could immediately recall the details of this dream. It felt far too vivid and more like recalling memories of something which had actually taken place. The following month she had another similar dream. Once again she was in the dome-shaped structure with at least 50 other people. They were being led by a number of humanoids who she could not clearly recollect. They soon entered the middle of a brightly lit area which was reminiscent of a small sized stadium with seating all around the edges. Many adults were sat on this seating watching what was taking place. Everyone seemed calm and Lisa was aware of quiet chatter going on in the crowd. As she stood there thoughts and feelings began to stream into her mind. She was immediately aware that these same thoughts were being sent to everyone in the crowd at the same time, like they shared a collective consciousness. She felt feelings of compassion and unity with the other people present, and knew they felt the same. Here Lisa tries to describe what this was like: “It was like our minds connected at the same level and there was an enormous understanding that we could all live peacefully together. I could see that the whole crowd was smiling and we all felt joy. I knew the meaning of the task was to bond.” Next she was once again being led into the domed structure.  She was with an ET being. She did not look directly at him, but was aware of him being at her side. He was interacting with her telepathically. She felt comfortable with this being and sensed that he was pleased to be looking after her.  He told her that human history is not represented accurately and we should have a better understanding and know our own history.  He then told her that human life came to Earth from Mars and that she must remember this.  As she looked around she realised she was amongst different types of ETs. There were small groups of ET's as well as humans standing around. She and the being continued walking and as they did she was surprised to see a rock band standing in a tight circle to one side of the dome. The band members seemed relaxed and comfortable. Most of the other people and beings present were observing them. The being told Lisa that she must listen to them sing as this will remind her of what she had been told and it is a way for her to remember.  They start to sing. The chorus of their song contained the words "Man is from Mars not the Milky Way" .  The being told Lisa that she would remember this song when she woke up the next day. The next day Lisa checked online and asked Gemma and Edward if they had ever heard of this song in case she had heard it somewhere previously.  Neither of them knew it and she could not get it out of her head all day. The Blonde Girl In September 2014 Gemma had another strange dream. She was taken by the ETs to a beach which was made up of different coloured gemstones. She had to carry around a small box which contained some of these gemstones. She was asked to take very good care of it. The beings then brought her a little girl with blonde-coloured hair. Gemma was given this girl to look after for a period of time. Below is Gemma’s recollection of this dream: “The girl was around 5 or 6 and her hair was extremely light and seemed to be very messy as if she was extremely windswept. Her facial features seemed normal and the only thing I really thought was strange about her was her hair. I was walking with her along a beach and we were holding hands and it seemed as if we were being expected to bond with one another or as if it was my responsibility to look after her. The girl was very quiet and well behaved. We were on a beach with was made of long rows of small gem stones. Each row was a different colour and some of these colours I could not identify. I didn't notice anything strange about the water although I wasn't paying much attention to it and was instead looking at all the different gems I was walking on. Whilst walking along this beach, the weather was very nice and the sky seemed to be especially blue. It was a very bright day as I also remember the intense light making the gem stones shimmer a lot. I had no difficulty breathing here. I don't remember how we ended up here. I had a small wooden box and I knew it was very important for me to keep it safe and to carry it with me. I and the little girl just wandered down the beach observing all the different gems. In this dream I do not remember being on any craft. I remember telling my mum that she appeared in my dream but I no longer remember how. In this dream, before I was looking after the little girl, I remember having to sit some sort of test or lesson in a small boat although I can't seem to remember being on water. There were other people there also sitting this test/ lesson and all were various ages and both male and female. I didn't feel like I was on another planet although I did feel like I was very far from home. I thought the beach I was on might have been undiscovered somewhere although this seems unlikely to be on this planet now.” That same night Lisa had an unusual ET-related dream in which she was on a jetty alongside a normal looking beach. She was aware that Edward was out at sea on a boat by himself and she was looking out to sea waiting for his return. She was also aware that there were two or three ETs behind her but she did not look at them directly. Lisa feels that they were monitoring her emotions as she was anxious for her son to return. She then saw Edward arriving. The boat he was in looked strange. It was small and oblong shaped and was hovering a short distance above the surface of the water. When Edward saw her watching he said to her “Mum, you knew I would come back ok.” Next Lisa found herself walking along the beach with a young boy of about 4 years of age. He was wearing a dark hooded anorak. She does not remember seeing the boy’s face. She held his hand and they picked their way between some rock pools. Suddenly the tide began to rise and Lisa realised they were in danger. She ran with the boy back to the safety of the jetty. As they reached it, the sky turned grey, the beach and ocean disappeared and Lisa found herself standing at the side of the domed structure from previous dreams. Two figures, possibly ETs then took the boy away. Lisa feels that this scenario was a test to see how she would react emotionally to certain situations. It is very interesting that both Lisa and Gemma had ET dreams involving beaches on the same night. This seems unlikely to be coincidental. It is possible that they were both being tested in different ways just as Lisa suspects. Travel The World In October 2014 Gemma had two detailed vivid dreams in which the ETs took her to other places to see specific things. In the first dream she was taken to Africa. She was shown the squalor that many have to live in. She was also shown a line of children queuing for water at a pump. Here are Gemma’s words regarding this: “I don't remember how this dream started but I can remember most of the other details quite clearly. The ET's told me that I was in Africa and began my trip by showing me some local women giving birth. The woman I was watching was laid outside and seemed to be very uncomfortable. I remember there was something hung around her to restrict people watching but I don't know what it was. It was a very hot and sunny day and the land seemed very scorched. As I watched these women in labour, the ET's explained to me that these women were at a lot of risk of getting serious infections and if anything went wrong, this would be very dangerous as they have very little medical back up. They continued to tell me that our governments should be doing more to help people and everybody needs to start helping each other out more and appreciate what we have more. This village or community didn't have clean water and this put the women giving birth and their babies at even greater risk. The ET's seemed very concerned at our government’s actions. I was hovering very close to the ground looking out of a craft although I can't remember what the craft looked like at all as I was just looking out the craft the entire time concentrating on what I was being shown. We seemed to be invisible to the people below us as no one ever looked up at us or showed any attention to us at all. I sensed the ET's were observing my reactions to all of this the entire time.” Later in the month she was taken by the ETs to see a large group of children. They were inside of a massive building and were all wearing night clothes of various types. They appeared to be very organized and knew what was taking place. A very short boy with brown hair explained to her how things were to be done. Gemma sensed that he was very important or would be in the future. She was also told to remember the word “ecology”. When she awoke in the morning Gemma found that her ears were both hurting. She says that they continued to hurt for the remainder of the day. As with other previous experiences there is evidence here which may suggest that the experience was real and the pain in her ears was a physical after effect. A Familiar Face Again in October 2014 Lisa had a dream in which she was being led along a dimly lit corridor by a number of small beings with large eyes. There were many other people also present who she did not recognise. She knew that she had been taken from her home but was not anxious as she was also aware that she would be taken back there. There was then a period of missing time in the dream. She next remembers being returned to the corridor from somewhere else. In front of her was a three foot high being. She felt affection towards it without really knowing why. It felt to her that they had met many times before and knew one another well. In the morning before mentioning her dream Gemma informed her that she had awoken in the night and seen an intense blue coloured light in her bedroom. She remembered nothing more after this. It is possible that either Lisa was abducted and Gemma had seen light from a waiting craft in her room, or they were both abducted and the memories of the experience were fully removed from Gemma’s mind. Telekinetic Tests One morning in November 2014 Gemma informed Lisa of another dream she had experienced. This time she had dreamt that both her and Lisa were being tested by the ETs. They were handed a pen-like instrument and were using it to move things around without touching them. She said that she had to perform tasks, including moving a boat using the power of her mind. After being told this, Lisa suddenly realised that she was not wearing her glasses but for some reason could see perfectly well. This was highly unusual and not something she had experienced before. Over the next hour or so her eyesight apparently returned to normal and she had to put her glasses back on. Had Gemma’s dream been real, and if so had these tests that Lisa had performed somehow temporarily improved her sight? Brain Operation Later in November Gemma had a dream in which she was taken by the ETs to observe an operation which was being performed on a lady. As it was taking place the beings telepathically explained to her what was going on. The surroundings were very dark and she could only see the face of the female patient which was lit up. Gemma watched as a wire was inserted into the patient’s brain. The ETs explained to her that this was a necessity but did not provide a detailed explanation of why. Gemma found what was taking place quite fascinating. She could see the blood vessels and bone structure as the skin was peeled back. The instruments the beings were using radiated heat and there was a singeing odour as they were used on the patient. In the morning when she awoke she felt as though a procedure had been performed on her own face as there was a tingling sensation which lasted a short while. She went over what she remembered with Lisa. A Further Being Encounter In December 2014 Gemma experienced something similar to what had happened while on the way to her youth group back in May. She was in German class and her friend Carol asked her “Remember those weird people? Who do you think they were?” This immediately triggered the memories of an experience which had happened two days previously. She had gone to see Carol after school. They suddenly found themselves standing in a clump of trees without any memory of how they had got there. They began walking along the pavement. They then saw two strange figures walking towards them which were clearly not human. One of them was about 7-8 feet in height. It had huge staring eyes, an elongated head and no eyebrows. The other was about 6 feet tall. They were both wearing black overcoats which made their shoulders appear massive. They appeared to be walking but approached much faster than they should have as if they were running. As the beings approached them Gemma felt sure they were looking directly at her even though their eyes were faced straight ahead. She was very afraid and ducked as they passed by her and her friend. As they did so Gemma received a telepathic thought from them. She was informed that the taller being was new to being on Earth and was not very good at it, and that the shorter being was more experienced. She sensed that the taller being was male, and was also extremely intelligent. After they had passed Carol had asked her “Gemma was that an alien?” Immediately they both forgot about the experience. Carol had seemingly remembered what happened during German class, and had then triggered Gemma’s memory of it by speaking with her about it. I have dealt with other cases where exactly the same thing has occurred. It is unlikely that they were ever meant to remember the encounter but for some reason had done so. A Message Later the same month Edward experienced a visitation. A bright light lit up his bedroom and a humming sound began. He then became aware of a presence in the room and realised that a Grey was standing there. The being spoke with him telepathically. It told him not to be afraid and that it was not there to take him. It told him that it was there to give him a message to pass on to Gemma. The wall between his and Gemma’s room became invisible. He saw another ET standing alongside Gemma’s bed as she slept. The being standing in his room gave him a message to pass on to her. When he saw her in the morning, Edward informed her of what had taken place. Edward has a good recollection of this incident. Here is what he says about it: “I was lying awake because I couldn't get to sleep. Suddenly I saw a strange glow light up my bedroom window, it was a bluish colour. I can't remember how long I watched it for but it wasn't very long. The glow was coming into the room from the window and the humming noise was definitely from outside. I was starting to feel scared and I pulled the quilt up to just below my eyes. I don't know why I didn't shout out at the time, I always think this afterwards yet I never do. I think once you feel scared, they stop you. I suddenly realised there was a Grey alien standing in my bedroom in front of the window looking at me, I think it was one of the small ones. I nearly shit myself with shock, it was talking to me through my head and I could tell it was making me calm down ‘cause I was so panicked inside. When the alien was talking, it didn’t sound like it had its own voice. It's like I could hear thoughts and see images and if I really think about the sound it made I can only hear the sound of my voice, though I know the difference. The alien was making me concentrate and it told me not to be frightened they were not here to take me away tonight. I remember feeling a lot better then, ‘cause I felt I could trust them not to. It told me to listen because I had to pass a message on to Gemma and this would let her know this was all really happening.  I realised the wall was turning invisible between our bedrooms and I could see Gemma asleep in bed. They were letting me know it was important and I remember twisting on to one elbow, so I could see better. There was another Grey alien stood right near her head and it was touching her hair. This alien looked similar to the one in my room, though I could tell it was taller. I was told to tell Gemma she was to stay on the right path and not destroy her potential, she is putting others before her own goals and there are only so many chances. Gemma is to help in the future, she is to be a teacher to people and she will work with medicine. After this message I remember no more until I woke up the next day. I knew for sure it was not a dream, I remembered the message as soon as I woke up and I remember coming downstairs to tell mum and Gemma straightaway.” This is a fascinating incident with some very unusual aspects. It is a mystery why the ETs did not just speak with Gemma directly rather than give the message to Edward and ask him to pass it on to her. Perhaps there was a need for both Edward and Gemma to hear it and understand its implications. This incident also highlights the ETs ability to temporarily make physical objects invisible at will. Night Walking In February 2015 Gavin and Lisa went away on holiday, so Edward and Gemma stayed with their nan for a while. While staying there Edward woke up one morning with memories of being awake during the night. He remembered walking along the street. It was dark and there was nobody else about. There was a craft hovering in the sky above him. He was holding a blue coloured box. The craft was projecting a beam of light down into this box. He felt that he was waiting for something but did not know what. The memories felt extremely real and Edward was sure it was not a dream. When Edward discussed what he recalled in the morning, Gemma informed him that she too recalled being out of the house during the night! However she remembered standing on the ground and being trapped in a beam of light rather than freely walking along the road. Edward does not remember this incident clearly but does recall some details: “I remember mum and dad were away and Gemma and me were staying at nan's house. I know I was just wearing boxers and I was walking down the street in the dark. I know I told my mum I was carrying a box and I know I was but I can barely remember it now. I know the craft was at the end of the street and it was circular like the ones I saw above our garden, though I'm sure it was bigger.” If this incident actually took place then the blue box which Edward was holding is a complete mystery. It appears that the craft was scanning or monitoring it in some way, but as to its purpose we can only speculate. Drilling In April 2015 Edward awoke during the night to find his room lit up by a bright light. He found that he was paralysed and was only able to blink his eyes. There was a strange drilling sound close to one of his ears. After a short period of time the light suddenly vanished and he fell back off to sleep. Needles Body Marking Later in April Gemma had a vivid dream about needles going into her fingertips. In the morning when she awoke she found small red dots on the end of her thumb which looked like pin-pricks. When Gemma showed Lisa the markings, she decided to take a photograph of them for analysis. I have not yet received the direct photograph, but here is a photo of the photograph being displayed on the digital camera screen. The strange markings are clearly visible: These markings remained for the rest of the day before fading. As these markings do not look particularly artificial, it is possible that they were an injury Gemma had received the previous evening without realising. Perhaps sensations from this injury then caused her to have a dream in which something was being done to her fingers. However there is also the possibility that this is physical proof that she was abducted during the night, and these markings were from a needle-like instrument that had been used on her hands. Rectangular Craft Again in April, Gemma had another dream in which she was in a small craft. There were about a dozen other people also present. They were looking out of the windows and watching two massive rectangular-shaped craft which were below them.  