Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2009 Last Updated: 13/09/2024 Introduction This report covers a life time of experiences of a man and his family who live in Bletchley close to Milton Keynes. The family members are Simon, Debbie, their three sons Rob, Mark and Tim, and pet dog Butch (names changed for privacy reasons). The investigation into their experiences began with a series of incredible events which took place on the evening of 30th December 2008, where a large amount of UFO activity was witnessed. However as the investigation progressed, it became clear that this incident was just one of many that Simon has experienced since a very young age. This incident in particular appears to have been a trigger for Simon, as since this there have been many other unusual happenings in his life, and with these the gradual realization that both he, and possibly his sons, are ongoing extraterrestrial contactees. When I first released this report, I primarily concentrated on the 30th December incident, with the other incidents mentioned later. However it is now my belief that at least some of the other incidents are of equal importance, so I have re-arranged it to discuss them in order of when they occured. The Investigation Towards the start of 2009, Simon left a message on the BUFOG hotline. Even from this initial message I could hear the sense of distress in his voice. After contacting him I arranged to travel to Bletchley on the evening of 5th January. I met up with Simon and his family at their house. We spent several hours discussing what had taken place on December 30th in great detail. Simon showed me numerous drawings of what he had witnessed (these can be seen at various points throughout this report). During our discussion I could see that Simon was clearly very traumatised by what had taken place, and was even brought to tears numerous times as he recounted it. Also their pet dog Butch was acting in an unusual manner. The events of December 30th had clearly got both Simon and the dog highly agitated. Simon showed me a marking on his leg which he believed had occured at some point during the evening. As well as Simon I talked to Debbie and the children. Debbie had stayed in the house throughout the incident. She had not witnessed anything personally but could verify when various events had taken place. The children informed me about what they had witnessed throughout the evening. After our discussion at 11pm, I, Simon and Butch then walked out to the field where their initial sighting had taken place. It was extremely cold and snow covered the ground, but was quite a still clear night. I used the video camera but sadly it was so dark that not much could be seen, even on night vision. We walked the same path that Simon had taken on the evening of December 30th and as we did he talked me through what he had witnessed. Once we reached the field we walked up to an area where Simon believes some of the objects he saw had been situated, and where markings on the ground could be seen. After examining the area (My findings are discussed later in this report) we then returned to his house and from there I headed home. I returned to Bletchley on 10th January to continue my investigation into the case. It was clear that Simon was a lot more calm and relaxed, and a lot of his initial anxiety had gone. He informed me that the dog was still acting in an unusual manner, seeking attention far more than it used to do. I and the witness first walked back out to visit the various sighting locations in daylight. Once again I took the video camera and managed to get some much better footage. While out we also bumped into a farm hand and discussed aspects of the sighting with him. Returning to Simon’s home I then interviewed him about his many previous UFO related encounters. These occurred even when he was just a baby and are very interesting indeed. He also showed me a second unidentified mark on his body which he had for a number of years. After our second meeting, I contacted the local water company regarding the ground markings. I have also had samples of soil and stones from the area professionally analyzed. The results of this analysis are discussed later in this report. In March I managed to get hold of the owner and farmer of the land, and interview him about the markings. Initially he was mystified by my description of the site. I returned to the sighting location in May to do more analysis work on the ground markings. Soon afterwards I sent the land owner some photographs of how the site now looked. He wrote back giving an acceptable terrestrial explanation for the markings. Eventually on 1st August 2009 I took Simon down to London for a hypnotic regression, which was performed by David Howard. This regression brought forward further information about a number of Simon's experiences, and confirmed to both myself and him that he was indeed a contactee and had been for most of his life. The full transcript of the regression can be read later in this report. Early Memories The first incident that Simon can remember which has an extraterrestrial connection took place when he was less than 1 year old and in his pushchair. He was in the communal garden of the block of flats where he lived. He can clearly remember there being some sort of commotion and the adults around him all pointing up at the sky and looking at something. Needless to say, he does not remember any other details about this incident. The Orb Of Light In 1975/76 when Simon was either 1 or 2 years old, he used to live at a house in Essington Court. He remembers seeing a globe of glowing swirling colours hovering in the air next to the cot. It was mostly blue and green in colour but also perhaps red. Looking back at the incident he feels like it was trying to calm him, but at the time it had the opposite effect and he started crying out really loudly. This phenomenon has been reported by numerous repeat contactees, and is a possible method of early observation or communication. Simon did not remember anything more about this incident until going for the regression. Under hypnosis he described seeing a female humanoid watching over him (See regression transcript). He now believes that she was guiding him through the early years of his life, but that at some point he stopped seeing her. Orb Of Light Regression Transcript I arranged for hypnotherapist David Howard to regress Simon on Saturday 1st August 2009. David has performed numerous regressions on experiencers before. He is well versed in what questions to ask them and how to help them deal with their experiences. During the regression David asked Simon about several key incidents, one of which was the earliest incident he could remember with the orb of glowing light. Below is the section of the regression trasncript relating to it: S: There’s a woman. D: Yeah. What’s her name? S: I don’t know. D: That’s alright. S: She’s got long...long clothes. D: I saw her with others when I was a baby. S: That was....like the orb, their colours. D: Hmmm. S: White hair. Blue...purple... D: Is she human? S: Yeah. D: Is she still around? S: It’s when I was a baby. D: Do you know what her job was, do you know what she was doing while she was there? Did she speak to you? S: Yeah. D: What’s she say? S: Calm. D: Yeah. S: She didn’t “speak” speak. D: Well that’s alright, well communicate. ‘Cause we had the other thing which I asked you before which we could possibly find out now, is what was it about you that they chose you to do the work with? ‘Cause they only select certain people, obviously. What was it particular that you could help them with? S: My personality. S: She’s (unaudible) D: Yeah. Is she connected with them or is she from a different lot? S: Think she’s with them. D: Yes. So are they actually working with humans? S: No. D: But they have people that look like humans with them as well? S: Don’t think they are. Galley Hill UFO Sighting It was 1987/88 and Simon was either 13 or 14 years old. After school on week days about 5pm he would head out on a two hour paper round in the area of Galley Hill. One clear evening when he stepped outside his house to begin his paper round, he saw what looked like a very bright white light quite a distance away from him in the sky. It was dusk but the stars were not yet visible, and he was convinced that it was not the planet Venus or another bright star. Towards the end of his round, the light was still visible in the sky. He stood there watching it for a number of minutes but it was completely stationary. He looked away for a moment, and when he looked back it had vanished. To this day he believes that he witnessed something out of the ordinary. Fishermead UFO Sighting One early morning in November 1994, Simon had to walk to the local garage to do some shopping. He estimates it was around 6am. On his walk to the garage along St Gurnards Avenue, he doesn’t know why but he felt compelled to look behind him and into the sky. When he did so he once again saw a bright white light like a star, but the morning light had come up and the stars were no longer visible. He looked at it for about 5 minutes but it didn’t move. He continued to the garage, and when he came back out the light had disappeared. Initial Bletchley UFO Sighting In the summer of 1999, Simon now lived at his present address in Bletchley. It was about 10pm and a very clear evening with the stars fully visible. Simon was out in his back garden with his friend Derek and their family after enjoying a BBQ. His friend’s family headed indoors, but Simon remained with Derek outside to look for satellites in the night sky, as Derek had never seen one before. From a westerly direction heading towards them they saw a white glowing light moving slowly and too bright to be a satellite (Simon knew very well what these looked like). It was quicker than a plane, but too slow to be a meteorite. As it got to almost overhead it started to get dimmer until it had vanished completely. Then above their heads they saw a white point of light flash to the south, then the same thing happened to the west and once again to the north. Simon described the lights as looking like “stars switching on and then back off”. At a later date Simon asked Derek about the incident, but his friend remembers seeing something completely different. He describes seeing “dancing lights” that appeared in the sky to the south. Stranger still, recently Simon’s youngest son Tim talked to Simon about the incident. He said he remembered being there in the garden with Simon and Derek and seeing the moving lights in the sky too. But this is impossible as back in 1999 Tim wasn’t even born. Simon is certain that he has never mentioned the incident to Tim or in his presence, so how could he possibly know about it or think he was there? This puzzles Simon and currently he has no rational explanation for it. Golden Light Anomaly This incident may have a ghostly rather than an extraterrestrial explanation, but considering all of Simon's other experiences it is probable that it is linked to his ongoing contact. Back in 2001 Simon used to work at a power station in London. He would have to wake up very early in the morning to set off for work. On a morning in December, it was around 4am and he was in the kitchen getting breakfast. He looked into the lounge and noticed a golden coloured circular reflection of light on the floor. Simon describes it as a circle with a notch cut out of it. He thought at first it was a reflection off one of the Christmas tree baubles. But then the light started to move! Simon entered the lounge and for a number of minutes followed the light as it moved slowly around the floor. He looked for a possible source of it but there was none. The curtains were drawn and there was nothing moving in the room which could have accounted for it. After around 5 minutes the light suddenly