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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 13/09/2023 Last Updated: 08/09/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In September 2023 I spoke with one of mine and my wife’s friends, “Rebecca” about a couple of incidents while discussing the subject of UFOs. The first of these involved a potential period of missing time which was experienced by herself and her mother back in 2008. Incident Details Rebecca is unaware of the precise date when the incident took place, but feels that it was early summertime. She was 32 years old at the time, and lived with her children in a house at Dymchurch, Kent. Her mother “Natalie” lived nearby. On the day in question, she and Natalie had driven East along the coast to Dover to pick up a TV cabinet. Aerial map showing Dymchurch (A) and Dover (B) It was between 1-2pm and they were on their return trip, with a view to be home by 3pm so Rebecca could pick up her children from school. This was a route they were very familiar with and had driven many times before. The route led West from Dover along the A20 until they reached Folkestone. They would then join the M20 until they reached Hythe. After this they would leave the road and take country roads South West through various villages until they reached Dymchurch. The weather was pleasant and sunny but not particularly hot. They were on the A20 and about two thirds of the way towards Folkestone. There were lots of other vehicles on the road heading in both directions. Rebecca was chatting with her mother about cooking Spaghetti Bolognese. Aerial map of the A20 showing the route the witnesses took along it Example photograph of the A20 All of a sudden she felt strange, a tingling sensation like static electricity. At the same time she looked out of the passenger side of the windscreen and realised she did not recognise the surroundings. They were no longer on the A20 motorway! They appeared to be travelling along a much narrower country road barely wide enough to pass other vehicles on, with trees and fields either side of it. As she thought to herself “Where are we?” Natalie pulled over and stopped the car. It was at this moment that she knew that her mother had also realised what had happened, at precisely the same moment as herself. They both sat there in silence staring out of the windows. Rebecca broke the silence by asking “What’s going on?” Natalie replied “I don’t know!” She asked “Where are we?” Again her mother replied “I don’t know!” They sat there in the parked car for about five minutes, after which her mother said “We’ve got to find out where we are.” She started driving the car along the road again until she saw some signs which pointed back to Folkestone junction. It took quite a while to reach the junction and get back on track with their journey. From this length of time this took they estimated that they had ended up about 15 miles North of the A20, with no explanation at all as to how they got there. Photograph of the junction at Folkestone Even though they would usually join the M20 at this point, they felt uneasy about doing so after what had taken place, and decided instead to avoid the motorway for the rest of the route home and travelled along quieter lanes until arriving home. As they continued their drive Rebecca began to get a very strong headache. She mentioned this to Natalie, and she too confirmed that she too also had the same. Once back at her mother’s house, Rebecca checked the clock and found that it was not yet 3pm so they had got back roughly the time they’d expected to, taking into account the additional drive time to get back to Folkestone. She helped her mum unload the TV cabinet and then went to pick up her kids from school. She and her mother’s headaches lasted for the remainder of the day and only subsided after they had both gone off to sleep and woken the following morning. Incident Analysis This is a truly fascinating and mysterious event, and one which cannot be easily explained away. If Natalie was driving an unfamiliar route involving numerous turns then this could have been put down to her accidentally taking a wrong turn somewhere and ending up where she didn’t expect. However both Natalie and Rebecca had driven this route many times before, it was their trusted way of driving back from Dover. In addition to this they were on a main road. In order for them to have ended up where they did they would have had to have purposely left the A20 at some point via a junction, yet neither of them has any memory of doing so. There is the mental state known as “Highway Hypnosis” (sometimes referred to as White Line Fever). This is something most drivers have experienced at one point or another, and is where it is possible to “zone out” and drive along a road or roads without remembering doing so. However in this situation the individual would instinctively drive the way they were intending to drive and not deviate from this route. Other factors which point away from either of these two explanations are the fact that Rebecca and Natalie appeared to realise they were no longer on the A20 at exactly the same moment, the tingling sensation which Rebecca felt at the same time as this realisation, and the strong headaches they both developed afterwards. I have investigated numerous cases involving abductions from vehicles. In these incidents the driver will often come round to find themselves either driving or parked up on a different road to which they were on previously. The implication is that in some instances the vehicle is also taken, and there are cases on record where this very much seems to have been what happened. Perhaps this is what occurred here. If so this might explain the sudden feeling of static electricity that Rebecca felt. Perhaps this feeling was from a nearby craft or whatever energy was used to return them to the ground. Headaches are also a common after effect of contact, again suggesting that they may have been taken. If so then this could not have been for very long, as they were still back home in time for Rebecca to pick up her children. If we assume that this is what happened here, then there is the issue that the incident took place on a sunny afternoon in a busy location. You may ask how this would be possible without other drivers on the road being aware of it. Surely if this was observed by anyone else nearby they would have reported it to someone? But there are often unusual elements of time distortion with contact. Perhaps other nearby drivers did see it occur but had their memories wiped. Or perhaps time itself was halted and they were unaware of the sudden disappearance of the car. One thing that is certain is that the incident left a lasting impression on both Rebecca and her mother. She informed me that Natalie is quite sceptical of the world of UFOs and the paranormal, however she is clearly troubled by what took place even to this day. She says that sometimes her mother brings it up in conversation, asking “Remember that time when we were abducted?” depsite being largely sceptical of the subject as a whole. I absolutely trust Rebecca’s testimony of what took place, but the mystery of what happened remains. I am awaiting a testimonial statement from Natalie which should be added to this report in the near future. If you have any information which may shed some light on this please contact me via the BUFOG website. Rebecca also had a (probably unrelated) sighting of a Flying Triangle in 2015. This has been written up as a separate report here Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2023 Last Updated: 07/09/2026 Steve first got in touch with BUFOG in July 2023 via our website’s sighting report form. He informed us that he had previously experienced many sightings of UFOs and other phenomena over recent years, which he had taken written notes on. He said that he had been viewing the BUFOG site for a number of weeks and felt that the standard of our investigations is very high, which prompted him to get in touch to get the incidents down on official record. After I responded to his initial contact, Steve sent me the written notes, covering many separate sightings between 2009 and 2023. I sent back many additional questions. Unfortunately, at this point communication ceased so I only have his initial notes to go on, meaning that in some cases certain mundane explanations cannot be ruled out. Despite this I still feel these sightings are worth reporting. For each experience, Steve’s original notes are shown, followed by my assessment based on the information provided. October 2009 – Light Blue Orb “On one evening in October 2009, I was walking with a work colleague along the concrete hard standing next to the dismantled Hull to Barnsley railway line just off Calvert Lane in Hull (which is now a new housing estate).” Aerial map of the housing estate alongside Calvert Lane “We were in the course of our employment while walking this route which was a short cut back to the office. We were just talking about general things when my colleague suddenly started tapping me on the arm and repeatedly asking me “What’s that up there!?” At first I couldn’t see what my colleague was looking at, but then I saw what it was. There was a blue white point of light about the same size as other stars around it sharply zig zagging around the star called Vega just next to the constellation of Cygnus which at the time was almost directly overhead us. I stood in amazement watching this point of light zig zagging for about twenty seconds before it then suddenly shot off in a straight line and out of sight at amazing speed. The area was in pitch darkness at the time so we had a good view of this phenomenon. I have no obvious explanation as to what this was but I have never witnessed anything like it. It cannot have been an aircraft due to the sharp zig zag movements it was doing. When we arrived back at the office, other colleagues were there who asked if we were okay as we looked like we had seen a ghost according to them!” This initial sighting by Steve and his work colleague is particularly intriguing because of the colour and movement characteristics of the object, as well as when it took place. The object cannot have been an aeroplane due to the sudden turns it was making. It sounds much too fast to have been a distant helicopter, and this sighting occurred before drones were commercially available, so this explanation can also be ruled out. It was the wrong colour for a sky lantern being buffeted around in air currents. These tend to be amber in colouration. A light blue LED balloon would be possible, but again the speed sounds too rapid for this to have been what was observed. I do wonder if it was a bird performing darting manoeuvres and lit up by lights from the ground. Usually if this were the case the reflected light would be more yellow/amber in colour but I feel this explanation cannot be entirely ruled out. Summer 2016 – White & Red Orbs “I have witnessed strange lights close to Vega, the most noticeable was a white point of light which disappeared when a red point of light slowly approached it and began flashing randomly. It was like the red light was communicating in some way with the white light. This was in the summer time of 2016.” While Steve does not expressly mention the location where this sighting took place, it is likely to be in the vicinity of his next sighting from August 2019, the A166 on the outskirts of Wetwang where he lives. Aerial map of the A166 showing probable location of the sighting Photograph of the A166 It obviously appears that the two orbs were interacting with one another due to the observed movement and lighting changes. However, it is also possible that the two were un-related and just happened to be occupying the same area of sky at the time (perhaps even at different altitudes, as this is hard to judge). As Steve did not specify the weather conditions, the white light which he saw on this occasion may have been a star/planet, drone, distant helicopter or white coloured LED balloon which was then hidden from view by a cloud invisible against the night sky. A star/planet would be possible, but it should be noted that Steve is interested in the night sky (as can be seen by his naming of specific stars), so therefore would have known if there was a star/planet in that location. If it was a distant helicopter, then another possibility is that it was on a military exercise and suddenly switched its lights off to fly dark. It is unlikely that a drone would have turned its lights off mid-flight, or that an LED balloon ran out of batteries and went out, although these would still technically be possible. The red orb is interesting due to the fact that it wasn’t flashing initially but then started to flash randomly once it had seemingly approached the white orb. Steve has not specified whether the red orb stopped moving when it started flashing or not. If it did, then this would of course rule out an aeroplane. While red is obviously a normal navigation light colour on both planes and helicopters, it would usually be seen alongside other white and sometimes green lights, not just on its own. A drone with red lights or red coloured LED balloon would be possibilities, but its unlikely either of these would start flashing in the manner observed. Therefore, there is a possibility that this sighting was something more anomalous. August 2019 – White Orb “One evening in late August 2019, I was out walking my dog with my wife on the A166 just outside of Wetwang, East Yorkshire at 2300 hours. I am quite a keen observer of the night sky and with the area being dark it was easy to see many many stars in the sky. While looking at the constellation of Cygnus, I noticed that there was a strange, dim point of light next to the star Vega which is close to Cygnus. The point of light was the same size as other stars in the sky but it was quite dim, bright enough to be able to see however. The point of light was randomly flashing at different speeds. None of the objects in the sky around it were flashing and no planets of the solar system were in that area of the sky at the time. My wife also saw this when I pointed it out to her and thought this was strange." Stars/planets can sometimes seem to twinkle intermittently. However, as you can see, Steve appears to have a good knowledge of the night sky, and confirmed that there were no known stars/planets present at that position at the time of the incident. There are a number of other possible explanations for what was seen though. A hovering high altitude helicopter, drone or white LED balloon fading in and out due to the distance cannot be ruled out. 27th July 2021 – Silhouetted Cigar “On Tuesday 27th July 2021 at 17.15 hours, I was walking along the A166 through Wetwang on the north side of the road, and I was on the east edge of the village when I noticed a black silhouette in the sky. The object was visible through a gap in the tree line looking towards the south east area of the sky where I was standing. Photograph of the approximate sighting location in the direction the object was seen “I would describe the object as moving very slowly through the sky heading north. It was a long thin object which was straight on the top and bottom and was curved at the ends, and it appeared to be above the former RAF East Kirkburn air base.” Aerial map indicating estimated position of the witness (A) and location of former RAF Driffield, previously RAF Kirkburn (B) “There were no wings, engines or tail fins visible on the object and it was not making any sound. I quickly turned my head to see if it was safe to cross the road to get a closer look, and when I looked back for the object it had disappeared completely. It was a fine summer evening and the cloud base was very high. I would estimate that the object was around 1.5 miles away and approximately 1000 feet up in the sky.” If it wasn’t for the fact that the object suddenly vanished i I would have put this sighting down to a distant blimp which happened to be crossing the location of the old RAF base. Steve did not see any tail fins but blimp tail fins are not particularly prominent, and at a distance they can sometimes look like cigar-shaped craft. However, if it was a blimp then it would not have vanished in a matter of seconds. As the witness states, it was a sunny day with no clouds in the vicinity of it, so it clearly had not disappeared behind a cloud. This aspect makes the sighting very intriguing. I have investigated quite a number of cases over the years where UFOs have suddenly vanished without trace when the witness briefly stopped looking at them. Could this have been a daylight sighting of a genuine advanced craft? And if so was it aware that it was being observed, even from the distance Steve was at, and this is why it decided to leave the area or hide itself from view? 10th November 2021 – Silver-Grey UFO “On Wednesday 10th November 2021 at 08:39 hours, I was driving along the B1248 from the direction of Wetwang towards Tibthorpe when I noticed directly in front of me in the sky a silvery grey coloured object moving slowly across the sky from right to left.” Aerial map showing Wetwang (A) and Tibthorpe (B) “It was an overcast day and was raining slightly, and the object almost seemed to blend in with the background colour of the sky. I saw the object pass by the trees at either side of the road as I drove up the hill very close to Tibthorpe.” Aerial map showing the approximate location of the sighting showing the direction of travel Photograph of the hill just North of Tibthorpe “I accelerated up the hill to try and get a better view of the object as it went out of sight behind a tree on the left side of the road. In the few seconds it took me to get to the top of the hill, the object had disappeared. I would describe the shape of this object as being slightly bulbous at the front with a narrower body at the rear. No wings, engines, tail fin etc were visible on the object. The object must have been around a mile and a half to two miles away and seemed to follow the A614 towards the old RAF Driffield site travelling from West to East. I have dash cam footage of the section of the journey where this sighting was, however the sky is too bright for me to see anything on the footage. I noted also that there were lots of flocks of migrating birds heading in the opposite direction to the object (East to West), and after the object passed several flocks of those birds made a sharp turn to head North. During the rest of the day, there were several flocks of birds which seemed to have landed between Wetwang and the Old RAF Driffield site and they kept taking off to fly very low in large groups, but were going around in circles as if confused or disorientated.” There’s not much known about the object that was seen on this occassion but like similar sightings the fact that the object vanished within the short space of time that it was out of direct line of sight tends to rule out the idea that it was a blimp or unusual inflatable drifting on air currents. I find it unlikely that the observed activity of the flocks of birds both during and after the sighting had anything to do with the object. It was probably just coincidental that they seemed to be acting in an unusual manner. 1st and 3rd December 2021 – White Orbs “At 17:48 hours on Friday 3/12/21, I observed a bright ball of light in the sky which was moving across the sky but very slowly, much slower than any aircraft or satellite I have ever witnessed. It was initially heading from South West to North East in the sky above the fields between Middleton on the Wolds and Wetwang. As the object approached the edge of Wetwang on the south edge of the village, this ball of light performed a very slow half circle turn and began heading South before it disappeared out of sight behind thick clouds.” Estimated path of the orb “The object was not making any noise and I would guess it was about 2000 feet above the ground. The object was so bright that it was visible through the thinner clouds. It was not displaying anything like navigation lights. There were no traces of any aircraft in the area according to a well known flight tracking app. This is the second sighting of an unusual light in the sky in two days, and in almost the identical area.” Other than its appearance, not much else is known about the object Steve saw on 1st December 2021. However, the fact that the orb he saw two days later made a change in direction rules out the possibility of it being a satellite. The fact that he could not see any other navigation lights, and the fact that no aircraft were spotted on his flight tracking app (Probably Flight Radar 24) tends to suggest that it wasn’t an aeroplane or helicopter. However, this explanation cannot be entirely ruled out. Perhaps it was much higher than he assumed it was, so far away that the navigation lights all bled into one. Also it could have been an aircraft flying without its transponder on. There is no legal obligation to fly with this activated, and military aircraft often fly with this disengaged. The object did not perform any advanced manoeuvres so there is also the possibility that it was a drone or a white coloured LED balloon. 