The ETs informed Gemma that these ships were located there for the hybrids. She watched as smaller craft came to and left the two large ships. Everything seemed very well organized. Below is Gemma’s testimony regarding this dream: “ I was on board a craft with other people but I can't remember who or what they looked like, I just know other people were there being shown this as well as me. We were stood in something that resembled an egg-shaped ski lift, cable car type thing. We were all looking out this window although it had no window glass so it was kind of like a big hole in the craft and we were looking down on to several massive rectangular shaped crafts which I believe to be mother-ships. These ships were suspended in space surrounded by darkness. We were being given information telepathically. We were told there are other wars elsewhere, not just wars on our planet going on. I can't remember much else.” Temporary Recollection On 20th May Gemma had a dream in which the ETs took her to a large hall with many other people. They were then informed by the beings that up until now they had only been allowed to keep small parts of their memories, but they were now going to be able to remember everything they had forgotten. Gemma’s mind was suddenly flooded with missing memories of experiences and she was amazed that she could have forgotten such things. Next she and the other people were subjected to a procedure where they had something fitted inside of their mouths. The object caused her gums to feel uncomfortable and her lips to tingle. She assumed that they object was a brace and asked the ETs why they were fitting it when she didn’t need one. They responded to her telepathically, telling her that it was not a brace, it was being done for other reasons. In the morning when she awoke she could still feel the indentation of the device on her gums. Her mouth felt numb and tingly. This feeling remained for the rest of the day. When she tried to think back to what she had remembered during the dream she realised that the memories had once again been blocked out. Landed Craft & Son’s Visitation On 5th June 2015 Lisa had a vivid dream in which she, Edward, about six other adults and two Greys were calmly walking towards a landed craft in a rugged rural environment. It appeared to be quite late at night, but not fully dark. The craft was a flattened saucer-shape and was stood on three legs. It appeared almost too small to accommodate everyone. She felt that they had been doing something and were returning to the craft but could not recall what. While walking towards the craft Lisa suddenly felt guilty about having shared information about her and her family’s contact experiences with me. She felt worried as to whether the ETs would be ok with this, and did not want to upset them in any way. When she and the others got near to the craft they stopped and waited quietly to be taken on board. One of the Greys appeared right at her side. It put a sense of calm and reassurance into her mind and then telepathically spoke to her, saying “It will not be long to disclosure and soon everyone will know we are here, it is fine to pass on this information.” Upon hearing this Lisa felt an enormous sense of relief. She then found herself aboard the craft standing next to Edward. However she cannot remember what the interior of it looked like. This is where the dream ended. Lisa soon found out that on the same night Edward had also experienced a visitation. He had been in bed playing a game on his Kindle when he suddenly realised he was unable to move. He looked over at the door to his room and saw a being standing there which was staring at him. An electrical tremor began to run through his body and he dropped the Kindle onto his chest. After a short period of time the ET vanished and he found that he could move again. UFOs Photograph On 24th July 2015 Gemma was returning from holiday with her friend’s family. They were driving on the main road between North Berwick and Edinburgh at around 3-4pm. She was looking out of the window when she noticed two unusual objects hovering over a field alongside the road. Although it was a windy day these objects appeared to be completely still in the air. Aerial map showing the main route between North Berwick (A) and Edinburgh (B): She quickly lifted her mobile phone and took a photograph of them. Gemma watched the objects for a number of seconds until they had gone out of sight. Her friend was reading at the time and her friend’s parents did not make any indication that they had seen the objects. Here is the original photograph with the two objects ringed: Zoomed and edge find views of the lower UFO: Zoomed and edge find views of the upper UFO: Unfortunately the image was sent to me in PDF format. Because it had been converted from its original JPEG format most of the metadata behind the image which I would usually use to confirm authenticity is missing. However given the nature of the photograph and circumstances under which it was taken it is extremely likely to be unmanipulated. The photograph is too blurred to really say what the objects are or are not. Gemma says that the lower object appeared solid to her naked eye. It appears to have some kind of tail protruding from it. Gemma is certain that it was not a tailed kite or balloon. The smaller or more distant object above it may have been related, as it held position with the lower object for the duration of the sighting. Gemma feels sure that this was not a distant helicopter or aircraft. On the photograph it appears to be dark in colour and oval in shape. Due to the circumstances under which these objects were seen, if one or both of them were in fact nearby craft it seems improbable that they would have been linked with Gemma’s contact experiences. It is possible she was just in the right place at the right time to witness them as the car drove past. Grey Visitation During the night of 12th October 2015 Edward experienced another visitation of a Grey being in his room. Below is Edward’s direct testimony of what happened. "It was around midnight, I'd been off my tablet for about half an hour and I couldn't get comfortable, so I went to fix the bottom of my quilt ‘cause I realised the bottom sheet had come out.  I was sitting up in bed and leaning forward.  As I was doing it, the room was already dark and I looked to where they always come in ‘cause I felt something was there. I saw straightaway the outline of a human form, but a lot more skinny with a really big head.  I got a shock at first ‘cause it was just standing there and I quickly fell back against my pillow and pulled my quilt up to my neck as a defence thing, but I could still see. It slowly started to walk towards me and I immediately got the feeling "Oh it's one of you" ‘cause I knew it was one of them, and I didn't feel as scared ‘cause I got the feeling it was smiling at me.  Even though I could not see it smile, it put the image in my head it was smiling.  I sensed it lift its arm over my head, though I don't think it touched me, I think I went straight to sleep". There are a number of very interesting points to take note of. First of all it is clear that Edward was able to move freely at the time. He was leaning towards the base of the bed and when he saw the being he fell back and pulled the quilt up around himself. Therefore a hypnogogic hallucination brought on by sleep paralysis can be disregard as the explanation. His testimony also indicates that this type of being was familiar to him from previous experiences. It is interesting that Edward mentions the fact that the Grey was projecting the image that it was smiling. I have investigated a number of other experiences involving Greys where the same thing has been reported. It appears that when the being lifted its arm over Edward’s head he immediately blacked out. This has often been reported in other cases, and it is possible that after this Edward was abducted and then had the memories removed. In the below testimonial statement Edward describes how he feels when he encounters these beings. "When they are around, it's like my whole senses and feelings are totally tuned in through my head, and it's like even if I go to touch anything it's like I get a lot more information from what I'm touching.  If I try to remember too much, I can't remember it all, it's like I can't over think it or I'll lose it or contaminate it, I have to think in a different way, in wee images to bring it back. I know they are never going to hurt me, though sometimes I am still scared at first. I know they come mostly at night when I am less aware of stuff and I know they put images in my head.” During my investigation I suggested that due to the family’s on-going experiences they could purchase and install one or more infra-red cameras in their rooms to possibly capture an abduction/visitation taking place. However Edward is reluctant to do so. He says that “it would feel like I was being rude to them, they've been coming for a long time and I don't want them to stop." This highlights the fact that Edward is dealing with his contact experiences and has accepted what is happening to him. Conclusion As you can see the family certainly appear to have experienced contact on a regular basis, and may well continue to have experiences. The activity appears to be focused around Lisa’s side of the family, as Gavin has not experienced contact himself, he has just been indirectly affected on a number of occasions. The experiences the family have had over the years are quite profound and include a wide variety of aspects. Many of these incidents occurred a long time before Lisa and her siblings heard about the ET contact subject, yet their testimonies include many aspects which fit with other contact cases, including some I have investigated directly. Obviously many of the experiences described in this report are vivid dreams which have clearly involved UFOs or contact. While it may be easy to dismiss them as nothing more than dreams it is important to remember that many of them have had physical aspects to them such as visitations by beings, unexplained lights and body markings, and on some occasions more than one family member has experienced something on the same night. I feel that this has occurred far too much to simply be put down to dreams, and it is likely that at least some are recollections of actual contact experiences, perhaps from prior occasions. As contact seems to be on-going with no sign of coming to a halt, this report may well be updated going forward, and the family may even be able to capture some further photographic or video evidence. I would like to thank the family for being brave enough to come forward with this fascinating information, and allowing me to share their experiences through this detailed report. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2020

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Ian Jones Release Date: 02/04/2026 Reported By: Mr Mark Pestridge The Place: Telford Close, Warley Woods, Smethwick The Sighting: Occurred on 15th August 2016 Time of Day: From 5.25pm to sunset Mark contacted BUFOG and reported a sighting he and his family had in August 2016 in the back garden of his home in Smethwick, Warley. Mark’s Report The 15th August 2016 was a Monday and they were having a barbecue in their back garden about 5.15pm. It was a bright, sunny day. While the charcoal was heating up, Mark sat in a chair to have a beer and sat facing the house and observing the sky. This is looking towards the south/south-west. By now it was about 5.25pm. Aerial view of Telford Close showing where the sighting was viewed rom and direction it was seen in He noticed a sparkling star at high altitude – he initially estimated this as around 30,000ft – the sort of height aircraft fly at. It seemed to be randomly increasing and decreasing it’s level of brightness. It was also stationary. Their tv aerial is on top of the roof and he estimated that, from the position he was sitting in, the object looked about 2 inches away from it, at a 45-degree angle. See the following photograph, with the object’s position indicated as an orange circle: Photograph of sighting location indicating position where object was situated (not it's size) Mark called for his wife to come and look at it, and she wondered whether it might be a silver balloon. It wasn’t thought to be a helicopter, because of it’s height. Mark got out his I-Pad, because he has the Star Walk app on it. This can identify over 200,000 celestial objects in the sky above the horizon – stars, planets, constellations, satellites, meteor showers, comets, asteroids, iridium flares – in real time in a particular location. This object did not show up on the Star Walk database. Now more curious than ever, Mark went to get his Celestron 76LCM reflector telescope and fitted the 25mm eye-piece. He was able to line it up with the object and with this extra magnification saw 2 sparkling lights side-by-side. Photograph of telescope He asked his children if they wanted to look at it through the telescope and they were keen to do that, but this produced a surprise. The object looked different, as a result of the higher magnification it gave. His first child said they saw 3 lights sparkling, the second said they saw 4 lights horizontally, side-by-side. His wife then looked and saw 2 lights vertically. Mark then looked again and saw 3 lights vertically. Mark then put a second, 9mm eye-piece onto the telescope. With this the object appeared to be rotating, surrounded by what he describes as a heat-distortion effect, like how the air shimmers from a car’s metal surface on a hot summer’s day and thinks perhaps this was an anti-gravity effect. Photograph of telescope eye pieces He estimates it was the size of a conventional aircraft’s cockpit and it resembled the Trimaxion Drone Ship seen in the film Flight of the Navigator (1986). He describes that around it’s underside it had raised, curved edges, similar to an oyster-type ice-cream wafer shell. Movie still of the craft from Flight Of The Navigator He took a picture of it with his wife’s 2013 Nokia phone camera, but couldn’t see anything clearly. They then had the barbecue, following which Mark had to go out. That was at 6:45pm and the object was still in the same place. The tv aerial is on top of the roof and he estimated that, from where he was sat down, it looked about 2 inches away from the aerial at an angle of 45 degrees. See the photo below, where Mark has put different coloured circles to show the 3 different positions of the object. Mark was back home by 8pm, went into the garden, and sat in the same chair. He looked up to see whether the object was still there. It was, but it had moved. It was now above a house about 4 doors down – indicated by the red circle. This was approximately 24-26 inches away from it’s first position, relative to the aerial on their house. He saw it brighten up and dim down, then it disappeared from this second position. Suddenly, within about 2 seconds, he saw it re-appear in a third position – indicated by the green circle. This was a point roughly half-way back toward it’s first-observed position (approximately 12-14 inches). That was the only time Mark saw it move. It was still brightening and dimming. Then it was disappearing and reappearing, without moving and remained there until the sun set, which was at 8.53pm. Then it was not visible. Mark’s wife also observed this. Altogether the object was visible for at least 3.5 hours. Photograph of sighting location indicating how object moved over 3.5 hours (not its size) After the Sighting Mark spent some time observing aircraft flying over their house, to see how long they took to cover the same distance as the object had when it moved from it’s first observed position to it’s last one (2 seconds). He then worked out approximately how fast they were travelling, on average. Mark has averaged their time as taking 22-25 seconds to cover this distance. Obviously, such calculations can only be indicative and have no claim to be precise, but clearly the object moved much faster than any aircraft. Mark estimated that it’s speed was in the region of 6,000 mph. Discussion Mark