vanished. Simon describes the light he saw as the kind of reflection that would be given off by a round gold pocket watch. A previous owners of the house who died there apparently used to have a watch of this type. Perhaps it was a ghostly apparition of some kind. But could the incident once again have an extraterrestrial connection? Red Rectangular UFO Sighting On an evening in summer 2002, Simon was alone and out in the back garden of his house. It was a clear warm weather and the sun was just starting to set. However looking to the east he saw what looked like a red glowing rectangle hovering in the sky in the distance. He believes it was over Brickhill Woods and was massive in size. It was clearly glowing but gave off no surrounding aura of red light. It was completely stationary. Puzzled by the object, he stood and watched it for around 8 minutes. He then decided to run upstairs to get a better view of it out of the bedroom window. It remained still for a further two minutes, then suddenly started to shrink in size, perhaps because it was moving away from him, he could not tell for certain. It continued to get smaller until it was no longer visible. The object looked like nothing he had ever seen before or since. He tried to put it down initially to sunlight reflection off something, but soon realised this was not a sufficient explanation. After witnessing the object he tried to call his friend who lived close to Brickhill to see if they could see it but they did not answer the phone. To Simon’s knowledge, nobody else has reported seeing the object. Supernatural Touches It was about 9pm on a warm summers evening in 2004. Simon had spent the day putting up a fence in the back garden. He sat down opposite his wife at the garden table. They were both enjoying a glass of wine when suddenly Debbie felt a force of some kind move past her to her left. She instinctively looked towards it. A second later, Simon felt a very definite push on his right shoulder, as if an invisible person had patted him. Rather than feel scared, both him and Debbie suddenly felt extremely joyful and at peace, and they both simultaneously burst into tears. Simon explains that he felt elated by the experience, and neither witness can even start to explain what may have happened. At the time they put it down to a ghost haunting their property. After Simon's recent experiences and discoveries, he now believes he was touched by one of the beings watching over him. Tourquay UFO Incident Simon is a kids football coach. In summer 2008 he had taken his team to a tournament taking place in Tourquay. They were staying at some chalets on the coast, overlooking the bay. It was arond midnight and Simon was sitting in his van having a cigarette. It was a very still and clear night. He looked out to sea in to the North East and saw what looked like 9 small yellow-white glowing orbs of light out over the water of the bay. He estimates they were around 300 foot high in the air. The lights were twisting and looping around each other, moving very erratically. He watched the lights for at least 20 minutes, wondering what they could be. He called several of the boy out, including his son Mark, to also see the lights. They watched for around 10 minutes before returning to bed. The following day Simon felt different and very emotional. At the time he had no explanation for this. However since going for the regression, we have now found out that Simon was abducted later in the night from his room (See regression transcript). This was the reason behind his unusual feelings the following day. As you will see in the regression details, he cannot fully remember the abduction, jsut the beginning of it. It is possible that one of the UFOs Simon and the boys had seen abducted him. Maybe theyt were in the area directly because of him. Or perhaps it was just coincidental but because he was nearby they decided to take him. Tourquay Incident Regression Transcript D: Do you want to go to any other point in the past? Do you want to try and remember anything from before this year or last year? S: Yeah...I wanna know...Torquay. D: Yeah I remember you mentioning Torquay. S: I was...different after. D: Mhmm. S: The next day I was different, was...I was...emotional, it was...it was different. D: So... S: I sat in the van. I watched ‘em...there were...seven, eight...nine. D: Hmmm. S: Nine. There’s nine lights. D: And the next question of course is how long were you watching them for? S: It was twenty minutes. D: Yeah. Are there any gaps in your memory from that experience? S: When I go to bed. D: Yeah. S: They took me. D: Yeah. S: Oh. It’s now it’s the upside-down tornado. D: Ahh yes. S: Blue...blue craft. Saucer. Upside-down tornado in the centre. D: Yeah. Is that their propulsion. S: No, it’s how they took me. D: Ah, they lifted you up yeah? S: It’s through...through the walls. D: Yeah. It’s quite normal that, they seem to be able to do that, our physical barriers...they... S: I’m falling up. D: Yeah, they make a little gap in our gravity. S: It’s weird, it’s...elevating, your belly’s on the floor. D: Mmmm. That was a good experience by the look of it, it was fun yeah? What did they do when you were on the craft. S: Nothing. D: What could you see? What was it like inside? S: No. D: Who was there? S: No. As you can see from Simon's recollection, it appears that after seeing the lights over the bay he was abducted from his hotel room. He was able to remember being lifted up into a glowing blue saucer-shaped craft. Unfortunately he was unable to recall anything that took place once he was aboard. Bletchley Field Incident This important incident appears to have been a trigger for Simon to start piecing together what has taken place throughout his life. Whether by accident or on purpose he is now starting to realise that he is, and always has been, a contactee with extraterrestrial beings. Using the various testimonies of the family members and the revelations of the hypnotic regression, it is possible to build a clear picture of what took place. It was approximately 8.00pm on the evening of 30th December 2008. Simon decided he would take Butch for a walk. It was very cold, and Simon had a chest infection, one which had recurred for a number of years. However he could still manage a short walk and did not want to let Butch down. He left the house and headed off on the usual route he would take. It was a very peaceful evening, with moderate cloud cover. Soon he reached the “Red Way” a long pathway that heads right across the Milton Keynes area. He continued along this through Chepstow Park. As he walked he suddenly heard a voice in his head say the words “As fit as you were when you were fifteen” as if in answer to an unknown question. He continued walking until a fork in the path. During the winter time he would always head to the right, leaving the longer walk to the left for a warmer time of year. But for an unknown reason he felt compelled to take the path to the left through the trees, even though it was extremely dark. The path lead he took heads around the edge of a small lake. It is while he was walking past this that he believes he first noticed an orange light in the distance up ahead. It was low down below tree level. At this point he did not pay too much attention of it. He continued to walk, and noticed that Butch was acting strangely. Usually Butch would sniff around and go exploring but this evening he was glued to Simon’s side, and remained close to him. He seemed unusually relaxed. After the lake again Simon had the option to take a different route back but he felt like something was driving him to go on. He continued past an allotment area. For some reason this part of his journey seemed to take ages even though it really must have only taken several minutes. It was extremely dark and also fog was starting to appear. At the end of the allotment he reached the edge of a farmer’s field. It was now that he noticed moving lights coming from somewhere in the adjoining field. He was interested to know what the lights were so continued walking along the edge of the field. At first he thought it must be lampers looking for rabbits but soon realised it couldn’t possibly be that. Simon finds it extremely difficult to precisely describe what he could see as it was like nothing he had ever seen before. He could see what looked like a number of white lights with red and blue tinges in. These lights were spinning around each other and boomeranging left and right. He describes them as shimmering like liquid/electricity. He was very interested in what was going on so continued to walk along the edge of the field towards where he assumed the lights were coming from. Half way down the field he suddenly felt a very strong sensation of being watched. Both himself and the dog became very frightened indeed and froze on the spot. He turned around and ran as fast as he could back to the hedge at the end of the field. Here he felt more at ease so turned back round to watch what was going on. The lights he could see were not actually at ground level. He knew this because the far field where they were coming from is at a lower level than the field he was standing in. This means that they must have been up in the air, perhaps above an object out of sight at ground level. Suddenly he saw what looked like a white bar of light with a red light at either end dart out from the trees to the left of the field. It moved extremely fast in an erratic motion out over the field and then darted back to where it had come from. Simon also noticed the orange orb of light, this time much more clearly. It was to the left and appeared to be in amongst the trees, about a quarter of the way down. In the background beyond the field is a road. As with most evenings, it was quite desolate. However whenever a car did pass along it Simon could make out the headlights moving along behind the far hedgerow. Whenever a car appeared the orange orb seemed to react. It moved up into the sky erratically, then moved across to the right (he could not tell if it was over the road or closer), back to the left, and then returned to its original stationary position amongst the tree line. It was almost as if it was toying with or observing the passing cars. Simon and Butch stood there for what seemed like ages watching the fascinating display of lights taking place in front of their eyes. However they must really have only been there for a maximum of ten minutes. By this time the fog was starting to get thicker around the field but Simon could still clearly make out the lights through it. Suddenly Simon felt a very strong urge to return home and get his family to come and see for themselves. He ran all the way back home, which is extremely unusual as for the previous couple of months he had suffered with a dreadful chest infection and was finding it hard to breathe, let alone run any distance. But within a few minutes he was home and barely even felt out of breath. He had been gone for roughly half an hour. His wife and sons could clearly see he was very agitated and wanted to head back out extremely fast. All three sons decided to go along with him but Debbie did not wish to. He also left the dog at home. This time Simon decided to drive out to the field using his van to get back there as soon as possible. He drove out to Chepstow, and arrived at a farmer’s barn, which is situated on the nearest road to the field – Whaddon Road. Both him and his sons got out of the van to survey the area However by this time the activity in the field had mostly died down. Simon thinks that he saw a few quick sparks of light coming from where the area where the main display of lights had been. Looking around the area, the witnesses saw several other unidentified objects. The descriptions of what they personally remember seeing vary a bit (This is quite normal and makes it more likely