14th December 2021 - Orange Lights “On Tuesday 14th December 2021 at 05.15 hours, I was driving Southbound along the B1248 probably about halfway between the villages of Bainton and Lund. It was a misty morning and was still in darkness. I glanced over to my right (which would have been looking to the west) because I noticed that the sky was glowing white from the outside lights of a farm just on the other side of a gentle hill. Just next to the white glow of the farm lights I witnessed three orange coloured spheres of light, vertically stacked one above the other and just above the horizon.” Aerial map of the B1248 (Station Road) indicating the approximate position of the witness and direction lights were in Photograph of Station Road in the direction the lights were seen “It is difficult to tell how big those lights were as I do not know exactly how far away they were, but were large enough to be instantly noticed. The lights were stationary. I pass this location every day and this is the only time I have seen these lights at the location given.” Due to the fact that Steve regularly drives past the location this sighting took place, it is unlikely that the orange lights were from a building on the horizon, as he would no doubt of seen them on other dates. However, there is the possibility that they were attached to some temporary equipment such as a crane or parked farming vehicle. This seems a far more likely probability to the lights being attached to a hovering craft. 1st January 2022 - Blue Orbs “At 1730 hours on 1/1/2022, I was casually observing the night sky from my back garden in Wetwang when two points of blue light appeared from behind my house way up in the sky. The lights were similar in size to the surrounding stars. They appeared to be following each other closely and were heading from South to North. After passing overhead, they then disappeared from view. They were both just a steady blue colour, no other coloured lights were seen on the objects. Then, at 1738 hours on the same date, another point of blue light was observed heading along the same track from South to North; however this light was randomly flashing. Again there were no other lights visible on the object such as navigation lights. This point of light also disappeared after passing overhead. Finally, at 1745 hours on the same date, a helicopter was heard and seen passing very low over Wetwang heading from North to South and was following the B1248 towards Tibthorpe before going out of sight. A well known flight tracking app was checked immediately and there were no aircraft showing anywhere even close to the area at that time. I surmise that this was a military helicopter due to the noise and navigation lights it was displaying (bright white and bright red steady lights) although I am not able to confirm this.” The colour of the orbs on this occasion rules out a number of possibilities. They could not have been distant aircraft or helicopters as navigation lights on both are white, red and green, never blue: The fact that nothing showed up on Steve’s flight tracking app also points away from this explanation. They could not have been satellites in orbit as these are white, nor could they have been sky lanterns as these glow an amber orange colour. However, a couple of possibilities which cannot be ruled out is that the orbs were blue coloured LED balloons drifting on an air current, or drones (potentially on the way to a show). I feel that the first of these explanations is more likely, especially considering it was New Years Day. They could well have been launched from a nearby celebration. Perhaps the one orb which was intermittently flashing and finally disappeared was higher up and moving in and out of visibility as it moved across the sky. It is unlikely that the helicopter Steve noticed 15 minutes later had anything to do with the orbs. It was travelling in the opposite direction so did not appear to be chasing or attempting to intercept anything. As Steve points out, he cannot confirm that it was even military, it could just as easily have been a civilian or police helicopter. 29th January 2022 – Orange Orb “At 2107 hours on the 29th January 2022 I was working from my works van. I glanced up to the night sky as it was a very clear night and I immediately observed a ball of orange light moving across the sky. The ball of light appeared to be above the A170 heading out of Thirsk in North Yorkshire towards a village called Sutton under Whitestonecliffe.” Aerial map showing the estimated position of the orb and its flight path “Only a few seconds after I noticed this, it dimmed out and completely disappeared from view. It was very quiet where I was working and this light was not making any sound and there were no other lights on display attached to this ball of light.” The most likely explanation for this sighting is that the object was a sky lantern due to its colour, the lack of any advanced or intelligent manoeuvres and way in which it dimmed and disappeared. Lanterns only stay lit for a number of minutes after which they burn out which usually looks like they have vanished as it is no longer possible to see them against the night sky. 17th April 2022 – Blue-White & Warm White Orbs “At 2206 hours on Sunday 17th April 2022, I let my dog out into the back garden and immediately on stepping outside my attention was drawn to a bright flashing pinhead of blue white light in the sky. I stood and observed this light which was flashing randomly and to varying degrees of brightness each time, from very bright to quite feint. I counted how many times it flashed which was 7 times before disappearing. It was static initially and then seemed to start moving very slowly, travelling from the direction of West North West towards South South East. Another pinhead of flashing blue white light then caught my eye in a different part of the sky overhead, this was moving very slowly and flashed slowly and randomly and again to different levels of brightness. This light was moving from South to North and as it moved I counted it flash at least 13 times before it ended up disappearing behind a line of trees. This second flashing light was accompanied only a matter of seconds later by a very tight cluster of two or three warm white coloured lights which were steady and did not flash, heading along the same track. I live in a very quiet rural area and none of these lights were accompanied by any sound, or other lights such as navigation lights. They were just pinheads of light similar in size to the visible celestial objects in the sky to the naked eye. There were no visible condensation trails and there were no aircraft registered as being in the area according to one of the well known flight tracking applications. The first light appeared from the approximate area over Fridaythorpe, East Yorkshire heading generally towards Wetwang, and the second light along with the small cluster of lights appeared over Wetwang heading generally towards Sledmere.” Aerial map indicating approximate location and path of the initial orb: Aerial map indicating approximate location and path of the other orbs: I did wonder whether one of the blue-white orbs may have been the ISS. I asked Chat GPT to confirm the position of the ISS at 10:06pm on 17th April 2022. Below is the response: While the direction would have loosely matched the direction of the first orb, the AI suggests that it would have appeared as a non-blinking bright white point of light, not a flashing blue-white light. Also this would not account for the other orbs, including one which looked the same as the first, so this seems unlikely. None of the orbs performed manoeuvres which would indicate they were anything advanced or under intelligent control. As with some of Steve’s previous sightings, distant aircraft, drones or drifting LED balloons cannot be ruled out. 20th August 2022 - Black L-Shaped UFOs, Pale Blue and Orange Orbs “On the afternoon of Saturday 20th August 2022, I was sat out in my garden on the patio as it was a nice clear sunny day. At 1852 hours I glanced up into the sky and immediately saw a black ‘L’ shaped object moving through the sky, heading from the north towards the south. As the object came overhead, I ran down to the end of my garden so that I could keep the object under observation and when I looked back up at it as it was heading away there were now three ‘L’ shaped black coloured objects heading in the same direction towards the south. This startled me because initially there was only one that was visible. I noticed that one of the objects had a bright silver metallic back on it. The objects were moving quite quickly and I would suggest they were at a height of about 1500-2000 feet. There were no visible lights or exhaust trails or anything of that kind from the objects and they were perfectly silent. Later on that evening I decided to observe the night sky as it was a clear night. I observe quite often and use a pair of high quality Steiner 7x50 binoculars to do this. The first object I viewed at 2154 hours was Vega near to the constellation of Cygnus the swan. As I observed through the binoculars, I saw dozens and dozens of pale blue and pale orange lights track past Vega, on two distinct separate tracks which were very close to each other. Literally these pale lights were seen one after the other, some were less than a second apart and were moving very fast across the night sky from west to east. I was not able to keep an accurate count as there were so many. Some of these lights overtook each other. I observed all of these lights passing by constantly for just over an hour before fatigue set into my arms and I had to stop observing at 2255 hours, cloud coverage had also began. In the 40 years of observing the night sky I have never seen so many objects moving through the sky in one particular place. I did question whether these could be Starlink satellites however these lights were very feint and only visible through the binoculars and not the naked eye. It seemed that there were just too many lights for too long to be disregarded as simply two lines of Starlink satellites. It was also noted that there was a military transport plane in the area at the time of observation, which was a USAF C17 Mk III Globemaster.” This incident is made up of two distinctly separate sightings which do not appear to be related to one another and just happened to occur within hours of one another. The black and silver L-shaped UFOs which were witnessed in the early evening were clearly not normal aircraft due to their unusual appearance. Steve states that they were moving fast, but seemingly did not perform any movements which would indicate they were under intelligent control. I feel that the most likely explanation for them was several novelty balloons drifting on air currents. Regarding the lines of orbs he witnessed later on, online sources confirm that there was a Starlink satellites launch on 20th August 2022. Here is an example news report about the launch: https://www.space.com/spacex-rocket-launches-22-starlink-satellites-success Due to the regularity of the lights in the second sighting in terms of their appearance and path I feel that Steve is mistaken, and that it was the launch he was witnessing. When Starlink satellites are first launched they are moved around using jets, which accounts for the fact that some of the lights were travelling at a faster pace and catching up with other ones. 4th November 2022 - Yellow and Pale Blue Orbs “At 2101 hours on Friday 4th November 2022 I had just let my dog out into the back garden. My attention was drawn initially to a bright yellow ball of light moving extremely slowly through the night sky, and then I noticed a very pale blue light that was following very closely behind and off to one side. I saw these lights for about five seconds before the pale blue light suddenly disappeared and the bright yellow light faded right down. It also disappeared a couple of seconds later. These odd lights were travelling from the direction of Fimber towards Sledmere, from West to East. I live in a very quiet rural area, and those lights did not appear to be from any human activity. There was no sound coming from them, and they were very high up from the earth's surface.” As the colour of these orbs does not match normal navigation lights this tends to rule out the idea that they were distant planes or helicopters. They were also the wrong colour for sky lanterns. However, they could well have been a couple of LED balloons, which seemed to disappear because they moved out of visual range. Drones would also be possible but the continuous very slow movement across the sky seems more likely to be inflatables drifting on an air current. Drones tend to hover still and dart from one position to another for periods of time. 29th November 2022 – Big Cat/Dog Sighting “Myself and my wife were on our way to Malton on the evening of 01/12/2022 to have a meal, and while in the car during general chit chat my wife said to me suddenly ‘Oh I forgot to tell you because you were at work, on Tuesday night (29/11/2022) when I was driving home I saw a black thing!’ When I asked her to tell me what she meant, she said she was driving along the B1248 having just negotiated the Fimber roundabout, heading towards the A166 from the general direction of Malton, she told me she saw a jet black coloured creature leap out from the entrance to the small biker’s cafe on the right and cross the road.” Aerial map of the B1248 indicating the approximate location of the witness and path of the creature Photograph of the B1248 where the animal walked across “Whatever this was disappeared into a gap in the hedge opposite on the left just before you get to the Yorkshire Wolds Railway site. She said she has no idea what this creature was but had the form and movement of a small bear, much larger than a cat or dog and as stated was jet black in colour and it had a long tail. It ran off on its four legs. That's about as much as she was able to tell me other than the time was around 1840 hours.” This is a very interesting sighting of a possible large panther-like cat. The witness says that it was the size of a small bear, which tends to suggest that it wasn’t a domestic cat or dog. The long tail also points towards it being a big cat, as this is one of their most distinguishing features. As she only glimpsed the creature for a moment a large domestic cat or dog cannot be entirely ruled out, but it is widely suspected by many that panthers are breeding in the wild and exist in small numbers at various places around the UK. 6th December 2022 - White Lights “I was driving Eastbound along the A166 just approaching Wetwang from the direction of Fridaythorpe at 1806 hours on Tuesday 6th December 2022 when I noticed high up in the Eastern sky in front of me two very bright white lights traversing around each other.” Aerial map of York RoA166 indicating the approximate position of the witness Photograph of the A166 in the direction the lights were seen “The two lights were flashing randomly, and then began to move off away from each other, one heading south and the other heading north before I lost sight of them due to trees, buildings and bright road lighting. Those lights appeared to be way out high over the North Sea probably somewhere between Skipsea and Fraisthorpe. Aerial map indicating Wetwang (A), Skipsea (B) and Fraisthorpe (C) “I checked one of the well known flight tracking apps but there were no aircraft showing to be in that area at the time.” The lights that Steve saw did not perform any advanced manoeuvres. The most likely explanation for them would be distant aeroplanes or helicopters out over the sea. The intermittent flashing was probably caused by a combination of them moving in and out of visual range and strobe navigation lights. The fact that they did not show up on the flight tracking app does not rule out the idea that they were aircraft, they may have just had their transponders switched off at the time, as previously mentioned in this report. 13th February 2023 – Big Cat/Dog Sighting “I was travelling in my works van on 13/02/2023 at 16.55 hours heading to a job in Leeds. I was with a work colleague and we were driving down a road called Wike Ridge Lane just approaching the Shadwell area of Leeds.” Aerial map of Wike Ridge Lane indicating approximate location of the vehicle I saw that there were some open fields with short grass growing in them with perimeter hedges, to our left just before getting to the beginning of where there are a few houses on the outskirts of Shadwell (north east Leeds). I happened to glance over into those fields and to my amazement I got a sighting of a large four legged creature walking slowly across one of the fields probably about 300 metres away from the road.” Photograph of the field where the creature was observed "There were no persons or other animals in any of these large fields. It was very light outside as the sun had not yet gone down below the horizon. The sky was clear. It was dry but cold outside. I would describe the animal that I saw as being jet black in colour and being much larger than a dog, but seemed unlike a dog in some respects and more like a cross between a wolf and feline type animal as it had a large, straight bushy tail which pointed diagonally downwards and also quite large pointed ears. It had medium length fur I would say. It walked in a very sleek fashion of movement and appeared that it probably could run very quickly if needed. Unfortunately, and most disappointingly we were not able to stop our vehicle safely and get an image as the road was a national speed limit carriageway and there was traffic behind us. I remember telling my colleague who was driving what I had just seen and commenting on the fact that the local farmers might be a bit worried if they had any livestock about. I have never witnessed anything like this creature before and I must admit I was quite shocked to see such an unusual animal just walking through a large open field with nobody else around.” It appears that Steve’s wife is not the only one who has had a potential big cat sighting. From Steve’s description it is not really certain whether the creature he saw was a large feline or large canine. It is very unlikely to have been a genuine feline-canine cross breed as this would not be possible. However, the black colour, long pointed ears and sleek movement observed suggest that this may have been a sighting of a large wild cat of some kind. It is a shame that Steve was unable to park the car and get a photograph/video of the animal, as this would have aided greatly in determining its origin. 1st May 2023 – Glowing Gold UFO “In early May 2023 I had a very interesting conversation with my mother. I rang her to see if she wanted to be taken for her weekly shopping. During the call, here is what she said to me in her own words without any prompting or conversation about the subject beforehand; ‘I’ve got something to tell you Steve, you’re not going to believe this. On Monday (1st May 2023) at twenty to ten in the evening I had just gone to lay down in my bed when I heard quite a loud noise. It was like an aircraft type noise but not a quiet one. It was like a loud, low droning noise. I got up and went to look out of my back living room window and saw this really big gold glittering light between two of the houses opposite my back garden. I stood and watched this for a few seconds and it then shot off (she described the direction which sounds to me like heading from west hull towards an easterly direction, towards the east coast of the UK). It didn’t have any flashing lights on it, but it had very small little wings poking out like an airplane but very small ones. It was hovering between the houses before shooting off fast. It didn’t have any windows. It was a lot like the other thing I saw a few years ago.’ Witness drawing of the UFO “My mother lives just on a quiet close knit street just off Pickering Road near to the Costello Playing Fields in Hull, East Yorkshire, not far from the Spring Bank area where there have been a good few sightings over the years.” Aerial map of Pickering Road This is an intriguing sighting of an unusual aerial object. In early May in the UK the sun sets about 8:30pm. The fact that it initially appeared as a large golden-coloured glittering light and that the sun had set by the time of the sighting means that it must have been self-luminescent instead of reflecting sunlight. From the drawing Steve’s mum did it can be seen that the UFO appeared to be domed-disc shaped. What she describes as “short wings” may have been the outer edges of a wider central rim around the object. If it really was an advanced craft then this would explain how it was able to hover motionless before suddenly flying away at a fast speed. However, the possibility that this was an unusual shaped drone or remote controlled model cannot be entirely ruled out. 6th May 2023 – Gold Orbs “I was not long since travelling home from work at 0026 hours on the early morning of Saturday 6th May 2023, driving steadily along the B1248 probably half way between Wharram Le Street and the turn off on the left for Towthorpe. I was driving towards Fimber roundabout (heading generally south). This part of the road is the highest in the area for some miles.” Aerial map of B1248 indicating the approximate location of the sighting “For some reason unknown, I glanced over to my right and looked west and was surprised to see a bright gold ball of light moving about very slowly just above the horizon. This immediately caught my attention so I stopped my car in a safe place and rolled my driver’s window down to get a better view. Suddenly, furthering my surprise, I then saw a second gold light appear to the right of the first one, this was dimmer but was moving along above the horizon a bit quicker than the other light and was slightly higher. This second light appeared to be heading north. I would estimate that those two lights were somewhere between Strensall and Sheriff Hutton, north of York, however as always these things can be difficult to judge at night. I took my mobile phone out of my pocket and just about managed to get a photo of the first brighter light I saw. I also took a short video but it is very blared as I could not get the camera to focus.” Video footage of one of the orbs: “A few seconds after I started filming, both lights disappeared so I put my phone down. The lights then reappeared, and continued to move slowly. They disappeared again, before the brighter light again appeared and then disappeared. The weather at the time was mostly clear but with patches of cloud and fog. The moon was bright in the sky. There was no wind and the temperature was 7 Celsius. I checked one of the well know flight tracking apps at the time of the sighting, the only one aircraft recorded over the York area was 30000 feet up in the sky, nowhere near the horizon!” It is interesting that Steve describes the orbs he saw as gold in colouration, as the one captured on video (albeit extremely blurred) appears more amber orange. To illustrate this point, here is a still of the orb, taken within the first second of the brief footage: Here is a zoomed view of the orb: Even though the orb is only visible for a couple of seconds, the brightness does appear to be flickering. Both this and the colour point towards the orbs being a couple of sky lanterns which had been launched from a nearby celebration. Neither of them performed advanced manoeuvres, and they could easily have been drifting on an air current, one slightly faster than the other. The fact that the orbs were disappearing and re-appearing could have been down to their distance from the witness. Nothing showed up for them on the flight tracking app either, suggesting they were not distant aircraft. 8th July 2023 - Red Lights “Tuesday 18th July 2023, 2345 Hours. I was driving southbound along the B1248 having come out of the village of North Grimston heading towards the next village of Wharram Le Street, North Yorkshire. This part of the road ascends quite steeply and there are some quite tight bends in the road. I had just gone around a left hand bend going up the hill where there is a coppice of trees on the right hand side going up the hill.” “I noticed just on exiting the bend on the right of my car four large pale fuzzy round red lights 'parked' in the middle of the coppice of trees.” Photograph of the coppice of trees where the orbs were situated “I was not able to make out any shape as the area is very dark at night and there are no street lights on this road. It was not a vehicle that had come off the road, as it is a solid line of thick trees and none had been knocked over or disturbed. I have no idea what this was, but the lights were not clearly defined light vehicle lights would normally be. There are no houses or buildings anywhere near this location, it is well out into the countryside.” It is unclear why Steve did not stop his vehicle to continue to observe the orbs. As they were low down it seems unlikely that they were aircraft being viewed in the sky beyond the treeline. Also no white or green lights were observed, only red. Steve is correct that there are no buildings nearby, this can be seen on the aerial map. However, it is possible that the red lights were coming from farming equipment either within or beyond the trees. They were low down and did not move at all, increasing the chance that this is what was observed. 29th July 2023 – Green Orb “Saturday 29th July 2023, 2350 hours. I was almost in the same place as the above sighting, but on a straighter piece of road with low hedges on both sides, heading in the same direction as above. There was gap that appeared in the hedges on my right hand side where the farmers drive their machinery onto the fields.” Aerial map of B1248 indicating the position of the witness Photograph of the gap in the hedgerow “I noticed behind the hedge that there was a strange transparent ball of dim green coloured illumination just next to the gap in the hedge. The ball was just hovering about half a metre off the ground, and was not making any noise from what I could hear in my car. It was not a perfect ball of illumination. It actually reminded me of the body of Slimer from the first Ghostbusters film in the 80's! I would estimate it was about a metre in diameter.” This was a more intriguing sighting than Steve’s previous encounter on the same road, as on this occasion the object appeared to be freely visible rather than shining from within vegetation. While a green light on distant farming equipment cannot be ruled out, there is also the possibility that it was something more anomalous. There is a chance that the object was an earth light (will-o-wisp). Although rare, these are more commonly sighted in rural locations. Conclusions As you can see Steve and his family have had a huge amount of sightings over the years of both UFOs and possible big cats/dogs. Regarding the UFO sightings, the majority of them are orbs of various colours. Most of them did not perform advanced manoeuvres or display aspects which cannot be put down to mundane explanations. One of the most intriguing sightings Steve had was the first one he reported to me from October 2009 due to the zig-zag movement pattern observed. His mother’s sighting of the glowing golden domed-disc shaped object was also interesting due to its appearance and flight characteristics. The two big feline/canine sightings are both harder to explain and could well have been what they appeared to be, although in both instances the animal was only seen for a short period of time and not captured on camera. Despite many of Steve’s sightings potentially having mundane explanations, there is still the chance that some of them may have been distant advanced craft, and I am pleased that he sent me the details to get down on record. If he gets back in touch further information on these incidents may well be added. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 01/09/2026 Last Updated: 02/09/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used "Paul" reached out BUFOG on 3rd August 2026 via our website’s sighting report form. He stated that he had taken a couple of photographs of his back garden, and when he checked the images a few days later one of them appeared to have a figure on it which he did not see at the time. He wanted our opinion on what the photograph showed. I got back in touch with him to ask for further details via numerous E-Mails, and also asked for some later photos to be taken and sent to me, which Paul was more than happy to comply with. Using the information and additional photos I then conducted an analysis of the original two images sent. The Photographs Paul lives on Alwynn Walk, Erdington, Birmingham. Aerial map of Alwynn Walk In July 2026 a young lady from Canada moved in next door. Her father visited for a fortnight to help clear the passageway in the back garden which had become overgrown with bushes. At 4:41pm on 15th July Paul decided to take a couple of photographs from an upstairs window so after the work was finished he could compare the difference. Paul says that he has a habit of taking two photographs in case one of them turns out blurred. He also mentioned that the workers were dressed in black and were not in shot when he took the photos. Below are the two photographs: Paul did not check the photos for several days, but when he did he noticed what appeared to be a figure of some kind in the first image: It wasn’t apparent to him what the figure was, and he did not recall seeing it when he took the photograph. This prompted him to get in touch with BUFOG a couple of weeks later. Photographic Analysis I first used an online Exif metadata viewer to check the metadata behind the two images. Below is the metadata for the first image: I have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the photos but when photographs are altered in image editing software, lots of the metadata values and their order gets changed. This can be used to determine if a photo is genuine or not. Although it is possible to over-write metadata, it is very difficult to do this 100% accurately, and most people don’t even know that metadata exists, let alone how to alter it. The highlighted Make, Model and Device Type metadata values show that this photograph was taken on a Samsung smartphone and have not been tampered with using software. The DateTimeOriginal and TimeStamp values give the precise date and time that it was taken. The second photograph's metadata is almost identical, but confirms that the second shot was taken 5 seconds after the first: With the authenticity of the photographs confirmed, it was now time to establish what they did or didn’t show. I initially suspected that the “head” of the figure was the only anomaly, with it clearly being present in the first image but gone in the second. I thought that the “body” of the figure may have just been the roof of the shed partially hidden by vegetation In late August I asked Paul to send me an additional photograph showing the same location: From this later image it is clear that the body of the figure was not the roof of the shed. It is also clear that there are no white coloured garden ornaments/furnishings which could have been mis-interpreted as a figure. Below is a zoomed view of the area where the figure is situated from each photograph side by side: From this comparison it can be seen that both the “head” and “body” are part of the same thing, and that they move to the left between the two photographs. Paul was mistaken that the figure was only present in the first image, it is in both, it’s just more hidden from view in the second shot. With the figure being more visible in the first of the two images I focused on this for the remainder of the analysis. I wondered if it was someone wearing white clothing, perhaps wearing a cap to shelter from the bright sunshine, with the black area being a shadow from the peak of the this cap/ Below is a zoomed view of the “head” of the figure: It is possible to see what looks like a white peaked cap facing to the left: It is also possible to see what may be a mouth visible below the cap: Lastly it is possible to see what may be an ear and hairline: I decided to see what Chat GPT made of the two images. It too went along with this as the most likely explanation: Chat GPT noted that the images were over-exposed due to the bright sunlight, leading to some of the detail being lost. I decided to feed the zoomed image of the “head” into it, informed it that it was over-exposed and asked it to fix the image. If you are still finding it hard to see the head of a person in a white cap, then the below screen grab will likely change your mind: You’d be forgiven for thinking that the above proves beyond any doubt that the photograph shows a man in white clothes wearing a peaked cap. However it’s important to note that this is just Chat GPT’s interpretation of what the image shows, it has not actually removed the over-exposure from the photograph (this is impossible). To prove this point, I also fed the zoomed view of the whole figure into Chat GPT too, just to see whether it would come up with a similar image. Instead I got the following: As you can see, when provided the whole figure, Chat GPT thought that the image shows a strange humanoid swan-like animal, and therefore rendered it as such! This highlights the fact that analysis performed by Large Language Models like Chat GPT cannot be taken at face value. I reached out to Paul to share my findings with him. His response was as follows: "The bushes were full of thorns so no one could walk through them we haven't been able to exit the back of our house because the pathways were overgrown. The father was wearing a black t-shirt and black shorts, no hat." However, it can be seen from the later photograph that Paul sent me that there is an obvious break in the fence where two panels have separated, and that there is a public footpath on the opposite side of the fence. I suggested to him that someone may have entered the garden through this gap in the fence. He sent a further response: "I watched the father walk away out of sight before I took the photos so if someone had come through the hole in the fence I would have seen them. And why walk through the bushes. the thorns would scratch you to bits. I know, I've tried to get past in the back passage." While this additional information does point away from the figure being the father helping remove the bushes from the passageway, I feel that there is still the possibility that someone sneaked through the gap in the fence un-noticed, just prior to Paul taking the photographs. Maybe he was attempting to break in, or maybe he just wanted somewhere to quickly go to the toilet out of sight of the public eye, but unaware Paul was standing in the upstairs window. Conclusions I am unaware of humanoid swan creatures in the world of cryptozoology, and therefore do not believe that this is what the image shows. However, Chat GPT’s initial interpretation, and cleaned up zoom of the head of the figure both echo my thoughts on the photograph. I feel that the most likely explanation is a man wearing white including a peaked cap who was not noticed at the time by Paul when he took the photographs. This case is somewhat reminiscent of the infamous “Solway Firth Spaceman” photograph taken on 23rd May 1964. A man from Carlisle named Jim Templeton took several photographs of his daughter while on a trip to Burgh Marsh. When the photos were developed he was shocked to see what looked like an astronaut in the background: Numerous researchers have looked into the photograph and the general consensus is that it was actually Jim’s wife who had accidentally wandered into the shot. It is known from other photos taken on the same day that she was wearing a light blue dress. It is likely that the colour was washed out due to over-exposure caused by the sun, just like the images discussed in this report. It is also theorised that she was facing away from the camera, giving the impression of the “visor” of the astronaut’s helmet, and accounting for the odd shape of the arms. Regarding the photos Paul took, while he is convinced that the figure was not his neighbour's father, the idea that it was someone sneaking through the gap in the fence cannot be ruled out. I feel that currently this is the most likely explanation. Paul informed me that the father will be back before the winter to install a new fence, and when he does he will show him the photographs and ask him to confirm whether it's him or not. If he gets back in touch with any further information this report will be updated as necessary. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 16/01/2012 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used and certain experiences ommitted The Regression I decided that due to the level of detail of Morgane’s experience, and the fact that she appeared to have missing memories, it would be a good idea to focus on the Nordic abduction. On Saturday 24th September Morgane and her husband Arthur travelled from their home in France to Birmingham specifically for the regression. I took her to the home of the hypnotherapist I currently work with. After briefly discussing some of her experiences, Morgane underwent the regression. Below is the transcript of this regression with the names changed and certain key points removed for privacy reasons. J: Now Morgane, what I’d like you to do is take some nice deep breaths and listen to the music. And I’ll turn the music off and then we’ll proceed. Just relax. Relax, just relax. Tops of your shoulders here, as you exhale relax. The tiny muscles on your forehead, around your eyes, as you exhale let go, relax. You’re doing fine. If your eyes want to close do so, there’s no rush, there’s no time limit, this is for you. The muscles in your face, in your jaw, exhale and allow the tension to release, let go. That’s it, you’re doing fine. The muscles across your shoulders and your back, as you exhale let go, relax. Any thoughts that may come into your head I want you to put them into a big box, a big heavy box, let all the thoughts, any issues, any problems, any stress that you have in your life, I want you to place it, them all into this box. Place them in the box. Anything that may come up in this session from your current life, I want you to put it all into this box. And when you’ve done that I want you to put the lid on. It’s a big sturdy lid. And if need be put a heavy object on top of this lid, and to move it away from you, so that no actual thoughts are going to disturb this session, so that we are totally focused on this session. Ok. Now the muscles across your shoulders and your upper back, as you exhale let go and relax. The muscles of your middle back, as you exhale let it go, let it go, relax. Then the muscles of your lower back and your stomach, this is where we have a lot of tension, now is the time for that tension and anxiety to be released, to be released. And as you exhale let go and relax. That’s fine, that’s really good. Just breathe, even deep breaths, enable the tension to go. The muscles of your back, and your buttocks, and your thighs, again a lot of tension in those, and as you exhale just allow it to release, let go, let go, and relax. That’s great, you’re really doing really really well. Just breathe even deep breaths. Muscles of your lower legs, exhale, relax and let go. Let go of all that stress, all that tension, it just dissipates. Now the muscles of your feet, exhale, let that tension go. You’re doing really well, really well. And ever breath, every last bit of tension, relax, completely at ease now, continue to breathe peacefully and freely. This is for you Morgane. This is your time, all of it. That’s good, that’s good. When you’re ready, whenever you’re ready, we’re going to release the tension in your arms. Exhale and let it go. And your upper arms, and your lower arms, and your hands, however they feel now, sinking absolutely calm and relaxed. That’s good, perfect. And the noises inside of the room, and the noises outside of the room will help you to relax even more, even more. I want you to imagine yourself at the top of ten steps. Looking down these ten steps and there’s a huge wooden door at the end. You’re standing at the top of ten steps. And I want you to imagine yourself within a white sphere of protection. You’re inside it, it’s above your head and below your feet. And if you were to stretch your arms out to your left