lives about a mile from the centre of Smethwick and 4 miles west of Birmingham. There had been no rain that day, it was calm, sunny, with temperatures around 24 degrees at 18.00 and 15 degrees at midnight. Cloud cover was 2% at 18.00 and 1% at 9pm. Steady wind conditions were around 13-15 kph all afternoon. So, no lightening- or plasma-related event, was what was seen. The nearest civilian airports are some distance away from where Mark lives: Birmingham International Airport is about 11 miles away, to the East Halfpenny Green (Bobbington) airport is about 16 miles to the West Coventry airport is about 23 miles away, to the South-East East Midlands airport is about 37 miles away, to the North-East It is not likely that an aircraft going to/from an airport would explain the sighting. Military airports are even further away: RAF Cosford is about 20 miles away to the North-West RAF Shawbury is about 45 miles to the North-West RAF Brize-Norton is about 65 miles to the South None of these is a likely source of the object, with visibility being about 10 miles all afternoon. Helicopters do not have the characteristics observed by Mark and his family. They do not hover at such heights for so long, their navigation lights are different colours and blink in a regular pattern. Some form of balloon or dirigible does not fit the appearance of the object and would not be able to stay stationary for so long, given that there was a constant wind speed of around 13-15 kph all evening, blowing from the South-East. It does not seem to have been anything astronomical. At 6pm the sun was about 20 degrees above the horizon. Sunset was about 8:31pm. The Moon was nearly full and rose at 6:31pm in the South-East, but it’s highest point was only 20 degrees above the horizon, which it reached at 11pm, so the timing is all wrong and the Moon would have been hidden behind their house during this sighting period. Given that the sighting happened in the early evening, the sky would not have become very dark until after 9pm when the object disappeared, so stars and other celestial objects would not be easy to see yet. There were no bright planets visible in this section of the sky. There was the Perseids meteor shower during this part of August, but it was best viewed from 1am through to dawn. Also, meteors move fast in a straight line and leave trails. They are only visible for seconds. Satellites also move in straight lines and they do not remain stationary, or make horizontal reverse manoeuvres, so rule out, for example, Starlink. The Space Station can appear similar to an airplane or a very bright star moving across the night sky, except it does not have flashing lights or change direction. It probably wouldn’t have been dark enough to see such artificial objects until after 9pm anyway. Some sort of laser display seems unlikely, because there were few clouds to reflect the light and no laser beam was seen coming up from the ground. Also, as far as I have been able to research, there doesn’t seem to have been any public events in Smethwick, or the wider area, that would have involved a laser display in August 2016. In the local area, there is some higher land and parks, including Dudley Castle and Wren’s Nest about 5 miles away, but these are all to the North-West of where Mark lives, which is in the opposite direction to where he saw this object. To the South-East there is Warley Woods Country Park and Golf Course and Lightwoods Park, beyond those is the Hagley Road West (A456). Then there’s Harborne and the University of Birmingham. Harborne Hospital does have a helicopter landing pad, but it wasn’t a helicopter operating to/from there, because it was not seen ascending, or descending and was stationary for too long. Drones were being used in 2016, but were not as common as they are now. Drones do not reach the sort of height that Mark describes, nor do they remain stationary for so long – several hours in this case. This also rules out police-controlled drones which could have been conducting ground-based searches. Given that the object was observed behind their house, at a high altitude, nothing related to this landscape would be an explanation of what was seen. Details of the Observations Made The object was observed for some time with the naked eye by 4 people. Then, two of them saw it with the telescope once, with the first lens in. Mark and his wife saw it through the telescope twice, with the different lenses in. Note that the 9mm lens is a higher magnification than the 25mm lens. 9mm lens: It gives better details of the image, but the image appears darker, dimmer and more subject to atmospheric turbulence. 25mm lens: Easier to locate objects, because of it’s wider field. Gives a steadier, larger, brighter image, especially on poor seeing nights. It was a good night for seeing things, so both lenses were good to use. Mark saw it first as a sparkling star, or silver dot randomly varying in brightness. With the first eye-piece (25mm) he saw 2 sparkling lights side-by-side. With the second eye-piece (9mm) he saw a rotating/shimmering, silver-coloured object. Mark says “Every time my kids saw the three lights and four lights I checked as well and saw the same.” 1st Child -Three sparkling lights side-by-side. 2nd Child - Four sparkling lights side-by-side. Wife - Saw two vertical sparkling lights on each viewing. Analysis The fact that the object was visible for so long in the same part of the sky rules out all conventional, man-made objects and many astronomical objects, such as shooting stars. It was seen by 4 people independently, with naked eyes so was clearly visible, and then each person also saw it through a telescope. Mark and his wife saw it through telescope lenses of different magnification. Mark also saw it through a mobile phone camera lens. So, it was likely a solid object, described as having raised curved edges, which was rotating. This caused it to vary in appearance as the sunlight reflected unevenly off the curved edges. It’s sudden high-speed horizontal movement and reverse manoeuvre, as illustrated in the diagram with 3 circles, is most unusual and defies explanation. This must be an example of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP), unless more information becomes available and helps to decide otherwise. Historical Sightings In The Area? Mark did research other reports of sightings in the area. There were several in 2016. On 8th August 2016 one witness saw a large silent triangular UFO with flashing lights move at a fast speed across the sky. This was reported on the UK UFO website (no longer available) On 11th / 18th June 2016 at around 10:10pm less than 2 km from Mark's house a large stationary orb which glowed a variety of colours was observed and photographed. This case was previously investigated by Birmingham UFO Group. The case report can be read here . On 7th September 2015 on Laundry Road several objects were reported making a vertical ascent. The observer stated: “I thought was a Jumbo jet at first, but strangely this object flew straight upwards like a rocket, and with no sound. There were actually 3 of these objects altogether, one after the other, also a aeroplane followed closely afterwards in the other direction.” In Spring / Summer 1978 a couple sighted a grey disc-shaped craft with a line of multicoloured lights around it. This was again investigated by BUFOG, click here to go to the report. In June 1964 a formation of grey circular UFOs were observed one afternoon. Click here for the report on this historic incident and other sightings around Smethwick. A West Midlands Police FOI request, published in October 2024, gave the following information about reports they had received since February 2015. They are brief notes based on phone-calls people have made to the police. No other details, such as contact numbers are included. December 2016: CALLER REPORTING THAT FOR THE LAST HOUR THERE HAS BEEN A BRIGHT LIGHT HOVERING IN THE SKY AROUND BELOW ROAD AND ABOVE THE TRAIN TRACKS. EVERY SO OFTEN IT WOULD MOVE BACK AND FORTH . NO SOUNDS LIKE ROTORS ETC. Location: Birmingham West One in Wolverhampton, similar to Mark’s, about a year later: 2017 August THERE IS A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT AND ITS NOT MOVING HAD THOUGHT IT WAS A PLANE BUT ITS NOT MOVING BEEN THERE FOR AN HOUR- SHE HAS FILMED AND TAKEN PHOTOS OF IT. IS HIGH IN THE SKY. NOT THE MOON. HAD THOUGHT IT WAS A SATELLITE. Location: Wolverhampton Copyright Ian Jones 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2021 Last Updated: 29/03/2026   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   In October 2021 I was contacted by a nurse from Ombersley, near Stourport, who I shall name “Marie”. She wanted to discuss various experiences she has had throughout her life. I arranged an extensive Facebook Messenger video call to go over what has taken place.   Timelines   In 1971 when she was 6 years old she was out walking through Kidderminster with her family (she cannot recall where). As she walked along the street she could suddenly see on one side of the street old fashioned housing and ladies wearing what appeared to be Victorian dresses. When she looked on the other side of the street she saw men wearing silver coloured suits. It was as if she was seeing both past and future at the same time, like both had bled into the present for a short period of time.   This phenomenon is what is commonly referred to as a “time slip”, although it is very rare to see multiple different times at once. She did not tell her mother “Sarah” what she could see, back then it felt like this was completely normal. It was only later when she discussed her experiences that she realised this was anything but.   Coloured Auras   Marie claims to be able to have been able to sometimes see glowing coloured auras around people since a very early age, which sometimes relate to their emotional state.   An example from her childhood which she discussed with me occurred in the early 1970s when she was around 6 years old. She and her mum “Sarah” were out walking in Kidderminster. They were walking Eastward along Offmore Road.   Aerial map of Offmore Road   A man was walking towards them. As they were holding hands and the pavement was not particularly wide the man started to shift from side to side wondering how to get past. In the end they came to a halt facing one another. Everyone saw the lighter side of the situation and started to laugh.   Photograph of Offmore Road  Marie began to see bubbles of colourful energy all around the body of the man. They seemed more prominent around his upper half. She viewed this as being able to visualize the joyfulness coming from the man. She was not frightened, it was really uplifting.   Around age 11 Marie started at a new school. She was listening to the teacher as he walked across the classroom. As he walked she could see a bright blue glow emanating from his body. Initially she wondered if it was a trick of the light, but it remained as he moved around to different parts of the room. She was absolutely fascinated.   At that time in her life she was living with “Claire”, a friend of her mothers who was a medium. That evening she told her what had happened. Claire informed her that what she was seeing was the etheric body, believed by some to be the first layer in the human energy field.   Marie began to interpret different colours as different emotions. She would tell her friends how they were feeling. When they asked her how she knew this, she would let them know that she could see it.   One day a girl was walking towards her who appeared to have a rosy pink haze all around her. Marie said to her “Oooo you look like you’re in love!”  The girl looked at her shocked. She informed Marie that a boy that she had been interested in for ages had just asked her out.   OBEs For a period of several months, in either the following year or the year after, Marie claims that she would be able to consciously bring on out-of-body experiences at will.   After this she lost the ability to initiate it directly, but it would still sometimes happen naturally when she was either lying in bed or meditating.   The last time it happened was when she was in a meditation group around age 15. She tumbled out of her physical body and floated up above the roof of the house. She looked down at her house and up at the stars.   Disc Encounter One day when she was around 9-10 years old she was playing with her younger brother “Lee” in the back garden of their terraced house in Kidderminster. It was a sunny and dry day with some light cloud, but a chill in the air. Lee was further down the garden, about 20 feet from her. Suddenly she had a very ominous feeling like something was about to happen. She then heard a low humming noise which made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. She looked up into the sky to find the source of this strange sound.   Hovering right over her brother was a disc-shaped object. It was about 25 feet in diameter, and a grey-silver colour. In the centre of the base was a circular section, possibly a door. On the top was a low dome shape. Around the central rim of the object was rotating red, white and green coloured lights which were blinking on and off.   The UFO hovered completely still in the air. Lee had also noticed the object and was looking directly up at it. They stood there staring for what felt to be about a minute. The next thing Marie became aware of was Sarah running down the garden. She grabbed hold of Lee, ran back towards her, grabbed hold of her too, and shouted “Get in the house!”     She pulled them both back inside the back door, slammed and locked the door. Both she and Lee were awestruck by what had happened, but Sarah was terrified. Lee ran upstairs out of sight.   After a minute or so Sarah and Marie headed upstairs to go and see if he was alright. They found him standing by the window of his bedroom and waving. The UFO was still there hovering over the back garden. Lee said that he could see some portholes with figures inside the windows, and that one of them had waved back at him.   Sarah was really cross and shouted “Get away from the window!”  She took them both downstairs, out of the front door of the house and across the road to where their grandparents lived. Marie’s grandfather “Derek” opened the door. Still frightened, Sarah informed him of what had just taken place.   They looked up and saw that the disc had followed them across the road and was now positioned half over the roof! They quickly all headed inside. Marie does not believe her grandfather had seen it properly as he told them to not be silly and said that it must be a helicopter. Agitated by this suggestion Sarah said to him “Don’t be ridiculous, how can it be a helicopter?”   They did not see the UFO after this. When they finally headed back outside it was nowhere in sight. They did not talk about the incident much afterwards. However, Marie does recall that there were some reports about UFO sightings in the local newspaper. Sadly she did not keep the articles, and without a precise date it would be extremely challenging to attempt to track them down.   Several years later Marie and Lee decided to tell their cousins about the sighting. They decided at this stage to independently draw the object. When they checked they saw that the two drawings were identical. This felt like confirmation that it had taken place as they remembered it. Messages From Beyond   When Marie was 17 she was around her boyfriend “Stuart’s” house for Christmas with his family. They were all sitting together in the living room. She was sitting on the sofa. All of a sudden out of the corner of her eye she saw a glowing light.   Looking across the room she saw a small Christmas card on a shelf. The card looked like it had glowing light emanating from it. As her attention was drawn to it she got a vision of the card really close to her face for a brief moment. She thought to herself “Ok, who’s that card from?”   She pointed out the card to Stuart and asked him. He said to her “That card’s from grandmother.”  Marie responded saying “I thought your gran had died?” Stuart explained that this was the last card she ever sent his mother “Jenny”, so every year since she would put it there in memory of her.   Armed with this information Marie closed her eyes and relaxed. In her mind she asked whether there was a particular reason the card had been brought to her attention. Immediately she felt a warm sensation of peace and love wash over her. Tears began to roll down her cheeks.   She then saw the vision of an elderly lady’s face in her mind really close in front of her. The lady had curled grey coloured hair, pale blue eyes and a hooked narrow nose. She had never met Stuart’s grandmother but assumed that this must be her. In her mind she said “Oh hello!”  Excitedly the lady responded saying “I’ve got through! I’ve got through! Tell Jenny I’m alright, I promised I’d let her know.”  Marie agreed to this request. She then got an impression that she was sitting in the chair alongside the sofa. She immediately sensed that this had been her favourite chair. She asked Stuart “Did your gran have a favourite chair in the room?”  He asked her why, puzzled by the smile on her face and tears on her cheeks. Pointing at the chair, Marie said “Did your nan used to sit in this chair here?”  Stuart said “Yeah! Whenever she came over she would sit in that chair!”   Marie went on to explain the vision of the lady she’d got and what she’d been told. Stuart said “You’d better come and tell mum.”  They went and found her. Marie said “I don’t want to scare you. I’ve just had a message. I believe it’s from your mum!”  She told Jenny what the lady had said. Shocked, she just exclaimed “Good god!”  Jenny then explained that she had a pact with her mother, that whoever died first would try to come back and let the other know they are alright.   Marie described what the lady had looked like. Jenny informed her that this is was her mother. She then went and got some photographs of her for Marie to see. Sure enough, it was her she had seen in her mind!   