to be a genuine event, not less). To their right on the opposite side of the road lie more fields. Quite far away but low down they could see a red light. At first it appeared stationary and they assumed it was coming from a farm house or farm machinery of some kind. But then it started to move in a straight path in a southerly direction. Rob reported seeing the red light suddenly separate into two. The two lights moved apart from each other then shot up and together diagonally before moving back down and forming one light again. He saw this occur twice, once before seeing the object with the beam of light, and again afterwards. Simon and the other boys did not witness this, probably due to the fact they were looking in a different direction at those particular moments. They also noticed an unidentified orange light in the sky on the horizon which was once again moving to the south. Looking to the south in the direction of Newton Longville they then witnessed something else very unusual. It appeared as a search light revolving around a large object of some kind in the sky. Simon, Rob and Mark all report seeing this object but they each interpreted it in a different way. Simon saw what looked like a bell-shaped object with a light that passed around it in a clockwise direction. It was only visible due to the light hitting it, it appeared and then vanished again against the dark sky. After it was gone it briefly left behind a strange pattern of light before fading. This pattern was a deep orange colour and looked like a circle with short lines inside, and another circle in the centre. Simon saw the same thing happen two more times, but each time the object was further across in the sky so he assumed it must have been moving. The eldest son Rob described seeing the same object but he only saw it the first time. Also he said that the light went first clockwise around it, then back round anticlockwise, and this was followed by a flash of light. Mark described seeing what looked like “a motorbike helmet with the light coming from where the visor would have been”. Mark also mentioned that he saw what looked like a pair of thin pale blue legs in the bushes close to where they were. The legs were bowed, with the knees bent and standing completely still. He looked away and when he looked back they were gone. Several minutes later he saw the legs again further along the hedge once again standing still. After a short time Simon decided to drive to Seldom Farm to get a different view of the situation. However as they approached the farm it was very dark and spooky, and the kids started to get frightened so he drove back to the barn. When they got there they couldn’t see much as the fog was quite thick so they drove back home. Once home Simon felt compelled to head out yet again to the field. He decided to walk, and both Mark and Tim went along too. Rob decided to stay back home to watch TV with Debbie. They reached the base of the field. It was quite foggy and the lights were no longer visible. Tim soon became cold and wanted to return home. They walked back to the house to drop him off. Tim went up to bed, and then Simon and Mark ventured back out while Debbie and Rob sat down to watch TV. It is here that the situation takes an even stranger turn. When I interviewed Simon and Mark on January 5th, they were both very insistent on what they believed happened when they left the house. To their memory, they got back in the van and drove back out to the barn. It was very thick fog by this time and there were no unexplained lights visible any more. They waited there for several minutes before returning home. However both Debbie and Rob were certain that they did not take the van, but instead walked with the dog. They had also been gone for two whole hours. This can be verified as they had been watching a 90 minute film and were half way through watching an hour long program afterwards. When Simon thought back to the evening, he kept getting an image in his head of a round space or room bathed in orange glowing light. There seemed to be no source for this light to emanate from, it was all around him. He saw himself lying on one side and his dog on the other side, but nobody else was present. At the time he was unsure of what this image meant and how it fitted into what was experienced. When I took Simon for the regression, he still remembered being in the van with Mark. However when they got out to the barn, he recounted how they were then both taken aboard a huge craft (See regression transcript). The image of the orange glowing round room was where he had been on the craft, although instead of Butch, Mark was present. This affected him greatly due to him wishing to protect his son from harm, and he began to cry under hypnosis at this point. In the days after the incident Simon felt compelled to return to the field, and did so on a daily basis, standing there for long periods of time and thinking about what happened. He looked into UFOs in great depth on the internet, and felt extremely paranoid, staring out of the window at the sky for long periods of time. He would also make sure to switch all the lights off in the house at night, which Debbie confirms was highly unusual as usually at least some lights would be left on. The dog also exhibited signs of being highly agitated, it was not eating much and appeared more docile than usual. Field Incident Regression Transcript D: If you take your mind back to being in the field, and you saw the orbs, just take it from a point where....there was a little bit more happening than you realised, so bring in every possible image. If you want to you can do it as a TV programme, if you want to put up a big screen in front of you now, and see those big orbs in the trees. So you can be sat in that chair now as an audience, see those orbs in the trees. You’re there with your son, on your final journey there, and you’re back in the fog. S: We’re in the van. D: Yep. Ok. You go. S: It’s just so foggy. D: Yeah. S: I’ve got out. D: Yep. S: I’ve got out to see if I can see closer. D: Mhmm. Is there anything in the fog? S: There’s a noise (Makes humming sound) D: Have you heard that noise before? S: Yeah. D: Now what do you say? That it’s a natural weather fog or that it’s something that has been created? S: It’s created. D: Yeah. Now...you heard the noise, did you look around to see where the noise was coming from? S: Above. D: Yep. And then what happened? S: Yeah. D: Was there anyone else...did you feel any other presence? S: Big. D: Yep. Now, did you actually feel any movement of, you know, of yourself? Did you start to... S: Go on a craft. D: Yep. S: They’re all bigger, there’s lots there. All around us. I’m scared. D: Yeah, as you said before, there is fear. What are you scared of? S: It’s new. D: Yeah. So this is where I come in, to just remind you that everything that happened then, you came back safely didn’t you? So the most important thing is that the fear you had then you didn’t know what was going to happen did you? But the good news is that you’re back here, you came down to London, you’re all in one piece, and they fixed your chest, so they’re friends aren’t they? As far as we know. So this is the first time then, if it’s new? S: No. D: Ok. S: First time I’m allowed to remember. D: Ok. So what do you remember from here? S: All behind him. D: Hmmm. S: Try and calm him. D: Hmmm. S: Orange. It’s everything, the floor...is orange, walls...glowing. There’s stages...levels. D: Devils? S: Levels. D: Levels, sorry. Yep. S: On this craft. D: Yep. S: And we’re in the centre, it’s in the middle. D:Yeah. S: Mikey’s there. D: Are you calming down yet? S: (Nods) D: Good. What happened next? S: No. D: Who was around there? S: Can’t. D: Ok, you’ve got a nice visual of it anyway, with the colour, the levels. What were the walls like? S: Glowing. D: Glowing walls. But was there any machinery or objects, or anything else around? S: Craft. D: Yep. Well it was obviously familiar because it wasn’t the first time. Now what makes you, what’s their reason do you think, that they decided you could remember this one? S: I don’t know...I don’t know. Ground Markings Site Simon headed back out to the field the following day, which is when he first discovered an unusual area of disrupted soil. He believes the area is precisely where he saw the white flowing lights and orange orb. Simon searched the surrounding area thoroughly for any signs of an explanation for what he saw – electric cables, used flares, fireworks. However he found nothing that would have accounted for what was observed. There is a reflective scarecrow in the middle of the field, however this is in a completely different position to where the lights were and of course could not have possibly created the twisting and spinning movements that were witnessed. An adequate explanation for this site has now been given by the land owner, however for a time it was highly interesting and had the possibility of being linked with the incident. Below is a description of the site and my analysis work on it, followed by the explanation. The field was furrowed, but it had not been ploughed in many months. The area of interest appeared disrupted, as if the soil and rocks had been churned up. This was pronounced enough to see at a distance, even when we headed to the location in the dark and it was covered with snow. There were two oval-shaped depressions with a slightly raised area of soil in between them. This raised area continued back along the field a bit further than the depressions (approximately 3 metres). The depressions did not have sharp borders, but were clearly noticeable. They were both approximately 8 foot long by 5 foot wide. There was soil discolouration at various places within the area – patches that were a greyish/purple colour rather than the usual brown. This could possibly have been caused by water-logging, or merely have been a different soil type. Many of the stones within the site had got cracks right through them, as if something had exerted force upon them. This seems to be primarily with the chalk stones. There is the possibility this could have been caused by frost cracking, but chalk stones from outside of the area appeared to be rarely cracked. There also appeared to be many more chalk stones within the area than outside (Although this could be because they had been churned up). When I visited the site in January, many of the cracked stones sat undisturbed. Later when I returned in May, many of them had fallen apart into separate chunks. This seems to suggest that whatever caused the cracking had occurred recently. On 5th January, as well as making the measurements, I tried walking across the area holding a compass. However there appeared to be no magnetic interference, even when the compass was held close to the ground. On returning to the location in daylight on the 10th January the area in question was very clear as the frost had not thawed as much as the rest of the field (Visible in the photographs). It is likely that this was because the ground was damper in the area. The hedgerow and vegetation next to and the site appeared out of place, as if depressed by something. The trees and vegetation on the embankment behind the hedge also appear more open than at other areas. Simon feels sure the lights he saw were moving up this embankment as well as out across the field. There does not appear to be any freshly broken branches, so these observations may have a natural explanation. Back in January, it seemed like too much of a coincidence that the lights appeared at the same place as where the markings in the field were located. Simon is certain that they had been situated over the field and not further away because the road that runs along the back of the field is on a raised bank, and the lights were certainly lower down and in front of this. When I returned to the site