Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 23/07/2026 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, Burslem, 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: 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, but it was too distant and didn’t show up on the footage. 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. 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

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2022 Last Updated: 21/07/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In 2022 I posted a link to a new case report I’d written up covering a red glowing sphere seen over Birmingham in 1969. The link was posted on a number of UFO related Facebook groups. In response to this I was contacted on Facebook Messenger by a man who I shall name “Jack”. He informed me that he had seen something similar from his house in Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear. Jack did not respond to further questions, so the information known about what happened is limited at present. Sighting Details Jack says the incident happened around 2019, but he cannot remember the exact date or time. His living room is on the middle floor of a townhouse. He was sitting there by himself when he recalls something coming into view on the left side of the window. Aerial map of Wallsend It appeared to be about the size of a football and quite close to the house. It was glowing a deep red colour. It was around 20 feet above the nearby roof tops, and was moving on a straight course extremely slowly, potentially slower than walking pace. There was no perceivable sound coming from it. Suddenly it halted in the sky. Out of the top right corner of the orb he then saw a smaller mustard yellow coloured glowing sphere emerge from it. It appeared to be about the size of a tennis ball. It looked like it was observing something. It then retreated and seemed to merge back into the red orb. Slowly the orb then moved off towards the coast road. Jack ran upstairs and got his son to come and look at it as it slowly moved away. In the distance were some crane lights near to the River Tyne and Newcastle city centre. The object seemed to remain at the same height as these as it departed. Without warning it either shrank in size or the light within it switched off as it dropped to the ground, leaving a trail behind it as it disappeared from view. Sighting Analysis This an intriguing sighting. The object was clearly not a distant aircraft or helicopter. While a drone cannot be entirely ruled out, at the distance it appeared to be the witness would likely have heard the buzzing rotor blades. A red coloured LED balloon drifting on air currents seems unlikely because of the smaller orb that emerged from it and the way in which it suddenly switched off and descended. Some aspects suggest that what Jack saw may have been a sky lantern. Lanterns are usually described as being amber orange in colour not deep red, but this can vary depending on lighting conditions. The small size would fit with a lantern, as would the way it suddenly seemed to descend and “switch off” as it moved away into the distance. Lanterns only remain airborne when lit, if the flame in them dies out they can suddenly drop from the sky. However, there are some aspects which are more interesting. While the abrupt halt could of potentially been caused by it drifting into a conflicting air current for a period of time, the smaller yellow orb which emerged from it sounds very unusual. A spark or small flame could potentially drop from a lantern but this would usually fall downwards below it out of the opening at the base, not move up diagonally, stop and then seem to re-join it. This aspect does suggest that the object may have been something far more unusual. That said, a drifting spark cannot be entirely ruled out. Unfortunately, Jack did not manage to capture the object on camera so we only have his testimony to go on. If you have any information relating to this incident, please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2022 Last Updated: 21/07/2026 Initial Post & Photograph On 16th December 2022 a lady named Sonya Marie Rye started a thread on the Alien Abductions & UFO Sightings Facebook page (which is no longer active). She claimed that she had been looking at Google Earth in the vicinity of her home and saw a mysterious figure. Here is her post with the image: As you can see the picture clearly showed a brown coloured Bigfoot-like silhouette seemingly standing among some bushes. Due to the lack of clarity of both the post and the image I initially suspected that it could potentially have been tampered with using electronic paint software. Photograph Analysis I contacted Sonya via Messenger and asked her if she could send me the two original screen grabs she took off her phone which were clearly used to make up the singular image she posted. She did so swiftly and without question: These provided additional address details 17450 Co Rd 83 Building which were not present on the cut down posted image. I opened up Google Earth on my computer and used both this and the location mentioned on the original image, 23097 Powers Ln, to track down the location. It took me a little while but I was eventually able to find the right road. I started to visually drive along it using street view. I was surprised to find that the figure was indeed present in the photograph: I wondered if I would be able to capture it from different angles, as the camera car would have clearly driven along the road. So I started to move along the road: The figure was then briefly hidden from view by vegetation: However, it luckily came back into view for a number of additional positions: As you can see above, it became immediately obvious to me that the object was a flat Bigfoot cut-out made out of wood, very likely placed in the undergrowth to trick passing drivers! I reached out to Sonya to inform her of my findings. I do not believe that she had anything to do with the cut-out, and had genuinely found it when looking on Google Earth. A number of hours later she posted again, saying that she had walked out to the location and managed to find it! It is unknown how long the cut-out has been standing there or whether it is still there today. It's visible on Google Maps, and the street view photograph dates are from February 2022, meaning that it had been there at least 11 months when Sonya discovered it. Even though the case was solved, it certainly provided much amusement for everyone involved. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 06/08/2024 Last Updated: 21/07/2026 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. 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 Year: 2022 Last Updated 20/07/2026 Notes: For privacy reasons precise locations have been omitted In late March 2022 my daughter Kira had a UFO sighting while at school. She excitedly told me about what she’d seen on her arrival home. Sighting Details It was roughly mid-day and Kira was in her Maths class at her school in Olton, Birmingham. Aerial map of Olton She was stuck on a question and so stared out of the classroom window thinking of what the answer could be. It was a sunny day outside with only patchy clouds in the blue sky. Looking to the South South East she noticed what appeared to be a white coloured cigar-shaped object with rounded ends (which some may describe these days as a tic-tac). It appeared to have two vertical lines along it splitting it into three distinct segments. It was at an elevation of 45 degrees in the sky, and hard to tell exactly how far away it was. The object appeared to be completely stationary in the sky. Kira stared at it for around 6 seconds. She didn’t know what to do about the presence of the object. She jumped out of her seat and grabbed some scrap paper to draw the object. Other children in the class wondered what she was up to. It took about 5 seconds for her to grab the paper and return to her desk. When she looked back outside the object had completely vanished. Disappointed that the object was no longer present she wrote down some notes about what she had seen. Towards the end of the lesson her teacher noticed her looking out of the window. As the lesson ended he asked her "Did you see something in the sky?" She just nodded excitedly. Sighting Analysis Kira seemed extremely honest and genuinely excited about what she had witnessed when I spoke with her about it in the evening, so I have no reason to doubt that it took place. When I asked her how she felt at the time she said “At first I was like ‘What the hell is that?’ and then I was like ‘Oh my goodness it could be a UFO!’ It was exciting, but kind of scary as well!” The object certainly sounds intriguing. It was stationary in the sky so cannot have been an aeroplane visible at an unusual angle. The vertical lines on it splitting it into sections make it sound like a structured object rather than just a small cloud. Also, if it was a cloud it is unlikely to have dissipated in such a small space of time. While a glint of sunlight coming through the glass cannot be entirely ruled out, surely she would have seen this on other occasions at the same time of day? To my knowledge Kira had never seen the object before, nor has reported it since. I did consider the idea of it being a hand glider or even someone sky diving and descending on a parachute. However, the fact that it was stationary seem to make these explanations unlikely. If it was a white coloured novelty balloon of some kind surely it would have still been visible when Kira returned to her desk? At this time I am unable to find a suitable mundane explanation for what was observed, and therefore it remains a mystery. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2022 Last Updated: 20/07/2026 On 25th September 2022 I was contacted by a night security guard named Stuart. He guards Elmdon Trading Estate after dark. He informed me that approximately 20 minutes before he called he had witnessed a UFO over Birmingham International Airport. My conversation with him has led to the creation of this report. Sighting Details Stuart works close to where the aeroplanes at Birmingham International Airport are parked up for the night. He and another younger guard were sitting down on their night shift. It was an extremely clear night with the stars fully visible. He was looking to the South West in the direction of the airport. Just before 11pm he suddenly noticed an extremely bright white orb of light with a light blue coloured trail behind it. The object flew past them just off to the right of their location, and began moving away to the South West. It appeared to be quite low in the sky and certainly within the atmosphere. Aerial map showing the position of the witness and the estimated flight path of the object Stuart stood up and exclaimed “What the fuck is that?!” Before he had a chance to get his mobile phone out to photograph or record the object it disappeared into the distance. In total he had watched it for about 10 seconds. By the time the younger guard checked, the object had gone. Sighting Analysis Most aspects described would usually be explainable as a meteorite. However, these tend to only remain visible in the sky for a couple of seconds at most. Stuart suspected that it might instead be a rocket launch. After looking online I confirmed that this does indeed appear to be the case. On 22nd September 2022 a NASA Sounding Rocket carrying a new X-Ray instrument named Rockets for Extended-Source X-ray Spectroscopy (tREXS) was launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It performed a brief sub-orbital flight. Below is an article about the launch featuring photographs of the rocket and a video of the launch: https://science.psu.edu/news/tREXS-9-2022 Rocket launches often leave a long trail behind them, just as Stuart reported seeing. It is extremely likely that he witnessed this rocket travelling through the upper atmosphere. I therefore consider this particular case closed. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2022 Last Updated: 20/07/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In November 2022 I released a BUFOG case report about a glowing red oval-shaped UFO seen over Chudleigh Knighton. As usual I posted a link to the case report on numerous different UFO related Facebook groups. In response to one of these posts I was contacted by a man who I shall name “Evan”. He wanted to report a similar sighting he had in the Lake District in 2019. Sadly there is not much details as Evan did not respond after initial correspondence, but I have released this report to get it down on record. Sighting Details On 6th November 2019 Evan and his family went on holiday to the Lake District. They stayed in the village of Lowick. Aerial map of Lowick Around 9pm Evan went outside to smoke his vape. He looked up at the clear night sky. Suddenly a red coloured glowing light became visible in the sky heading in his direction. At first he thought it was a helicopter but there was no sound, and it appeared to be too low in sky. As it passed overhead he noticed that it was not a self-luminescent sphere, but was a red light attached to a larger object which he could just see the outline of, though it wasn’t clear enough to ascertain the shape. Evan says he is a keen astronomer and astro-photographer, but had never seen anything like this before. He feels lucky to have seen it and thinks about the sighting regularly. Sighting Analysis Even though not much is known about the incident, it is still possible to determine certain things. The fact that Evan heard no sound coming from the object does tend to put the idea of it being an aeroplane or helicopter out of the picture. Sound travels especially well after dark so it is likely he would have heard the sound of the engine or rotor blades. Another aspect pointing away from this possibility is the fact that he didn’t see any other lights on the object – aircraft also have white static, white strobing and green lights on them usually, and he did get to observe it from different angles as it approached and flew overhead. Could the object have been a drone? While this is certainly worth considering, again it is likely he would have heard the distinctive buzzing of the rotor blades. Evan did not make it clear how big the object was, but drones usually have four lights not one. If it was far enough away from him for the sound to not be heard and all the lights to bleed into a singular red orb, then he would not have seen the outline of a larger object around it. If Evan had not described seeing this outline I would have perhaps suggested a red coloured LED balloon. The incident did happen the day after bonfire night, one of the times of the year when sky lanterns and LED balloons are more commonly launched. But if it was an LED balloon or lantern there would have not been an outline of a larger object. With mundane explanations seemingly discounted this remains an intriguing sighting. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 18/07/2026 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In early March 2022 I contacted a lady from the East coast of the USA on Facebook Messenger who I shall call “Lucy” after seeing a contact-related post from her. She informed me that throughout her life she and her sisters had experienced contact on a number of occasions. She provided a lot of detail about a particular abduction experience from her childhood, and some other details about later experiences too. Unfortunately, she did not get back in touch after the initial messages so only limited information is known at present. Childhood Abduction One day when she was 4 years old her grandmother “Lettie” visited to have a procedure done at a local hospital. Her mother “Amelia” accompanied Lettie to the hospital, leaving her father “Paul” to look after she and her five sisters – her baby sister “Bella” who was only a few weeks old, 3-year-old sister “Kelly”, 5-year-old sister “Natalie”, 6-year-old sister “Fay” and 7-year-old sister “Samantha”. It was dusk, and the girls were in their downstairs bedroom. Bella was already asleep. The rest of them were in their pyjamas and preparing to go to bed. Suddenly Fay excitedly said that she could see something out of the rear-facing window. Unfortunately, Lucy was too short to see out of it, so she ran to the bathroom, jumped into the empty bath tub and looked out of the bathroom window instead, which also faced the rear of the property. She remembers seeing some glittering lights floating down from the sky. She cannot recall whether these lights were white or coloured. Lucy heard Fay run out of the room, through the kitchen and out of the back door. At the same time, she heard her father shouting at her to stop. She next heard the slam of the screen door and the sound of her father running outside after her. Intrigued by what was going on, Lucy and Kelly decided to join them. As they ran through the kitchen towards the back door she saw Natalie and Samantha crouching down behind the stove. Samantha exclaimed that she had to run and check on Bella who had been left in the bedroom. When Lucy and Kelly met up with Fay and Paul they looked behind them and saw a craft slowly moving over the house. Upon seeing this Fay ran back inside. Suddenly there were three beings standing around them a short distance away. They were about the same height as her. Lucy did not recognise them at the time, but has since come to learn that these were Greys. The next thing she became aware of they were standing in an extremely bright white light. The Greys were now right next to them. She felt like she was moving in slow motion. There was also a strange humming sound and low vibration felt. One of the beings was standing really close to her facing sideways. She noticed that it didn’t have an ear. For some reason she was aware that she should communicate with this being telepathically. She asked it what happened to its ear. It responded to her in her mind, saying that this was just the way their ears were. Paul was yelling out loud “What the hell is this? What the hell is going on?” clearly terrified by what was happening. This frightened Kelly, who started hugging his leg. Lucy was more fascinated by the beings and stood there staring at them in awe. A forth Grey suddenly seemed to descend from above. This one appeared to be a little taller than the others. It was wearing a blue coloured bodysuit with a belt. In the centre of this belt was a large black square covered in buttons. It began touching these buttons. The craft moved towards them until it was directly overhead. They were arranged into a line, with a Grey behind them, one in front and one either side. Then they all began to float upwards towards the underside of the craft. Lucy stared upwards and was amazed by the size of it. They ascended into an opening in the base of the craft. Then the floor closed below them and they found themselves inside a room, still floating a little off the floor. Lucy looked to her left and realised that Paul was standing up but slumped over like he had been knocked out. She looked to her right and saw one of the Greys holding Kelly. She asked the being what was wrong with her father. The Grey responded saying “He’s ok, he’s just asleep, standing straight up!” There was a table close to the inside of a door. The beings sat her and her sister down on this. They then led her father down some steps into a lower area of the craft where another table was situated. At this point her father came round and began shouting again. His shouting upset her and Kelly and they both began to cry. Suddenly it appeared that one of the beings was talking with her father telepathically. She couldn’t hear what it was saying but she heard her father say “Ok! Ok!” still clearly very upset by the situation. He then turned to her and un-convincingly said “Lucy. I’m all right Lucy. Everything’s ok Lucy.” Despite his tone, this did calm her down a bit. Some Greys approached her and her sister. They picked up Kelly and took her around a corner out of sight. They then undressed her and lay her down on the table. From this position she could no longer see her father, but assumed he was on the other table in the lower section. There were two Greys standing alongside her. She heard one of them speak with her telepathically. The voice in her mind