On another occasion Marie was looking to purchase a house in Gloucester. She decided to go to visit a particular housing estate to take a look at the properties there. When she arrived at the estate she had familiar feeling of being connected with the area, even though she had never been there before. For an unknown reason she felt a compulsion to walk a particular direction, almost like a magnetic pull. She walked around a corner and noticed an estate agent. Heading inside, a lady came out of the back room. There were no other customers at the time. Marie said “I’m just killing a bit of time, do you mind if I hover around here and have a look?”   The lady was fine with this and even offered to make her a cup of coffee. When she came back out with the drinks, Marie went and sat down facing her. Behind her was a plain grey coloured wall. They began chatting. All of a sudden she saw a glowing pinprick of white light above the lady’s right shoulder. It grew in intensity like a flash. This was not the first time she’d seen this. She knew that it meant someone wanted to get through from the other side.   She could have said nothing, but instead decided to act on it. She said to the lady “Look I know I’ve only just met you. Do you believe in anything spiritual?”  Surprised by the question the lady responded “Oh that’s really strange you should say that. A long time ago I would have said no. But I had a really strange experience recently which changed my mind!”  Marie said “I don’t want to freak you out but I feel there’s someone trying to connect with you on a spirit level.”   Marie sensed that the spirit was male. She said to the lady “It’s a male energy, but very gentle. I’m seeing the colour baby blue. The letter J. Six months ago.”  The lady’s face suddenly looked shocked. She informed Marie that her daughter had lost a baby boy six months ago, and she had nicknamed him J for Junior. She started to cry.   Marie sensed that the spirit needed to connect with this lady, and had made a very strong link with her. She informed the lady that he’s going to grow up and stay connected with her and her daughter. The lady could barely believe what she was being told. She was crying but happy at the same time.   Dreams   Soon after her encounter with the UFO Marie began to have some very vivid dreams which appeared related.   In one she was near the top of a grass-covered hill. She peered over the ridge and lower down on the other side was a landed craft with beings outside it. They were wearing silvery-white coloured body suits.   One of them appeared to sense Marie looking at them and glanced up at her. She thought to herself “Oh my god, they’ve seen me!”  She crouched back down out of sight. Suddenly the being appeared right next to her. This was the last thing she recollected.   In another dream she was crouching in a hall with a lot of other people. Everyone was really frightened so keeping low to the floor. At the front of the hall stood a number of alien beings. They had large eyes and were wearing black coloured body suits covered in a mesh like texture.   Marie could feel the beings scanning the room in an attempt to find humans who were receptive to them. She felt a magnetic pull towards them which felt really ominous and made her heart beat fast. Nobody else stood up. Even though she was scared she felt a pull in her mind to stand up.   In the end she decided that the beings were not there to harm her so gave in and approached them. The beings led her into an adjoining room of some kind. This was where the dream ended.   While Marie cannot relate either of these dreams to real locations which she was aware of, it is possible that aspects of them were flashbacks to things which she had experienced. It does seem perhaps too coincidental that these occurred following the sighting of the disc.   Meditative Vision   Around 2011 Marie would meet up regularly with a group of other like-minded people in Ombersley to meditate. One of her friends at the group claimed to be in contact with ETs through their mediation. Marie decided to open herself up to the possibility of potentially linking with them too.   She sank into a peaceful state and welcomed them to make contact. Suddenly she saw the face of a Grey in front of her with large dark eyes. Initially she was frightened of the presence of this being. She then heard a voice inside her mind seemingly from it not her. It said that her fear was produced by chemicals and pollution. That what we put into our bodies is poisoning and creating a screen through which we look at the world.   She then saw a vision of the being again a little further away from her. It was quite short in height, had a large head but skinny body. She sensed pure love coming from its eyes. It wanted to express that they are trying to help. In her mind Marie asked “Who are you?”  The being replied “Arshan.” It then explained that it would like to work with her to strengthen her mental focus. Marie was taken aback by this and said “Ok, thank you!”  With this the vision faded.   Since this incident occasionally Marie had got a feeling that the being is linking with her while she is in a meditative state.   How you view these claims will depend entirely on whether you believe mediation can be a method of communicating with non-human beings. There is obviously no proof beyond what Marie claims to have taken place, nor any proof that it is genuine contact. But I have dealt with a number of cases over the years where people claim to have met beings while meditating.   Conclusions   Marie appears to possess a number of sixth sense abilities. Psychic abilities like these are commonly mentioned by experiencers, and there is a definite link with contact, although exactly what that link is has not yet been conclusively proved.   The UFO sighting that Marie and her family had is impressive and certainly seemed to be an advanced craft as opposed to mis-identification of something mundane, and the fact that it was followed by numerous vivid dreams is intriguing and suggests that more may have occurred than she can currently recollect.   This case appears to be ongoing, and it is great to see that Marie appears to have moved past her initial fears. She may well continue to have further experiences, so this report could be added to in the future.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave HodrienRelease Year: 2021 Last Updated: 26/03/2026   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   On 12 th  September 2021 “Lucy” and her husband were out dowsing a leyline at Meon Hill, an Iron Age hill fort in Warwickshire. It was 1:30pm and a warm and dry day with patchy clouds in the sky. As they dowsed they took some photographs.   Aerial map of Meon Hill They saw nothing at the time but later on when checking the photos they noticed an unusual object in the sky. Here are the photographs taken:   Zoomed picture of the object:   Zoomed picture with edge find:   The final photograph in the sequence indicates that the object is no longer present:   Unfortunately the method used to send me the photographs means that the metadata has been lost. However, I have no reason to doubt they are authentic.   The object resembles a black oval ring (or circular ring viewed at an angle). The witness states that the photographs show it at different positions in the sky, indicating it was climbing. However, after examining the images I do not agree with this statement. The positioning of the object within the frame of the pictures remains the same, it is the angle the camera was held at which changes, giving the illusion of it rising.   There is also no indication of exactly how far away from the lens the object actually is. The object does not change position in frame or shape in any way across the photographs. It is not necessarily an object in the distance at all, it could be a tiny object actually on the camera lens, such as a tiny piece of vegetation or other airborne debris. This would explain why neither Lucy nor her husband noticed anything in the sky at the time. It does not look like an insect so I believe this can be discounted.   It is correct that it has vanished in the final photograph, but perhaps it was only stuck to the camera lens for a short while before falling off, or even being wiped off by Lucy’s husband.   I believe that this is the most likely explanation for the photographs and therefore consider this case closed.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 17/03/2026 Last Updated: 19/03/2026   Introduction   My wife Natasha’s maiden name is Patching. Many years ago she reached out to a lady from Tampa, Florida named Sherrie Patching who she came across on Facebook. They have remained in touch ever since.  In February 2026 I and Natasha took a flight to Tampa for a cruise around the Gulf of Mexico. Because we were in the area and had a number of hours available, Natasha decided that it would be a great opportunity to meet up with Sherrie and her son Brandon.   On the morning of 13 th  February Brandon arrived at our bed & breakfast in his truck, and we headed to a nearby breakfast diner for some food and conversation. During our chat Sherrie wanted to find out more about my work as a UFO investigator. She also went over the details of a fascinating incident which she and her friend Peggy had experienced back in the late 1960s.   After I was back from the cruise I got back in touch via Facebook Messenger video call to go over everything in more depth. Sadly, as it happened so long ago there are gaps in Sherrie’s recollection of events, but there is still enough known to warrant this case report.   Incident Details   Back in the 1960s Sherrie’s husband Jimmy was a travelling salesman. He and Sherrie used to travel around various states as part of a crew of young adults. They would visit colleges to speak with students and sell magazines.   Around late 1967 to early 1968 they were either in Alabama or Texas (sadly Sherrie cannot recollect the precise location). One day she and her friend Peggy were sent out by their manager (Peggy’s older brother Bill) to visit a college. Peggy was only 16 years old at the time.   At around 6pm they left the college and began the drive back to the motel where they were staying. Peggy owned a car which they had used to get to the college.   They were driving along a wide highway in a very rural location. Either side of the road were flat farmer’s fields. It was a clear, dry and still evening. Sherrie recollects that it was not particularly busy on the road but there were occasional other vehicles.   They were relaxing and listening to music. As Peggy drove along the road and the sun slowly set, Sherrie stared out of the passenger side window at the open fields on the right. After a while she noticed a white light in the distance which appeared to be a yard light on a farm. This was quite common to see in the area because the farm houses were usually positioned quite far away from the edge of the road.   She kept her eye on the light. After a short while she realised that it was still visible and did not appear to have moved. The longer she watched it, the more she became aware that the light was moving! It appeared to be travelling at the same speed as their own car.   She let her friend know, saying “Peggy, look at this light out my side of the car, it seems to be travelling at the same speed we’re going!”  Peggy glanced at the light but did not try slowing down or stopping the car to see if the light did the same.   They continued their journey. At the same time as observing the light, Sherrie began to notice that cars were occasionally pulling over and stopping at the side of the road. It looked like they had also spotted the light and had stopped to check it out.   Suddenly the white light seemed to dim. As it did the object behind it came into view. It appeared to be disc shaped and hovering just over the tree-line. It looked dark grey in colour, although this may have been partially due to the low amount of light in the sky at this point.   Without warning the object suddenly shot extremely rapidly towards the highway, roughly a mile ahead of them. As it got close to the road it suddenly ascended and passed over the road in a semi-circular arc!   When it reached the left side of the highway, at roughly the altitude it had been before, it hovered still for a brief moment. Then it suddenly shot vertically at a tremendous speed, vanishing in seconds due to the height. Sherrie could barely believe what she had just witnessed. She excitedly told Peggy what she had just seen.   Sketch showing the path of the UFO from Sherrie's recollection She cannot recall the remainder of the drive to the motel. However, she does remember that when they arrived there the rest the crew were waiting in a group outside. They appeared very concerned. To her recollection they had arrived at the motel much later than expected.   When Sherrie informed the crew about what they had seen they laughed at her. Because of this negative reaction this was the last time Sherrie discussed the incident with anyone. She doesn’t recall even going back over the details with Peggy.   After the incident Sherrie found that she could not relax while travelling in the car after dark. She became fascinated with looking up at the sky in the hopes of seeing something again. This led to an interest in the UFO subject. The more she read, the more she became convinced that she and Peggy had witnessed an alien craft.   One day in the early 1970s she was sitting in her doctor’s office waiting for an appointment. She came across an article about the Betty & Barney Hill abduction case. As she read the details her whole body became nervous and she started to shake.   Photograph of Betty & Barney Hill   In the mid-70s she was visiting her mother in Memphis, Tennessee. While she was there the movie of the case The UFO Incident happened to be on television. The film re-ignited her interest in what had happened to her and Peggy.   Still from The UFO Incident Her husband got in touch with the crew manager via phone, who passed on Peggy’s number. Sherrie then gave her a call. Even though she couldn’t speak for long because of the call expenses back then, she was so thrilled to discuss the incident with her.   She asked her “Do you remember that experience we had when we were driving back from college?” Peggy excitedly responded “Oh my god yes!” They both confirmed with one another that they’d never felt able to talk about it with anyone else. This brief call convinced her that she had not lost her mind and the incident had actually taken place.   Over the following decades Peggy formed a deeper understanding of the subject. She was comfortable with what had happened, but just wanted to know more about where the craft had come from, who was piloting it and why they had been there.   In the 1990s she once again felt a strong compulsion to get back in touch with Peggy. Jimmy once again managed to get hold of her telephone number. By now calls were much cheaper and Sherrie was able to have a much deeper conversation about what Peggy remembered. When Peggy described the incident, Sherrie was shocked to realise that her recollection of events was significantly different to what she personally recalled. But something deep inside her knew that what Peggy informed her was the truth.   Instead of the UFO being off in the distance, Peggy said that the craft had approached right over the car. Sherrie was apparently terrified and was trying to climb out of the passenger side window while the car was in motion. Peggy kept screaming at her to not be afraid, shouting “They didn’t hurt us! They didn’t hurt us!”  She used her left hand to keep steering, and her right to grab hold of Sherrie. She then stated that the UFO flew ahead of them before performing the semi-circular manoeuvre over the road.   Sketch of possible actual path of the UFO:  Thinking back to the incident, Sherrie had convinced herself that the reason they had arrived late to the motel was because they had spent time at a party at the college before departing. However, Peggy informed her this was not the case, and they had left on time, around 6pm. The journey time to the motel should have been no more than 3 hours, yet when they arrived it had been around 11pm.   Peggy stated that her brother Bill was extremely worried and wanted to find out what had happened. She said that she went back to his room to discuss things, and when they went there they were met by two unknown men who started pressing her regarding what had happened. Apparently Bill was quite strong, and when he got involved they backed off.   Incident Analysis   Towards the start of the investigation I asked Sherrie if I would also be able to speak with Peggy regarding what she recollected happening. Sherrie had not spoken with her in a good while, but did have her contact details so got in touch with her via phone. Unfortunately, a complication has arisen. Peggy is an author and has written a novel. She is currently working with a production company to adapt this into a movie. The company has expressed an interest in making a film relating to her and Sherrie's UFO encounter in the future, and as a result she has apparently signed a contract stating that she will not give any interviews relating to it. This means that at present I only have Sherrie’s testimony of events to go on. However, after speaking with her directly and via Messenger numerous times I have absolutely no doubt that the details she has provided are accurate to the best of her knowledge.   If the UFO had remained as a distant white light seemingly following alongside them at the same speed, I would have potentially put it down to a bright star/planet low down in the sky. However, the fact that the light dimmed revealing the disc-shaped object puts this possibility out of the question.   The manoeuvres it was seen to perform were clearly advanced. It could not have been an aeroplane as before it ascended vertically it came to a halt in the sky. It was moving much too rapidly to have been a helicopter, and the incident occurred many decades before drones were available. It was also moving much too fast for other mundane explanations such as an inflatable drifting on air currents or radio controlled model.   