and to your right you couldn’t touch the sides of this powerful white sphere. This is your protection, you are safe, you know it, you feel it, and that’s really really good. Now I want you to imagine little roots, little tendrils, growing out of your heels, and out from your coccyx at the end of your spine also there’s a root there, and it goes down, down, down, growing down through the subsoil, down, down, down into the rocks of the earth. And those little tendrils lock you into the rocks of the earth so you’re fully grounded while we go about our business. So you’re now standing at the top of the ten steps. You have your sphere of protection, and you’re fully grounded. You are completely safe, calm, comfortable and relaxed. Now I want you to take your first step down into the peace and tranquillity. That’s good, that’s fine. And take the second step down. And the third step down, feeling calm, comfortable and relaxed. Completely at ease, completely protected, completely grounded. And step number four, down you go to step number four. And step number five. Half way down towards the huge wooden door now. Relaxed and at ease, protected and grounded, protected and grounded. Step number six. Take step number six down, down. And number seven, down you go to number seven. Look at the size of the door in front of you as you continue down those steps, down those steps. Step number eight. Going down into peace and tranquillity, down into peace and tranquillity. And then step number nine. And step ten. You’re standing in front of the huge wooden door, calm, comfortable and relaxed, completely at ease, fully protected and fully grounded, fully grounded. And in a moment I will ask you to go through the door. But before I do this I will tell you what’s on the other side. It’s just a neutral room, that’s all it is, just a neutral room. So when you’re ready, I’d like you to open the door and step through, and close the door behind you. Step through into the neutral room. And when you’re there perhaps you’ll nod and let me know. M: (Nods) J: Thank you, ok. Very shortly I’m going to speak to Morgane’s subconscious mind, and I’ll be speaking to her subconscious mind as if I’m speaking to another person. I don’t want you to think about my questions, nor consider your answers, just give them as quickly as they come. I’m going to count to three, snap my fingers, and when I snap my fingers your subconscious mind will present itself as a shape, a colour, a picture, or a symbol. One, two, three. Tell me what you have. M: A waterfall. J: A waterfall. Very good. Is the waterfall Morgane’s subconscious mind, yes or no? M: Yeah. J: Yes or no. M: Yes. J: Am I speaking to Morgane’s subconscious mind waterfall? M: Yeah. J: Thank you. Do I have the subconscious mind of Morgane to umm have the permission to carry on and ask questions? M: Yeah. J: Thank you very much, that’s very kind of you, I do appreciate it. Now Morgane’s subconscious mind can you please take us back to an incident that happened in mid-May 1995. I want you to take me back there an hour or two before the actual event, can you do that? M: Yeah. J: Can you describe what you’re seeing please? M: It’s quiet. J: Could you repeat? M: It’s quiet. J: It’s quiet. And where... M: I’m happy and quiet. J: You’re happy and quiet, lovely. M: It’s serene. J: It’s serene. And where are you, can you look around you? M: In a nice place. J: You’re in a nice place are you? M: Light. J: Light. M: Very light. Very gentle. A flat. J: Very calm and gentle and it’s a flat? M: Yes. J: Is it the flat that you used to live in? M: Yeah. J: Oh lovely. M: It’s nice. J: Yes. And can you tell me what else you’re seeing? M: Children. J: Children? M: Yes. J: Are they your children? M: Yes. J: Oh lovely. And what are the children doing? M: My son is going to his room, laughing. J: What are you doing? M: Talking to my daughters. J: You’re talking to your daughters, that’s nice. M: Yeah. J: That’s good, you’re in a happy place with your children, excellent. M: Yeah. J: What happens next Morgane, what happens next? M: The girls go to bed, Xavier’s already in bed. J: So the children are in bed or going to bed? M: Ah yeah (inaudible) J: Mhmm. M: I’m on my own now. J: You’re on your own now, as the children have gone to bed, ok. M: Yeah. It’s so quiet. I feel very happy at night. J: Very happy, lovely. M: Yes. J: Contented. M: Free from worries from everything. J: Free from worries, lovely. M: Yeah I feel child like. J: You feel child like and happy. M: Mmm. J: Excellent, that’s a nice position to be in isn’t it. M: Yes. J: And what happens next Morgane. M: I go to bed. J: Uh huh. Now are you going to sleep? M: Yeah. J: Yes. You’re feeling nice and relaxed to go to sleep do you? M: I’m saying my prayers before I go to sleep. J: You say your prayers, lovely. M: I feel so happy and...I feel like (inaudible) Oh my God (inaudible) J: Morgane who are you seeing? M: I can feel utter love, oh! I open my eyes. J: Are you seeing anything in particular, can you tell me what you see. You’re feeling love and... M: Ah the...oh! The ceiling is gone, it’s molten. J: The ceiling is gone and it’s molten. M: Yeah. J: Right. M: Light’s not like it usually was, it’s not just a light now. What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? What? J: Are you getting questions back Morgane? M: Yeah, what is it? I’m just...I don’t understand (inaudible) J: Can you describe what’s happening please? M: The ceiling is moving, like there’s a light and it’s moving. J: The ceilings moving... M: It’s molten, it’s like it’s melting like into a cloud of light. J: So the ceilings moving into a molten cloud of light. M: Mmm. J: Ok. And what happens next? M: I’m lifted up. Yeah, yeah. Oh! It’s weird. J: What are you seeing? What’s happening? M: Like I’m going through it...through the cloud. J: You’re going through the cloud, and how does that make you feel? M: It’s not, it’s not pleasant. J: It’s not pleasant. M: Sticky. J: Sticky. M: It’s weird, it’s really weird. It’s weird. J: Can you describe the stickyness? M: Yeah. It’s gluey. J: It’s gluey. M: Yeah, it’s weird. Sticking to me. J: Lifting you further? M: Yeah, yeah, yeah I’m out. J: What are you seeing? M: The town. It’s so beautiful. J: You’re able to see the town. M: It’s peaceful. J: Are you horizontal or vertical? M: I’m horizontal. J: You’re horizontal, right, ok. M: Mmm. J:Can you describe what’s happening Morgane? M: I’m moving up. J: You’re moving up. M: Up. J: Can you see anything ahead of you? M: It’s just a light. J: You’re moving towards a light? Yeah? M: Yeah. J: Or is the light coming towards you? What’s happening? M: Up high, like moving up. J: You’re moving up. So you’re moving towards this light. And how does this light make you feel? M: I’m ok. J: Yeah? M: Yeah. J: Ok so you’ve gone back to being calm again, that’s good. Are you hearing anything? M: It’s like wind. J: You can hear a wind? Is the wind saying anything to you? M: It’s like a wind. J: It’s like a wind, ok. Is the wind talking to you? Are you sensing any communication? M: No, uhh, just looking at the town, the lights are on. J: You’re looking at the town and the lights are on. M: I’m going over the town. J: You’re going over the town. And where is the light, where is the light, and how big is the light, what shape is it? M: Oh I don’t know, it’s dark now. J: It’s... M: On something now. It’s dark where I am now. J: It’s dark where you are now is it? M: Yeah. J: The light has gone? M: Yeah. J: Have you entered that light? M: Yeah. J: You entered the light, and now once you’re in that light it’s gone dark. M: Mmm. J: And how are you feeling? M: Ok. J: Yeah, you’re ok? Excellent. So what are you...can you see in this darkness? M: Yes ‘cause I’m looking at the town. J: Oh you’re looking at the town through the darkness. M: There’s a window. J: There’s a window right. M: Ah I can see the town. I’m standing now I can see the town. J: So you’re standing... M: It’s beautiful. J: It’s beautiful scenery. You’re standing up and looking at the town through this blackness. What else is happening Morgane? M: I’m going fast, I’m going fast, I’m flying. J: You’re flying. M: I am. Flying. J: Right. M: I’m going very fast. J: Very fast flying. Can you see where you’re going? M: I am going up and now going down. J: You were going up and now you’re going down? M: Gone a long way. J: You’re going a long way. Ok. Have you been here before? M: I’m going over land. J: You’re going over land. M: Marsh land. J: You’re going over marsh land. Right. M: Going very fast. J: Very fast. M: I’m moving very fast. J: Is anybody else with you? M: I don’t know. J: Do you sense if there might be somebody there with you? A number of people? What is...can you, can you look around for me? M: Yeah. J: What are you seeing? M: There is someone next to me. J: There is someone next to you? M: Yeah. J: Do you recognise them? What does it look like? M: Yes. Yes. Right...see a person. J: You see a person? Right. M: Yeah. J: Is it a shadow or is it a full solid person that you see? M: I see a person, he’s quite short. His hand’s on my shoulder. J: So this person has got a...a hand on your shoulder. M: On my left shoulder. J: Your left shoulder. M: Oh, yes. And now he’s very clear. I can see now. I can see. Oh my god. J: Who is this person, can you see? Who is it? Do you recognise that person? M: Yes, he’s very beautiful. J: Who is it? M: A friend of mine. J: A friend of yours. M: Yes. J: And what’s that person’s name? What’s happening Morgane? M: I’m travelling very fast. J: You’re travelling again fast. Is it still daylight? M: I am worried. J: Why are you worried? M: ‘Cause I say “I want to find my way home, how about the children? Are they alright?” J: So you want... M: I want to go home again. J: Do you get a reply Morgane? M: Yeah. J: What are they saying? And who says it? M: “They’ll be alright.” J: Who’s telling you they’ll be alright? M: “They’ll be alright. I’ll be alright.” J: You’ll be alright. M: The children are alright. J: The children are alright. M: They’re alright. It’s alright. J: It’s alright. And who’s telling you this Morgane? M: My friend. J: Your friend. Is he a friend that you’ve seen before? M: Yeah. J: And what does he look like? M: Ah he’s very beautiful. J: In what way is he beautiful? M: He’s a kind person. J: He’s a grand person? M: He’s a kind being. J: He’s a kind being. Is he of light? M: Yes. J: Right. He’s a grand being of light. M: Yes. J: And do you see...feel safe with this person? M: Yes. J: Yes. Very good. That’s nice. What else is he saying to you? M: He’s watching and he’s taking me there. J: He’s watching and taking you where? M: Down a...like a corridor. J: Down a corridor. When he communicates with you, does he speak directly to you or do words come into your head? M: Yeah, it is...words come into my...yeah I just follow what he says. J: You just follow what he says and the words come into your head. M: Yeah. J: Excellent. Ok. Is there any other information he’s giving to you now? What is he saying? M: It’s going to be alright. J: It’s going to be alright. And that makes you calm does it? M: Yeah. J: Excellent. And where are you moving Morgane? Where’s he taking you? M: He’s taking me up a big hall place. A hall. J: He’s taking you along a hallway. M: Ah yes and we’re walking up. Someone’s waiting at the door. J: What are you... M: A door. J: There’s a door and there’s somebody there. M: Yes. J: Can you describe this person? M: He’s dressed in blue. J: Right. M: Ah, yes. The same as the other one. J: Right. The great one? Is he dressed the same as the great one? M: Yes. J: Ok. Can you describe this man, this great one? M: Yeah. J: Dressed in blue? M: Yes. J: What else is there that’s distinguishable about them? M: Very light hair. J: Light hair. M: They are beautiful yes. J: Right. Beautiful. And how do they make you feel when looking at that, this being? M: I’m peaceful. J: Peaceful. M: Do they have a mouth? J: Yes. M: They are very beautiful now. J: Right. Does the mouth move? M: No. J: No, the mouth doesn’t move. Beautiful mouth that doesn’t move. Do they have a nose? M: Yeah. J: Yes. M: A straight nose. J: A straight nose. How about the eyes? Can you describe the eyes to me? M: Quite large eyes. J: Large eyes. M: Almond shaped eyes. J: Almond shaped eyes. M: Beautiful, they are beautiful. J: Blue eyes. M: Beautiful blue almond shaped eyes. J: Are they kind eyes? M: Yeah. J: Kind eyes. Very nice. Have you got to the door yet? M: Yes I’m at the door. J: And what’s happening now? M: He’s at the door like nodding, like telling me to go in. J: So this light being dressed in blue is telling you to go through this door. M: Yes. J: Are you going through the door? M: Yes. J: And what are you seeing beyond this door? M: It’s a small room. J: Small room. Can you tell me more about this small room? Are there any pictures or any symbols? M: No. There’s nothing. J: No? M: It’s all white walls. J: White walls. M: Ah. J: But it’s got a boundary, you can see the size of the room? M: No...no I don’t see any corners, I don’t see any things. There is nothing in it. J: Right. What are you doing in this room? M: I lie down. J: So there’s a bed is there? M: Yeah. J: So you lie down on the bed. Who’s told you to lie down on the bed? M: The first being, the one who was at the door. J: The first being has told you, right. Oh the being at the door has told you? M: Right. Yes. I followed inside. J: Mhmm, you followed inside. And told to go on the bed. What’s happening while you’re on the bed? M: I look at them. J: Mhmm. How many are there in the room? M: Two. J: Just the two of the people that you’ve seen earlier? M: Mmm. J: There’s no more in there? M: No. J: No. Ok. And what are they doing? M: Ummm...they’re putting something round me. J: What is it? What is it they’re putting round you? What is it? What’s happening? M: Don’t know what’s happening...I don’t understand. J: Can you communicate with them? M: Oh. Yes, but they’re not telling me what they do. J: Mhmm. M: I’m wondering... J: What are you wondering? M: They’re busy. J: They’re busy are they? Putting something round you? M: Mmmm. J: Where are they putting it round you? M: My waist. J: Around your wrist? M: My waist. J: Your waist. M: And something on both arms. J: Something on both arms. M: Yeah. J: Is it fabric? Is it metal? What exactly are they putting around your wrists and your arms? M: Like...like when you are in a hospital really. J: Oh right. Is this your identification, do you think? Whatever’s in a hospital? What is it in a hospital that they would do that this looks like? Can you describe it please? M: (Inaudible) The one on the left is taking things. J: Right. M: Samples. Blood. J: Taking samples of blood. M: Yeah. J: Uh-huh. M: The other, I can’t see, I can’t see what he’s doing. There’s a light, and I can’t see because that light is so bright. J: There’s a light in your eyes. M: The light is so bright I can’t see. J: Ok. Can you feel what they’re doing? M: They’re... J: Can you sense? M: Yeah. J: And what is it that they’re doing? What do you sense they’re doing Morgane? M: Oh...oh...they’re doing something. They’ve opened my chest. J: They’ve opened your chest? M: Yes. J: What are they doing Morgane? M: I don’t know. I don’t know what they’re doing. Oh. Why are they doing this? Why? Why is it? Why? J: Can you ask them? M: I just can’t understand what’s going on. J: Is it still just two people in the room? M: Oh like I’ve like fallen in a hole, like in deep sleep. J: Oh they’re put you into deep sleep. M: Oh. I’m in deep sleep. J: Right. Deep sleep, ok. M: I’m in a hole. J: You’re in a hole. And what does it feel like to be in a hole? M: No I don’t feel very comfortable, really. J: You don’t feel comfortable. What’s happening now Morgane? M: I hear a noise. J: What kind of a noise do you hear? M: There’s a humming in the background, I’m coming round. J: Right there’s a humming in the background, and you’re coming round, out of your deep sleep? M: Yeah. J: Yes. And when you’re out of the deep sleep what’s happening? M: They’re straightening me out. J: They’re straightening you out. Do you feel any pain? M: No. J: No. M: I can’t understand. J: What can’t you understand Morgane? What can’t you understand? M: There’s people there. J: Oh there’s people there now. M: It’s them, I don’t understand what they’re doing, who they are. J: What are they doing now? What are they doing Morgane? M: They’re doing their own thing, I’m just lying there. J: They’re doing their own thing and you’re just lying there. M: Yeah but each one in their corners, in their places next to these big metal objects. J: Some metal objects. M: Furniture. They’re behind them. Can’t see them now. J: So they’re hiding behind metal furniture? M: Yes. J: Right. And can you see...can you...can you see what they’ve been doing? M: Yes. J: What have they been doing? Tell me what. M: Putting their pieces away. J: Is there only you in the room with them? M: Yes, yes. J: Ok. What are you hearing? M: I hear a noise all the time. J: You hear a noise all the time. M: Mhmm. J: What sort of a noise? M: A humming. J: Constant humming sound is being heard? M: Mmm. J: Ok. Does that humming sound relax you? M: Yes. J: Yes. And what happens next Morgane? M: And then they are at the foot of bed. J: They’ve picked up the bed? M: No they’re at the foot of my bed. J: They’re at the foot of your bed. M: They seem to be communicating together. J: Right, so they seem to be communicating. And there’s two of them at the foot of your bed. M: Yeah. J: Communicating. Are they looking down at you? M: Yeah. J: And you’re looking up at them? M: Mhmm yeah. J: Are they communicating with their eyes to you? M: No. Afterwards. No they’ve turned round to... J: And what are they saying to you? M: Uh, they’re saying. No they’re saying to each other. J: What are they saying to each other Morgane? M: “Yes, this way she won’t get lost again.” J: Right. So you won’t get lost again? M: Yeah. J: Ok. And what do you feel that means? What’s the feeling you get from them expressing that? M: I think they’ve put something in my body somewhere. J: Can you ask them that question? And what’s the answer you get back? M: I think, yes. J: You think yes. M: Yeah. J: Can you communicate with them and ask them that question? M: Yes. J: And what reply do you get? M: Yes. J: And why have they done that? M: So they can communicate with me. J: So they’ve put a device in you so they can communicate...so you can communicate with them and they can communicate with you? M: Not to lose me. J: And not to lose you? Is that right? M: Yeah. J: Ok. Are you hearing them...with the device can you sense that there is a stronger communication link with them? M: Yes. J: Can you describe the change, the difference? M: Umm they have to think something they know. J: Right. So there’s a stronger telepathic link. M: Yeah. J: Right. So what are you saying to them and what are they saying back to you Morgane? M: One of the beings is going out, he’s going out. J: Mhmm. M: Ah, there’s a door that opens. J: What can you see? M: He’s going through, towards the left. J: Right. M: Umm the other one is staying with me. He’s staying with me. I think I have to go. J: Why do you feel that Morgane? M: Because he’s the one who took the samples. J: Right. Which samples did he take? M: Something in my stomach. In my...somewhere. J: So you’ve had samples taken out of your stomach? M: From my body. J: From your body. M: And he knows that I didn’t like it. J: He knows you didn’t like it. M: I embarrassed him. J: You’re embarrassed? M: He’s embarrassed? J: He is embarrassed. Right. And how is he expressing that embarrassment? M: It shows on his face. J: Shows on his face. So he has an expression? M: Yes. J: You can read that expression? M: Yes. He can’t hide it. J: He can’t hide it. Is he talking to you telepathically? M: Yes. J: And what is he saying to you? M: He’s saying that he’s not as bad, that he’s not worse than the other one. (inaudible) His work, he didn’t hurt me. He didn’t do it to hurt me. J: So this being is telling you he didn’t hurt you and he’s only doing his job? M: Yeah. J: Right. And what do you say back to him? M: Yes. I said to him I don’t understand. J: That you don’t understand, ok. And what happens next Morgane? M: The other being comes in. J: Mhmm. The other being comes in, and what does he do? M: There’s a man returning towards me, returning to me, looking at me. And the being comes to my right, and he offers me a cup. J: So he offers...this other being comes back into the room, comes to your left of you and offers you a cup? M: My right. J: Oh of course, to