sounded female. It tried to calm her down. She looked down at the hands of the being. Each hand had three fingers and a thumb. She was fascinated by this difference between them and humans. As if in response to this observation, the being pointed out that some of the other beings present had feet that looked the same as humans. Thinking back to this, Lucy believes that these beings must have been hybrids. The being speaking with her then tried to convince her that it was ok for them to take a sliver of skin off one of her heels. A number of days ago her parents had taken a big splinter out of her foot. She thought back to how much this had hurt. This frightened her and and she began to cry. One of the beings leaned in close to her and stared at her face. When it did so a wave of calmness overcame her. Within a brief moment the beings had performed the task without her feeling a thing. The voice in her head said “See, that didn’t hurt!” After that Lucy just remembers lying there on the table face up. She then felt something swell up inside her rectal area. She believed it was an instrument of some kind that they used on her, although she didn’t see anything. It was not painful. After a while they stopped their examination procedures and she was allowed to sit up on the side of the table. She stared at the Grey beings standing in front of her. She was frightened of them because of their appearance. One of them approached her side and asked her if she was afraid again. In her mind she responded “Yes.” The being pulled her forward off the table so she was standing in front of it. Like before, it then stared into her eyes and she calmed right down. Lucy began to observe her surroundings. She noticed a Grey that was taller than the others. Its mouth was stuck in a permanent pursed position like a little trumpet. As it moved past her it glided a short distance off the floor instead of walked. It appeared to notice Lucy looking at it as it suddenly stopped and backed up for her to look at it. She detected humour from it despite it not speaking directly to her. Another Grey approached and offered to show her around. She followed it across to the lower area of the craft. She could see her father on the other table surrounded by Greys. They appeared to be doing something to him while he remained asleep. The Grey then showed her a console on one of the walls covered in lights and gauges. It then showed her the entrance to the other area where her sister had been previously taken. On the far side of this area was a square-shaped tank with different compartments in it, each one filled with bubbling liquid. At her young age she assumed that it was a fish tank. Looking back at the experience she now believes it was probably a tank full of foetuses. Then they put her back on the table for further tests. There was an L-shaped device over the table. The Greys reached up and moved it over her. They then hid her view from her body. She next felt something like a needle enter her stomach area. They then they used a device on her face, either her eye or nose. At some point when she was sitting up she looked over towards where she had entered the room. She saw a Grey holding Bella wrapped in a blanket. She telepathically spoke with the being, saying “What are you doing with my baby sister?” The Grey replied “I would never heart her.” Lucy then remembers lying face up on the table for a long time. She looked around the room she was in. The walls were circular and had ribbed sections running along them. There was a glow coming from above but no light fixtures. A different type of being then approached her. It was about 7-foot-high and had tan coloured skin. It looked very insectoid, like a giant praying mantis or ant. It was extremely frightening to her. The being could see her fear. She heard a male voice in her mind ask her to hide her face. She rolled over on the table and hid her face in her folded arms. The being picked her up and rolled her back over. It then picked up the white t-shirt Lucy had previously been wearing under her pyjamas and covered her face with it, blocking her vision of the surroundings. She then felt the being touching her hair and grabbing hold of it. Eventually after what seemed like forever the beings sat her up on the table. They then handed her a piece of folded paper. On it was a list of words which she of course could not read due to her age. Lucy informed the being that she couldn’t read it. The being responded saying that it didn’t matter, and that she should still look at it. She followed these instructions. The beings then got her to stand up and got her dressed. Her pyjamas were for made for cool weather. They were in two halves that snapped together. The snaps only aligned if you snapped the top of the back. The beings didn’t seem to know this, and struggled to line them up. Lucy had to tell them to turn the top round the other way. The taller Grey that had previously led her around the craft looked at her and said that she would not remember everything that happened. Lucy asked it why. It just stared at her without answering. When she woke up in the morning she had no recollection of what had taken place in the night. Neither her sisters or father mentioned the incident at all, it had clearly been removed from all of their minds too. Later in the morning her mother noticed that there was a missing chunk of hair on her head. She accused her of letting her friend who lived down the street cut her hair. Lucy knew that this had not happened, but feeling the missing patch of hair did not trigger any memories of the night. Moving Shadows On another night Lucy recalled waking up to see some unusual moving shadows on her bedroom wall. The shadows where moving back and forth. She did not recall seeing any beings, but looking back at the incident she realised this was very likely another visitation. It is probable that the beings were monitoring her and her sister after their previous abduction. Further Contact Fragmented memories of her childhood abduction began to come back to her around 30 years later in her mid-thirties. There appeared to be no reason for why the details started to come back to her. Soon after she began recollecting what happened, the beings came for her again, perhaps triggered by the realisation that she was beginning to remember. She recalls some Greys appearing in her bedroom during the night and snatching her out of the bed from beside her sleeping husband. She tried to scream but no sound came out. She then began to float before blacking out. Lucy says that they returned for her numerous times over the following months. On one occasion she felt a being tap her on her arm in the middle of the night. For an unknown reason she was not frightened and rolled over in total compliance. She does not recall what happened next. Full Recollection On 15th January 1995 Lucy was at work the full memories of the abduction came back to her. She must have had quite the look on her face, because her boss offered to take her back home and didn’t even ask what was wrong. She initially found the experience extremely challenging to deal with. She says that all she did for about a year was dwell on it and break into tears. She wondered what to do with the information and who to share it with. She informed her husband and although he took it in, it did not spark any further interest in the subject. Lucy also informed her parents, but feels that they didn’t really know how to process what she was telling them. Her parents were Baptists and this experience shook their religious beliefs. As she got over the fear and began to think deeply about what happened she realised that it confirmed and made sense of various things she had previously read in the Bible as part of her religious upbringing. Hybrid Daughter On a couple of occasions Lucy had a vivid dream. At the start of the dream she remembers holding a sickly looking baby girl with thin arms and legs. Later in the dream she saw the same girl but as a healthier looking toddler. At the time she had no idea what these dreams related to. In 2022 on the same day that I reached out to her on Facebook Lucy went for a hypnotic regression session to explore her contact experiences further. Her sister accompanied her and wrote down a few notes. In this session Lucy brought up the sickly baby she had she realised that the odd looking baby girl she had seen in those dreams was actually a hybrid created from her own DNA. As soon as she went into a deep hypnotic state she began to see herself lying on the table with the Greys looking down at her. This frightened her so much that she willed herself out of the hypnosis. Lucy now wonders if her daughter is out there somewhere. She says that if she is able to speak with the Greys again going forward she will ask them where she now is. Conclusions The experience from her childhood has all the hallmarks of an extensive abduction by Grey and Mantid beings. It is unknown whether her father recollects it at all, but Lucy informed me her sister remembered both it and later experiences. If I am able to get back in touch with Lucy I may be able to arrange to speak with her sister, which would be great for corroboration of what she has shared. At present we only have her testimony to go on. Some of the details from her abduction do sound somewhat similar to things reported by famous American experiencer Whitley Strieber, and shown in the movie of his book, Communion. She described seeing one of the Greys floating around the craft with a permanent pursed lips expression on its face. Whitley described seeing floating Greys aboard the craft, as represented in the movie: In addition to this, one of the Blue Dwarves (the shorter “helpers” accompanying the Greys) shown in the movie has a permanent puckered lips expression on its face: This is very reminiscent of the expression Lucy says one of the Greys in her experience had. This is merely an observation, I’m not suggesting that the details she provided are based on Communion, although you may of course feel otherwise. The vivid dreams and remembered memories during her regression certainly point towards the possibility that Lucy is part of what is commonly known as the hybrid breeding program. The ETs often bring hybrid babies to their human parents as what can be viewed as an emotional bonding ritual, although it is not entirely known why this is done. Hopefully Lucy will get back in touch at some point so this report can be updated with further information. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 16/07/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In late June 2026 I was contacted on phone by an elderly man who I shall name “Derek”. He wanted to discuss a disturbing incident which happened to him in late 2018 in his own home. After finding out that he lived in Olton, Birmingham I arranged to drive over in the evening to discuss what took place face-to-face. I took with me a voice recorder app on my mobile phone which I used to document the incident. This case report discusses the incident in depth, along with another potentially paranormal incident from Derek’s childhood. The Blue Veil Derek grew up in Dublin in a house on Kilmainham Lane, in the vicinity of Kilmainham Gaol. Between the lane and the River Liffey was an area of open fields. The gaol still exists as a tourist attraction, but the fields have now been built over with housing. Aerial map indicating Kilmainham Lane (A), Kilmainham Gaol, and the River Liffey (C) In 1956 when he was 9 years old he and his friends used to play around an area they referred to as “The Hollow”. This was a large field with an embankment which led down to the river. One day they were out at The Hollow playing hide and seek. On the embankment was a telegraph pole. Part of the base of it had been left unfilled, which created a great hiding place. Derek decided to hide inside the hole. While his friend looked for him he suddenly felt something was behind him. He looked over his shoulder and saw what looked like a dark blue coloured veil. Back then he and his friends believed in Banshees, female spirits from Irish folklore. Example drawing of a Banshee Thinking that there was a Banshee standing right behind him he was terrified. He jumped out of the hole and ran away without looking back! When he got back home he told his family what he’d seen. They told him that it must have been his imagination and it could have been anything. Beings Visitation On the first week of December in 2018 Derek was relaxing in his home on Howard Road, Olton, Birmingham. Aerial map of Howard Road It was a very cold evening. He decided to head upstairs to bed between 11:15-11:30pm, the usual time he would tend to go to sleep. He got into his bed, and stretched his feet out to warm up the bottom of the bed. He lay there for a short while, up to half an hour, and believes he may have dropped off. Photograph of the bedroom Suddenly he woke back up to the feeling of something on top of the bed covers. It felt similar to the paw of a cat dragging the area of his stomach, but seemed too large and heavy for a cat. He quickly came to the realisation that he didn’t own a pet cat. Immediately he thought to himself “There’s somebody in my room!” Then he thought “Don’t jump up now. If you jump up and get a crack on the head that’s me finished!” He lay there with his eyes closed pretending to be asleep. He felt whatever it was move down the bed. There seemed to be quite a lot of movement and he thought to himself “Is there one or two?” It got to the end of the bed near the far right corner. He thought “There’s two of them, I’m sure.” Photograph of the base of the bed indicating the estimated positions of the figures Derek suddenly felt the sensation of a long thin arm drop across his lower legs. It felt as if it was about two foot in length. At this point he opened his eyes. It was quite dark in the room. Still believing there were two burglars in his room he thought to himself “Keep quiet, play dead, because if I jump up and one of them hits me on the head I’m finished!” Witness drawing of the long arm over his lower legs He felt one of the two figures move around the right side of the bed. They bumped into the side of the bed as they did and he thought “That’s very clumsy considering they are robbing the place!” He glanced over at the bedroom door to the left of the bed and realised that it was closed. Upon seeing this he thought “That’s funny, you think they’d leave the door open.” He then felt the figure continue up the side of the bed until it was right beside him. He thought “God that’s been there for about two minutes. What’s going on?” Then he felt it go back down the side of the bed, again bumping into it as it went. Derek used to have a cabinet near the end of the bed and he thought they would no doubt go through that to see if there was any money in it. He knew that there was nothing of value in it, just some family photographs. He hoped that they would look through the cabinet, realise there was nothing there and leave. He felt a small vibration which he assumed was the burglars pulling one of the drawers out to take a look. He then felt something walk across the foot of the bed from left to right heading towards the bedroom wardrobe. Again he knew that there was nothing of value in there either. It went quiet and for a moment Derek thought that they had left. Suddenly he felt the sensation of two figures banging their arms up and down on the right end of the bed. He did not look at them, but got the sense that they were short like children. He thought to himself “What’s going on? I’ve gone barmy here.” But the feeling of the two figures banging their arms of the bed continued. He also sensed that there was a third taller figure standing at the lower left of the bed. Derek tried to move his legs and arms and realised that he seemed to be paralyzed. He was only able to move his eyes. In his mind he questioned himself, asking “If I put my hands up and wave will they stop and go?” But then he thought “No, I don’t want to frighten them. Don’t jump up, just steady on now!” All of a sudden a strong wave of calmness came over him. Derek describes it as “total serenity, absolutely calm, as if I was floating.” At this stage Derek assumed that the tall figure at the left could read his mind, and had telepathically calmed him down because he was getting frightened of what was happening. He then felt one of the shorter figures get up onto the bed and sit right almost on top of his right leg, pressed up against it. Whatever was on him had a smooth but bubbly texture to it. It did not feel particularly heavy, which further cemented the idea that it was short in stature. Derek glanced to his left at the door again to confirm it was still closed. He moved his eyes slowly around, surveying the darkened bedroom. This is where he saw the taller figure for the first time. It was standing still near the foot of the bed. Photograph of the bedroom indicating the position where the taller figure was standing Due to gaps in the blinds and street lights outside on the road it was light enough in the room to make out some details. The figure was about six and a half feet in height with squared off shoulders. It appeared to have a covering over his face similar to a balaclava. At the base of this was a shiny metallic strip. He realised at this point that this figure did not appear to be human. He assumed that this also applied to the shorter figures he had not seen. Witness drawing of the bedroom showing the taller being and the positions of the two shorter beings Witness drawing of the taller being Despite this realisation, the feeling of relaxation continued. He then felt one of the shorter beings begin to move. It began walking up the right side of the bed. It got to about two feet up and suddenly stopped. Derek realised the position it had halted was directly opposite the tall mirror on the wardrobe. He wondered if it had been startled by seeing its own reflection in the mirror, although this would of course just be speculation. Derek then felt the taller being kneel on the lower left corner of the bed, depressing the mattress significantly. It then stretched across the bed over his lower body to reach the shorter being on the right. He thought about his daughter “Anna” sleeping in the other bedroom. He thought to himself “Sorry Anna, I’ve got to do this. I’ve got to get up. I’ve got to find out what’s going on.” He managed to break past the feeling of paralysis and sat up in the bed, with the taller being still leaning across him. It was hard to see due to the low light in the room, it just looked like a large black shape. He reached out his hand and touched the upper back of it. It felt like fabric of some kind, with small tassels hanging off the base of it. It reminded him of the feeling of an old fashioned sofa. He ran his hand down the back of the being. After about a foot the sensation became extremely smooth, like touching the metal bonnet of a car. It was gradually curved in shape, with it curving more predominantly near the base of its back. On the near side was what felt like a concave indentation, roughly 2 inches across, running all the way down. Derek felt that he was touching some kind of suit the being was wearing rather than its skin. He believes that the taller being must have felt awkward lying across him, as it then seemed to reverse. As it did so it reached out and touched him on the forehead, and he immediately blacked out. Witness drawing of the back of the tall being based on what he felt When he woke back up he did not open his eyes straight away. He remembered what had happened and was still frightened by it. He opened his eyes and found it was now light. He looked to his left and saw that the door was closed. He tried to move the bed covers down to sit up, but realised they were tucked in. This was an anomaly as they had not been tucked in when the beings were present in the room. Derek says that he never tucks his bed covers in when he goes to bed. He thought to himself “Surely they didn’t tuck me in!” He forcefully pulled the bed covers down to free them, then got up. He had a look around the room. Nothing appeared out of place. He felt the position on his forehead where the being had touched him. It felt different to the surrounding skin, although no obvious marking was visible. Later on he tried kneeling