What Peggy later informed Sherrie over the phone is absolutely fascinating. It suggests that both of them were abducted that evening, and that Peggy potentially had some knowledge of this fact. At the very least she seemed to be aware of the fact that the UFO had approached and hovered over the car.   Whether she had any conscious memories of what happened next, or was just making the assumption that they’d been taken due to how Sherrie was reacting is unknown at present. It is also unclear whether Sherrie was traumatised just by the fact that the UFO had flown close to them, or whether at the time she was aware that something else had happened.   The fact that they arrived back at the motel much later than expected, as confirmed by the concern of the rest of the crew on their arrival, combined with what Peggy confirmed over the phone, indicates that there was a period of time that could not be accounted for, at least a couple of hours.   There is also the implication that there was some kind of surveillance going on regarding what had happened, with two unidentified men trying to press Peggy for answers at her brother’s motel room. If Peggy decides to provide a statement at a later point we may find out more about these intriguing aspects of the case.   Even though some of the specific details of what happened here have been lost due to how long ago it took place, I still believe it is worth getting down on official record. I would like to thank Sherrie for openly coming forward with this information, and hope that in due course more details will come to light.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2021 Last Updated: 10/03/2026   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   “Hannah” first got in touch with me in early 2021 to discuss vivid dreams and other experiences she has had over the years. She wanted to find answers to what had taken place and hear my thoughts. We went over everything via Facebook Messenger. Unfortunately, after our initial chat communication ceased so there are some gaps regarding what is known.   Spinning   In her childhood Hannah lived with her parents and older sister “Rebecca” on Newbury Street, Wolverhampton.   Aerial map of Newbury Road On numerous occasions when she was young she would sometimes feel like the room was revolving as she was lying down in bed and in the process of dropping off to sleep. It would make her feel nauseous and giddy.   In the morning when she woke up this nausea would remain, and she would also feel drained of energy. It would also feel like she had been somewhere else, but she could never recall any details.   As she got older, these incidents appeared to cease. However, on 19 th January 2021 it randomly happened again.   While these experiences could be interpreted as abductions removed from Hannah’s mind, they could possibly just have a medical explanation. There are a number of conditions which can create the feeling of the room spinning while lying down, including Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).   Ceiling Entity   One evening in 2011 when she was 10 years old she decided to head upstairs around 10pm. As she reached the landing she looked up and was shocked to see what appeared to be the black silhouette of a long haired head coming down out of the ceiling. It looked like a woman hanging upside-down, but no facial features were visible.   Hannah turned around and ran back downstairs thinking to herself “What the hell did I just see?”  She called her parents and informed them she’d just seen a spirit dangling from the ceiling. They told her it was probably just in her mind and made her go back upstairs to her room. She was frightened but obeyed their request. When she headed back upstairs the shadowy form was no longer present.   It is possible that the entity was an unusual shadow cast from something which Hannah mistook for the silhouette of a lady. She only saw it the once and was only 10 at the time. That said, the idea that it was a genuine spirit of some kind cannot be ruled out entirely.   Footsteps   In February 2019 Hannah moved with her family to a house on Mc Farland’s Down on the Isles of Scilly.   Aerial map of Mc Farland's Down   For the first 6 months nothing unusual took place at the address. However, in September Hannah began to regularly hear the sound of footsteps, roughly three times a week. Most of the time she would hear them in the early hours of the morning between 3-4am.   One night she was lying on her side in her bed facing away from the room. She suddenly heard footsteps walking towards her across the floor. She was too scared to roll over and look. A moment later she suddenly found she was paralyzed. After several seconds she blacked out. The next thing she became aware of it was morning time.   On another occasion she was sitting in her room chatting to a friend on her mobile phone. Like before she heard what sounded like footsteps moving towards her. She glanced up from her phone but there was nothing visible.   Sighting & Visitation   Hannah informed me that the full moon tends to cause her to feel more energetic and hyperactive than usual. One dry and still night in late March 2020 at midnight she headed out to the back garden to look up at the moon. It was a bit cold but a very clear sky.   While standing out there she happened to look directly overhead. She was amazed to see several grey coloured disc-shaped objects hovering directly over her. Each had a red light in its base. They were completely stationary.   Hannah thought to herself “That’s quite odd!”  The presence of the objects excited her. She started at them for around 5 minutes, although it seemed a lot longer at the time. She had left her mobile phone in the house at the time so could not attempt to photograph or video them.   After this time, she decided to run inside and get her parents to come and see them. When they all headed back outside a minute later the objects had sadly disappeared. They went back inside, and Hannah decided to go to bed.   About 10 minutes later she had not yet dropped off and was lying awake but with her eyes closed. Suddenly she felt a presence in the room near to her. When she opened her eyes she saw three Grey beings. Two were standing alongside her bed. The third was over by the bedroom door. All of them wear wearing black coloured suits. They had large black almond-shaped eyes. One of the two beings close to her was holding a syringe in its hand.   As with previous experiences she found she could not move. She thought to herself “What’s going on here?”  A moment later she felt a sudden pain on her left wrist which felt like a needle injection. She then felt a spinning sensation and blacked out.   When she came round she was waking up around 8am. Hannah says that she would not usually wake up this early. She felt nauseous and had a headache.   Hannah remembered what had happened during the night. She found two small red dots on her left wrist. She also found a small red sore patch on her thigh which had several darker red dots within it. One of these dots looked very reflective, almost like it had metal in it. She was particularly intrigued by this marking so took two photographs of it:   Hannah was convinced that these markings had not been on her the previous evening. By the following day the marking on her thigh had completely vanished. However, the dots on her left wrist remained. Over time they have faded and became less red in colour, but are still visible today (The two most right marks): Unlike her previous experiences what happened here clearly has links with contact. The fact that the UFOs were observed hovering directly overhead means they were likely to have been there intentionally. It seems extremely probable that the Greys she saw in her room were the occupants of the disc-shaped objects she had seen while standing in the back garden.   While none of the markings can be confirmed as injuries from this visitation, the fact that she saw a syringe in one of the Grey’s hands, then felt a sharp pain in her left wrist, and the following morning found two red dots that looked like needle marks which left permanent scars should not be overlooked.   Further Paranormal Activity   Within weeks of the visitation experience Hannah was relaxing in the living room one afternoon by herself. She suddenly had the urge to take a photograph of the open living room door for an unknown reason. When she checked her iPhone she saw a dark shape in the doorway which she interprets as a figure:   On another evening Hannah’s friend had visited her for dinner. They were eating at the kitchen table when suddenly a plastic plate fell off the drainer by the sink onto the floor. When they heard the sound it made them both jump. There was seemingly no reason for why it would have fallen.   The following day one of her mother’s friends came over to spend the night. Her mother had offered her the bed in her sister’s room, as she was away from home at the time. When they went into the room to show her the view from the window, a light on top of the wardrobe fell off by itself. Hannah says that the wardrobe was very heavy, and it is unlikely that vibrations of them walking would have caused the lamp to fall.   While some of these incidents could be paranormal in nature, it is possible that the objects Hannah describes moving merely fell of their own accord due to positioning. Also the photograph she took is far from conclusive, and the figure could just be down to what is known as paraedolia, the tendency to make recognisable things out of random patterns of light and dark.   Female Voices   One night in the summer of 2020 Hannah had gone to bed and was in a semi-awake state. Suddenly she felt something brush against her which felt like someone stroking her hair. At the same time she heard what sounded like a young female voice say “It’s ok, it’s going to be ok.”  A moment later, just like when she had heard the footsteps she realised she could not move, and then soon blacked out.   About a week later she was lying awake in bed around 11pm when for an unknown reason she suddenly felt compelled to open the front door of the house. She got up out of bed, walked downstairs and opened the door. Due to the time of evening it was fully dark outside.   When she did she heard a female voice say “Hey!”  The voice sounded like it had come from the bushes outside. Confused by the voice she walked up to the bushes and searched them, but there was nothing there. This un-nerved her and she headed back inside.   Shadow Beings   In December 2020 the paranormal activity in her home seemed to get more pronounced. On several occasions she saw a shadowy figure wearing a top hat, both in her bedroom and on the landing. On these incidents she would feel oppressed and threatened by it.   On one of these occasions she was lying in bed around 11pm. The room lights were off and she felt relaxed. Her eyes were wandering around the room. Suddenly she spotted the figure. It was about 7 feet tall and looked like it was wearing a hop hat. It also had red glowing eyes. The entity stood still, staring at her. It was standing by the bedroom door. At the same time, as with previous occasions she realised she could not move.   Soon she dropped off to sleep. She then had a nightmare where it approached her, making her feel a little nauseous.   In the morning her boyfriend on the mainland, “Paul”, contacted her via phone. He informed her that he had dreamt of a “black mass” and having a nose bleed during the night! Hannah then told him what she recalled seeing.   Abduction Flashbacks   In mid-January 2021 Hannah had what she describes as a “very vivid nightmare”. She said that it different to a normal dream, much more real. She awoke at around 3am feeling like she had been somewhere else but couldn’t remember clearly where. Her stomach and left shoulder ached.   When she thought back to what had happened she recollected lying awake in her bed and then suddenly feeling like she couldn’t move. She tried screaming but no sound came out. She then blacked out.   Her next recollection was the feeling of a hard flat surface below her. There was a sharp pain in her lower stomach area which felt like she was being prodded by a rod of some kind. There was also a pressure in her left shoulder blade like something was inside it.   Despite these strange memories she managed to drop back off to sleep. She now recalled things much more vividly. She was standing in another location with really bright lights all around her.   In front of her stood five Grey beings. They were all about 4.5 feet in height and were wearing grey coloured body suits. They had pale grey coloured smooth skin and large black almond-shaped eyes. They had thin slits for mouths. No ears were visible. One of the beings was standing very close to her, only a foot away. The others were a little further back. They were all staring at her. She was transfixed by their eyes.   She then looked down and realised she was holding a baby girl. She did not appear to be fully human. She had pale grey coloured skin with black eyes, a small nose and really small ears. Her hair was blonde in colour and quite thick. She was wrapped in a grey coloured cloth. By this stage in her life Hannah had looked into the contact phenomenon and knew that this was a hybrid.   Hannah sensed that this baby was hers. She is not sure how she knew this. She felt proud but confused at the same time. Her next conscious recollection was of waking up in the morning around 8am.   Later in the day, around 3pm, some further memories returned as a vivid flashback. She recalled staring into the eyes of the Grey that was standing close to her. She then had a vision in her mind of a future Earth which was in the process of being destroyed by natural disasters including floods and fires. She sensed that it was trying to warn her that if we didn’t change our ways then this would come to pass. It frightened her because she is quite protective of the environment.   Several days later another flashback occurred. She recalled being aboard another craft which was white with a dim light level. She was lying down. There were three female Nordic beings standing around her. They had pale pink skin and blue eyes. All three were wearing blue coloured body suits. One of them had long blonde hair, one short blonde hair and the other short brown hair.   Hannah sensed that the beings were there to protect her. They felt like family to her. The beings then spoke with her telepathically, informing her that they were the Pleidians. Hannah felt that they were unaware that she had already looked into them and knew who they were.   The Nordics informed her that they were going to heal her. She was confused by this statement as she did not feel like she was hurt. She then saw a vision in her mind of the outside of the craft. They appeared to be flying in Earth’s atmosphere at high altitude above the cloud layer. Behind the craft was a second one. Hannah sensed that this contained Greys, and that the Nordics had rescued her from them.   The vision ended and she found herself back on board staring at the Nordic beings. One of them put their hands over her body. The next moment she blacked out. This was where the flashback ended.   Often when experiencers recollect contact experiences the memories return as vivid nightmares or day-time flashbacks. It is possible that what Hannah recollected had actually taken place, especially as the memories felt different to remembering a normal dream. I have dealt with numerous cases before where people have been given hybrid babies to hold, babies which they either sense or are directly told are theirs. I have also dealt with numerous cases where the Greys have shown people visions or images of the destruction of the planet.   However, there are some aspects which may seem hard to believe, for example the supposed rescue of her from the Greys. I have investigated many cases where Nordics and Greys have been observed co-operating with one another towards common agendas, so why in this circumstance would they have felt the need to rescue her from them on this occasion? It is also worth remembering that Hannah had looked into the contact subject so there is the possibility that this experience was just a dream, or was a mix of real and dreamed elements.   White Orbs   On 6 th  February 2021 Hannah woke up around 6:30am. The sun had not yet com up. She decided to video call Paul via Skype on her mobile phone.   After chatting with him she looked out of her bedroom window. She was astonished to see a cluster of small white glowing orbs. Immediately she thought to herself “Oh my gosh, what is happening?”   The orbs were travelling together to the South. There was about 10 of them. They were clustered together but were not all moving at the same speed. Some of them were zig-zagging back and forth. Hannah opened the bedroom window then watched the for about 2 minutes until they vanished into the distance. As she observed them she turned her phone around and showed them to Paul too. After the objects had vanished she decided to go back to sleep for a while.   The orbs were the wrong colour for a group of sky lanterns. These tend to be orange coloured rather than white. A launch of white LED balloons or flight of drones with white lights cannot be ruled out, although it seems improbable that someone would launch lit balloons or drones at 6:30am in such a remote location.   I asked Hannah if she felt the orbs could have been a flock of birds reflecting lights from the ground. She informed me there are no street lights in her local neighbourhood, and they were moving different to birds. Despite this, I feel that birds reflecting moonlight or ground lighting cannot be fully ruled out.   Electrical Interference   Later in the month there were numerous occasions where electrical disturbances appeared to go on. The television set in her room started to turn on or off by itself.   She also owns an electromagnetic reader which is supposed to detect proximity of electricity. Despite owning this for two years with no issues, it started to beep of its own accord at night time, suggesting something electrical was nearby.   