in May with an independent archaeologist contact for further analysis, the crop in the field had started to grow. However it was immediately clear that there was very little crop growth within the site. This was again evidence that something had clearly taken place at the location, but at the time there was still no clue as to what exactly. After going over the site a square metre at a time and detailing the number of fractured chalk stones found, the difference between the site and the surrounding field became very obvious indeed. We spoke to a farm hand on January 10th while out at the barn on Whaddon Road, and later I managed to contact the land owner by phone to discuss the ground markings. At the time, both were mystified by what the ground markings could be. Below are the transcripts of both of these conversations. Farm-Hand Conversation Transcript SIMON: Good morning, are you the owner of this barn? FARM HAND: No no, I’m just out here putting away these sacks of seed (Points to back of truck). Also I’ll be checking up on the crow scarers. DAVE: Oh yeah, we have been hearing the bangs coming from those. SIMON: Do you know if the farmer would have been down to the fields across there any time recently? (Points in direction of field) FARM HAND: No I don’t think so. Not just lately anyway. SIMON: No, ok. FARM HAND: Not since last year. SIMON: Or since the harvest? Since you had your harvest, would there have been... FARM HAND: Oh yeah, well I put all this in see, after the harvest. DAVE: When would the field have last been ploughed, do you have you any idea? FARM HAND: Errr...last year. DAVE: Right. So towards the end of last year, or back in autumn time? FARM HAND: I don’t think it was ploughed last year because they had corn on it, and then they just cultivated it, they didn’t actually plough it, they just put that seed in and... DAVE: Right. So there wouldn’t have been any farm machinery being used around the fields? FARM HAND: No. SIMON: Is there any farm machinery which would leave an indentation, eight foot by five foot, two of them? FARM HAND: Not across there. SIMON: Identical, no? FARM HAND: Definitely not. SIMON: Ok. Alright I appreciate your time. DAVE: Thanks a lot, bye. Land Owner Interview Transcript I finally got in touch with the land owner, Richard Maycock, on 17th March via telephone. Here is the transcript of that call: DAVE: Hi, this is Dave Hodrien from the Birmingham UFO Group, we spoke earlier on the phone about your fields close to the area of Bletchley. I am available to talk now, would you be able to answer a few questions about those fields? RICHARD: Sure, that’s fine. DAVE: Can I just confirm that you the owner of the corn fields South-East of the barn on Whaddon Road? RICHARD: Yes that’s correct. DAVE: What crop is grown in those fields? RICHARD: It’s a mix of corn and rape. DAVE:When was the last time the fields were ploughed? RICHARD:They were ploughed last August I believe. DAVE: And when did the last harvest take place? RICHARD: Well there’s planted crop in the fields now. DAVE: When is that crop next set to be harvested? Later this year? RICHARD: Yes, around July time. DAVE: Is there any form of irrigation system, either above ground or underground? RICHARD: No there isn’t. DAVE: I heard from the farm hand we spoke with that the fields have natural irrigation due to a nearby stream? Is this correct? RICHARD: Yes there’s a stream that runs along the railway embankment to the south DAVE: Are you aware of any underground pipes or wires that run alongside the edge of those fields? RICHARD: Yes there is a petrol pipe that runs along the embankment. DAVE: Has that pipe at any point sprung a leak or needed fixing done on it in the area of those fields at all? RICHARD: No definitely not. If there was then it would have had to have gone past me as I’m the owner of the land. DAVE: Yea that’s what I thought. Has there been any farm machinery moved around in that area towards the end of last year? RICHARD: No not since the fields were ploughed. DAVE: Ok the area in question that we are looking into is at the side of one of the fields right next to the railway embankment, about half way along it. There is an area of churned up ground which looks very out of place. There are two oval shaped depressions in this about eight foot by five foot in size, and a number of stones that look like they have been split apart by force of some kind. Are you aware of this area at all? RICHARD: No I’m not. DAVE: Do you have any idea as to what could have caused such markings? RICHARD: No I don’t think so, there has certainly been no farm machinery there for a long while. DAVE: Were you out in the area of those fields on the evening of December 30th 2008? RICHARD: No, pretty sure not (laughs). Had better places to be! DAVE: Just out of interest, do you personally believe in UFOs and aliens? RICHARD: I like to remain open minded about it all, I think there must surely be life out there somewhere... DAVE: Ok that pretty much covers what I wanted to ask. Thank you very much for your time. RICHARD: No problem. Gamma Radiation Analysis I sent a number of soil and stone samples from the site to a geologist/ufologist contact in Italy. He was able to run a number of scientific tests on the samples to see if they displayed any abnormal levels of gamma radiation. The results from this analysis came back a negative – the samples display normal levels of gamma radiation. Below is one of the resulting graphs from the soil analysis, showing that after normal background levels of radiation are eliminated from the resulting figures, there is no remaining abnormality. These prove that whatever caused the markings did not emit any gamma radiation. Site Explanation For a time the site did remain a complete mystery, one with many interesting aspects to it. However finally we did get an explanation for it, one which came from the land owner. I had taken a number of photographs of the site when I visited it in May, and I decided to send him these via E-Mail. He soon came back with an explanation. He informed me that the site was a trial pit that had been dug in mid-August 2008 to examine the density of the soil. Seeing the photograph apparently jogged his memory. The pit was dug out by a third party using a JCB-type machine. It is likely that any footprints/vehicle tracks had since vanished due to weathering. The two depressions seen in the area are two holes which were specifically dug out and filled with water to test how fast the water would sink into the ground. The trial pit was dug half way along the field as this would give a more representative view of the area than the field corners. The land owner does not know what has caused the chalk stones to crack apart, but the cause is more than likely water-logging and/or frost. Stone samples are currently being analysed, if a definite reason for the cracking is found this report will be updated. Unless you believe that the land owner is making up a cover story for one reason or another, this is the probable explanation for the site. However the possible vegetation disruption seen nearby may still be linked with the incident. Body Markings Shortly after the night of the incident, Simon found an unusual red marking on his body which seemingly had no explanation. As well as myself, Simon also contacted researcher Phil Hoyle about what he had witnessed. Phil asked him to check himself for physical markings. Simon found an unexplained marking on his left shin. It looked like a perfect equilateral triangle of three small red dots. Simon pointed out the marking to me when I visited on 5th January. It did not hurt when he pressed it, but he had no idea where it had come from. By the time I returned on 10th January the marking had almost vanished, and soon after this he informed me it could no longer be seen. Simon also informed me that he had an unexplained small V-shaped scar which had appeared on his chest several years before. When it first appeared it was red but over time turned tea brown in colour. It did not hurt at any time and he could not account for it at all. (Continued in Part 2 ) Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Originally forwarded by Richard Hall Release Date: 31/08/2011 Last Updated: 11/09/2024   In July 2011 Tim (name changed for privacy reasons) got in touch with me via Richplanet.net to report a very interesting incident which happened to him back in October of 1997 or 1998. The incident included the sighting of numerous unidentified beings, two UFOs and possible missing time. This report covers the incident and speculates what may have taken place.   Incident Details   At the time of the incident Tim was on a camping trip with his family and friends in the Lake District. They had set up camp on a hillside along the northern edge of Ullswater. It was late evening and the weather was clear. Tim was sitting next to the campfire. Everyone else had gone to sleep in the tents. The only light source was the fire itself. The site was surrounded by trees.   Tim suddenly noticed some movement quite close by off to his right. He looked into the darkness but initially could not see anything. He thought it must be his eyes playing tricks on him so he looked away. When he looked back a second time he made out several figures standing in the shadows underneath one of the trees. To the right of the tree appeared to be tall figure of medium build. They appeared to be wearing a hooded cloak which went right down to the ground. To the left of the tree were two very short beings which looked about knee height. It appeared to Tim that the tall being was in charge and the two short ones were waiting to be ordered to do something. It was too dark to make out any details on the figures.   The tall figure had one arm raised and was beckoning him with its finger, similar to how an adult would do with a child. Tim started at the figures a short while, then dismissed them and turned away. He thought maybe he was tired and having some sort of hallucination brought on by this, although he did not physically feel tired or else he would have gone to bed along with everyone else.   The next thing he became aware of, he found himself standing in a clearing a short distance away from the campsite. He knew of the clearing as it was the best way to gain a view of the lake. He was looking across Ullswater to the South South East. On the far side of the lake he could see two glowing blue egg shaped objects. They appeared to be self-luminescent, and did not light up the surroundings. The objects were skimming through the air between the peaks of two mountains. They appeared to be about 60 feet in the air. They were travelling quite fast, at least 70 mph, and moved up and down in a wave like motion as they went.   Tim cannot remember anything else that took place that night. The following morning he awoke to find himself outside alongside the camp fire. He remembered both the beings by the tree and the glowing egg shaped objects. He went over to the tree where the beings had been but there were no footprints, so he did not mention it to anyone else. The whole incident seemed like a vivid dream.   Incident Analysis   The events that Tim remembers are very interesting indeed, and there are a number of aspects which suggest that he may have been abducted. He only saw the silhouettes of the beings but the details he did make out are important. Tim states that there was a tall being wearing what looked like a hooded cloak, and two very short beings. Many experiencers have reported seeing hooded figures appear in their room prior to an abduction experience. Could it have been one of these beings? The very humanoid looking species known as the Nordics are often reported as wearing hooded robes, so perhaps it could have been a Nordic.   