on the lower left corner of his bed. He was around 12 stone at the time. By the amount he depressed the mattress he felt that the taller being must have been between 14-15 stone. Within days of the incident Derek informed Shelly about what had taken place. Derek informed me that this incident has haunted him ever since. He mentioned that he doesn’t drink, smoke or use drugs of any kind, and that he was certain that he was fully awake at the time. He also informed me that the position on his forehead which the being touched still feels different to him, although there is nothing obviously visible. About a year after the incident he developed a red rash on the back of his right shoulder. He went to speak with his GP about it. They told him that the most likely cause of it was a fungal infection and advised him to put cream on it. However, the rash has never disappeared and is still present today: Derek feels that the rash may be an after effect of the experience, although he of course has no proof of this. Around November 2025 he was watching an episode of a TV series on UFOs. He cannot remember the name of the show but thinks it may have had the word “encounter” in it. In the episode a case was discussed from 1953 which involved a doctor and his daughter. They were out cycling when they saw some shiny objects in a field they were passing. They stopped cycling and went towards them. They realised that what was shining was two reflective disc-shaped objects. To the right was two beings standing close to the fence. The TV show displayed a drawing of what they reported seeing. Derek went cold. The beings the two witnesses described seeing looked the same as the tall being he had seen back in 2019! He rang Shelly up to tell her what he had just seen. Unfortunately, I have not been able to track down this particular case online, and am not aware of it being mentioned in any books I have read. If you know which case this refers to please get in touch. Conclusions While the Banshee sighting from his childhood may well have had a mundane explanation due to his young age and the fact that he didn’t see it clearly for any length of time, the visitation in 2019 is fascinating and much more compelling. The beings Derek both saw and sensed remained in the room for an extensive period of time. One possible explanation for what happened certainly worth considering is that the entire incident was caused by what is known as sleep paralysis. This is where the muscles of the body shut down while the individual is not fully asleep. In this scenario it is possible to see unusual figures in the room, other visual anomalies, hear strange sounds, feel vibrations or your body being pulled in odd directions. Derek did indeed feel that he was largely paralysed for an extensive part of the experience. However, there are a number of aspects which suggest that the incident physically took place. Firstly, at numerous points during the experience he felt the beings hit or climb onto the bed depressing the mattress. He was not paralysed for the whole experience. Usually when people come out of paralysis any visual or audial anomalies immediately vanish. However, after he sat up the tall being was still present leaning right over him. He was able to actually touch its clothing and feel the weight of it before it touched him on the head and he blacked out. I have dealt with a number of other contact cases where beings have touched people on the forehead leading to them blacking out, sometimes with an instrument, sometimes not. The tall being he described seeing certainly sounded unusual, or was at least wearing unusual clothing. However, the TV programme Derek watched in late 2025 apparently proved that the being he observed was not unique and had been reported before. The two short beings that Derek sensed in the room may well have been Greys. These are often reported as being around 4 foot in height. Although he did not witness them directly, he did feel one of them put its arm over his lower legs. He said the arm was very slender and long, which again would fit in with the common description of a Grey. Lastly there is the fact that when he came round in the morning he found that the edges of the bed covers were tucked in. He assured me that this was not something he would have done himself, either consciously or in his sleep. This is yet another anomaly which suggests that something may have actually taken place. I do not believe the rash on Derek’s shoulder to be significant. Due to the fact that it developed a good while after the incident I find it unlikely it has anything to do with his experience. However, I would like to thank him for reaching out to get his experience down on official record. If you have any information relating to it please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2023 Last Updated: 14/07/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used and certain location details have been omitted At the start of June 2022 I was contacted by a lady from Bristol, who I shall name “Claire”. She wanted to discuss a number of fascinating and varied experiences she has had throughout her life. What triggered her to get in touch was an incident that happened back in April which she was quite disturbed by, and she was seeking answers to what had taken place. I was also pleased to meet her directly in 2023 at a private experiencer support discussion meeting arranged by Birmingham UFO Group. This report covers her experiences in depth, which go right back to her childhood. Twin Telepathy Claire was born in 1970 and is a twin with her brother “Timothy”. Right back when she and her brother were only one year old she believes that she had a psychic connection with him. At the time the family lived in Ealing, London. Claire and Timothy had matching cots in the same room. There was a wardrobe with glittery-coloured drawer knobs close to Claire’s cot. Even when the room light was off there was enough ambient light to see it. She recalls one night her brother telepathically speaking with her from across the room and daring her to reach out to grab them. She took him up on this challenge and reached out towards the wardrobe. Unfortunately as a result she ended up falling out of the cot. She still recalls crying out for her parents and them rushing into the room. It is one of her earliest memories. Could Claire really have received a telepathic message from her baby brother? As they were only 1 years old at the time their vocabulary would have been very limited indeed, however a directly transferred thought may have been implied rather than actual words. It is widely known that many people who experience contact throughout their lives appear to possess one or more psychic abilities, and as you will see this is far from her only psychic experience. Brownies Between the age of 4-6 Claire remembers numerous experiences of being visited during the night by short humanoid beings. She recalls that they were between 2-3 feet in height and had brown-orange coloured leathery skin. They looked male and wore clothing, but she cannot remember what this looked like. There were usually around three of them, she does not recall them every appearing on their own. Because of their skin tone she nicknamed them “Brownies”. The beings would talk with her but she cannot remember specifically what they said. She does not remember seeing the beings directly appear, they would just suddenly be there. Nor can she recollect how they left the room. Claire thinks that they appeared quite regularly for up to three years. She was frightened of the beings, but does not think she ever ran out of the room or called out for her parents, she would just stare at them from the bed. She never told her parents or friends at school about these visitations. Looking back at them she does not know why, especially due to the fear that she felt. The experiences did lead to her leaving the light on in her room, and she claims to have been frightened of the dark right up to her 20’s. These incidents certainly sound like repeated visitations by possible alien beings. Although they did not look like Greys they were short in height. It is possible that they were another more humanoid species, or perhaps were masking their true appearance using a screen memory. She was of quite an early age at the time, and of course it is possible for childhood imagination to play a part, however the repeated nature of these experiences makes this seem less probable. Colourful Patterns Around the time she stopped experiencing visitations from the “Brownies”, Claire began to regularly see colourful patterns and shapes when she closed her eyes. Interestingly she used to call these “alien patterns” but has no idea why, she is certain it was not related to something she had read or seen. She would see various bright colours, shapes and geometric lines. It was as if they were superimposed over the usual darkness of her eyelids. The patterns would usually appear when she was settling down to sleep, or just waking up in the morning. However she is certain they were taking place while she was still conscious, and there were other incidents where she saw them during the daytime when she happened to close her eyes. Claire enjoyed seeing the patterns and could sometimes will them to appear. She remembers seeing the patterns up to the age of 9. After this they seemed to cease, and she could no longer see them. Like the visitations she never told her family or friends about them. Ghostly Apparition One evening in the Autumn or Winter of 1977 Claire recalls witnessing something very disturbing. She was sitting in the living room watching television. Her mother was in the kitchen at the time teaching her brother to read. At the end of the living room about 14 feet away were some tall French doors which were closed at the time and covered with long curtains. The doors led through to a conservatory. Suddenly what appeared to be a semi-transparent upper portion of an oversized man’s body emerged through the curtains and began slowly floating across the room towards her! She could only see the shoulders and head of this man, and the vision was almost as tall as the doors. The man had