On one occasion while talking with Paul on Skype her hairdryer lying under her bed on the other side of the bedroom switched on by itself, frightening them both!   Conclusions   Hannah has had some intriguing experiences. Many of them have not been directly linked with contact, although many experiencers report witnessing paranormal incidents like what she has reported here. Some of what she has experienced may certainly be down to side effects of sleep paralysis or vivid dreams. That said she has experienced after effects from some of these incidents including visible markings and lasting pain. Hannah’s experiences appear to be on-going so this report may be updated in the future if she gets back in touch.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 03/03/2026 Last Updated: 05/03/2026  Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used I was initially contacted by "Julie" in early 2025. She informed me she had been recommended to speak with me by another experiencer who’s case I had previously investigated. She provided a very brief overview of some of her own experiences which went right back to her childhood. I went back to her with some initial questions, to which she responded.   However, following this, due to life getting in the way, it wouldn’t be until much later in the year that we got back in touch and spoke in depth about what has taken place over numerous video calls.   This extensive case report is the end product of these discussions.   Girl on the Back Seat   Julie believes that since a very early age she has possessed innate psychic abilities which have manifested in various ways. She has been informed by her mother "Tara" that she started speaking from about 6 months, and that sometimes she would say words that Tara was thinking.   Her first truly unusual experience is one which she cannot consciously recollect, but one which Tara has told her about. Julie was born in 1975. In the early years of her life she lived with Tara and her father "Martin" in a house in Ryton, a hamlet in Gloucestershire.   Aerial map of Ryton At the time Martin was a lorry driver. He used to set off from Ledbury 3 miles to the North North West. Tara used to drop him off early in the morning, bringing Julie along for the ride in a child seat in the back. The route would take them along Ledbury Road (A417) through Parkway. Aerial map indicating Ledbury (A), Parkway (B) and Ryton (C) One morning between late 1977 - early 1978 around 4:15am they were driving back home after dropping Martin off. Jul,ie was wide awake on the back seat of the car. As they approached the brow of the hill at Parkway according to Tara she began to get upset and began shouting and crying.   Aerial map of Parkway   Photograph of the brow of the hill Tara asked her what was wrong. Julie exclaimed “The little girl who lives here keeps being nasty to me! She’s being horrible to me!”  Of course there was no-one else in the car at the time, so Tara told her to calm down. They continued the journey home and soon Julie seemed to relax.   When she was older Tara informed her about the incident and also told her that a little girl had been hit by a car and died around that location. Ever since it happened she wondered if Julie both saw and interacted with the ghost of this girl.   Of course due to Julie’s young age there is the possibility that this was merely down to childhood imagination rather than a paranormal experience of any kind, there is no way of knowing for sure, especially as she cannot consciously remember what happened.   Sense of Pain   In 1987 when Julie was 12 years old Martin was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. When this developed he had to go into hospital for an operation. He had to remain at the hospital for a number of weeks. Luckily the operation was a success. Julie excitedly accompanied Tara to go and pick him up when he was discharged.   When he got back into the car on the back seat he reached out and put his arm round her. Immediately she felt an extremely severe pain on one side of her lower chest. The pain was so intense that it took her breath away and brought tears to her eyes.   She found out soon afterwards that during the operation Martin needed to have his two bottom ribs taken off on one side. Later on looking back at this incident Julie felt that she had sensed the pain of what her father’s body had endured merely through the act of him putting his arm round her.   Buttons   Between the age of 13-14 Julie and Tara used to play a game. Tara owned a tin of spare buttons of various colours and sizes which she stored in the kitchen. There were various occasions where her mother would take a random button from the tin and hide it behind her back, then ask Julie the colour of the button that she was holding. Most of the time it was just the two of them present, but on one occasion her younger sister Imogen was also there.   Julie claims that she was able to correctly state the colour of the button most of the time, far more often than should have been possible by chance alone. She says that the colour would just come to her mind, and that concentrating on it to try and work it out would stop this from occurring. She only played the game about 4-5 times due to the distraction of her father’s declining health. She has not attempted this in recent years, although says she may be able to do so with someone she feels attuned to.   The Collapse   In her teens Julie used to play tennis regularly. On 26 th Imogen 1990 she was playing a match when an extremely strong sensation came over her. This caused her to fall to the floor. She sensed that something was very wrong. Due to what had happened the instructor suggested she should head back home.   She got on the bus and returned to the house on her own. As she reached home she saw her younger brother "Steve" standing on the front drive. Immediately she knew before asking that her father had passed away. It made complete sense to her – just as she had felt his pain after the hospital operation, she also felt it when his life came to an end.   Glowing Figure   Several days after Martin’s passing Julie was lying in the darkness in her bedroom. Because her father had been ill for quite a period of time before he died she had taken his death quite well and had come to terms with what had happened.   Looking across the darkened room, which was only about 7 foot across, she suddenly noticed something unusual near the far corner. Down by the carpet was what appeared to be a yellow orb of light. Julie compares the colour to that of a fishing lure.   Example photograph of a yellow fishing lure The orb started off quite small in size, about the size of a melon, but as she watched it began to grow! As it got larger it began to take a more humanoid shape.   By the time it stopped growing it resembled a hunched over man, about 5 feet in height. The figure was glowing with a golden light, but was clear enough to see features. She could see that it had the facial features of her father. However, it was not how she would expect him to appear – he looked extremely ill and gaunt. It was also too short – Martin was 5 foot 10 inches tall. It wasn’t pleasant at all, and Julie immediately got the sense that this was not her deceased father, but instead something pretending to be him.   The figure reached its arm out towards her. At this moment she screamed out loud. A moment later Tara opened the door and came rushing into the bedroom. As she did the glowing figure completely disappeared.   Tara asked her what was wrong. She told her what had just happened. Tara felt that Martin had come to say goodbye to her and said “You shouldn’t be afraid, that’s a beautiful thing.” Julie informed her mother that he would not have appeared to her in that way, and that she felt that it had been something else.   The incident traumatised her so much that she slept with the light on from that night onwards right up until the age of 23. She was absolutely convinced that she had been wide awake and that the experience was real and not brought on by grief of her father’s death. She only began sleeping with the light off again after she first met the man who she would later marry. This new relationship comforted her and allowed her to get over her fear of the dark.   Looking back at what happened Julie continues to believe that she was not visited by her father, but instead by a dark supernatural presence. While this is one way of interpreting the incident, there is also the possibility that this was a contact experience, and that this was an ET appearing in the form of her father through what is commonly referred to as a screen memory.   I have investigated many cases where beings have appeared in other forms to individuals, sometimes taking on the appearance of family members or friends. If it was a screen memory, then perhaps this was why the figure did not look right, and also seemed to be too short in height.   Abdominal Markings   One morning around 7am in late summer Julie headed downstairs to the kitchen still in her night wear. She was wearing a frock top so her abdomen was exposed. When she entered the kitchen she found Imogen was already awake.   Her sister looked over at her, then a moment later enquired “What’s that?”  Julie replied “What’s what?”  She looked down at her abdomen where her sister was staring. On either side of her lower abdomen, around the position of her ovaries were two oval-shaped markings. The skin was a dark pink and smooth, almost like scars which had healed over. They were not sore, but looked like someone had pressed their thumbs onto her.   Soon Tara came downstairs. Julie pointed out the markings to her. She did not seem bothered by them and simply said “Oh don’t worry about it!”   Julie expected the markings to heal up and disappear. However, while they did fade to a silvery white colour, they remained permanently visible. Imogen started to refer to them as her “alien autopsy marks”, although she only meant this in jest rather than a serious viewpoint on their origin. As they did not cause any discomfort she did not get them diagnosed by her GP.   The markings are no longer visible because since they appeared Julie has had two C-sections. Both of these happened to be cut across right through where they were situated. Interestingly Julie informed me that the skin around the positions of the markings took longer to heal up, almost like it had been weakened in some way.   While many experiencers have reported finding markings at various positions on their bodies after contact experiences, Julie does not remember anything occurring during the night before they appeared. There are a number of mundane explanations for such markings which cannot be fully discounted, including a rare autoimmune condition known as Morphea, and a rash called Pityriasis Rosea, although the later is not supposed to leave lasting scars.   Haunted Mansion   By the following year Julie had started dating a boy named "Ben" who lived in Much Marcle 3 miles to the West. Ben’s father worked as a gardener at a Tudor manor house named Hellens Manor, situated close to the outskirts of the village. Because of his position he and his family were given permission to stay at the manor rent free.   Aerial map indicating Hellens Manor (A), Much Marcle (B) and Ryton (C)   Photograph of Hellens Manor As with many other manor houses, the building is steeped in history, and is believed to be haunted by numerous ghosts. Below is a link to a page on the Haunted Britain website providing an overview of these hauntings:   https://www.haunted-britain.com/hellens.htm   Occasionally Julie was invited to stay at the manor by Ben’s family. She says that the house un-nerved her, and on numerous occasions while she was there unexplained incidents took place. They would sometimes hear objects being thrown in the bathroom. They never saw this directly, but would find random objects in the bath tub. On one occasion something got broken and Ben’s mother actually got angry and told off the ghost!   There were multiple times where Julie felt something touch her. One evening she and Ben returned to the manor. As Ben’s parents had also gone out they left the key under a log by the front door. Ben bent down to pick up the key. As he did Julie sensed something standing behind her, and then felt it touch her on the back. She was petrified and immediately told Ben what had taken place. He didn’t seem surprised at all.   Whenever Julie stayed over at the manor she slept in a room by herself. She would try her best to remain in the room till morning, but occasionally would need to use the bathroom. The landing was extremely dark at night, and unfortunately the light switch was positioned at the other end of it so whenever she needed to go to bathroom she would have brave this darkness.   One night at the manor she woke up in the early hours of the morning needing to go. She got out of bed and opened the bedroom door. As usual outside on the landing it was extremely dark and silent. She turned left and walked down the first section. As she approached a left turn she noticed an orange coloured glow coming from around the corner.   When she walked around the corner she immediately saw a line of burning torches attached to each of the walls! She knew that these were not physically present at the property and that they were a ghostly apparition of some kind.   Despite the situation Julie realised she would have to walk past the torches to get to the bathroom, and holding it until morning was not going to be an option. So she started to walk right past them until she reached the bathroom door.   When she emerged a minute later it was completely dark and the torches had vanished. She decided not to wake up Ben or his mother, but in the morning mentioned it to both of them. Looking back on the incident Julie wonders if it was what is commonly referred to as a time slip, which is where people appear to temporary glimpse visions of the past.   Lady in the Tree   One evening in late Autumn 1992 Ben was giving Julie a lift back home to Ryton via the normal route. Due to the time of year the sun had already set. It was a dry and still night.   Part of the route led East along a lane which would eventually join Roman Road (B4215). It was very quiet and there were no other vehicles around. To the North of the lane separated by farmer’s fields is an area of woodland known as Yewtree Coppice.   Aerial map indicating the start of the route passing Yewtree Coppice As they drove along this stretch of road Julie suddenly became extremely anxious and found it hard to breathe. Ben pulled the car over on the side of the road next to a farmer’s gate to see what was wrong and try to calm her down. Ahead of them was an oak tree positioned alongside the edge of the road and lit up in the headlights. Due to the time of year there were no leaves on the tree. Photograph of the farmer's gate and oak tree When Julie looked up through the windscreen she was shocked to see a woman among the branches! She had a green coloured glow to her and was leaning back against the trunk in a reclined position. She was wearing a skirt, but was too far away to clearly see any facial features. She was not moving but Julie felt that she was aware of their presence.   She pointed the figure out to Ben, but when he looked he could not see anything. Un-nerved by what Julie could apparently see, he started the car back up again and they continued their journey back to Ryton. Soon Julie calmed down and her breathing went back to normal.   As this was the main road between Much Marcle and Ryton there were other occasions where Julie was driven past the location. From that night onward she always felt uneasy, although she did not see the lady again.   As you may be aware, the notorious serial killers Fred and Rosemary West lived in Much Marcle (Julie informed me that Ben was actually friends with Fred West’s nephew). Fred and Rosemary committed at least 12 murders between 1967 and 1987.   On 10 th  April 1994 police found the body of Fred’s first wife Catherine “Rena” Costello in Letterbox Field just South of Yewtree Coppice. She had been murdered back in 1971 after starting to ask questions about her missing daughter Charmaine, another of the West’s victims.   Aerial photograph of the excavation of the grave When Ben saw the news report about the grim discovery on TV he could barely believe it, and immediately informed Julie. The gate they had pulled up at, and oak tree where Julie had seen the glowing lady are situated at the South West corner of Letterbox Field, only 25 metres away from where Rena had been buried!   Aerial map indicating the position of the oak tree (A) and position where Rena’s remains were discovered (B) Thinking about what had taken place, both of them wondered whether the figure Julie had seen was the apparition of Rena haunting the nearby vicinity, and the reason only she had been able to see her was because of her increased level of perception.   This is something which Julie continues to wonder about to this day. If it was indeed the case, it is a mystery as to why Rena was standing within the branches of a tree rather than down at ground level.   Baby Monitor   By 2005 Julie had left Ben, married a man named "Simon" and had her first child "Timothy". They lived together in a bungalow on Lakeside, Newent.   Aerial map of Lakeside Timothy used to sleep in a crib in a separate room to them. In order to listen out for any issues the couple purchased a good quality baby monitor.   In the early hours of the morning on a day in November Julie was stirred from sleep by the familiar sound of Timothy starting to wake up. However, she then heard something she was not expecting to hear. She heard what sounded like an elderly lady whispering “Shhhhhh” followed by tuneful humming noises, as if she was trying to settle Timothy back down to sleep.   Julie thought to herself “What the hell is that?”  She went to check on Timothy and as she did the noises on the baby monitor ceased. When she entered the room he was sleeping there was nothing out of place.   