The shorter beings could well have been two Grey beings. Greys are generally about 3-4 feet in height. The beings that Tim describes were very short indeed, no higher than 2 feet. However the height of Greys does tend to vary quite a lot so this cannot be put out of the question.   Could the figures have been nothing more than some people playing a prank on Tim? This seems unlikely for a number of reasons. Tim says the area where they were camping was quite remote and nobody would have known they were there. If they were people joking around then two of the three would have to have been young children due to their very short height. It is highly improbable someone with two young kids would have been sneaking around the campsite late at night. Also why would they just stand there and beckon for Tim to approach, and then when he turned away just leave the area without doing anything else. If they wanted him to approach surely they would have spoken and asked him directly?   We must also take into account the fact that it was at this point that Tim appears to have lost some time. If they were just people playing around then surely Tim would have recalled what happened next and just gone to sleep like normal? He certainly would not have gone wandering off away from camp to the clearing where he next found himself. After turning away from the figures, the next thing Tim remembers is overlooking the lake and seeing the UFOs. This suggests two things. Firstly it suggests that the two incidents were linked. And secondly it suggests that something else took place between the two, something which had been wiped from his conscious memory. It is very common for contactees to report missing time. The ETs have a way of blocking out memories of the experience, probably to reduce the trauma of the individual.   The glowing egg-shaped objects that he remembers seeing are again very interesting. Due to their speed of movement I feel it is unlikely they were blue LED balloons, hot air balloons or other lit inflatables. Tim seems to be describing two fast moving, controlled solid objects. They were clearly not conventional aircraft or helicopters. UFOs often are seen to glow after dark, probably due to the energy field projected around them. Could this image of him standing in the clearing watching the UFOs be a fragmented memory which has returned to him? Tim has said that this feels like a vivid dream, and this is often the way that these memories can appear.   Another possibility is that one or both of the incidents was nothing more than a dream. Perhaps the darkness combined with shadows cast by the firelight caused the illusion of figures standing nearby. Maybe the movement Tim sensed nearby was nothing more than an animal moving in the undergrowth. Perhaps he then dropped off by the fire and had a dream which happened to be of UFOs. Maybe both the beings and the UFOs were dreams. Tim certainly spent at least some of the night sleeping outside as this is where he found himself when he awoke in the morning. However it seems a little unlikely that he would first see unusual figures nearby which could be interpreted as ETs, and then following this have a vision of UFOs.   I have recommended that Tim is regressed to see if any further information about the incident comes to light. There are many elements to this incident which suggest that something unusual took place, something perhaps involving ET contact. If Tim decides to be regressed at some point the results of this will be added to the report.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Originally forwarded by Richard Hall Release Date: 17/08/2011 Last Updated: 11/09/2024   Sighting Details   In 1968 Stuart Conway and his work colleague had a fascinating sighting of two UFOs which were either out in space or in the upper atmosphere. The men were walking home around 6am after a night shift. It was still dark and the stars were out in the sky overhead. It was a clear morning with good visibility. They stopped for a short time to have a chat. As they talked, Stuart looked up at the stars, something which he often likes to do.   He noticed a glowing white light moving up from the horizon in their direction. Naturally he assumed this was a satellite. He pointed it out to his work mate. It was directly overhead when suddenly it stopped moving! Both men were immediately aware that it could not be a satellite or drifting space debris but must be under control.   They continued to watch and after several seconds noticed a second moving light travelling across the sky at a 90 degree angle to which the first one had approached. It was moving directly for the stationary object. As it reached it the two lights seemed to become one. This remained stationary for a number of minutes. After this, the lights suddenly separated again. One went back to where it had come from and then halted in the sky. The other vastly increased in acceleration and shot away extremely fast in the same direction it had been going! It was gone within a second.   The witnesses watched the remaining object for a while but in the end decided it was not going to move again and so headed for home. In the morning Stuart checked the daily paper to see if anything had been reported but there was nothing.   Sighting Analysis   This is obviously a distant sighting but a very impressive one due to the manoeuvres the objects performed. It is hard to say for definite whether the objects truly were out in orbit or at high altitude, as it is very hard to accurately judge height without a point of reference. As this sighting occurred in the 1960s two distant drones or white LED balloons were clearly not responsible for what was seen. They could not have been lit inflatables due to the controlled manoeuvres they performed. The speed that one of the objects left the area puts out of the question that they were two distant helicopters. They appeared to be out in space and were probably reflecting light in the same way that satellites and space debris does. However due to the fact that they changed speeds, stopped and appeared to merge they cannot have been either of these, and must have been under direct control. Their manoeuvres designated intelligence and purpose, they were not randomly drifting.   If the objects really were out in space then this leaves two possibilities. They were either two human-made spacecraft docking with each other for some purpose, or were something else entirely, possibly craft of ET origin. The fact that one of the objects shot away at an incredibly fast speed from a stationary position suggests the later of these explanations, as at that distance even an object travelling at hundreds of miles an hour would have appeared to move quite slowly.   I feel that the witnesses may well have observed two genuine UFOs interacting with one another.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 2011 Last Updated: 11/09/2024   Unfortunately not much is known about this case. I received several drawings a number of years ago with some brief notes, and I’ve released this report to get the reported incidents down on record, but I was unable to get back in touch with the experiencer to gain additional details.   Flying Triangle Sighting   The individual (name unknown) had a sighting of a black triangular object with five bright white oval-shaped lights positioned along each of the edges. This sighting occurred on 14th July 2005, but the exact location is not known at present.   Information Download   The experiencer reported that they were shown the image of another planet telepathically. It is unknown if this occurred during the sighting or later on. They describe initially seeing darkness with a reddish coloured dot. However in the vision they then began speeding towards this dot, and it became apparent that it was a planet. They ended up so close to it that they could make out mountains, valleys and cloud formations. They stated that they could not stress how quick it got bigger and bigger and they thought they were going to crash into it.   Body Marking   At an unknown date after the UFO sighting the experiencer found a triangular-shaped marking on their chest with three circular markings within it. It is unknown how they discovered this, its size or how long it remained for. Conclusion Due to the current lack of information it would be wrong of me to speculate too much as to the explanation of these various incidents. However I have dealt with many cases involving large black triangular-shaped craft, some of which have had extremely similar lighting. I have also investigated other cases where people have been shown telepathic visions of other worlds, generally referred to as an "information download". Could this have been a vision of the being's own planet of origin, and if so why would they have shared it with this individual? Body markings are a commonly reported after effect of contact experiences. The shape of the marking certainly looks artificial in nature rather than something which would have occurred naturally.   If the witness gets back in touch I may be able to add to this report at some point in the future. If you have any information about the UFO they claim to have witnessed please contact BUFOG.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2011 Last Updated: 11/09/2024   On 30th May Andrew Hipwell got in touch with me via Richard Hall’s website. He described a very interesting UFO sighting which he had experienced back in February 2001. As I was actually familiar with the area of the sighting, and Andrew still lives in the area, I decided to arrange to meet up with him on 6th June 2011 to go over the sighting in more depth and visit the location where it took place.   Sighting Details   Back in 2001, Andrew was a student at Birmingham University. Most of the time he would not have lectures till the afternoon, so got into the habit of staying up very late. One night in mid to late February 2001 he decided to go out for a night-time jog around the local area. It was around 3am and he was just jogging past Blossomfield Tennis Club on Widney Lane. The weather was clear but it was quite cold.   For some reason he looked up above the trees to his left which ran alongside the grounds of the club. It was now that he noticed a strange aerial object. There was something hovering a short distance above one of the trees, about 30 feet off the ground.   The object was about 20 feet in diameter and the base of it was elliptical in shape. It was obsidian black in colour, and there were four metallic silver strips which led from the sides of the object into the centre of its underside. It was partially lit by a nearby street light. It was moving extremely slowly in the direction of the street light, and was also making a faint but constant hissing sound that was barely audible. Andrew could barely believe what he was seeing. However he was not frightened of the object, he was more curious. He went and stood directly underneath it and looked up at its underside. He felt sure that it was not a balloon or conventional object of any kind. The movements it was making seemed deliberate and controlled. As far as he is aware the object did not interact with him in any way.   After staring up at the UFO for about 10 seconds he then continued his jog. He is not sure why he did this, rather than remain in the area and see what happened next. About 10 seconds later he glanced back down the road and realised the object had completely vanished.   Over the years Andrew has told numerous people what he saw that night, to mixed reaction. He feels that what he saw that night was extraterrestrial in origin, and was a craft of some kind. Of course he has no direct proof of this but it seems unlikely to him that the object was military owned given the circumstances under which it was seen. The incident left a lasting impression on him and changed his views on the UFO subject forever.   