white skin, wavy dark coloured hair with sideburns and looked Tudor in appearance. As the apparition drifted towards her the mouth opened almost as if it was about to speak. Before the vision reached her she left the room and ran into the kitchen, telling her mother that she thought she’d just seen a ghost. When she bravely returned to the living room the apparition was gone. But she also found that the television was now off. She is certain it had been on when the man appeared, so had no idea of how it had been switched off. Later on in her life she saw a stone bust of the famous composer Ludwig van Beethoven which un-nerved her because it reminded her of the apparition she had seen. Ludwig van Beethoven stone bust Looking back at the experience, the figure also looked somewhat similar to Mr Darcy from the television production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (played by Colin Firth). Mr Darcy from Pride And Prejudice This incident is both fascinating and un-nerving. Claire was wide awake at the time and watching TV so it is unlikely to have been a dream. She saw it clearly enough to notice specific features, suggesting it was actually present rather than just a trick of the light. If it was a ghostly apparition of a man then the way in which it was grossly over-sized is particularly odd. Another possibility is that this was a projection of some kind and linked with inherent psychic abilities. The fact that the TV was off when she re-entered the room is another anomaly. It perhaps suggests that she has some missing time regarding the incident, and maybe switched it off herself before leaving the room. However this would have involved actually moving closer to the apparition, something she is unlikely to have wanted to do at the time, at least willingly. Another possibility is that the apparition somehow interfered with the electrics and the television was turned off as a side effect of its presence in the room. Bicycle Accident By 1986 Claire and her family had moved to a house in Shipton-Under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire. She used to enjoy cycling around the area. One day in July or August she was out cycling West from Burford to Cheltenham along the edge of the A40 to buy a new stereo. It was around 11am and a pleasant sunny day. Due to the warm weather she was drinking a lot of water. She was on the approach to Dowdeswell Reservoir when she began to need the loo. Aerial map of Dowdeswell Reservoir She started looking for a side road she could use for this purpose out of sight of the traffic. Aerial map of the A40 indicating Burford (A) and Cheltenham (B), and the route Claire took to the reservoir Photograph of the A40 on the approach to the reservoir Suddenly she found herself lying down on the grass verge alongside the motorway. She was picking herself back up. A couple of cars had stopped ahead of her and a lady from one of them was calling out asking if she was ok. Her bike was lying alongside her on the grass. She checked herself over and found that there was seemingly no damage to herself or her bike. She also noted that she no longer needed the loo, but was also certain she had not wet herself. She responded to the lady asking her whether she had knocked her off her bike. The lady said “No we didn’t see you fall. We just saw you lying in the verge. We presumed you must have been knocked off by the car ahead.” Claire continued her bike ride into Cheltenham. Later in the day she called her mother and informed her about what had happened on route. Her mother was concerned she may be concussed and asked her to go to a doctor’s to get checked out. She complied with this request, but the doctor confirmed she was completely fine. However her mother was still concerned so drove to Cheltenham to pick her up. The incident has always troubled Claire. She is convinced that she was not feeling in any way faint while cycling along, and informed me she was very fit at the time so was not tired either. She had no injuries at all, and there was no damage to the bike either. She has no memory at all of coming off the bike, so essentially has a period of missing time she cannot account for. While there is no reason not to believe that the incident happened as Claire recollects, I feel that it is most probable that this has a normal explanation rather than it being linked with contact in anyway. Perhaps she briefly lost control of the bike or ran over something on the edge of the road. Or perhaps a passing car accidentally bumped her with its wing mirror and did not stop to help. The fact she did not need the toilet anymore could well have been just down to the shock of what had happened, there was more pressing issues for her to think about. It is entirely possible to lose memory of sudden accidents or frightening moments. I know this first hand. When I was 16 years old I had an accident on my bike where I went over the handlebars. The memory of falling through the air completely vanished. One second I was riding along, the next thing I knew I was lying on the pavement with a mouthful of blood. Even though Claire luckily did not suffer any injuries, she could still have forgotten the actual crash itself, so this cannot be ruled out as the explanation for what took place. Precognition From about the age of seventeen Claire began to experience what she believed to be psychic abilities. She realised that she would know information about people or things that were going to happen to them, sometimes when meeting them for the first time. She would also sometimes know things that were going to happen to herself. Claire provided a number of specific examples of these apparent abilities. By early 1993 she had moved to a share house in Manchester where she lived with other girls. Around this time in her life she was quite religious and would often pray. One morning she was praying in her bedroom when she slipped into a trance-like meditative state. She then heard in her mind a vivid conversation. The conversation was with one of her male friends who she was interested in being with. He told her reasons why he could not be with her. Later that day around 2pm her friend actually rang up. He then began to speak exactly the same words she had already heard in her mind earlier on. Claire believes that she was given this information in advance to emotionally prepare her for what he said. Claire sensed that one of her housemates, “Lucy”, was having to put up with verbal harassment from a man at her workplace. She had not shared this information with anyone. When she asked Lucy about this, she confirmed that it was true. She would sometimes sense things that were medically wrong with people. When she first got together with one of her boyfriends and touched his arm she immediately sensed that there was something wrong with his kidneys. There was no reason at all for her to know this, but when she asked him about it he confirmed that there was and that he was taking medication for it. On another occasion she had a very specific vision. In this vision she saw her friend “Heather” driving in her car and eating French Fries. She wasn’t paying proper attention to the road and another vehicle suddenly crashed into the side of her car. She decided to tell Heather about the vision and warn her to be careful. Two days later Heather contacted her back and said that while out driving a car had suddenly shot out from a side road. If she hadn’t had her hands on the wheel at the time she would not have been able to swerve out of the way in time. Vision Of The Grey In 1998 Claire moved to a flat in Abington, Oxfordshire. By this time in her life she was no longer religious, but had continued to meditate and explore her psychic abilities. One day she was alone in the house meditating. She was interested in seeing whether she could communicate with any spirits or other intelligences while she was in this state of mind. She opened herself up and in her mind asked “Is there anyone out there who wants to talk with me?” Immediately the vision of a Grey being came into her mind. It was unclothed and had brown-green coloured skin. The being appeared to be aboard a craft. Behind it she could see control panels and a long rectangular window through which stars could be seen. The being responded to her telepathically, saying “We want to talk to you!” Claire was shocked at this vision as she was not thinking about aliens at the time at all, or intending on contacting them specifically. Nor did she know much about ET contact. She was quite disturbed at what had occurred and immediately brought herself back out of meditation. The whole incident felt very strange to her, and she just put it down to her imagination, not considering the idea that some kind of genuine communication may have taken place. Psychic Readings In her late twenties Claire felt that her abilities had grown to a level in which she could start doing psychic readings as a business. She would tell clients what was going to take place or warn them what would happen if they didn’t do specific things. One example of this that she gave me involved her seeing a vision of the deceased father of an American client. When she closed her eyes she saw a man with a hole through one of his hands. She sensed that this man was no longer alive. When she described the man to her client, the client was amazed and confirmed that it must be her father. In the past he had accidentally driven a nail through his hand. The client had not written about this anywhere so there was no way that Claire could have found this out in advance. Claire says that she stopped doing the psychic readings in 2004, a year after her son “Luke” was born. She said that she was feeling a bit burnt out by it, and was getting disheartened by people’s insistence on wanting to hear positive messages from her, even if that was not what she was picking up. Stepfather’s Protection? In December 2003, a few months after Luke was born, Claire’s stepfather passed away. At the time she was living with her husband “Robert” in a detached house at a small remote village on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. The following night she had a strange vivid dream which seemed