the right. Right. Comes to the right of you and offers you a cup? M: Mhmm. J: And what is the cup like? Can you describe the cup? And is there anything in it? M: It’s like a chalice. J: Like a chalice, yeah. What’s it made out of? M: Metal. J: Metal. M: White metal. J: White metal. Do you take it? M: Yes. J: Does it feel heavy or light? M: I sit up. Oh, yeah. J: You sit up. M: Yeah. Ah, I can sit up. J: Right. You take the chalice and... M: Yes. J: Is it light or is it heavy? M: Light, it’s light. J: It’s light. And what’s inside? M: There’s a liquid. J: There’s a liquid. Does the liquid have a colour? M: No. J: No. It’s colourless. Does it have a smell? M: No. J: No smell. Is it hot or is it cold? Can you tell... M: It’s just not too hot, not cold. It’s not nice. J: It’s not nice. M: Doesn’t taste of anything. J: Doesn’t taste of anything. Do they ask you to drink it? M: Yes. J: Do they tell you why you need to drink it? M: No. J: No. And you obey him completely? M: Yes. J: Do you feel you’ve got a choice? M: Oh I feel it’s something special. J: Oh it’s a gift is it? M: Yes. J: Excellent. M: It’s like. Yes, it’s something special. J: Something special. That’s nice to have that, something special, isn’t it? And do they...do they communicate in any way to you further? What else do they say? M: I drink some of it... J: Mhmm M: They’re telling me to stop. “That’s enough” they say. J: Oh right. M: “That’s enough.” I hand back the cup. J: You give back the cup, yeah. M: And the being takes it away again. J: Mhmm. M: Leaves me on my own again. Now. J: So you’re on your own... M: Not straight away. J: Mmm. And what do you do when you’re on your own? M: No I’m not on my own ever, totally. J: You’re never totally on your own, ok. M: The being is telling me, the being on the left starts to talk to me. J: Right. And what’s he saying? M: He’s telling me what they’re doing. J: He’s telling you what they’re doing. M: They want to be friends. J: They want to be friends. M: Yes. J: What is he saying they were doing on you. M: He’s not talking about that anymore. J: Ok. M: I don’t know. J: What do they talk to you about? M: They’re looking at me. J: They’re looking at you. And what happens next Morgane? M: I wonder who they are. What they are. J: Do you get a reply? M: Yes. J: What do they say? M: They’re saying they come from somewhere else. J: They say they come from somewhere else. Did they mention a name? M: I think they talk about the polar stars. J: Polar stars. They come from the polar stars. What else do they say? M: That they are in peace, they come in peace. To help the world, to help people to evolve. J: Helping people to evolve... M: To bring peace to the world. J: To bring peace to the world. That’s nice. M: To help us evolve. J: To help us evolve. So by doing what they’re doing on you, how are they bringing peace and helping us to evolve? M: To help people. To help the world. That they are there to bring them a message. J: To bring them a message? Ok. M: I ask them about Christ and they said each one of us is the same being, what you call Christ or whatever. J: So these beings are Christ like? M: Yeah. J: Right. M: In love. J: In love. M: In peace. J: And in peace. M: In caring for people. J: In caring for people. And do you believe them? M: Yes. J: Yes. Ok. M: I do. J: Can you look at your arms and your hands, can you see anything? M: Yes. J: What do you see? M: Dots, stain marks. J: Are you able to communicate with these people? M: Yes. J: And what are...what are they saying? M: They’re saying “This is to help you”. J: This is to help you. M: Mmm. J: How is this to help you, can you ask them that? M: They, they come to this earth to... J: You’ve come to this earth to... M: You must tell them not to fight anymore, not to destroy the planet anymore J: You’ve to tell people not to destroy the planet anymore. M: Yes. Not to kill anymore. J: And not to kill anymore, ok. M: They’ve put something in me. There are certain products that I can’t take anymore. I’m allergic to a lot of things. J: So they put things into you to help you. M: Yes, they’ve put things in my body through these marks to stop me from doing certain things. J: So the marks on your body are to help you... M: Mmm. J: And to stop you, to make you feel better. M: Ah yes. J: Is that right? M: Healthy. J: To make you healthy. M: Yes. It’s become part of me not to eat meat. J: It’s become part of you to not eat meat. Ok. M: I can’t take drugs, any drugs. J: You can’t take any drugs. M: They make me ill. J: They make you ill, right. M: They poison me. J: They poison you, yes. So how are the marks helping you? M: They put something in my blood, in my body. J: They’ve put something in your body. And is that helping you for a long time. M: Yes. For always. J: For always. M: Yes. J: And that’s to keep you healthy? M: Yes. J: And how does that make you feel, Morgane? M: ‘Cause that heightens your perception, your consciousness. J: So it’s heightening your consciousness, your perception? M: Yes. Yes. J: Mmm...very good. So what happens next Morgane? M: They tell me about these things...they tell me lots of things. J: They tell you lots... M: They talk a lot. Yes, they tell me about their plan, the plan. The universal consciousness for peace in the universe. J: Universal consciousness, they tell you about it. Can you tell us about it please? M: They work for the positive. J: They work for the positive. M: For evolution of mankind. J: For the evolution of mankind. M: A lot of other worlds work with them. J: A lot of animals work with them. M: Worlds...other worlds. J: In other worlds. M: Other planets... J: Other planets. M: Have joined them joined them into this work. J: Other planets have joined this work. M: To offer peace. J: To offer peace. M: Yes, amongst themselves and to other planets. J: Amongst themselves... M: To other worlds. J: To other worlds. Lovely. M: And this is the turn of the Earth to grow. J: So this is the turn...turn of the Earth to grow? And they’re helping that growth? M: Yes to join them, they want us to join them. J: They want us to join them. M: They want the peace for the world. J: They want peace for the world. M: They want us to be with them and to increase our knowledge, to learn from them. They genuinely care about us. J: They care... M: More than we do about ourselves. J: Yes. M: They can’t understand how the world can be...stay like that and do nothing, they want to help. They send people. J: They’re sending people to help. M: Mmm. J: With peace. M: Yes. They want us to be like them. J: They want us to be like them. M: Yes. They called...they called it a federation. J: A federation. Ok. M: They got together, and one by one they bring people in. J: One by one they bring people in. M: Yes. J: Into the federation. M: One by one. J: Yes, one by one. And how do they do that? How do they bring people in? M: They talk to us. J: They talk to us, yeah. M: Certain people. J: Certain people. M: They bring us close to them. J: They bring you close to them. M: Yeah. J: Yes. And what happens next Morgane? M: Then they tell me about their badge. They’re very pleased with it. They smile all the time. J: They smile all the time. M: They smile. J: What is this badge like? Can you describe this badge? M: It’s round. J: It’s round. M: They tell me...they’ve lots of great detail to tell me. There’s like...there’s like umm...trying to explain...a lot of circles that intertwine. J: A lot of circles that intertwine. M: Yes. (Inaudible) They’ve got...upper chest, their upper chest. J: They’ve got the badge on their upper chest. M: Yes, it’s like gold. It’s golden. J: Gold in colour. M: Yes. J: Is there any lettering? M: No. J: Some symbols? M: Yes, it’s all symbols. J: All symbols. Do you recognise the symbols? M: They explain to me, it’s very complicated, the intertwined circles. J: It’s complicated... M: Are like divided in so many...seven parts. J: Divided into seven parts. And the symbols... M: And within them there’s the seven planets. J: The seven planets. M: That already are part of it. J: That are already part of the federation. M: Yes. J: Right. M: There’s a symbol for each one. J: And there’s seven symbols to represent each planet? M: Yes. J: Ok. M: Yes. Each one. Yes. And there’s other symbol of peace. J: Other symbol of peace. M: Yes. J: So there are eight symbols on this badge? M: Yes. J: Ok. Thank you for that. Is there anything else on this badge? M: I looked and it is very complex. J: Yes, very complex. M: It’s beautiful. J: Beautiful yes. M: They are very proud of it. They’re happy. J: They are proud and happy. Excellent. And what happens next? M: Oh they keep on talking about what our religion is to them (inaudible) J: They talk about religion. M: (inaudible) I’m most interested in. J: You’re interested in religion and they’re talking to you about it? M: Mmm. J: Do they talk to one another whilst...about this? M: They’re complementing each other when they talk, they talk in turn. J: They talk in turn, complement each other. M: Yes. J: Excellent. M: I think that what one doesn’t say the other does. But they’re very excited about their work, they’re happy about their work. They’re dedicated to it. J: Dedicated. M: Yes. J: Ok. And what happens next Morgane? M: They raise up and stop at the side of the bed. J: They stop at the side of the bed. M: Yeah. They stop at the side of the bed. And I feel this metal surface that’s high. J: You feel a metal surface that’s high. Mhmm. M: And err... J: What’s happening? M: I can’t reach the...the floor, it is too high. J: You can’t reach the floor, ‘cause it is too high? So what do you do? M: One of the beings comes and helps me. J: One of the beings helps you? To get off the... M: To get off the high bit, yeah. J: Yes. And to stand up? M: Mmm. J: When you stand up do you...how do you feel when you stand up? M: It’s cold. The floor is cold and hard. J: Cold and hard. M: Metal. J: Metal. Metal surface you’re standing on? M: Cold, yes. J: Yes. And what’s happening now? M: The first...on the left. J: On the left. M: Is moving out the room. J: Is moving out of the room. M: And I’m following. J: You’re following... M: After them. The other being on the right has helped me up. But he’s behind me. J: So someone in front and someone behind you? M: Yes. J: Right. M: And we walk out that room. J: You walk out the room. And what happens next? M: I find myself at...elevated corridor things, up a ramp. J: You go up an elevated corridor with a ramp? M: Yeah. J: Uh-huh. M: And now big... J: Pink? What’s pink? M: Big. Big. Enormous. Above, very high. J: Big enormous above high. M: Windows are high. J: Windows. Can you see out of these windows? M: No it’s too high. There’s light coming through. J: Light coming through from outside the windows. M: Yeah. J: Ok. What’s happening now Morgane? M: Errr it’s very big, it’s huge. J: It’s a huge place? M: Yes. J: Do you see any other people there? M: Yes, further down. J: Further down you see people. What are they doing? M: There’s a...a man. A man’s being led into a room like the one I’ve just come out of. J: A man’s being led into a room similar to yours. M: Yes. J: Is he a male human being? M: Yes. J: So there’s a male human being ahead of you... M: Mhmm. J: Going into another room along this corridor. M: A few metres away. J: A few metres away. What’s he wearing? M: It’s all dusty grey stuff. J: Grey stuff? M: Yeah. J: Can you see? M: I don’t know, I don’t know what they are. J: One piece suit? Or is it different colours? M: No it’s just even grey. J: He’s all in grey. M: Mmm. J: Ok. Does he look a young man or an old man? M: I think it’s a young man. J: A young man. Does he have facial hair? M: No. J: And what is the expression on his face? M: I can’t see, he’s just walking in, he’s got dark hair, he’s just walking in. J: He’s got dark hair. M: And there’s two people in blue on each side of him, and they’re taking him in that room. And I’m walking now. J: So he’s a few metres away and he’s being taken into a room by people in blue? M: Yes. J: Ok. What else are you seeing in the corridor? M: There’s no-one else in this corridor. J: No-one else. M: But on the other side... J: Yes. What’s on the other side Morgane? M: There’s another like...like just another path like suspended. Seems to be the same thing as this side on the other side. There’s a great gap in the middle, I don’t know what it is. J: So there’s another corridor suspended? M: Mmm. J: With a gap in the middle of the two corridors? Yes? M: Yes, like different levels. J: On different levels. Can you see other beings? M: On the other side. J: On the other side. M: Yes. J: How many can you see? M: Don’t know...not many. I see...I see someone on a chair. J: There’s someone on a chair. Is it a man or is it a female? M: I don’t know from there. It’s quite a long way. J: And what are they wearing? M: I don’t know like... J: They’re a distance away? M: Yes. J: Ok. But you definitely see someone else on a chair. M: Mhmm. Someone else there. J: Someone else there. And do they have other beings in blue beside them? M: Well there I don’t see anyone, they are on their own. J: They’re on their own. M: Ah yes. J: And what happens next Morgane? M: We’re moving now, umm I wonder where we’re going. J: Mhmm. M: So the being before me turns round and says “It’s ok down there we’ll show you something.” J: So they’ve got to show you something down there? M: Yes. J: Where are they taking you? M: This big archway. J: This big archway. M: At the end of it. J: The end of the corridor. M: It’s dark. J: And it’s dark, ok. M: From where I am it looks dark. J: From where you are it looks dark. M: Yeah. J: Yes. Do they take you through the archway? M: Yes, we get to the archway. J: Mhmm. And what happens next? M: It’s a screen. J: It’s a screen. M: Something like we walk behind. J: You walk behind a screen? M: Yes. J: And what’s behind the screen Morgane? M: There’s someone. J: There’s someone. M: Working in front of a screen there. J: There’s somebody working in front of a screen. M: A big computer like screen. J: A big computer like screen. M: Yes. J: Yes. Right. What else do you see? M: My friend is there. Tells me to towards him. J: Your friend tells you to go towards him. M: Mmm. J: He’s going to show you...what’s he going to show you? M: This person who’s there. J: Person who’s there yes. M: In white. J: He’s in white yes. What’s he doing? M: He talks to me about his work. J: He tells you about his work. And what does he say to you? M: He studies the...languages of the world. J: He studies languages of the world? M: Yes. J: And umm... M: Umm the religions of the world. The first thing they talk to me about. J: They talk to you about the religions of the world. M: Yeah. J: And what are they saying? M: (inaudible) where people think and believe. J: Where people think and believe yeah. M: Other languages. J: Other languages yeah. M: To help them out. J: To help them out. And what is the purpose of him learning all these planet languages? M: To help out the people. To help them out, to see where they got their learning from. J: To help them out to where they get their learning from. M: To help them out. They try to understand, to learn, to communicate with people. J: They try to understand them and to learn from them. M: Yeah. To see the cultures they know about, and each culture has its beliefs. J: So they’re trying to understand the people, and the culture and beliefs. M: And their language. J: Yeah. M: They’re studying, they’re studying it, and each person will be learning (inaudible) and Japanese. Yes, they got to Indonesia (inaudible) J: Do they take people? M: Too complex. Yes. J: It’s too complex. M: Yes. J: Do they take people and then...to learn the language from these people? How do they do...how do they get to know the language and culture? M: Yes they took all... J: What do they take? M: They go, they go... J: How do they do that? M: Because they do, some people...we are samples, it’s all linked. J: The samples are all linked? M: Yeah. J: To the language, and the culture and beliefs? M: They’re sending people. J: They send people. M: They come. J: They come. How do they send people? Can you explain further please? M: He congratulates me. J: He congratulates you? M: Yeah. J: For what? M: Because I am talking to someone I know. J: You talk to someone you know. Is it one of...one of the high beings? M: He is part of them... J: Part of them. M: And part of us. J: Part of us. How...what is your understanding of that? M: He knows who I am. J: He knows who you are. How wonderful is that? M: Yes. J: Yes nice. M: He’s so clever, he is so...so brilliantly clever. J: Brilliantly clever. What’s his job? M: They are pleased with him. J: They are pleased with him, yes. M: Studying, he knows lots of languages of the Earth. J: Knows lots of languages. M: He’s asking me about the animistic religion. J: He’s asking you about what sorry? M: He’s asking me about the animistic religion. J: Animistic religion. M: The primitive religions of the Earth. J: Primitive religions of the Earth. M: Because there’s some left in Indonesia. J: Ah some are left in Indonesia. And you have knowledge of that? M: I try to explain what I do know. J: Yes. M: Umm...he said they found that is what they found most difficult. The more primitive it is. J: They found the primitive religions very difficult to understand. M: They’re aware that people have assimilated it to their consciousness. J: People have...people have assimilated it to their consciousness. M: They have assimilated it. J: Assimilated yes. M: Yes. They understand the big religions. J: They understand the big religions but the primitive ones... M: How they work with culture. J: How they work with culture yeah. M: And...and he’s going to go to the Earth again. J: And he’s going to Earth again. M: In some time... J: In some time. M: In time, in some time. J: And he knows who you are. M: Yes. J: Do you feel a bond with him? M: Yes. J: Strong bond? M: Yes. J: Yes. How are you communi...are you able to communicate fully with him? M: Yes. J: And what have you been saying to him? M: He’s like a human being but... J: He’s like a human being. M: All the consciousness and the intelligence that they have. J: Consciousness of humans and the intelligence of the high beings. M: Mmm. And then my friend is taking me away. J: Your friend’s taking you away. Where’s he taking you Morgane? M: To another room. J: To another room. M: Round the back of the big arch on the right. J: Back through the big arch. M: Along but not going out. We’re going round the back. J: You’re going back... M: To another place. J: To another place. Right. M: Another space. J: Another place and another space. What’s the new space like, can you describe it? M: Like a cinema. J: Could you repeat Morgane? M: It’s like the pictures, going to the pictures. J: Oh the room is like you’re going to the cinema. M: Ahh. J: Right. And what are you going to see? Are they going to show you something? M: Yes, they do, their work they’ve done. J: They show you the work they’ve done? M: Yes. J: And what is it, the work that they’ve done? What are they showing you? M: There’s a lot of people who are in between. J: A lot of people who are in between. What does that mean? In between what? M: Them and humans. J: Right. And how many are in the room? These hybrids? M: I don’t know. There’s a few people there maybe, I don’t know. J: Do they look very different. M: No...some of them, not really. Not different. J: What’s happening now Morgane. M: Well we go back into the place where I met the young scientist being there. J: Yes, you go back to the other room. M: And he’s gone. J: He’s gone, he’s no longer there. Is there somebody in his place? M: No. J: No. M: He’s not there. J: Ok. And what happens next? M: Someone comes to meet me. J: Someone comes to meet you. And what happens next? M: Err they came to see me. J: Someone came to see you yeah. And where are they taking you? M: That it’s time to go I can’t stay anymore. J: No it’s time to go, that’s right. And at that point I’d like you to do now is go back to that neutral room, back into the light, the subdued light of the natural neutral room, and know that what you’ve just done and been through has just been memories. You haven’t moved from this bed, so make yourself across to that huge wooden door, open it and step through, and close the door behind you. You’re going to come back up, up, up the steps slowly and gently. Ten to nine, eight, seven, six. And bring all those things, all those memories back. Five, four, three, two, one. You’re back at the top of the steps. Now Morgane, in your own time, in your own way, I want you to come back to this room, revived, refreshed and at ease. And I want you to take as long as it needs to come back. I want you to thank your subconscious mind from the bottom of your heart for this important work that it’s carried out today. Perhaps you’ve done that already. And when you’re ready in your own good time, in your own good way, come back to the room, feeling revived, refreshed, at ease and at peace. (Continued in Part 3) Copyright Dave Hodrien 2012