Sighting Analysis   This is an interesting sighting of a very unusual object. The object clearly was not a conventional aircraft. Could it have been an unusual helium-filled inflatable of some kind? Could the hissing sound heard have been gas slowly escaping from the object, propelling it along? If the object was mundane then this would be the most probable explanation. However there are numerous aspects which do not fit in with this. The object seems too large to have been a drifting inflatable. If it was an inflatable then it would not have suddenly vanished a mere 10 seconds after the witness had stopped looking at it, it would have still been visible in the air. Also we must consider the location and time of the sighting. It seems quite unlikely that there would have been an inflatable of this odd shape and size drifting in the early hours of the morning over Solihull.   If it was an advanced craft of some kind, then I too feel it is more likely to have been alien in origin than military for the same reasons as the witness. There would be no purpose whatsoever for the military to fly a secretly built craft over such a highly populated area at low altitude, even in the middle of the night. If it was a genuine craft then this may explain why the witness only stared at it a short while before continuing on his way – often when people encounter craft or beings they act differently to how they would normally do in such a situation, and become overly complacent towards what is happening. This has been seen time and time again with cases. Also this could explain why the object mysteriously vanished within 10 seconds. Perhaps it flew away extremely fast, or even made itself invisible. Whatever it was that was seen that night, it was certainly out of the ordinary.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 05/08/2008 Last Updated: 10/09/2024 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used As far as I am aware, there was only one witness to the unusual object sighted in the sky in August 2005 above Kitts Green, Birmingham – my close friend "Mike". He has occasionally brought it up in conversation and I decided as I am now a member of the Birmingham UFO Group I would finally get down the full details of his sighting for the record, especially as it occurred in the local area. I invited Mike over to my house on 13th June, which is where I conducted the interview about what he witnessed several years ago. The sighting began in the early evening of a Saturday in August 2005 in the suburban area of Kitts Green. As it occurred so long ago, Mike could not give me the specific date. It was a clear, calm and sunny evening, around 6pm, and he had stepped out onto the front drive of his house on Haywood Road for a cigarette. He suddenly noticed a strange buzzing noise coming from the sky. Looking up to his right he spotted a very strange flying object above the nearby houses of Burleton Road. It looked like a silver coloured cigar shaped object, with a brown ball sitting on top of it at each end. Jon estimates the object was about 20 foot in length and was hovering about 50 foot in the air. He was confused as to what it could possibly be, and why it was making the unusual buzzing sound. The object was already moving in a straight line away from him when he spotted it, and it remained at a slow speed for the duration of the sighting. However the strangest thing was that it seemed to be slowly rocking left and right on it’s axis. He watched the unsual object for about a minute until it went out of sight behind the houses. He did not think to follow it but was mystified by what he had seen. Mike seems completely open about what he saw, and I have no reason to believe he would make anything up. He was excited to tell myself and my brother about it soon after he witnessed it , as he knew we had an interest in UFO’s. He feels privileged to have seen something, but to this day has no real explanation as to what it was. He thought at first it could have been something radio controlled. There is a park right next to the roads where the sighting took place. Could someone have been flying an unusual model of some kind? This would have explained the buzzing noise it was making. However this seems unlikely due to both the size of the object, and the fact that Mike could not make out any propellers or other means of flight. If it was a balloon or kite of some kind, then why did it make a buzzing sound? Also he said it’s movement pattern seemed too regular to be a balloon, for example the strange but constant rocking of it. Other more mundane explanations are hard to fathom due to the very odd shape of the object. We may never find out what the strange object that Mike sighted back in 2005 was. I checked the internet for other sightings from the area to see if there were further witnesses, but this came up a blank. The most unusual feature of this sighting was the brown ball shapes sitting on top of the main cigar-shaped part of the object. A while back in UFO Magazine I remember reading about a similar shaped object, however there were four balls sitting on top of it rather than two. There is still the possibility that the two objects were related in some way. Without an accurate date of the sighting it is hard to take the investigation further at this time. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2008

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 23/01/2009 Last Updated 10/09/2024 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses Sighting Details   It was late on a clear and still evening in the summer of 1993. Dean Page got picked up from his house by his friend "Joe" for a night out at Liberties nightclub. It was a very warm evening so the front windows of the car were down. As Joe drove towards the lights on Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Dean started to watch a red light in the sky above the university hospital. It was moving towards the area of Northfield/Harborne. They stopped at the lights and Dean had a good view of the light as it disappeared behind the houses next to the Lazy Fox Public House.   Dean and Joe continued their journey. Dean crouched in his seat and continued to watch the sky to see if he could spot the object again. As they passed the hospital on their right, he spotted the red light/lights passing almost directly over them and the hospital. The object had changed course and double-backed on itself. They had the car stereo on at very low volume, and as it passed over Dean noticed that the object was completely silent. He muttered something about the object and Joe asked him what was wrong. They had soon moved away from the area and he did not see the lights again. When they arrived at the club, Dean asked Joe if he had seen anything. He said no, but later confided that possibly he did see something.   Looking back on the sighting, Dean feels that the object was low, about 100-200 feet in the sky. He also feels that the light was part of a much larger object, and was blocking out the stars over a sizeable area. Since the sighting, Dean has looked into the UFO subject and wonders if the object he saw that night was a Flying Triangle.   Conclusion   Due to the nature of this sighting, it is hard to speculate what the object could have been. If the object was, as the witness remembers, blocking out a large area of stars then this would immediately make it harder to explain. However he did not see a clearly defined shape at the time so we have no way of comparing it to other objects. Red is one of the colours of normal aircraft navigation lights, but if it was a conventional aircraft surely other lights would also have been seen such as white static/white strobing/green, especially given the object was seen moving in different directions. Also if it was a simply a plane, why would it have changed course and be heading back the way it had came? Most of the time planes take a steady course across the sky. It could not have been a drone as this incident occurred decades before these were commercially available. However, without further information I can give no other opinions on this sighting, and it remains exactly what the witness describes it as….an unidentified flying object.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Month: June 2011 Last Updated: 10/09/2024   In June 2011 Matthew got in touch with me via Richplanet.net to share details of a stunning UFO sighting he had experienced six years before. This sighting was clearly of two very unusual, clearly structured objects. This sighting is covered in depth in the following report.   Sighting Details   On the evening of 20th June 1995, Matthew had been out in Bridgnorth. He arrived home at 11.20pm. It was a very clear and still night with the stars visible in the sky above. There was nobody else around. As he stepped out of the car on the driveway of his house he immediately noticed two very bizarre looking objects in the sky, which appeared to be over the water reservoir behind the house.   The objects were alongside one another, and were cone shaped with rounded ends. They appeared to be about 10 metres in diameter at their base. The main body of each object was a dark grey metallic colour. However the length of the cone appeared to be covered in a glowing neon blue energy, which pulsed and moved like liquid. At the base of the cone was an extended ring which had on it a circle of red rotating flashing lights. These lights were flashing in sequence rather than randomly. At the rear of each cone was an amber-green coloured glow.   Each object had unusual antennas sticking out of the sides of the cone which were covered in small white lights. One of these antennas was noticeably longer than all the others. Another bizarre observation is that the objects appeared to be travelling along a soft beam of light, which was visible just in front of and behind them.   Matthew was understandably astounded by the sight of the objects, which looked quite beautiful. However he remained calm and composed as he wanted to take in as much detail as possible. He felt immediately that the objects were extraterrestrial craft. He used to be a keen aircraft enthusiast, and knew that these objects were completely unconventional. Initially they were about 100 yards away from him. They were approaching his position and moving in a South Westerly direction. The objects were travelling quite slowly, Matthew estimates about 30 mph. Each of them had the end of the cone dipped downward as if they were scanning the ground for something.   As the objects approached, Matthew had a good look at the objects. He was particularly intrigued by the strange antennas sticking out from them and thought to himself “What the heck are they for?”  He also noticed a strange feeling in the air like static electricity.   When the objects were nearly directly overhead, one of them neatly turned 90 degrees on its axis and began travelling South East, while the other continued South West. It felt almost like they were running along a massive invisible grid due to the sudden sharp movements. He continued to watch the objects for a couple of minutes until they were out of sight. Once they had gone, the reality of what he had just encountered began to sink in. He was shocked, excited and frightened.   Soon after the sighting he reported it to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) by submitting a sighting report.   In the months following the incident, some unusual things took place. Matthew kept seeing a complex circular geometric shape appear in his mind without warning. He has extensively searched for this symbol appearing elsewhere, and has only ever seen it twice. The first time it was on an album cover of an alternative rock band from the US. However it was not exactly the same, but a more simplified version of it. He did not get in touch with the band or find out whether there was any kind of meaning behind it.   