completely unrelated. In this dream she saw Robert standing up and looking down at her through a window. She remembered it when she woke but had no idea what it meant. Luke was a very hungry baby, and would not stay asleep for long before wanting a feed. The following night after the dream Claire was sitting in the kitchen with a baby monitor around 1am waiting for Luke to wake back up. Robert was upstairs sleeping in the bedroom opposite Luke’s room. Suddenly the monitor came alive with the sound of white noise static. Over the top of this she could hear her son. He seemed to be awake and it was as if he was reacting to something in the room. She then heard a voice clearly say “Alright little boy”. The voice sounded odd, more high pitched than a normal human voice would sound. However it also had a loving protective sound to it. Example photo of a baby monitor from the 2000s Claire did not feel frightened by the voice, it was almost comforting. She walked upstairs and pushed open the door to her son’s room. She immediately noticed many small orbs of glittering light in the air over the cot. The orbs were white with a slight orange tinge to them. They were drifting slowly around in no apparent pattern. Even though they were unusual and in the vicinity of her son Claire did not feel in any way threatened by them. She left the room and went into the bedroom to draw Robert’s attention to what was taking place. She woke him and told him about the strange voice she had heard, and the orbs of light in Luke’s room. Robert suggested that maybe it was his father who had come to visit him. Like Claire, he did not appear frightened by what he was told, and did not get out of bed to see the orbs for himself. A couple of days later Claire and Robert had to drive Luke to Liskard to get his three month injection. Due to the time of year it was snowy conditions, and because of the remoteness of the village where they lived the roads had not been gritted. Claire was driving at the time, with Robert in the passenger seat and Luke in the back. On the way across the moor the 4x4 jeep they were in skidded on ice. Claire was unable to maintain control of the vehicle and it crashed off the side of the road, ending up on its side in a ditch. As the vehicle was lying driver side down, Claire was trapped in her seat. However Robert was able to clamber up out of the passenger side window. Once he had climbed through it he looked back down at Claire still in her seat. When Claire looked up at him she immediately realised that this is what she had seen in the dream a few nights before! She had seemingly experienced a premonition of the crash. Fortunately nobody was hurt in the accident. Claire has always linked what happened with the baby monitor and the orbs with the crash due to their proximity. She feels that Robert’s father had visited Luke and that soon afterwards had protected them all from harm. This is an interesting series of varied events. The static and voice that Claire heard over the baby monitor is very intriguing. She informed me that due to the remoteness of their location there were very few vehicles on the road or things which could have caused any form of interference. She did not hear static from the monitor on any other occasions. She confirmed that the voice was very clear, and does not put it down to just hearing things in random noise. Claire confirmed that there was no external lights outside the window of her son’s room which could have accounted for the glowing orbs seen in the room that night. She did not see them on any other occasion, and the curtains of the room were closed at the time so they could not have been caused by dust particles or insects being caught in moonlight. Obviously we have to take Claire’s word on this as there are no photographs of the room at the time of the incident. Whether you believe the resulting lack of injuries in the car crash was anything to do with what had previously occurred or not is going to be down to interpretation. The two incidents did occur in quick succession of one another, however there is nothing really linking them in any other way. It could have just been down to luck that nobody was hurt in the accident as opposed to any form of protection from the other side. Night of Activity By 2021 Claire lived in a house in Somerset with her new fiancée “Justin”. They also owned a house in Bristol which they were in the process of selling. On 21st April her father suffered from a stroke and was rushed to Cardiff hospital. Claire got a phone call from them telling her that she needed to get to the hospital to say her goodbyes as soon as possible. She set off on the drive, already knowing that she would not make it in time. Sure enough by the time she arrived her father had sadly passed away. That evening upon leaving the hospital Claire realised that she had forgotten the keys to her own home, she only had the keys for the house in Bristol, which had not yet been sold. As Justin was not home until 11.30pm from work, and she had no way of letting herself in, she decided to wait at the house in Bristol until 11pm, with the intention of then driving home. It was around 9.30pm. Claire was relaxing in the front bedroom of the house on the bed with a takeaway. The house is Victorian and three storeys high. The council houses on the opposite side of the road are lower down, providing a clear view of the sky. The room she was in has large windows which look out over the local area. Suddenly through the window Claire happened to notice something in the sky. The sun had set but the weather conditions were clear and the stars were visible. She saw what appeared to be a bell-shaped object. It was at low altitude and appeared to be skimming the rooftops of the neighbouring houses within 200 feet from her position. The object was dark in colour, perhaps muddy brown or dark grey. It did not appear to be glowing but she could see it reflecting lights from the ground. Confused by the object, Claire got up off the bed and walked to the window to get a better look at it. At this point she realised the object really was unusual and that it was moving in her direction, approaching from the North East East. She decided she wanted to try and capture it on her smartphone camera. The phone was across the room charging by the bed. She quickly ran over and grabbed it. When she returned to the window the object was still visible. However the window of the room was not open at this point. She didn’t want reflection in the window to interfere with the footage so she tried to open it. Unfortunately the window was stiff and could not be opened easily. As she battled to get it open she watched as the object continued to get closer. By the time she had got the window open the object was about to pass right over the house. Not having enough time to start recording, she leaned out and caught a glimpse of it for just a moment before it was lost from sight. Claire says that looking up at the object from underneath it looked more triangular in shape. The object appeared to be about 15 feet across. In the base of it she could see a grill-like pattern covering its surface. There were also six red lights, a line of three along each side. The object appeared to be making a pneumatic sound, similar to the sound of a battery-operated milk float. She was so frustrated that she had not managed to capture it on film. She may of thought of running to the back of the house to capture it flying away, but she was distracted from this by the presence of other unusual objects in the sky. She saw a number of flashing white lights. As she watched some of these lights appeared to break up into clusters of lights and form patterns or arranged formations. She switched off the bedroom light so as not to draw attention to her presence. She then managed to capture some of this activity on camera. About ten minutes later another triangular object appeared in the distance. This time it looked triangular from the off. It was moving very slowly, less than 30 mph. Once again it was moving towards the house on a straight course. Now she was ready for it with the camera, and managed to record it as it approached and once again flew over the roof. As the object was no longer in sight, Claire quickly ran to the back room of the house. The window sill in this room had some cuddly animals sitting on it. She knocked them off onto the floor so she could lean on the sill and continue to film the object as it moved away. From the rear Claire says that it looked more like a military aircraft rather than anything unusual. By this time her phone was down to 8% battery life, so she charged it for a while as she continued to watch other lights in the sky from the front window. About half an hour later another triangular shaped object was again sighted! This one was on a slightly different course to before, and ended up flying over the house a few doors down the road from her. Claire continued to watch things take place in the sky. At 11.30pm she called Justin knowing he would now be home from work. She explained what was going on. As she was on the phone she saw a bright white flaring light in the sky to the North East East, around where the first bell-shaped object had been spotted. This glow died down and from it emerged a military aircraft. It appeared to Claire that it had just materialized out of thin air! They continued to talk for about half an hour. Claire continued to film on and off during this conversation. After ending the call around midnight activity had largely seemed to have calmed down in the sky, so Claire decided to look and see what she had managed to capture on film. She was confused to find that many of the films she had taken had now apparently vanished from her phone, including the ones she had taken of the approaching triangular objects. Some of the less impressive, more distant videos remained, and a number of screenshots, but the close footage had disappeared! Even more bizarrely, the timeline of some of the images and videos appeared to be out of sync on her phone, and she was convinced that some of the footage had been artificially lengthened. Discouraged by the disappearance of the footage Claire