Nothing else took place until the following November. On numerous occasions Julie felt the presence of an old woman in the property. This feeling would only happen at a specific location – the section of the hall between her bedroom and the bathroom. On all these times Julie never saw anything out of the ordinary, only felt that she was there.   Burial Site   On 10 th  November 2007 a man from Redhill Farm, Redmarley named Adrian Prout contacted the police and reported that his wife Kate was missing. Initially police believed that she had ran away from home. However, it came to light that less than a week earlier she had asked Adrian for a large divorce settlement. Despite no evidence of a body he was questioned on suspicion of her murder, and in February 2010 was jailed for life.   According to Julie, in the months following the court verdict the police conducted a thorough search of the surrounding area in the hopes of finding the whereabouts of Kate’s body. This involved them questioning not only people from Redmarley but also from Ryton, which lies just one mile to the North West West.   One of the people they questioned was her mother Tara. One day two detectives apparently knocked on the door. They informed her that they had spoken with a medium in the hopes of tracking Kate down. The medium had told them that she was buried at a place with lots of birds. Tara suggested they look for her in The Rookery Woods, Bromyard, 17 miles to the North North West.   Soon after their visit Julie went round to see Tara, and she told her about the police visit. When Julie heard what they had asked and where Tara had suggested they look, the actual burial location suddenly popped into her mind. Somehow she knew that Kate was buried in Redmarley Woods where she used to play in her childhood.   She informed Tara, not knowing where this knowledge came from. Tara said she was not going to pass this information on to the police as if she was wrong she didn’t want to waste their time, and if she was right she didn’t want her to be in any way implicated in the crime.   In November 2011 Adrian finally confessed to the murder and informed police of where he had buried his wife. After a 4 day long search they managed to locate her remains in Redmarley Woods.   Photograph of the end of Poets Lane where the police cars parked up Crime scene photograph Soon afterwards the news of the find was publicly released via various media, including the below BBC News article:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15898198   When Julie found out about the discovery she was amazed. She went over to visit Tara and found that she too had seen it on the news and made the connection to what Julie had said previously.   Aerial map indicating Ryton (A) and Redmarley Woods (B) This is another incident which suggests that Julie has sixth sense abilities. Although she has no recorded proof of what took place I have no reason at all to doubt that this happened as she describes.   Further Hauntings   By late 2010 Julie had given birth to her second son, "Kevin", and her daughter, "Lisa". In December the family moved into another house on West View.   Aerial map of West View Within a fortnight of moving in Julie sensed the presence of a sad and angry man. Soon afterwards in the early hours of the morning she happened to glance out of the open bedroom door onto the landing. Even though it was quite dark, there was some light coming from the blue coloured PIR (Passive Infra Red) sensor light and a nearby street light shining through the upstairs window.   Near the top of the stairs she saw a dark shadowy figure. She woke up Simon and pointed out the figure to her. He apparently couldn’t see the figure and informed her that she must be seeing things. It was there several seconds before disappearing. However, Julie would go on to see the same figure on at least three other occasions.   In 2011 Julie chatted with a neighbour about the property. She did not mention the strange goings on which had taken place. However, her neighbour informed that the husband of the previous couple who lived at the property had died there. He had an extensive career in the Navy. A couple of months after retiring he discovered he had liver cancer.   The neighbour said he had been justifiably angry about his rapidly deteriorating health because he had been looking forward to a long and happy retirement. Julie was convinced that his ghost was still present in the house.   In 2013 Julie and Simon separated. Julie moved into a new rental house on Meek Road with her three children.   Aerial map of Meek Road Despite this change in address unusual activity continued. There were numerous occasions where Julie either saw or heard objects being moved around. The most dramatic of these incidents occurred in the kitchen. She was alone in the house and she had set up her Apple Mac laptop on the table. She had got up temporarily when suddenly the laptop got thrown right across the kitchen in front of her! She was nowhere near it at the time so had not tripped over the wire. She was shocked because it was quite a heavy object so it would have required a substantial amount of energy to move it.   Shadow Being   In 2015 Julie once again moved house, this time to Winding Pool Close, Dymock.   Initially everything seemed calm. But one night after the children had gone to bed she was in the kitchen washing up when she suddenly had the feeling of something behind her. She turned around not knowing what to expect. By the open kitchen door to the hall there was a shadowy humanoid form. It was about 5 foot 8 inches in height, a little taller than herself. It looked like it was made of black swirling smoke, but had a clearly defined shape with a head, torso, arms and legs. Julie describes it as “like black cotton wool, really dense smoke moving but keeping form”.   Disturbed by the presence of the figure she briefly turned away from it, thinking “Oh shit!”  When she turned back round again the entity was still there by the doorway. She felt that it was there to observe her rather than cause her physical harm. She also knew that staying put would not accomplish anything so she decided to bravely walk out of the kitchen right past it!   As she did she glanced up at it. Even up close there were no facial features visible. It did not start to move or interact with her in any way. Once past it she calmly walked along the hall, opened the front door and stepped outside onto the front drive of the house, wondering what to do.   A number of seconds went by before she thought to herself “Oh damn, I’ve left the kids in there with it!”  She overcame her fear of what was taking place and stepped back inside the house. When she did she saw that the figure had disappeared.   Within weeks of this incident she saw the same entity a second time! On this occasion it was dusk and she was again in the kitchen. The kitchen window is front-facing. She happened to look through it and saw the same figure, this time standing at the end of the front drive way! Un-nerved by the fact that it had returned she moved away from the window. She does not know how long it remained there for.   Rainbow Light   On another day Julie was sitting in the living room on the sofa. She looked over at the door and noticed a rainbow coloured vertical line of light on it, the sort of light which would usually be caused by sunlight reflecting off or through something. However, she had never seen it before, and was sure that there was nothing present which could cause such a reflection. Upon seeing it she thought to herself “What the hell is that?”   Julie attempted to block it at different positions to determine a potential angle of reflection. She tried covering the window and the television, but nothing seemed to work. It was extremely bizarre but after un-successfully discovering its source she just ignored it and got on with her day. The light has never been seen since, it only appeared on this single occasion.   False Statement   Her partner at the time, "Lee", worked as an oven cleaner. Sometimes when she was able she would accompany him on cleaning jobs.   One day they drove to a house in Tewesbury. The lady who owned the property let them both in. As she touched the door handle and stepped into the house she felt odd, but didn’t immediately know why. They walked through to the kitchen. Justin began working on the oven and talking with the lady while Julie stood in the corner.   As they chatted Lee asked the lady “Do you have any children?”  Immediately Julie’s heart sank, and she thought to herself “Oh my god, why did you have to ask her that?”   The lady responded saying “Yeah, I’ve got two children, a son and a daughter.” Julie began to feel really hot inside her head, found it hard to breathe and could feel herself start to well up with tears. In the end she could no longer fight it and she burst into tears.   Both Lee and the lady noticed what was happening. The lady asked her “What on earth’s the matter my dear?” Julie responded “I can’t say.”  But the lady continued to press her, saying “You can! What’s wrong? Is something bad?”  Julie looked at the lady and blurted out “He asked you a question a minute ago. You said you had two children. That’s not true!”   Immediately the colour drained from the lady’s face. Julie continued, not really knowing why she was saying what she was saying. “You said you had a daughter. She’s died and it’s her birthday today and you’ve lied about her!”  As she said the words she found herself not wanting to, because she knew that this was deeply personal to the lady and may upset her, but she couldn’t help it. It was as if something else was speaking through her.   Lee exclaimed out loud “Oh my god!”  But instead of getting angry the lady said “That’s fine. It’s true, it would have been her 14th birthday today.”  She went on to explain that her daughter had died of Leukaemia. She asked Julie “How did you know?”   Julie said “As I walked through the front door and put my hand on the handle someone told me in my head.”  Despite clearly being shocked at what was taking place the lady was alright with it and said she was happy as it proved to her that her daughter was still there in some form. They spent a number of minutes consoling one another before leaving the property.   Julie says that after she returned to the car she developed a strong headache which lasted for a while before finally settling. Looking back at what had happened she felt like something had been directing her to speak, not the lost daughter, but something else entirely.   When I asked Julie about what she knew when she first entered the property she said “I would say I had a knowing of something, but when I blurted it out I didn’t know what was coming out, it was automatic. I had a feeling when I went in. I knew something was wrong but not specifically what.”   This is a fascinating incident which once again suggests that Julie has the ability to sometimes perceive things which have taken place. It is near impossible that she would have somehow found out this information in advance. There had been no articles written about the death of the lady’s daughter, and neither her nor Lee knew the lady in advance, she was just a work client.   Translucent UFO   Julie’s son Kevin enjoys star gazing, so for his 15 th birthday on 23 rd  May 2020 she bought him a telescope. A few days later at around 10:30pm they decided to head outside to stargaze. They walked down to a patch of open grass at the end of Winding Pool Close.   Photograph of the area of grass It was a clear, still and warm night, perfect for sky watching. Due to the time there were no other pedestrians around.   At about 11:30pm they decided to head back to the house. When they reached the end of the drive they briefly stopped for a chat.   All of a sudden they heard a whooshing sound over the road. They turned round to look just as something sizeable and moving at a fast speed passed by. It came in from their left, heading along the road in a Western direction. It was so low down that Julie is convinced it must have flew between one of the gaps separating the houses at the end of the road.   She only glimpsed it briefly before it vanished into the darkness, but describes it as looking like an elongated oval-shape, almost transparent, but with a surface made up of flattened panels like a diamond. It seemed to be about 40 feet in length, and was at quite low altitude, only about 25 feet. As it passed by on a straight and level course they felt the air being displaced by it.   As it passed them Julie exclaimed “What the hell!”  Kevin responded asking “What was that? Oh my god, it was like if dragons were real!”  They stood and chatted about what had just occurred before heading back inside.   Julie says that soon afterwards they discussed it with a neighbour who suggested it may have been a goose swooping down as it flew past. However, she is convinced that the object was much too large to have been a bird, and its appearance sounds nothing like how this would appear.   Looking back at the incident, Julie feels that there was something organic about the object rather than it just being a solid machine. It was so close to the house that Julie wonders if it was there specifically to observe her and Kevin.   Bag-For-Life   By 2021 Julie had met her current partner "Mark". One day in 2021 she was round his house on Drayton Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and sitting in the living room.   Aerial map of Drayton Road She heard a strange rustling sound coming from the adjoining kitchen. She headed through there to see where the noise was coming from. Sitting alongside the sink was a bag-for-life. This bag was moving like there was something alive inside it. She thought to herself “Oh my god, there’s a mouse in it!”   She approached the bag, picked it up and shook it. She was mystified to find that it was empty. A moment later the sink mixer tap blew off with a strong jet of water! Panicking she grabbed it and tried screwing it back on. Mark heard the sound and came through to find out what had happened.   It is of course possible that the moving bag was just down to creases in it naturally collapsing, and the tap was just a freak malfunction. But the proximity of these two incidents is what has Julie wondering if there was a supernatural explanation.   A Perplexing Vision   As you have read, for most of her life Julie has experienced paranormal and psychic related events, but nothing which could be clearly defined as contact. However, that would all change on 9 th  March 2022.   Julie sleeps on a sofa bed in the living room. She always leaves a small lamp on in the room so is never in complete darkness.   She awoke in the early hours of the morning with the feeling of a presence in the room. She was lying on her left side, so when she opened her eyes she had a view across the living room to the door which leads through to the hall.   She was surprised to see that the door of the living room was open, even though she had closed it when she had gone to bed. There were several beings standing there. Two of them were just inside the room and were just under 5 foot in height. The third, which appeared visibly shorter than the others, about 4 foot, was peering around the edge of the door frame, almost like it was dubious or frightened to come in.   The beings had a slender build, bulbous heads, and appeared to be unclothed. Their skin was grey with a slight blue-ish tint. They had large almond-shaped eyes which were completely black. Their noses were thin and not particularly pronounced, and they had very small mouths. There seemed to be a dull blue-white coloured glow coming from them, with no obvious source.   While not massively familiar with the contact phenomenon, Julie was aware that these beings were Greys. One of the two in the room began to speak. When it did it did not open its mouth. Julie believes it was speaking telepathically directly in her mind.   It started to say the same phrase over and over in a deep guttural male-sounding voice. Words she did not understand – “Manafuksa ich nach!” (Not sure if spelt correctly). As it spoke it gesticulated with its hands.   She was confused and un-nerved, as this was the first time she had seen them and didn’t understand what she was being told. The shorter Grey now entered the room and stood next to the other two. Julie felt like she could move freely but purposely remained lying down staring at the beings.   The Grey speaking with her then turned and pointed at the wall on the far side of the living room. As it did, the wall seemed to dissolve away from the centre outwards in small pixel-like blocks. In its place was now a vision of another location! It was quite dark but the scene was lit in a dull peach-coloured glow.   She could see what appeared to be the ruins of a destroyed two storey building. The wall of the building closest to her had seemingly collapsed enabling her to see the floors inside. Everything was covered in dust. The building design did not look particularly old-fashioned, but did appear run down. It did not look like a building from the UK. It was potentially European, but there was nothing she could make out which would confirm this. On the ground floor was lots of rubble and debris. On the first floor was a double bed. Interpreted drawing of the vision location Floating about three feet above the bed was a unclothed woman in a upright curled up foetal position. She had white skin and fair hair that was tied up in a bob. Julie did not recognise her. The woman appeared to be enclosed within a clear tight-fitting sac of some kind.   How the woman was positioned above the bed The Grey pointed at the lady like it was trying to draw her attention to her. It continued to say the same phrase as before, “Manafuksa ich nach! Manafuksa ich nach!” There was particular emphasis on the first word.   Her smartphone was on charge in the room but Julie did not think about grabbing it to take any photographs or video footage, she was too absorbed in what was taking place.   