According to Matthew, the other time he saw the symbol apparently linked in with another bizarre incident which took place years later. Unfortunately he never got round to providing me with the details of this other incident, so we can only speculate as to what this may have been.   As well as seeing the symbol, Matthew also experienced sudden bursts of creativity. He did not know where this came from, and he assumed it was in some way linked with the UFOs he had seen.   Sighting Analysis   This is a fascinating encounter with some truly bizarre elements to it. The appearance of the two objects was very unusual, with a variety of coloured lights, including colours not seen in normal aircraft/helicopter navigation lights. The witness managed to observe them for an extended period of time at quite close proximity. Also they performed unusual manoeuvres with sudden right angle turns. Due to this sudden change in course they could not have been aeroplanes, and their appearance and lights do not match those of a helicopter either.   This incident occurred many years before drones were commercially available so this could not have been the explanation. The maneuverers observed were too controlled for the objects to have been two novelty inflatables covered in lights. They were completely the wrong appearance for hot air balloons, and these are usually only lit by the flame at the base. Also after dark hot air balloon pilots are legally required to hang a white flashing warning light 50 feet under the basket to warn other aircraft in the vicinity.   The sensation of static in the air is another interesting aspect of this case. A normal aircraft, model or inflatable would not have had this effect on the local environment, which again points towards a more unusual explanation. It is unknown whether the UFOs really were on some kind of invisible "track". This seems unlikely as I have not come across any similar descriptions in other cases, but cannot be entirely ruled out. After all the witness did state that he could see part of this "track" as a beam of light in close proximity to both of the objects, although it could potentially have been a reflection of the lights on them rather than something physical. No mundane explanations really fit with what was observed, the objects are truly anomalous, and may well have been genuine advanced craft, possibly ET in origin. If they were indeed this, then perhaps the symbol Matthew saw in his mind was a telepathic information download of some kind. Also an increase in creativity is a known after effect that sometimes occurs following contact. Perhaps more took place than Matthew currently recollects.   I am pleased that he decided to get in touch with myself via Richard Hall’s website in addition to filling out the NUFORC sighting form as it is a very intriguing incident. If you have any further information regarding what took place please do get in touch.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Originally forwarded by Richard Hall Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2011 Last Updated: 09/09/2024   In the summer of 1998 Eileen Watson was out driving on the A1 when she had an experience which has haunted her ever since. This report goes over what took place and speculates as to the origin of what was seen.   Incident Details   Eileen cannot remember the exact date in the summer of 1998 when her experience took place, but is aware that it was about 1am. It was a very clear and warm night. She was on a return journey home from a day trip in London. Her two children were in the back of the car. Just north of Scotch Corner She was quite tired and decided to pull into a lay by for a brief rest from driving.   As soon as she stopped the car she immediately realised she was a woman out on her own at night, and felt quite vulnerable. She decided that she was awake enough to continue the rest of the journey home. She put the car into gear and got ready to pull out onto the road. At the point of the road she was at there was a slight curve to the left, so she had to be careful in case of other vehicles.   Eileen saw what looked like two headlights in the rear view mirror so briefly halted to let the other vehicle pass. She watched these lights for between 5-8 seconds. Her attention was then distracted by one of her children who had stirred on the back seat, so she looked away from the mirror for a brief moment. She continued to wait for the other vehicle to pass but nothing drove on past. Looking back into the rear view mirror she saw nothing but darkness. She could not understand what had happened. She was certain there was no side road the vehicle could have turned off onto, it was just gone. She was quite frightened so quickly resumed her journey. Eileen remained scared and confused until she was safely back in her house.   Later she laughed with friends, saying it was like Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. But she has never managed to explain what she saw that night.   Incident Analysis   Considering the situation the witness found herself in, it is understandable why this incident was so unsettling to her. She was out in the middle of the night with only her sleeping children, and then witnessed something unusual and not easily explainable in relatively close proximity. However the fact that the lights appeared to be the headlights of an approaching vehicle of course mean that we cannot put this explanation out of the question. Perhaps the witness was wrong when she felt that there were no side turnings off the road. As it was after dark perhaps there was one that she was not aware of. Perhaps there were no side turnings but the vehicle behind her broke down and had to pull onto the edge of the road, and was so far behind that she could not see it in the dark, however Eileen is certain that there were no lay bys prior to the one she was in. There was no traffic coming the other way at the time, so it could not have been an reflection somehow caused by this.   All of these explanations could possibly explain what took place. Or did something more unusual occur here? Could it have been a low flying UFO with two lights on that then vanished or suddenly left the area? Maybe it was not a singular object but two glowing orbs of light which gave the appearance of headlights. However it seems unlikely that the UFO or UFOs would have been flying along the road at such low altitude, it is more likely that it was something ground based.   Perhaps it was not UFO related but was supernatural in nature - a vision of a ghostly car that was briefly glimpsed. We are unlikely to ever know for sure, but as you can see there are lots of possible explanations for what was witnessed.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Originally forwarded by Richard Hall Release Date: 31/08/2011 Last Updated 08/09/2024   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   On the night of 5th November 1990, a massive UFO flap took place over France. According to various internet sites, over 400 UFO sightings were reported up and down the country.   In August 2011 “Emma” got in touch with me via Richplanet.Net to provide details of her sighting of a massive triangular shaped UFO. Though she understands that other people reported seeing UFOs in the same city, I am not sure she is aware of the full scale of the incident.   There are reports online which suggest that the triangular UFO was seen by many other individuals, and that this was one of a number of huge craft covered in glowing lights which were seen that night.   In this report I cover only Emma’s sighting, as many other researchers have already looked into the overall UFO wave. However towards the end are a number of website links, newspaper articles and a documentary video.   Sighting Details   In 1990 Emma lived in Reims, France. She shared a council flat with “Caleb”, her boyfriend at the time. The flat was on Avenue Du General Bonaparte in the Croix Rouge district, close to the Business School where Emma was studying at.   On the evening of 5th November Emma and Caleb had just got off a bus in front of their flat. It was dark, but the weather was clear and calm. The stars were not really very visible due to the street lights.   As they approached the building, Emma happened to look up into the sky and noticed a large object directly overhead. Due to its proximity she initially felt that it was an aircraft about to crash into the buildings, but it only took a moment to realise this was not the case.   The object was triangular in shape and appeared to be either black or very dark in colour. It was huge, at least the size of several blocks of flats, and was clearly solid and darker than the night sky. Along the edges were white and blue lights at various points. Each corner of the triangle appeared to be emitting bright sparks.   The object was completely silent, it was a quiet neighbourhood so Emma says she would have heard any noise coming from it. It was at quite low altitude, only a short distance above the buildings. It was moving quite slowly on a straight and level course, and heading East towards the centre of the city. Emma immediately pointed it out to Caleb.   Both witnesses were amazed at what they were seeing. They watched it for about a minute in silence until it had gone out of sight behind the buildings. The sighting was so out of the ordinary that they barely discussed what they had just seen, it was hard to comprehend. Emma feels that this is the reason why she has barely spoken of the incident since, except with her direct family.   However, it was not just her and Caleb who saw the object. Later on in the evening they were watching the news on TV, they saw a report which stated that numerous people had seen a UFO over the city.   However the report played down the incident, and put the sightings down to a meteorite, which was of course nothing like what they had seen. Emma says it is possible that it appeared in the local newspapers as well, however as she was studying for exams at the time she did not read them herself.   Recently Emma decided to do a painting of what she saw all those years ago to illustrate the incident to her partner. This painting shows how the object looked from underneath, and its size against the surroundings. Sighting Analysis   This is a very impressive sighting indeed. Most mundane explanations can easily be dismissed. The object was much too large to have been an electronically lit inflatable, kite, hand glider or model. It was clearly not a conventional aircraft of any kind, the shape, size and lighting configuration do not fit this explanation. Also it was moving much too slowly to have been an aircraft and was completely silent despite being at low altitude. It is unlikely to have been a secret military craft – why would they fly something so large right over the city in plain sight?   You may feel that the date the sighting occurred on is suspicious, as this was bonfire night in the UK. However this is not celebrated in France, so fireworks are unlikely to have been an explanation for what was seen.     According to online sources, the meteorite explanation mentioned by the report Emma heard on TV was put forward by a German observatory. However this does not work for what Emma and Caleb witnessed – meteorites cross the sky extremely rapidly and are only visible for a brief moment, so even if many entered the atmosphere at around the same time forming a triangular pattern they would not have remained visible for long at all. Also Emma says the object was darker than the surrounding night sky, so must have been a solid singular object.   Later on SEPRA (Now named Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon Research and Information Group or GEIPAN), a unit of the National Centre For Space Studies (CNES), put forward another explanation, stating that the sightings were the result separation of a third stage of a Russian rocket which had been launched on the evening. While this would remain visible for a number of minutes, it again would not look like a solid triangular object.   