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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2010 Last Updated: 23/10/2024   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   In 2010 I was forwarded a sighting report form from Lancashire’s Anomalous Phenomena Investigation Society (LAPIS) for me to follow up on due to the location it took place at. I reached out to the witness who filled out the form but sadly he never responded. The below details cover what he initially shared.   Sighting Details   On the evening of 20th April 2010, “Mark” was standing outside the back of his house and was looking up at the stars. It was quite a cold night but the sky was relatively clear, with only a light amount of cloud cover.   As he looked to the North he suddenly noticed a particular star which seemed a bit lower, larger and brighter in the sky than all the others. He was puzzled by this and continued to keep an eye on it.   When he initially sighted it, it was at about 30 to 44 degrees elevation. After a while he became aware that it was not a star and was slowly descending in altitude. Mark went to get some binoculars to take a closer look at the object. When he looked through them he saw that the object appeared to be performing a display of flashing multi-coloured lights.   These lights were flashing in patterns. Mark described them as being “like a firework display, laser type graphics, or a high quality video game in four or five colours”.  This display looked as if it was taking place through a transparent screen of some kind, and he was also aware that the object looked very large in size. He called his wife outside to also take a look at the object.   Both witnesses watched the object for 45 minutes, during which it dropped from its initial height till it vanished from sight behind some trees in the distance to the North. This gradual movement appeared deliberate and controlled, rather than something drifting down through the air. It looked like it was at least a few miles away in the area of Blakedown. Mark was so intrigued by the object that he decided to drive out to the location where he believed it had descended to see if he could get a closer look at it.   As he arrived in Blakedown in his Mercedes Benz, he got a strange eerie feeling like he was close to the object. Suddenly while he was driving, all the car lights went out without warning (both inside and out). He managed to put the hazard lights on and pulled up at the side of the road. After a short time he managed to get the lights working again, but when he drove back onto the road once again they all went out! His car was only 3 years old and had never had anything happen like this before.   Considering the current circumstances this was extremely un-nerving to him. Luckily after a moment the lights came back on again. He drove around the area for a while but could not find anything. He rang his wife who confirmed that she could not see anything from the house either. In the end he decided to head for home.   Sighting Analysis   Although Mark did not respond to my requests to discuss the incident further, he provided enough detail in the initial sighting form to form an opinion on.   The object witnessed does not sound like a conventional aircraft of any kind. An aeroplane would not have been able to slowly descend over such a long period of time so can be put out of the question. The lights on the object seen through the binoculars sound nothing like normal helicopter navigation lights. The sighting occurred several years before drones became commercially available.   The length of time the object was observed for tends to suggest it was not a balloon with multiple coloured LEDs attached to it. It would surely have drifted away in the 45 minutes it was observed for.   Although the fact that Mark’s car temporarily lost power in the vicinity of where he thought the UFO had descended towards, there is nothing to directly link the two. However there are many cases on record where vehicles in close proximity to craft have lost power just as Mark reported here.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 12/12/2010 Last Updated: 24/10/2024   Sighting Details   At 1.34am on 30th November 2010, Sam Barns was in his bedroom, and looked out of the window. It was a very clear night with no clouds and the stars fully visible. To the North East he suddenly caught sight of a spherical orange coloured object with what looked like 12-13 small yellow and green lights near its centre.   He called his wife and children to also come and see the object. They watched as it moved in a zig-zag pattern across the sky. Sam estimates it was travelling between 100-200 mph. After about 45 seconds the object suddenly vanished.   Sighting Analysis   Unfortunately Sam did not wish to be contacted back by BUFOG so we have no additional information on this sighting, we do not even know where it took place. Orange spheres of light seen after dark can usually be explained by Chinese lanterns. However I find the yellow and green lights that Sam mentions very interesting, usually lanterns appear just as a fiery amber colour.   Also the zig-zagging manoeuvres that it was performing sound unusual, usually lanterns tend to drift on a straight course if caught in an air current or slowly rise if not. However perhaps it was caught in different currents travelling in different directions. The sudden disappearance of the object could have been caused by it burning out.   Without more information it is hard to say exactly what the object was, but an unusual Chinese lantern of some kind is the most likely explanation.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 12/11/2010 Last Updated: 25/10/2024   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   Early Thoughts   Since an early age Nicola has believed in the existence of extraterrestrials and been fascinated by them. She does not know where these feelings came from, as back then she had certainly not watched any TV programs or read any books about the subject, and her parents never spoke of it either. These feelings did not appear suddenly from one day to the next, it was more a slow realisation that ETs were real and were visiting Earth. She has always believed that many different ET entities exist. She thought of them as gender-less little people. When she was a bit older and more knowledgeable, she believed that the fairies that people spoke of in folk tales were in fact extraterrestrials. She was fascinated by the idea of multiple dimensions and believed that the ETs existed in other dimensions not seen by our eyes.   Nicola also sensed a connection to the stars. She used to love looking up at the night sky, even when she was as young as 5. She would often leave her bedroom window curtains open on purpose so she could see them before she went to sleep.   These feelings are interesting, especially as they began when she was too young to have been heavily influenced by various forms of media. Nicola thought of the ETs as small asexual beings – it is easy to see the similarities between this description and the Greys. Her thoughts on fairies actually being ETs is also something which researchers have looked into in great depth. There are a lot of similarities between old tales of fairies and goblins and alien abductions, and some people believe them to be based on ET contact experiences. Many experiencers sense a connection to the stars, probably because subconsciously they are aware where the beings they are in contact with have originated from. This feeling is particularly strong with “star children”, however at this stage there is very little evidence that Nicola would fit into this profile.   