After a couple of minutes the vision quickly faded away and the living room wall returned to normal. The Grey stopped speaking to her, then it and then all three of them turned and silently walked out of the living room via the open door. Julie was quite traumatised by what had just taken place. She sat on the sofa bed petrified, and did not drop back off to sleep for the rest of the night.   In the morning she contacted Mark and told him about what had happened. He was supportive and seemed to believe her. By the following evening she had calmed down enough to once again sleep on the sofa bed.   Shaken Awake   Just over a week later on the night of 17 th  March Julie was once again stirred from her sleep. She awoke at approximately 3:30am with the feeling of something grabbing hold of her shoulder through the T-shirt she was wearing and vigorously shaking her.   When she opened her eyes she saw the same Grey which had spoken to her before. It was leaning down over her with its face very close to hers. Once again it telepathically repeated the same phrase with a sense of urgency - “Manafuksa ich nach! Manafuksa ich nach!” It was as if it was still trying to get her to understand what it meant.   Julie looked past it for a moment and saw the other two Greys that she had seen a week earlier. They were standing still and watching over proceedings.   When the Grey close to her realised she was awake it let go of her shoulder and stopped speaking. Then just like the previous occasion, the three of them exited the room. Julie heard their scampering footsteps in the kitchen, and believes that they must have then exited the house via the back door, as she then heard the 6-foot-tall fence rattle outside, suggesting they had climbed over it.   After this second incident she and Mark looked online to see if they could fine the meaning of the words the Grey had been speaking. However, they were unsuccessful. Even after trying different spellings there did not appear to be words in any language which matched up with what it had said to her.   I have attempted to use Chat GPT to explain the meaning of the words. Obviously the correct spelling is unknown, but below are some different spellings and the responses given by AI:   “Manafuksa ich nach”   It’s not a standard phrase in any one language — it looks like mixed slang, probably Arabic + German, and it’s a bit garbled. “Ich” is German for “I”. “Nach” is German for “ after”, “towards” or “following”. “Mana” or “ma na” in Arabic dialects (esp. Maghrebi) can mean “not” or “no”. “Fuksa”  isn’t a real Arabic word, but in slang it’s sometimes used to echo “fuck” or just as filler sound.   “Manafucksa ick nack”   Isn’t a recognized phrase in English (or common slang). It sounds like made-up or playful nonsense, possibly meant to sound crude or insulting without actually meaning anything specific. A couple of likely possibilities: Intentional gibberish — people sometimes mash words together for humor, shock value, or rhythm. Mock-insult — “fucksa” gives it an aggressive tone, while “ick nack” sounds like knick-knack, which makes it feel silly rather than serious. Inside joke / fictional phrase — could be from a game, song, TikTok, or friend group where it has a private meaning.   “Manafukse ikh nakh”   That phrase looks like Yiddish, but written phonetically and a bit mangled. As written it’s not a clean, standard sentence. However, it’s very close to a well-known Yiddish vulgar idiom “Ikh fuk zikh nokh”. The literal meaning of this is  “I’ll fuck myself later.” The idiomatic meaning is “I’ll deal with it later" or "I don’t care right now.”   It is of course very unlikely that the Grey was stating any of these things, so the true meaning of its repeated phrase remains unclear at present.   Reptilian Visitation   During the night in the summer of 2023 Julie was stopping over at Mark’s house. Her pet French bulldog "Brutus" was in his cage at the corner of the room.   In the early hours of the morning she was awoken by a loud repeated and fast clacking noise which lasted for a couple of seconds and reminded her of a chainsaw. The noise sounded familiar to her but she was not sure why, as she had no conscious recollection of hearing it before.   Immediately she jumped up and stood on the bed, instinctively raising her hands to defend herself. This sudden movement caused Mark also start to wake up. Julie looked across the bedroom and was shocked at what she saw.   In the dim blue-white glow given off by the fairy lights which they had intentionally left on she could see a 7-8-foot-tall lizard-like figure. It appeared to be unclothed and had dark green coloured skin. There was not enough light to see whether its skin was scaled or not, but given its appearance Julie feels it may well have been. It had a flattened nose similar to a Komodo Dragon, and red glowing eyes. Its mouth was closed and she did not see any teeth.   The being was standing up on its hind legs. It seemed aggressive, and Julie sensed that it wasn’t friendly. This being was a Reptilian, but unlike the Greys she had interacted with previously, Julie was unaware of this. Upon seeing the being she shouted out loud. Mark looked up at her and asked “What’s wrong?” Julie whispered “Shhhh. Don’t move!”  in an attempt to get him to keep quiet.   Just behind and to the left of the being was a glowing white oval-shaped light which Julie describes as a “vertical puddle of light”. A moment later the Reptilian stepped sideways into this light and disappeared. Julie assumed it had been a portal of some kind which the being had used to enter the room.   As Mark had been looking at her not across the room he had not seen what had just taken place. Julie told him about the noise and then said “It was one of them, and it scared me.” She did not go into detail because of where the incident had taken place and she didn’t want him to worry.   Julie was convinced that she had been fully awake and what she had seen was not simply a vivid hallucination brought on by a nightmare. She was extremely upset about what had occurred. She lay back down and started to cry. Stuart put his arms around her to provide some comfort and in the end she managed to fall back off to sleep.   In the morning Julie thought about what had taken place. She was surprised that Brutus did not seem to react at all to the presence of the being.   In late 2025 Julie purchased a second dog, a Labrador which she named "Samson". She feels that one of the driving forces behind this decision was because of what had taken place, which has weighed on her mind ever since. She informs me that her neighbourhood is friendly so she does not feel that she needed him for protection from other people. However, for an unknown reason she feels that Reptilians are not fond of dogs.   She does not know where this came from, but has not seen the being since so maybe there is some truth to it. That said, Knuckles was in the room at the time of the incident and that did not seem to stop it from appearing.   Orange Orb   Around 8:30pm on 10th October 2023 Julie stepped outside to go and pick up Lisa from Ledbury Fair, a street fair which takes place annually. Photograph of Ledbury town fair It was a dry, still and clear evening. She took a couple of steps along the drive and happened to glance into the sky.   Suddenly a glowing orb of orange-white light appeared in the sky to the South East at an elevation of around 60 degrees. It had a gradient to its brightness, with the centre being brighter than the outer edges. There was no tail visible behind it. It moved fast to the South across the sky on an arced trajectory over several seconds before vanishing into the distance.   The object appeared to be quite sizeable. She felt certain it had not been a meteorite or fast moving aircraft. Shocked at what she had just seen Julie stepped back through the open door into the hallway. She turned her head and stared wide-eyed at Timothy, who was sitting in the living room at the time.   Upon seeing her expression, he asked her “What have you seen?” She explained to him what had just taken place. Because of both of their prior experiences he fully believed her.   The object is unlikely to have been a meteorite as these are only visible for a second and tend to have a long tail behind them. It was moving too rapidly to have been a distant helicopter or drone. A sky lantern or orange coloured LED balloon caught in a fast air current cannot be entirely ruled out, although it appeared to be a still evening, at least at ground level.   The Greys Return   On the 8 th  January 2025 Julie was once again woken up in the night by the sense of something in the living room. She knew instinctively that the three Greys she had seen back in early 2022 had returned. However, she was no longer frightened by them.   She was lying on her back with her head facing towards the ceiling. For about five minutes she didn’t look at them. Eventually she did turn her head and open her eyes. As expected, the three of them were once again standing over by the door, which, like before, was open.   Instinctively she sensed that they meant her no harm. She lay there staring at them for a while. She felt comfortable with the fact there were there and was not threatened by their presence.   Julie feels that she must have blacked out, as the next thing she realised it was morning time. She was surprised to find that in addition to the vest top and pyjama bottoms she had gone to sleep in she was now also wearing one of her summer-weight jumpers and one of her daughter’s socks. She had not been wearing either the previous day. The jumper was one that had been packed away in a chest of drawers in a different room.   Throughout the following day she felt anxious like something bad was going to happen. However, to her knowledge nothing did, at least not to her directly. By the evening this feeling disappeared.   This is a fascinating incident which suggests that Julie may have been taken after she blacked out, although she has no recollection of this at present. Many people have reported suddenly blacking out against their will following visitation experiences, and in some of these cases they then have memories of being aboard craft.   There are also cases on record where people have reported finding themselves in different clothing or clothing put on incorrectly after such experiences, suggesting that the beings may have attempted to re-clothe them but done so incorrectly. There is of course the possibility that in some of these cases these individuals may have sleep walked and put the clothes on without being consciously aware of doing so.   While this cannot be ruled out, Julie says that she is not prone to this condition. That said, it seems odd that the beings would have gathered these clothing items from other rooms in the house and then dressed her up in them in addition to the night clothes she was already wearing.   Arm Bruises   One night later in the same year Julie had an unusual dream, one she cannot remember the precise details of. When she awoke in the morning and went for a shower she found bruises on her right arm which looked like finger marks, almost as if something had forcibly grabbed her. There were three elongated bruises on the top of her forearm and one underneath.   After her shower, she put on a T-shirt and headed downstairs. Mark’s daughter saw the markings and commented on them.   During the day Julie felt quite disturbed by the markings and wondered if a being had grabbed hold of her in the night. The markings slowly vanished over the next couple of days. Sadly she did not take a photograph of them.   I asked Julie whether the markings could have been caused by Mark reaching out and grabbing her arm in his sleep. She said that this was unlikely as he always sleeps soundly and does not tend to move around. I also asked her if they could have been insect bites but she says they looked the wrong shape and did not itch in the way bites usually do.   Rear View Mirror   At around 10pm on an evening in October Julie drove with Timothy to pick up Lisa from a friend’s house. It was quite dark, but dry, clear and still. On the return journey Timothy sat in the passenger seat, and Lisa sat on the back seat.   They were driving West along Crowfield Lane and approaching the T-junction with the B4215. Just before arriving at the junction Julie prepared to brake by looking in the rear view mirror.   Aerial map showing the junction between Crowfield Lane and the B4215   Photograph of the junction  She was shocked to see a figure sitting on the back seat alongside Lisa. The figure appeared male but non-human. He had blue-grey coloured skin, elongated facial features, a large forehead and high set black coloured eyes. He was wearing dark coloured clothing.   The face of the being reminded her a little of the famous painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch entitled “The Scream”: Upon seeing the figure Julie immediately slammed on the brakes. As she did, Timothy shouted out “What’s wrong?” Julie immediately arced her head round to look, but there was nothing there. As she didn’t want to frighten Lisa un-necessarily she simply responded saying “Oh nothing, don’t worry. Thought I saw something.”   Julie has not seen the being before or since, despite driving using the same junction on other occasions, so does not believe it was caused by a trick of the light at that particular location.   Possible Surveillance?   In early December Julie began to notice people behaving strangely in her vicinity. Numerous incidents took place within the space of a single week.   The first incident involved a dark coloured saloon car with two dark haired men sat in it which was parked on Winding Pool Close opposite to the house. They were there a good while before seemingly driving away.   Later on Julie decided to take the dogs out for a walk. That’s when she noticed the same vehicle once again parked up in a lay-by. A number of days later she had driven to a car park close to where she lives, and once again noticed the same vehicle.   On another early morning she was taking the dogs a walk around the local church yard. It was about 6:30am. She noticed a man sat in the church porch. She felt uneasy as it was quite unusual for anyone to be around at that time of morning, so decided to leave the church yard and walk home via a different route to usual.   Just as she was walking up her road, she noticed the same man behind the wheel of a grey coloured VW transport van. She did not want to go into her house while he was around as she didn’t want him to know where she lives.   The van drove past really slowly, reached the end of the cul-de-sac and turned around. But instead of driving away it then parked up. Julie waited and eventually the van drove away and she was able to enter her house.   On a day soon after this incident two men and a woman came to the front door. They claimed to be Jehovah’s Witnesses. She had Jehovah’s Witnesses come to the door before, but had not met these individuals before. This was not particularly suspicious of course, but something else took place which made her doubt their authenticity.   She had come across an audio book of King James bible (An early modern English translation of the Christian bible for the Church Of England), and decided out of general interest to start listening to it. When she mentioned this to the people at the door they seemed to have no clue as to what this was.   She did not say anything at the time, but she immediately became suspicious of them, as surely they would have heard of this with their strict religious upbringing?   While these incidents did occur in relatively quick succession, there is nothing directly linking them. Although in some contact cases surveillance does appear to be an aspect, it is also possible that these were just normal civilians acting oddly in various ways.   The Silhouette   Julie works at a hair salon. At the end of one of her shifts in late December she had just exited the building out into a courtyard area. Due to the time of evening there should have been nobody else around.   As she stepped out of the doorway she felt like she was being watched. She looked over to her left at an adjacent building. Standing in front of one of the windows was what appeared to be the silhouette of a humanoid figure. It was visible because of light that was passing through the building from the other side.   The figure was approximately 6 feet in height. Suddenly, as if realising it had been spotted by her, it stepped sideways away from the window into the darkness. Julie was frightened so ran up an alleyway to get away from the area.   The salon has a CCTV camera set up which watches the entrance to the courtyard. Theoretically there would be no way for someone to enter the courtyard without being captured on it. But when she checked the footage there was no sign of anyone entering or leaving. The courtyard also has motion sensor lights which come on automatically when someone enters it, but again there was no sign of these being activated.   The origin of the figure remains a mystery to this day, but Julie feels that it cannot have been a normal civilian.   Conclusions   Julie has had a wide variety of fascinating experiences throughout her life. While some are clearly contact related, involving types of beings regularly reported by others, some of her other experiences seem to suggest she possesses psychic abilities and may be able to sometimes see ghostly apparitions.   One of her most intriguing experiences is arguably her initial visitation by the group of Greys involving the words one of them said to her, and the strange vision of the damaged building. At present we have no idea of the location seen in the vision, nor the identity of the floating lady. Nor do we have an understanding of the spoken phrase, despite extensive investigation. Perhaps answers to these aspects will come to light in due course.   I would like to thank Julie for the extensive amount of time she has given up in order to make this case report a reality. This appears to be an on-going case so I hope she will keep in touch. If she does report any further incidents they may well be added to this report, so do check back from time to time.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026