decided to stop watching the sky at this point. However she did copy the recordings she had managed to capture onto her Macbook. She then started to analyse them and alter their frequency to see if she could pick anything up. As she listened intently she believes that she began to hear other voices on the recordings. She had not had the TV or radio on while filming, and felt sure that the voices were not coming from outside. Sometimes it was very muffled but at other times it sounded like at least two distinct voices coming from within the room. Unfortunately she did not save these altered frequency recordings as separate files and when she attempted to do the same thing again later on no other voices could be heard. Claire wonders if she was actually hearing the voices live at the time rather than them being on the recording. Eventually at around 6.30am Claire finally got some sleep, after having stayed up most of the night concerned by what had taken place. The following day when she watched one of the pieces of video that had remained on her phone, she was disturbed to see what appeared to be someone else’s arm in the footage. It reached in and opened the window. The sleeve on the arm was pink or beige coloured. However Claire says that she was wearing a dark grey top that night. Also she says that the arm was fatter than her own and the knuckles on the hand looked different. She also noticed what appeared to be Grey beings caught in the reflection of the glass standing behind her in the room, although she had seen nothing at the time. When she rang Justin again in the morning she asked him whether he had experienced anything unusual. He informed her that just before she had called on the previous night he had heard what sounded like someone walking around in the garage. Over the following weeks Claire and Justin experienced further paranormal activity at their home in Somerset, including locked windows and doors inexplicably opening by themselves. Two weeks after the incident they finally sold the house in Bristol, so had to officially move out. When Claire entered the back room where she had done some of the filming she was shocked to see that the cuddly animals were sitting back on the window sill. She was convinced that she had not picked them back up following the incident but had left them scattered on the floor. She then noticed a piece of carpet grip nailed to the window sill, which again she was certain had not been there before. In addition to the cuddly animals, on one of the shelves in the room there was a plastic model of Snoopy the dog. Claire noticed that there was a piece of paper jutting out from under it. She picked this paper up and found that it was a vintage article from an issue of The Strand magazine. Years before she had purchased many issues of the magazine from a car boot sale with the intentions of selling valuable articles to collectors. She had begun cutting out articles of interesting subjects. However she never got round to attempting to sell them, and in the end got rid of them due to other commitments. Yet bizarrely one of these articles was now under the model! It wasn’t even of something well known or interesting, something that she would have obviously kept to sell. The article was about Queen Maud, the Queen of Norway until her death in 1938. Intrigued, Claire decided to search online to see what she could find out about her. When she did a Google search for her she found out that there was an area of Antarctica named after her, Queen Maud Land, and that, according to some sources, there was supposedly a secret Nazi base established there in the war at which Hitler was attempting to create saucer-shaped craft. Here is an example article describing this secret base: https://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/antarctic-mysteries-hitlers-secret-base.php Claire was concerned by this apparent link between the article and the UFO subject. She wonders if it was left there on purpose as some kind of warning that she was being watched. Dropped Onto The Bed In May 2021 Claire visited Cardiff for her father’s funeral. For her visit she stayed at a very fancy hotel. The bed in her room had a thick and sturdy mattress. During the night she suddenly awoke with the feeling of being put back onto the bed with force. When this happened she was convinced that the bed had also physically shook, and she also found that she had bitten her lip. When she checked the bed she found that the weighty mattress had seemingly moved. She took this as yet another sign that something had actually taken place. She says that it was too heavy to have been shifted by herself moving around in the night. She managed to take photos of the mattress as evidence of what had happened. Safari Shots On 20th April 2023 Claire and her son “Robert” visited Longleat Wildlife Park. It was a pleasant sunny day, and was also quite quiet with not a huge amount of visitors. Early in the afternoon Claire drove around the safari section of the park in her Kia Pincato, with Robert in the passenger seat. They both took numerous photographs, Claire on her Nikon DLSR camera, and Robert on his IIIF150 B1 Pro smartphone. At the time neither of them noticed anything unusual. However when they checked the photographs later on, there were a number of anomalous objects present on some of the images. In a photograph of some antelopes Claire took at 2.28pm through the driver side window, she noticed a small dark coloured object. Below is the photograph with the object ringed: Zoomed view of the object: On the next photograph in sequence the object was no longer visible: On one of Robert’s photos of the same animals, taken within seconds of Claire’s photograph, several objects are visible: Zoomed view of the objects: Again, just like Claire’s photo, the next one in sequence that her son took several seconds later no longer contains the objects: At 2.45pm they were driving through the deer paddock when Claire took some consecutive photographs of an approaching deer through the front windscreen. When she checked these photographs she again found some anomalies. This first photograph in the sequence shows a black object to the right of the deer’s head: Zoomed view of the object: A few seconds later this later shot of the same deer was taken. This time the anomalous object appears to the left of the image: Zoomed view of the object: It is important to note that Claire made no claims that these photographs definitely showed craft, she merely sent them because she was intrigued by what they might show. I have no reason at all to doubt that these are all genuine images. Claire gratefully sent me the original photographs off her camera including the raw image files, which cannot be manipulated by image editing software. However I also believe that some of the images are of birds caught in flight, whereas others show insects flying past the lens of the camera. It is extremely likely that the first two photographs taken by Claire and Robert show birds. Sometimes when birds are captured swooping with their wings directly at their sides, they can resemble a blurred disc or domed-disc shaped craft, exactly like what is seen in these photos. Here is another famous example of a “UFO” taken in Cornwall. This is actually a seagull in mid-flight: The thinner right side of the object in the first photo and objects at the right of the second photo is the bird’s tail, which is narrower than the rest of the body. The third object seen between the two antelope in the second picture is also probably a bird just caught at a different angle. However another possibility is that this was an insect crossing past the camera at the moment of it being taken. Unfortunately it is impossible to determine precise distance from photographs, and therefore size of objects captured. The jet black elongated object in the third photograph is extremely likely to be an insect flying past the lens. I have analysed numerous photographs like this before. Because insects can fly past the camera in a split second the detailed shape is sometimes not visible, and gets stretched out in the direction of travel. It’s hard to make out exactly what the object in the fourth photo could be, but again it is likely to be either a bird or insect. It is too blurred to say for certain. This is very likely why neither Claire nor Robert noticed anything at the time of taking the photographs, and also why the objects seem to only be present for a few seconds before vanishing. I am quite confident that these photographs do not show craft of any kind, but am grateful that Claire has provided them for analysis all the same. Conclusions Claire has had some fascinating and varied experiences. While some of these experiences may well have aspects which can be explained in mundane terms, others are more interesting and could be linked with contact. The visitations of the short beings in her childhood are very interesting due to their repeated nature. While the beings encountered were not one of the usual types seen, this does not mean that the incidents did not take place. Both psychic abilities and paranormal activity have clear links with the contact phenomenon, and, as you have read, Claire has had many experiences of this nature. The bizarre night involving unusual objects seen in the sky and other anomalous aspects certainly affected Claire deeply. While I find it highly unlikely that her mobile phone has been hacked by one or more unknown parties in order to cover up some of what was observed, and other aspects can be put down to false memory or pareidolia, it still appears that she may have observed some genuine unidentified craft. It’s just a shame that we do not have any significant video footage to back up her testimony. I would like to thank Claire for bravely coming forward with this information. She knows how bizarre some of it sounds and is aware that some people who read this report may be sceptical of her claims, but in speaking with her I have no doubt that she is describing actual events which have taken place. If she keeps in touch going forward, further incidents may be added in due course. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026