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 16/01/2012 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used and certain experiences ommitted Introduction Most of the contact cases I look into are from the UK. However sometimes contactees from elsewhere in the world wish to share their experiences with me. This is one such case. Morgane is from Saint Nazaire in France. Since an early age she has had numerous experiences which have included UFO sightings, psychic abilities and at least one abduction, probably more. This report covers the majority of her experiences in depth, and includes the transcript of a hypnotic regression session, as well as many drawings she has done to illustrate the incidents. The Investigation Morgane first got in contact with me via E-Mail on 21st May 2011 after checking out the BUFOG website and seeing my background in dealing with contactee cases. Over the following months we exchanged many detailed E-Mails until I had a good knowledge of her experiences. Morgane had already looked into contact experiences since 2010 after deciding to look for answers online to what had happened to her. She was astounded to find out that her experiences matched those of other contactees from around the world in many different ways. This was further confirmed after speaking with me in depth about them. On Friday 23rd September, Morgane and her husband Arthur, came across from France to Birmingham specifically for a hypnotic regression. She did this due to the lack of French hypnotherapists who look into contact, and due to the level of trust we had built up. It gave us the opportunity to meet face-to-face and discuss her experiences further. We initially met on the Friday evening for a chat. Then the following day I took both Morgane and Arthur to the house of the hypnotherapist I now work with so Morgane could be regressed. This proved to be very successful. After the regression I continued to keep in touch with Morgane to understand the full details of her experiences, which have formed the basis of this report. Premonitions As seems to often be the case with contactees, Morgane sometimes has premonitions of future events. This has happened many times in her life. She knew in advance about an explosion that occurred at a tower in Paris in the summer of 1969. She was aware of the Chernobyl disaster a fortnight before it took place. She also knew the profession of the Yorkshire Ripper serial killer before it was released. Usually when she has these visions or thoughts, she does not know where they are going to take place. However she has on occasion sensed when her family or friends are in danger and has possibly thwarted accidents. As an example of this, on one occasion, she smelt the odour of burnt rubber when she met with a couple of her friends. She took this as meaning that they were going to shortly have a car accident. She asked them not to go out in the car that day and they agreed. No accident ever occurred, but the question is would it if she hadn’t intervened? Morgane also used to train engineers in English vocabulary. Despite having no knowledge of which particular projects these engineers were working on, she would provide them with extremely relevant vocabulary for what their work. They would sometimes be amazed by this, and ask her how she was so good at providing them with such relevant and useful words. Green UFO Sighting In April 1990, when Morgane was living in Essex, she had a sighting of an emerald coloured UFO with her partner and son. They were on their way out to the post office at Dunmow. The UFO flew right over their road and car. It headed away at quite a fast speed to the South. When Morgane arrived at the post office she was still in a state of shock. She said to others there “Sorry I am not all there, I’ve just seen a UFO!” Rather than ridicule her they seemed to believe her story. Witness drawing of the UFO and her car: 📷 Overhead view showing various positions of the UFO and its movement path: 📷 Later Morgane read in the newspaper about the UFO and found out that it had been witnessed by hundreds of people, some of whom had reported it to the police. It had also been picked up on radar at Stanstead airport. I am in the process of trying to locate this newspaper article. Due to the number of witnesses involved, and the fact that there appeared to be no direct interaction, I do not believe that this sighting had anything to do with Morgane directly, she was just one of many to observe it. Nordic Abduction By 1994 Morgane had split from her partner and moved to Saint Nazaire in France. One night she settled down to sleep quite early after putting the children to bed, between 9-10pm. During the night she had what seemed at the time to be a very vivid dream. In the first part of this dream she found herself flying extremely fast over the French countryside. She was wearing her night clothes. She was at low altitude but was clearly hovering as she remembers crossing a high wall and wondering how she could have gotten over it. While this was going on she felt that there was someone flying alongside her but she could not see them. There was also an unusual humming sound which concerned her. She wondered if it was the sound of the air rushing past her. Morgane did not recognise any of the surroundings, and also realised she was not in control of where she went, it was like she was on a pre-defined path. It seemed to go on for quite a long time. She became anxious as she felt like she was lost. Then without warning the dream suddenly changed. She now found herself in an enclosed room with white walls. The room was very clean and clinical looking, with very few furnishings. It was not very large, no larger than 4 metres across. She was lying on top of a metallic gently sloping couch. It was flat, hard and not very comfortable. Above her head was a bright pure white light source. She could not make out the ceiling of the room because of the brightness from this light. The temperature was moderate, it was not particularly warm or cold. She could still hear the constant humming sound, although now rather than concern her it seemed to calm her. Either side of her was a tall being. They looked almost human but had very beautiful facial features. They were at least 6 feet 10 inches in height. Their skin was perfectly smooth and pale. They had long blond shoulder length hair. Their eyes were slightly slanted, the irises a deep blue colour. Their ears were delicately pointed. Their bodies looked strong and muscular. The beings were wearing medium blue coloured one piece suits, which appeared to be made out of a thick stretchable cotton-like material. There was a darker belt around the middle with no buckle. The suits had a high neck line. There was a complex looking geometric symbol just under the collar, which appeared to be part of the outfit rather than something being worn on top. The arms had long sleeves, with only their slender hands exposed. Initially Morgane thought they were female, as their features looked feminine and unblemished. These beings have been seen by contactees many times before, and are referred to as Nordics. They are often seen working alongside other ET species, or sometimes watching over proceedings. Witness drawing of one of the Nordics: 📷 Alongside each Nordic was a tall stand or cabinet of some kind. These were mellatic grey-silver in colour. They were about five feet tall, 80-90 cm wide and 60 cm deep. Witness drawing of the surroundings: 📷 The Nordics appeared to be finishing some kind of operation on her chest. The one on the right was closing back up her night clothes. The one to her left appeared to be assisting with what had taken place and was putting some objects back onto one of the stands. They appeared to be extremely well ordered and moved in harmony with their surroundings and each other. Morgane does not believe she was paralyzed, but she felt calm and did not try to struggle against what was happening. The Nordics were smiling, and appeared friendly and kind. One of them turned to her and Morgane heard a gentle voice inside her head say “Now you will never get lost again”. One of the beings then handed her a silver coloured chalice-like cup with clear liquid in. She drank from this cup for a short while. She did not remember the liquid having a particular taste, but thought it was something other than water. The being then said “It is enough!” and held out its hand to retrieve the cup from her. Witness drawing of the cup the Nordic handed her: 📷 The Nordics then moved and stood at the foot of the couch. Morgane stared intensely at the beings a while. It was now that she realised that they were not female, but neither did they appear male. She assumed that they were angels, and that this was some kind of religious experience, due to the fact that she is a catholic. Morgane stared at the symbol under the collars of the Nordic’s outfits. She realised it did not look like a Christian symbol, which confused her as she assumed at that point that they were angels. They seemed to read her thoughts, as they then began to speak to her telepathically. They explained to her what the symbol meant. The circle represented the universe. The five pointed star represented their home planet. They told her that they did not intend to colonise ours. Their aim was to prevent us from destroying ourselves with nuclear power, and electro-magnetism which in due course will cause vegetation to die. The seven pointed star surrounding the five pointed star represented the “Galactic Federation”, an organisation made up of numerous species. Surrounding the seven pointed star was a pyramid shape. She cannot precisely remember the symbol, she just remembers it having these particular elements to it and being informed of the reasons behind them. Morgane felt reassured at this explanation, and from that point onward was relaxed with the situation. Witness drawing of the symbol on the Nordics clothing: 📷 The Nordics also told Morgane their names. She cannot remember precisely what they were but believes it was something like Axion/Axiom and Axial/Axiel. She was surprised at how similar both their names sounded. The Nordics helped her to her feet. There was a closed sliding door at one side of the room. They led her towards this door, and as they approached it opened. Morgane noted that if these beings really were angels, then they had no wings. They went through the door and stepped out into a much larger open area. This area was very well lit and there appeared to be large windows high up near the ceiling. There were raised walkways on each side of the area, off which were a number of sliding doors similar to the one she had just walked through. She assumed these led off to other examination rooms. Outside some of the doors were Nordics attending to other individuals who she did not recognise. In the central area she recalled seeing a crowd of people all dressed in white. Witness drawing showing the structure of the large hall: 📷 Witness drawing showing the hall and the positions of other people and beings: 📷 The next thing she knew, she awoke in her bed. It was very early in the morning and the sun had only just started to come up. Morgane does not usually wake up this early. She had the distinct feeling that her heart had been operated on in some way. She remembered the dream and thought that she had been visited by angels. She felt extremely happy and privileged to have had such an experience. She thought for a while about what had just happened before dropping back off to sleep. In the morning as Morgane was getting dressed she noticed a circle of red dots on the inside of her right forearm. The marking was about 3cm in diameter. It did not seem to be sore. She thought to herself “What the hell is this?” She could not think of anything which could have caused the marking. It worried her a bit as she thought it may be an allergy of some kind. She was certain it was not insect bites. She called her daughter and informed her of what had happened. Her daughter still remembers her mother telling her that “they had put something in her chest” and that they had “healed her heart”. Morgane also showed her daughter the round marking on her arm. Her daughter then noticed something on the top of her left wrist and hand. It looked like a yellow-green coloured stain of some kind, as if a fluid had been on her hand and stained the skin. Morgane was very confused as to what these markings could be, and assumed they were in some way connected to the strange dream. She does not recall how long they remained for, but is certain that they soon faded away. Witness drawing of the marking on her right arm: 📷 For many years Morgane put the entire incident down to a visit by angels. In early 2011 she bought a PC, and decided to look into the subject of aliens on the internet. She was astounded to find other cases where almost identical beings had been seen. She realised that she had interacted with the ET species known as the Nordics and that an abduction may have been behind the vivid dream. Morgane feels that the Nordics may have put an implant inside her chest. It is unknown at present whether this is the case or not. However she wonders about what one of the beings told her – “Now you will never get lost again”. Could they have been referring to the fact that from that point on they would know where she was? Or were they referring to one or more previous experiences which she cannot currently remember where she was “lost”? She is aware that ever since this experience she has often felt like someone is watching over her, something commonly reported by contactees. While she was living in England she had been diagnosed with a heart murmur. A while after her abduction experience she had an operation on her heart over in France. She was informed that she no longer had the heart murmur. Could the ETs have healed this? Is this the reason why they opened up her chest? In the weeks leading up to her regression, Morgane thought deeply over what had taken place during the incident. This led to her consciously recollecting further details which would provide answers to some of the questions she had about the incident. It is quite common for additional memories to return in this way. She recalled that after finishing the operation on her chest, the being on her right then proceeded to pull a long tube from out of the top of the metallic cabinet next to it. The tube appeared to end in what looked like a round circle of needles. The being pulled the tube down and pushed it against the skin of Morgane’s inner right arm. This did not appear to cause any pain. Witness sketch of the examination procedure, showing her position and the tube-like instrument on her right: 📷 It was this which had caused the marking she had found on her arm after the experience. Marks similar to this have been reported by contactees before, and have been referred to as “cookie cutter” markings. The artificial looking shape, and the way in which it quickly faded and did not leave a scar both fit in with it being related to Morgane’s abduction experience. On her left side the other being was pushing needles into her and appeared to be taking blood samples, which again was painless. Morgane assumed that the green stain she had found on the top of her left hand had been some sort of liquid which the being had applied in order to numb her skin or clean it of bacteria. After using these instruments on her the Nordics tidied away everything into the metallic cabinets. They moved rapidly and with intent. Witness drawing showing one of the Nordics tidying away the tube-like instrument: 📷 She still had no idea of whether anything else had happened during the experience besides the examination. Her last memory was of stepping out of the room into the open hall area. (Continued in Part 2) Copyright Dave Hodrien 2012

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 06/08/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Over the weekend of 25th-26th July 2026 I was down in Somerset for the annual Glastonbury Symposium conference, which I was a speaker at. During the 26th July my wife Natasha decided to check out a local gift shop. She was wearing a Birmingham UFO Group t-shirt at the time. This sparked a conversation with one of the shop assistants, who claimed to have seen something early on the previous morning. Natasha came and got me and I had a discussion with the lady, who I shall call “Laura”, about what had occurred. Sighting Details Laura lives in Millstream Estate on the Western edge of Glastonbury. Around 1am in the morning of Saturday 25th July 2026 Laura woke up from her sleep needing to use the toilet. As she walked to the bathroom she decided to quickly peer out of the back bedroom window, which faces South. Aerial map of Millstream Estate It was a clear and still night. Laura immediately noticed a line of lights in the distance. It was hard to say exactly how far they were away but they appeared to be around the height of a patrol helicopter. Most prominent was a slightly curved line of around 5 orange coloured lights. Above them was a possible red light but this was hard to clearly make out. Below them were two lines of smaller lights. Witness drawing of the lights The lights were nearly stationary but there was a slight back and forth movement to them. They were all moving together and clearly appeared to be attached to a singular object, although this could not be made out due to the darkness. She estimated this would have been about the size of a small aircraft, roughly 25 feet across. Laura stared for about 2 minutes at the lights trying to work out what they were. Suddenly all the lights turned bright white! Even more confused by what the object could be Laura continued to watch it. After a further 2 minutes, the lights all seemed to disappear. The object did not seem to fly off anywhere, it was just gone. As it was a clear night Laura did not believe it had been hidden by a cloud. The object did not reappear so she went to the bathroom then got back into bed. Sighting Analysis This is an intriguing sighting of an unusual lit object. The object remained relatively still for 4 minutes so was not an aeroplane. It had the wrong lighting on it for a helicopter, normal navigation lights are white static, white strobing, red and green: The lights were not completely static so this rules out the idea that they were lights from a building or ground machinery such as a crane. Also as the sighting took place from her house, Laura would have seen the same lights on other occasions if this was where they were coming from. It was quite a still night so a cluster of tethered lit inflatables such as LED balloons would be possible. While most LED balloons are an individual colour, it is possible to purchase ones which can change colour on command via remote control. However, this seems somewhat unlikely, and the sudden disappearance of the lights entirely would not fit with this possibility. A drone cannot be ruled out, but these do not often have orange lights on them, and for what purpose would the pilot have changed the lights to white mid-flight? Also it is unlikely the pilot would have switched the lights off while it was airbourne, so again this doesn’t really fit with this explanation. What we are left with is a mystery. Could the lights have been attached to an advanced craft of some kind? This certainly cannot be ruled out. It’s great that my wife found out about this incident purely by chance, and highlights the fact that UFOs can be seen anywhere at any time. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 04/08/2026 Sometimes speaking with one experiencer leads to further cases coming to light. In July 2026 I spoke with a man named Shaun about his UFO and contact experiences (Click here to view his report). During the investigation he mentioned that his close friend Paul had also had a fascinating sighting of a possible military intercept of a UFO back in the early 1980s. I arranged for a video call with Paul in early August to discuss. Incident Details In the summer of 1981/82 when Paul was 11-12 years old his father decided to build a pond in their back garden of their house in Bentilee, Stoke-On-Trent. He was a fisherman and decided he would catch some fish to populate the pond. Situated between Bentilee and Fenton Industrial Estate is an area of open grass-covered fields known as Berryhill Fields. Half way across the fields is a pond known as Tiddler’s Fishing Pond. Aerial map indicating Bentilee (A), Fenton Industrial Estate (B) and Tiddler’s Fishing Pond (C) Aerial map of Tiddler’s Fishing Pond One clear and still evening his father decided to head out to the pond, accompanied by Paul and his younger brother Matt. It was a very pleasant, warm and still evening. They began walking across the fields from the North Eastern side. Photograph of Berryhill Fields Paul says that they had only been walking for about a minute when they suddenly heard the roar of jet engines. Looking up and to their right they saw two dark grey coloured military fighter jets travelling in a South East direction. But the jets were not alone. Ahead of them moving in the same direction was what appeared to be a tall cone-shaped object with a rounded base. It was dark grey in colour similar to the jets, and appeared to be about twice the size of them. Coming from it was brightly flashing multi-coloured lights. Paul says “all the colours were coming from it, it was phenomenal! Reds, blues, greens, yellows, whites, the whole bloody shebang!” The object was rotating anti-clockwise, not particularly fast but at a constant speed. It was moving the same speed as the jets, giving Paul the distinct impression that they were intentionally tailing it rather than trying to catch up. Witness drawing of the UFO and two jets He exclaimed “Hey dad! What’s that? What’s that?” However his father appeared completely in denial, looking down at the ground. He said “They’re fighter jets.” Paul responded “No – What they’re chasing. What they’re flying after.” Matt said "I see it! I see it as well!" But his father continued to act like there was nothing unusual going on. They watched as the object and the jets flew on a level and straight course to the South East passing from right to left in front of them. Paul says the jets were not flying at full speed, he estimates about 150 mph. They seemed quite low down, perhaps 1000 feet up. After a couple of minutes both the UFO and jets were lost from sight behind Park Hall Gas Holder situated at the edge of Park Hall Country Park on the junction between Dividy Road and Anchor Road. The Gas Holder was demolished in 2018, and has now been replaced with Top Gear Stoke used car dealer. Aerial map showing the prior location of Park Hill Gas Holder Photograph of Park Hill Gas Holder in the 1980s Aerial map showing the estimated position of the witnesses and the path of the UFO Paul says that he told Shaun about what happened soon afterwards, and that the incident has remained clear in his mind, almost like it happened yesterday. Incident Analysis This fascinating sighting represents a potential military intercept of a UFO. The object was clearly not a normal aircraft or helicopter of any kind. The incident happened decades before drones were in commercial use. If it wasn’t for the speed of movement I would have suggested that it was a novelty balloon potentially brightly reflecting the sunlight making it appear to be flashing multiple colours, and tumbling as it drifted on an air current. Paul is convinced that the colours were coming from definite lights on the object rather than reflections but it is important to remember that he was only 11/12 years old at the time. This possibility cannot be entirely ruled out. However, the object was being tailed by the two jets, and all three flew right across the sky. Even if the jets were flying particularly slow they would of course easily catch up with a drifting balloon. The fact that they did not meant that the object was moving the same speed as them, far too quickly for it to have been a balloon. It also seemed very sizeable, about twice as big as them, meaning it was likely about 120-150 feet in length. Regarding the way that Paul’s father acted during the sighting, Paul says that he has always been this way and actively ignores things he cannot rationally explain. I have investigated cases of cone-shaped UFOs before. If this genuinely was an intercept of an advanced craft, then it is unknown how long the jets had been tailing it for. The most likely RAF bases they could have taken off from would be RAF Sealand, approximately 40 miles North West West of Bentilee, or RAF Woodvale approximately 60 miles to the North West (RAF Sealand closed in 2006). Aerial map showing Bentilee (A), prior location of RAF Sealand (B) and RAF Woodvale (C) Unfortunately, without a more specific date that the incident took place on I will be unable to raise a Freedom Of Information Request with the Ministry Of Defence. I am also unable to discuss the incident with Matt as Paul has not spoken with him in many years. However, after speaking with Paul and seeing the way that he described the incident on video call I am convinced it took place as he described. I would like to thank him for taking the time to go over the incident and get it down on record. If you have any information relating to what took place, please get in touch. Paul has also had a sighting of an orange orb in the winter of 2025. Although this likely has a mundane explanation, the details can be viewed in a separate case report here. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 04/08/2026 In early August 2026 I spoke with a man named Paul about a stunning incident he witnessed as a child which potentially involved the military intercept of a UFO (Click here to check this out). In our discussion he also mentioned that he had a second sighting in the winter of 2025. This report covers this additional sighting. Sighting Details About 10:30pm on an evening in winter 2025 (exact date unknown), Paul decided to walk down to the local Tesco supermarket from his house in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. He approached the supermarket from the North, walking South along Chell Street. It was a quiet evening and there was nobody else around. Due to the time of year it was already fully dark. It was still and clear, but cold. As Paul walked along the road, an object suddenly came into view in the sky over the rooves of the houses. It looked like a circular orange orb of light. It appeared to be about the height a kite would fly at, maybe about 40-50 feet. Photograph of Chell Street Paul thought to himself “What’s that?” Due to the fact that the object appeared quite small and it was after dark, he realised his smartphone would be unlikely to pick it up, so didn’t bother trying to film it. The object moved across the road ahead of him and continued on a straight path until it vanished from sight. Paul continued his walk to the shop. Sighting Analysis The object appeared small, low down and was the wrong colour for normal navigation lights of an aircraft. While it could have been a drone, these do not usually have orange coloured lights, and it’s likely that due to the fact it was a quiet night Paul would have heard the buzzing rotor blades if this was what the object was. The most likely explanation for what was seen was a sky lantern drifting on an air current. Paul did not notice any flickering in the brightness of the orb, but sometimes lanterns do appear continuously bright. The colour of the orb, straight and slow movement path, apparent small size and lack of any intelligent manoeuvres all fit with the lantern explanation. Although an orange coloured LED balloon cannot be ruled out, a lantern seems more probable. Sky lanterns are less common these days due to the fact that shops have stopped selling them because of the fire risk. However they are not illegal and can still be purchased online, and people may have also stored them from previous years when they were far more popular. I feel this is what Paul most likely witnessed on this occasion. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 06/08/2024 Last Updated: 29/07/2026 In June 2024 I came across a Facebook post regarding a Flying Triangle sighting a man named Anthony Spears had experienced. I reached out to him on Messenger expressing an interest in the incident. We arranged a video call to go over it in depth. During this call Anthony also revealed he had experienced two previous sightings, the first of which had made a massive impact on the lives of both him and his parents. This report covers this initial childhood sighting in depth. Links to the reports on his two other sightings can be found towards the end of it. Sighting Details In 1989 when Anthony was 7 years old he lived with his parents in a house on Coronation Road, Portland, Dorset. Portland is famous for its annual fair which has taken place near to Chesil Beach for the last 200 years in late October to early November. One day in late October Anthony had visited the fair with his parents Peter and Sylvia. Historic photograph of Portland Fair It was dusk, around 6pm due to the time of year, and they were on their way back home. They were at the Southern end of Verne Common Road and had just started ascending the gradual hill towards Harbour View Road. There were no other pedestrians around at the time, it was quite quiet. The only nearby illumination was from the street light they had just walked past. Aerial map of Verne Common Road indicating the position of the witnesses Anthony can’t recall who saw them first, but one of his parents suddenly stated “Look at that up there!” Everyone looked up into the sky and were amazed at what they saw. A short distance to the West of them at a very high elevation were what appeared to be five glowing orange oval/disc shaped objects. They were viewing them from almost underneath, so initially appeared circular. They had clearly defined edges with no halo around them. AI generated drawing showing the UFOs passing over the area They were arranged into a symmetrical V-shaped formation, and were moving very slowly along heading in a Easterly direction. However rather than flying with the central object at the front of the formation it was instead at the top, with the other objects spaced equally outwards below it, like an upside down V. Anthony's original drawing of the UFOs passing over the area (as they looked from below) They appeared to be completely silent. As they moved on a straight course to the East, passing right over their heads, the objects did not drift from one another at all, and remained constantly bright. Anthony estimates they were moving around 5 mph. Below is an AI-generated video Anthony created to demonstrate the appearance and movement path of the formation: Drawing of the objects on a photograph of the sighting location indicating path of movement: During the sighting Anthony and his parents did not talk much, they were transfixed by what they were looking at. Sadly they did not have a camera on them at the time so were unable to take any photographs or video footage. The family watched them for a number of minutes as they slowly moved away on a level and straight course. As the angle changed, their disc shapes became more noticeable. After this time they entered a small cloud. The witnesses expected them to emerge from the other side of this cloud as they were moving on a constant speed, but they did not. They had seemingly vanished without trace. They continued their walk up the hill. It was only when they arrived home that the sighting began to really sink in. Sylvia immediately drew a colour picture of what they had witnessed while it was still fresh in her memory. Anthony had kept this drawing and was able to provide a scan of it for me. Sylvia’s drawing of the UFOs passing overhead The sighting made a lasting impact on both Anthony and his parents, which later on would lead to a fascination with the UFO subject. Sylvia’s Testimony Sadly Anthony’s father Peter has now passed away. However I was able to speak with Sylvia on a later video call to hear what she recollected. Below is her testimonial statement on the incident. “I remember it like it happened yesterday. We was coming back from the beach 'cause they had the fair on 31st October for Halloween. We were walking back up to the top of the hill. It had just turned dark, sun was just setting. Could still see the clouds. That's when we saw five orangey-peach lights, big lights, over our heads moving really slowly across the sky. We watched for ages until they disappeared behind a little puffy cloud. We waited until they came out of the other side but they didn't they just vanished. They were something we had never seen before. They looked like glowing balls of light. They were moving across the sky in a formation. There were five lights in a diagonal pattern. no change in brightness, kept in exactly the same pattern. Absolutely amazing. We didn't have a camera, couldn't take a picture. We looked at them for at least five minutes. They went directly over our heads. No sound as well. I always wanted to believe in UFOs but after that it proved it for me." I asked Sylvia if she knows what sky lanterns are. In response to this she said "They definitely weren't those. They were too large. The colour was different, like a pinkish-orange colour. They remained in formation and did not drift in position from one another." Sighting Analysis Anthony has always thought of the orange discs as round lights on a singular large object. Because of the way they were all moving together at a constant speed and direction I can see how he could have ended up with this impression. However in going over the details with him, viewing his mother’s drawing and obtaining testimonies from them both, I feel it is more probable that this was five objects travelling in formation rather than a singular object. It was not fully dark, so if there had been a main body around the orbs this would have been visible, yet no such main body was drawn by Sylvia or Anthony. The orbs could not have been aeroplanes or helicopters flying in formation. They were too clearly defined and were the wrong colour for aircraft. Navigation lights of both planes and helicopters are white, red and green, and even at high altitude it is possible to see these. It was not fully dark the shapes of these aircraft would have been visible. The objects were also seemingly moving much too slowly to be aircraft. Lastly it would be logical and most common for a V-formation of aircraft to fly with the central plane/helicopter at the front and the others spanning out behind them (Although it is of course possible for aircraft to fly in any formation they choose). Example photograph of five jets flying in a V-formation The incident took place decades before drones and LED balloons were available. Five remote controlled models being flown together is extremely unlikely, and the objects seemed too large for this to be the explanation. Hot air balloons are never flown in formation like this. The vast majority of hot air balloons are light bulb shaped, and as it was not yet dark this shape would have been immediately recognisable. There are numerous reasons why I do not believe that this was a launch of five sky lanterns. Firstly, lanterns appear as glowing orbs at a distance, yet according to Anthony's testimony these were clearly flattened discs. Both witnesses remarked on the size of the objects. They were clearly up in the low cloud layer as they were finally lost from view behind one. Low lying cloud tends to usually appear around 5000 feet up, so they were clearly at quite a high altitude, meaning that they would have had to have been quite large. Sky lanterns were not widely available back in the late 1980s. They only became popular in the noughties, and of course have since been largely removed from shops due to the fire hazard (although they are still currently legal in the UK). When caught on an air current lanterns do often follow the same path across the sky, however there would usually be a small amount of drift detected, especially if observing them for several minutes. No such drift was observed with the objects, the retained positioning from one another throughout the sighting. Also lanterns tend to flicker in brightness due to the flame, yet the witnesses reported that these objects were constantly bright. The objects were in a symmetrical pattern which may indicate possible intelligence, although this could of course have been purely coincidental. The way in which the UFOs vanished all at the same time while out of sight behind a cloud is another aspect which needs to be addressed. When lanterns burn out they can seem to suddenly vanish, however it is extremely unlikely that all five of them would burn out at the same moment, even if they had been launched around the same time. So surely at least some of them would have emerged from the cloud and still been visible? I feel there is enough testimonial evidence which points away from this sighting being a launch of sky lanterns. With this and other mundane explanations dismissed, I feel there is the possibility that this was a genuine sighting of a formation of glowing craft. I have investigated formation sightings numerous times before, although they are quite rare. Anthony has experienced two other UFO sightings in his life. A couple of years later while still living in Portland he witnessed a silver coloured sphere. Click here to go to the case report. Many years later in Bournemouth he witnessed a Flying Triangle potentially being intercepted by a military jet. For the case report on this incident click here. I would like to thank Anthony and Sylvia for coming forward with the details of these sightings. It is good to get them finally down on record. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 23/07/2026 Last Updated: 29/07/2026 In July 2022 I came across a Facebook post by Shaun Kirkland discussing an incident involving a glowing being. I reached out to him via Messenger to find out some further details about what happened. He got back to me with some recorded audio clips that covered the incident at a high level. He also discussed a previous incident involving some flashes of light. The following month he sent me video footage of a UFO he had recently managed to capture. After this our correspondence ceased for a number of years. In July 2026 after coming across the case details I decided to get back in touch to see if he could provide any further information. He responded and we arranged a video call to discuss everything in more depth as well as a recent additional sighting which had taken place. I am now pleased to finally get his experiences down on official record. Flashes of Light In 1980 when Shaun was 10 years old he lived with his parents and younger brother Darren in a house on Ford Avenue, Chell Heath, Stoke-On-Trent. Aerial map of Ford Avenue In the distance to the North East was the closed Chatterley Whitfield Mining Site. The site still exists today and has been re-opened as a heritage museum. South of the mine was a slag heap and some gradually sloping hills (now covered in trees). These hills could be seen from their road. Aerial map showing Ford Avenue (A) and the hillside (B) One late evening Shaun and Darren were chatting with a neighbour over his fence. It was a pleasant and still, though there was a bank of low lying cloud over the hills in the distance. View of the distant hills from the end of Ford Avenue Suddenly they saw white flashes coming from inside the bank of cloud. Shaun says that there were around four flashes in total, spaced out at different locations within the cloud. There was no sound of any thunder. Considering the nice weather they were mystified by what had just occurred. Looking at what took place, I do wonder if what the witnesses observed was sheet lightning. This is completely silent but lights up the clouds in the manner that Shaun described. This seems to be the most likely explanation for what was seen. When I suggested this to Shaun on our video call he did not disagree with this possibility. Glowing Figure Back in the 1980s there were a number of open fields between the town and the mine site (A number of paths have since been built). Shaun, Darren and their friends would regularly walk across these fields and play inside the derelict buildings closed mine site. These days it is fenced off but at the time it was completely open to freely explore. Photograph of Chatterley Whitfield Mine from the early 1980s Aerial 3D map of the site One late evening in 1981 Shaun, Darren and two of their friends decided to go and play at the mine. The sun was low in the sky but there was still enough light to see. As they entered the site at the South West corner, they had the familiar view of the mine buildings ahead of them. About the length of a football pitch (300 feet) away from them was a tightly spaced number of buildings close to the tall chimney. One of the buildings used to be used to load up trucks with coal. There was an open area near the base of it where the trucks used to park. They were shocked to see what appeared to be a glowing figure standing there. It looked humanoid, with a head, arms and torso clearly visible. It was glowing a light yellow colour and standing completely still. Shaun estimates that the figure was about 4.5 to 5 feet in height. Due to the distance it was at there were no facial features visible. Witness drawing of the figure It did not appear to be clothed, as it was the same brightness all over. The glow was not bright enough to reflect off any of the surroundings. Aerial 3D map indicating the viewing direction and rough location of the figure The boys stopped walking and stood there staring at it, not knowing what to do. Shaun asked “What’s that over there?” Darren responded saying “I don’t know what that is.” It wasn’t long before they all turned around and ran up the hill to the East of their location as fast as possible! Once they were up on the hill the figure was no longer visible and they felt safer. They sat down and discussed what they’d just all witnessed. They did not go back to the mine site that day, but the next time they went back there was no sign of the figure. He does not recall discussing it much with his brother or parents on later dates. About 6 months ago he brought up the incident with his brother in conversation, and apparently his brother has no recollection of what took place. Shaun finds this odd as his brother was 9 years old at the time and just like himself was frightened of the figure. I asked Shaun if he felt it could have been pareadolia caused by an object brightly reflecting the setting sun. However, he feels this is unlikely for a number of reasons. He says that he, his brother and friends knew the layout of the site extremely well. They were certain there was nothing present in that location which would have been reflecting light. This was the only time they ever saw the figure, logically if this was the cause they would have seen the same thing on other occasions. Also, Shaun says that if it was the sunlight shining on something, then the same sunlight would have been shining on the building wall above it, yet it was not. I agree with his arguments. Shaun thinks he put the figure down to a ghostly apparition at the time, but is now not so sure. It seemed too short for a normal adult, and did not appear to be clothed. I have investigated a number of contact cases involving glowing entities, and other cases involving beings seen inside derelict buildings. There is no reason at all to dismiss the idea that this could have been such an incident, although if it was the being does not appear to have been there for them. It was quite far away when they spotted it, and it did not approach or try to communicate in any way. Ring UFO Video On 9th August 2022 Shaun was standing outside. It was late evening and due to the time of year the sun was just starting to set. It was a still evening with a mostly clear sky. He suddenly noticed what appeared to be a black coloured object moving across the sky at an elevation of about 60 degrees. He got out his smartphone and managed to take the below video footage as it travelled overhead: Below is a zoomed still of the UFO taken at 17 seconds into the video: Zoomed image with edge find: From the footage the object appears to be ring shaped, and not particularly large in size. The background sound is likely to be from a passing aircraft not the object. Due to the tumbling rotation as it moves I feel there is a high likelihood that what Shaun has filmed here is a black coloured novelty balloon drifting on air currents. When I discussed the sighting with him on video call he had no recollection of sending me the video back in 2022. I don’t feel this is down to anything mysterious like missing time, I just feel that it did not make that much of an impact on him at the time. Like me he agrees that it looks like a novelty balloon. High Altitude UFO Shaun now lives on Bycars Road. At 7:23pm on Sunday 19th July 2026 he and his friend “Po” were sitting outside relaxing in the back garden. It was a pleasant evening with a clear blue sky and no wind. Aerial map of Bycars Road Shaun suddenly noticed a glint of light reflecting in the sky almost overhead. He looked up and tried focusing on it to see what it was. He initially assumed it must be a silver coloured balloon reflecting the sunlight. However, he soon realised it was stationary in the sky at quite a high altitude. The object appeared to be a white cigar-shape brightly reflecting at each end, about the size of a small aircraft. A darker grey coloured area then seemed to appear directly above it, blurred due to the distance. The object seemed to keep vanishing and re-appearing as he watched, and was potentially tipping back and forth as the darker grey above it also kept appearing and disappearing. Witness drawing of the UFO He pointed the object out to Po. His friend suggested it might be a drifting bin bag. But Shaun said to him “Bin bags don’t flash like that!” Both witnesses got out their smartphone and tried recording the UFO. On Shaun's footage the object didn't show up at all due to it's distance. However on Po's footage (which Shaun forwarded to me), the object is briefly visible: Zoomed still of the UFO from 5 seconds into the footage: The same zoomed image with edge find: After about 10 minutes they noticed a light aircraft heading in the direction of the object. It appeared to be roughly the same altitude as it, although this was hard to accurately judge. As the plane approached suddenly the object disappeared without trace! The plane flew past where it had previously been and continued on its flight path. A couple of minutes later a larger plane with sharply angled wings, potentially military, came into view from a different direction and again flew by. Shaun and Po continued to stare up at the sky for a further 15 minutes, but the object did not reappear. When discussing the incident with Shaun on video call he could not recollect the precise date and time. But later on he messaged me to say he had spoken with Po and they confirmed that the incident happened on 19th July at 7:23pm. I checked on Flight Radar 24 to see if I could see either of the two aircraft which Shaun claimed to have seen around the time the object disappeared. However, I was surprised to find that no aircraft showed up around the provided date and time: This very likely means that they did not have their transponders on. Military aircraft often don’t fly with transponders on, and there is no legal requirement for any aircraft to do so. The most unusual aspect of this incident is the length of time that the object appeared to remain motionless (other than the apparent tipping motion). If it was a distant balloon of some kind a degree of natural drift would be expected over 10 minutes even in still air conditions. Shaun was certain that it had not moved as he could see its position in relation to some trees on the ground. Shaun is convinced that it was not a distant helicopter (I would agree based on his description of it), and at the distance it was at a drone would likely have not been visible at all. When the object vanished this was probably just it moving away out of sight range, although it does seem a little coincidental that it did this just as another aircraft was heading towards it. The video Po shot of the object does not reveal much. It is clearly a solid object brightly reflecting the sunlight, which appears to be at considerable altitude. However due to the distance it is hard to determine the shape or size. It could potentially be a reflective silver/white balloon. Solar airships are cylindrical in shape, but are usually black. It is likely that this would have been more obvious even at distance. t sounds like it was too high altitude to have been tethered in place. That said, a cylindrical balloon gradually drifting on air currents cannot be entirely ruled out. Conclusions While some of Shaun’s experiences, such as the flashes of light and UFO sightings, likely have mundane explanations, the glowing humanoid which he, his brother and friends witnessed is far harder to explain. While it is possible that it was sunlight reflecting off something, this does seem unlikely due to the reasons previously discussed. I would like to thank Shaun for getting back in touch and providing enough details and drawings for this case report to finally be released. If you have any information relating to any of these experiences please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2022 Last Updated: 22/07/2026 On New Year’s day 2022 a man named Chris reached out to Birmingham UFO Group via our website sighting report form. He wanted to pass on details about a sighting his grandparents had back in 1980 to get it down on the record. What is particularly fascinating is that their sighting apparently happened just two nights before the beginning of the Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk, Kent. Sadly they were now both deceased, but Chris knew enough information about what happened to warrant this report. Sighting Details Back in 1980 Chris’s grandparents lived on Shawhurst Lane, Wythall. Aerial map of Shawhurst Lane On the night of 24th December 1980 his grandmother woke up and noticed a light glowing through the condensation on the South East facing bedroom window. She got up and went to the window to find out what it was. She wiped the condensation off the window and peered out in the direction of Earlswood. Back in 1980 there were less houses as there are today, and she had a clear line of sight to some trees in the distance a couple of miles away. She saw a huge glowing red/orange circular object hovering in the night sky, fairly low above the visible horizon. She was confused by what the object was so woke up her husband. He got up and joined her at the window. As they watched, the object moved slowly across the sky on a straight path. It then moved down behind the tree line out of sight. From that moment on, Chris says his grandmother had a huge interest in the UFO subject. On the other hand, his grandfather never wanted to discuss it. Chris says that he was a dental scientist, and because it didn’t fit with his logical brain he preferred not to think about it. At the time they had no idea that only a couple of nights later UFO activity took place down in Rendlesham Forest. They only found out about this several years later when the story was published in the News Of The World on 2nd October 1983. Newspaper article about the Rendlesham Forest incident Aerial map indicating Wythall (A) and Rendlesham Forest (B) Sighing Analysis This is a fascinating sighting especially considering the date it took place on. The object seen by Chris’s grandparents obviously cannot have been the setting sun or the moon because they watched it visibly move across the sky. It clearly wasn’t a normal aircraft or helicopter of any kind. The incident happened decades before drones were utilised so this can be discounted. It is sometimes hard to correctly determine distance and therefore size of objects in the sky, especially after dark. However, the witnesses watched the object descend down behind the tree line, confirming it was a large object being viewed at distance rather than a small object (such as a sky lantern) up close. Could the object have been a hot air balloon? While this initially seems plausible, there are a number of aspects which point away from this. Firstly, the majority of hot air balloons are light bulb shaped not spherical, although it could have been a novelty shape. However, hot air balloons only glow after dark when their flame is lit to give them lift. This flame is lit in bursts not continuously. It is also obvious at distance that this flame is positioned near to the base of the balloon: There is also the fact that this was a night-time sighting. It is only legal to fly hot air balloons after dark if they have a warning light. This is a white flashing light which hangs down from the basket. No such flashing light was observed. I therefore feel there is enough evidence to point away from this as the explanation. With mundane explanations dismissed, what we are left with is something truly anomalous, potentially a glowing spherical advanced craft. The fact that this took place a couple of days prior to the Rendlesham Forest incident is fascinating. Could the sighing have been directly related, or was this nothing more than coincidence? Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2022 Last Updated: 22/07/2026 In mid-October 2022 I was contacted by a delivery van driver named Gregory regarding a number of days of UFO activity he had witnessed earlier in the month. Unfortunately, he did not respond to my additional questions so only the initial provided details are known at present. Night One At 7pm on 11th October 2022 Gregory was parked in his van near Wollacombe. It was a clear and dry evening. Due to the time of year the sun had fully set and the full moon was visible. Suddenly out of the front windscreen he watched a bright white orb of light rapidly descend in the sky, instantly stop, pulse several times and then disappear. Aerial map of Woolacombe Shortly after the sighting, he heard a noise coming from the top of the van that sounded like someone rhythmically tapping on it with their nails. He nudged the van door and the noise immediately ceased. About 10 minutes later it started again. This time he plucked up enough courage to exit the van and have a look on the roof. When he did so he found nothing there. He got back in the van, but left the door unlocked and positioned himself so he could easily jump out if it started a third time. As expected after a short time it did. He leapt out of the van fully expecting to see something, but again there was nothing. However, he then noticed the heads and shoulders of two figures in the field he was parked in. The figures began walking around the field in a circle around the van. Gregory was frightened that they were criminals who were planning to rob parts of his van. He remained awake and vigilant, not daring to drive away or drop off to sleep. The figures remained present until the morning light, approximately 12 hours later! Eventually they departed and were no longer visible. Night Two After what had taken place Gregory decided to move on from that location. He took the A39 down through Porlock Hill. He then found a quiet spot close to Wheddon Cross near Minehead. Aerial map of Wheddon Cross As he made a cup of tea for himself he thought back to what had happened the previous evening. He felt that because of the bright orb he had seen and the length of time the figures had remained for afterwards they had potentially not been human. Sitting outside the van a while he spoke with several dog walkers. In the early evening he was once again sitting in the driver’s seat of the van. It was around 7pm again. Suddenly what appeared to be the same bright white orb appeared in the sky! This time he didn't feel as scared as I he had the previous evening. He thought that if something bad was going to happen it would have already. He got his lighter out which has a blue-coloured torch light on it. He held it up and started making quick flashes of light. Gregory claims that every time he flashed it the orb flashed back in response! He then began to notice other white orbs in other positions at a higher altitude. The initial orb appeared to be flashing at these too, as well as changing direction and moving towards them. It was as if they were communicating with one another. Gregory started trying to communicate telepathically with the main orb. He started asking questions like “What do you want?” and “How do I know you are real?” He also asked them to do certain manoeuvres and they apparently did everything he asked. He asked how they were not spotted just openly sat in the sky, and asked if it was camouflage and they could reveal any little part of their ship without full disclosure. Next he asked the beings in control of the white orb to come down and say hello. He then noticed a small white orb of light emerge from out of some nearby bushes. In his mind he asked whether it was them and felt that he got the answer “Yes” in his mind. As the small orb began to approach the van he got frightened and put the light on. The small orb instantly vanished. Gregory asked telepathically if the lights were a problem. Suddenly what appeared to be a figure emerged from the hedgerow in front of him. The body movement looked really odd. In his mind he started to ask “Are you ok fella? Are you ok over there?” The figure continued to walk slowly towards the van. Just like before he began to get frightened and turned the lights on again. Instead of just vanish like the orb had done, the figure disappeared but reappeared further down the hedge row. Next two jets came thundering across the sky towards the glowing orbs. Initially none of the objects moved at all. The jets seemed to circle the vicinity, then began to fly directly towards the higher altitude orbs. As they did the orbs moved away from them. The jets began to chase the higher altitude orbs around the sky. They were joined by at least 10 more jets, which started flying around after the orbs in pairs. The main initial orb remained stationary occasionally flashing in brightness. Analysis of Incidents These are a series of interesting incidents which may or may not be connected. The initial white orb which Gregory saw on the first evening seems to have performed some advanced manoeuvres, suggesting it was not a drifting white coloured LED balloon. It seemed to descend too rapidly to be a distant helicopter. It is possible it was a drone with white lights on, however there would be no reason for these lights to have flashed and then switched off. The short time between the orb disappearing and the beginning of the tapping noises does sound un-nerving, however there is nothing really linking the two incidents. There is no evidence that the orb was a craft which had then landed, or that the tapping sounds were a being on the roof of the van. The fact that Gregory leapt out of the van and checked twice yet found nothing confirms this. It is far more probable that the tapping noises were either the metal chassis of the van warping due to temperature changes, or perhaps small objects such as seeds from a nearby tree hitting the roof. The two figures seen circling the van is a particularly bizarre aspect of this case. It is unknown why Gregory did not simply drive the van away from the area. If the figures were human, it is extremely odd that they would remain there for such an extensive period of time. If they were there to rob the van, or just wanted to mess with Gregory and frighten him, surely after a while they would have just given up? If they were instead alien beings of some kind, why would they have circled the van for many hours without ever approaching? The following evening Gregory saw numerous white orbs in the sky. Even though the initial orb seen could have been the same object from the previous night returning, there is no definite evidence of this. It did not perform any manoeuvres, it just hovered still in the sky and appeared to make sudden flashes in brightness. Perhaps it was nothing more than a bright twinkling star, although the flashes it was making sound more prominent than this. The fact that the flashes appeared to sometimes be timed with the witness's attempts to communicate with it is interesting, but could potentially be coincidental. The other orbs at higher altitude were clearly not stars, as they began moving once the many military jets turned up and started flying around after them. If this is indeed what Gregory witnessed then there is a possibility they were something advanced and potentially non-human in origin. Unfortunately, without more accurate locations and times I will not be able to raise a Freedom Of Information Request with the MOD to see if I can find out any information regarding any military activity which took place in the vicinity on the night in question. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026