I feel it is more likely to have been a genuine Flying Triangle craft. This is one of the more commonly reported types of UFO. Flying Triangles are often described as being very large in size, and are regularly seen to glide very slowly across the sky. The white and blue lights seen along the edges are less common; however I have investigated other cases where this exact lighting configuration has been described.   The “sparks” seen at each of the corners are very interesting. Emma felt at the time that perhaps the object was in trouble. However perhaps these were not sparks at all but just bright twinkling lights which gave the appearance of sparks. Flying Triangle craft are often described as having a bright white light at each corner.   The fact that other people reported seeing a very similar object, as well as other huge UFOs on the same night, means that this sighting is both very impressive and very hard to dismiss.   External Information   Various French newspaper articles related to the UFO flap:   Federation Europeenne A.I.R.P.L.A.N.E.   Direct Link: http://feairplane.canalblog.com/archives/2010/09/23/19137662.html   English Translation: Wave of UFO demonstrations on November 5, 1990 over France   It all started on the evening of November 5, 1990. From 6:30 pm, unknown flying objects were seen in many places above the national territory. In the darkening sky at the start of the evening, unknown, luminous, numerous objects of varying dimensions appear. Some fly peacefully, projecting beams of light towards the ground or horizontally. Others simply cross our airspace conspicuously but in a measured manner. There are thousands of witnesses across the four corners of France. Photos, video recordings, detections of all kinds soon confirm the observations.   In various regions, the lights move in formation, in parallel ways under the cloud layer. In other places, immense structures whose scales are compared by witnesses to the size of a city are observed. In almost all cases, the machines move in total silence, very slowly and at very low altitude.   The numerous witnesses came from all levels of society. Among these are a large number of professionals from the aerospace industry, astronomers, gendarmes, scientists, police officers, doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers, soldiers, a president of the high court, judicial controllers, civil servants at the Ministry of the Interior, Mayors and deputies, general councilors...etc... the list is long.   In the hours that followed, the media reported these observations and sought an explanation from scientists who took their time to respond.   Within 24 hours, a German observatory declared that the flyby was nothing other than a meteorite. French astronomers appear publicly reluctant to confirm this interpretation, which does not take into account the thousands of testimonies prohibiting the "meteorite hypothesis". Finally, SEPRA, a CNES service, will present an equally contradictory explanation from the perspective of the testimonies, but which will have the merit of reassuring: a third stage of a Russian rocket would have fallen above the hexagon from North-East to South-East. (Remember that the fallout of such a compartment is reduced to only a few minutes)   This is what the re-entry of a third stage of the Molniva M rocket in 2001 corresponds to. We will notice a descending trajectory (and not horizontal or ascending), a high speed (and not slow, estimated by some at 2km/h) as well as the impossibility of distinguishing a shape (while on the contrary the witnesses report hundreds of objects of varying sizes and shapes)   At present, our contacts within the French Defence indicate to us that certain observations carried out that evening with their means as well as some privileged testimonies (by the conditions of observations) still fall within the field of safety and a very high level of confidentiality (for reasons unknown to us and which we find very difficult to understand in light of the very sensitive UFO affairs which have been revealed by other Western nations)   If such observations made by thousands of French people (estimate of at least 10,000 people made considering the number of reported testimonies), one day arouse the curiosity of the population, a serious study on the origin of the unknown manifestations could be demanded from institutions.   Note that it would have been interesting to carry out a statistical study to determine the possible concordance between the hours at which these events took place and the hours at which availability outside the buildings (home, professional establishment, university and buildings schools) of the French population is the largest that day.   French UFO Wave November 5, 1990 PowerPoint presentation containing many witness drawings and details https://satobs.org/seesat_ref/Oberg/901105-French_wave.pdf   If you have any further information about this impressive series of events please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2010 Last Updated: 03/09/2024   The city of Phoenix, Arizona is no stranger to UFO activity. It is of course the centre point for the infamous “Phoenix Lights” incident of 1997, in which a large delta shaped craft flew across several states and hovered over the city for a short while. However this report is not about this incident, instead it focuses on another impressive close encounter with a flying triangle that occurred in 2003. One of the two witnesses contacted BUFOG with this information, and I am pleased to be able to share it with you now. Sighting Details   The witnesses, Annette and Jack, were spending the night in a luxury hotel suite. This was situated 120 feet up on the 11th floor. It was around 1am and the pair were out on the balcony talking. It was a clear and still night, and the stars were shining in the sky. Annette looked up at the stars and was astounded to see a huge black triangular shaped object. It had amber coloured lights on its underside. Jack estimates that it was 300 foot long by 200 foot wide, and was around 200 feet above them. The UFO was completely silent and they assumed it must have travelled to where it now was situated without making a sound. As they stared at the object, Jack felt as if he was paralyzed and was not aware of how long they were watching it for. He snapped out of this state when Annette asked him what it was, as he had a military background. However Jack had never seen anything like it before. After watching it a while, it very slowly moved off in a northern direction. It remained silent throughout the incident. As it moved away Jack remembers feeling a breeze from it, and seeing blue light coming out of several large holes in the back of the craft.   The pair headed back inside, and according to Annette several minutes later a helicopter flew close to the hotel shining its lights in various windows including their own. Later that night Jack was awoken by lights coming through the curtains of the room. He stepped out onto the balcony but could see nothing that would have caused these lights.   Since the sighting, Annette now often looks to the sky in case she sees the craft again, and also carries a camera with her. Sighting Analysis From the E-Mails received from the witnesses they both seem very believable. Despite Jack's military background he was not able to identify the object, meaning that it is unlikely it was a stealth bomber or other known military aircraft. The fact it was hovering still and without making any noise is another factor that would point away from this theory. Unfortunately I have been unable to obtain any documented/photographic proof of Jack's background in the military, nor did he elaborate on his in our correspondence, but I have no reason to doubt this aspect of the case. The object was clearly much too large to be a novelty inflatable, and it occurred many years before drones were commercially available. The shape and lighting point away from it being an advertising blimp of some kind. The helicopter that appeared shortly after their sighting may suggest that someone else knew the UFO was in the vicinity. There have of course been many other reported sightings of large black Flying Triangles all around the world. It is certainly possible that this was a genuine sighting of one of these craft, possibly of extraterrestrial origin. Why it was flying above Phoenix on that night in 2003 will, for now at least, remain unknown. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Originally forwarded by Richard Hall Release Date: 16/08/2011 Last Updated: 03/09/2024   In August 2011 I was contacted by a man named Tom via Richplanet.net who wanted to pass on details of a UFO sighting that his stepfather and stepfather’s friend had experienced in the mid 1990’s. This report covers what he has shared with me about the incident.   Sighting Details   The exact date of the incident is unknown, but it was overcast with a strong wind blowing and low fast moving clouds. It was mid-afternoon. Tom’s stepfather Brian and his friend Patrick were out on their regular weekly ramble and were checking out an old abandoned mine shaft. They heard a low whistling sound coming from above them. When they looked up they were amazed to see an object hovering directly overhead no higher than 500 feet. It was black and triangular in shape. It appeared to be about 30 feet across. There were no markings or lighting visible on the object.   The object was clearly under direct control as it was hovering completely still despite the fact there was a strong breeze. It did not appear to be affected by the weather conditions at all. The two men watched it for a short while. It then began to slowly and smoothly turn on the spot. As it did they noticed two small vertical protrusions on the upper rear of the object. It then began to travel away from their location at a slow speed to the North West. As it went it ascended until it disappeared into the clouds.   Sighting Analysis   This is a very interesting incident due to the fact that the object was clearly unaffected by the strong wind around it. This means that it was either flying against the air currents in order to maintain a completely stationary position, or was inside a field of some kind that meant it was not affected by the wind. The fact it was black, of reasonable size and triangular in shape suggests that it may well have been a Flying Triangle craft, one of the more commonly reported types of UFO. However the two short vertical tails at the top rear of the object seem to be unusual and I cannot think of any cases where these have been reported before.   The object appears to have approached on purpose to observe the men on the ground. If this were the case then this again designates that it was under intelligent control. There is the possibility that it was a secret military craft of some kind but I find this unlikely. Why would the military have been interested in approaching the men if this would result in them being seen? Also in order to maintain a stationary position in the sky in the strong wind it would be expected that some form of propulsion system such as engines or propellers would have been visible. It seems too large to have been a remote controlled model. Other explanations such as a large inflatable, kite or hand glider can be put out of the question due to the manoeuvres it performed.   The low whistling sound that the men heard could have come from the object itself, or perhaps it was the sound of the wind whistling around it. Usually Flying Triangles either emit a faint humming sound or are completely silent.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2011