Observed   Another feeling that Nicola has had since a very early age is that she is being regularly observed by a presence of some kind. This feeling comes and goes, and sometimes gets worse when she on her own at night time. However she also sometimes feels it in the day. This presence seems to be all around her and she cannot pinpoint it to any one particular location.   When she was younger, this feeling of being watched would frighten her. As time has gone by she has learnt to accept it and is less scared because she realises that the ETs are not hostile – if they were they would have harmed her in some way.   The Silhouette   When she was at primary school, Nicola would sometimes camp out in the garden in a tent with her friends. During these years she lived at a bungalow in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey. One night she had two friends over to stay and they were camping out in the front garden. About 7 feet in front of the tent was a low wall. The girls were inside the tent when they suddenly noticed the silhouette of something unusual standing on top of the wall. It looked like a small being, about 3-4 feet in height, similar to a child but with incorrect proportions. This being appeared to be standing still and staring towards the tent.   The girls were understandably afraid of the unusual shadow. They quickly dashed out of the tent, and without looking back ran inside the house. They did not venture back outside until the following morning. There was no trace of the being or anything out of place.   Could this have been a visitation by an ET? It is a possibility worth considering; however it could just as easily have been down to the imagination of the girls. Perhaps it was merely a cat, fox or other animal, or even a person standing by the wall for a moment. Silhouettes cast by light can often be deceiving, making distorted shadows that can seem to look like strange creatures. As the girls did not actually look at what was causing the silhouette, we will never know for certain what took place.   Paranormal Activity   For as long as she can remember, Nicola has often felt scared of going to bed at night. This fear has remained throughout her life, and tends to come and go. However it is far from an irrational fear. It has been brought on by a number of strange occurrences which she has witnessed.   On numerous occasions between the age of 5-10, Nicola would feel her back and feet getting prodded or pressed down by an unseen force. This would always happen when she was lying down in bed before she went to sleep. When it took place she was terrified and would lie completely still and close her eyes. It felt threatening, like something was trying to get her to react. On one occasion she did look and felt sure that she saw a hand lower down the bed. She has also regularly felt her bed covers being pulled downward, like something was trying to pull them off on purpose to get at her. When this has happened she grips them very tightly to stop this from taking place.   The fear caused by these incidents would sometimes become unbearable. Nicola would often check around and under the bed in the daytime. Along with this fear, there was always the sense of doubt, and she often wondered if she was imagining everything that was taking place. She felt like she couldn’t scream for someone to come and help her because she would not know what to say to them if they did. One the time when she thought she saw a hand she did call for help, and ever since it has been a running joke in her family. On one occasion when she was 9 or 10, she got so frightened she ran downstairs to her mother, who was putting up Christmas decorations.   Because of these recurring incidents, Nicola developed a phobia of going to bed. She would lie down but it would take her ages to drop off to sleep. From the age of 10 these incidents seemed to cease, but the fear caused by them remained and has never really gone away. Nicola believes that an extraterrestrial presence was responsible for these occurrences. As she had not directly witnessed any ET beings, she does not really know why she feels they are responsible.   Missing Time   In her late primary school years, while still living at the bungalow, Nicola experienced two separate incidents involving missing time.   On the first occasion, she had settled down to sleep and it was very dark in the room. Then all of a sudden she found herself standing in the bathroom staring at the window. It was broad daylight outside. She was very confused and wondered if an eclipse had been responsible. She could not understand how it could be dark one moment and bright the next. She tried to think back to what had taken place and was upset to find she could not remember. However lookin g back at the incident Nicola cannot remember what happened next either. She cannot remember leaving the bathroom or what she did.   On the second occasion she found herself at her school. She was running along the school corridor in a panic. She was disorientated and did not know what time it was. It was still daylight outside. She checked in the classrooms and they were empty, so she assumed it was lunch time. However it felt too quiet and there was nobody around at all. She ran to the canteen and it too was empty. She then started running along another corridor towards the staff room. This is the last thing she can remember, she does not know what happened next. Thinking back to the incident she assumes it must have been after school closing time but before it got dark.   Nicola has never spoken to her parents about these incidents as she feels she would sound crazy. Her family have never mentioned either incident to her. What occurred is intriguing, but seems unlikely to have been related to ET contact. On neither occasion was there any reason to believe that ETs might have been involved e.g. a sighting of a UFO or beings before or after. She also remembers feeling normal during and after both incidents, there were no unusual side effects such as tiredness or sickness. She cannot remember what took place directly before or after these incidents, only how she felt at the time. She did not remember them immediately, they came back to her later as memories, but she has no idea when exactly they occurred. I do wonder if these incidents were in fact down to some kind of medical condition. Nicola feels she was in good health at the time, but she has never spoken to a GP about the incidents.   The initial incident could perhaps have been caused by sleep walking, although Nicola is not prone to this at all. She couldn’t have been missing for a long time such as an entire morning, as I am sure her parents would have noticed she was missing. She was still young at the time so they would surely have woken her up in the morning or been aware of her presence around the house. Perhaps it was during the summer and when she found herself in the bathroom it was actually very early morning. The second incident apparently took place during the daytime at school. It appears that she must have been running around the school after closing hours. Her parents did not used to pick her up at the end of the day, she would often hang around with her friends a while after school, so if the incident did take place at this time they may not have noticed her missing.   Green Glowing Energy One of the most fascinating and bizarre incidents which Nicola has experienced took place in late December 1995 when she was 24 years old. This experience was also witnessed by her husband Tom. Nicola’s second daughter Emily was just 4 months old at the time, and was sleeping in a Moses basket alongside the bed.   One night Nicola awoke at about 3am to feed the baby. This was a regular routine, and she woke up naturally, the baby was peaceful. As Nicola sat up in bed she noticed that her hands looked a bright white colour in the darkness, brighter than they would usually appear. It looked almost as if they were tinted. For some reason she got up out of bed, this was something she would not usually do as the baby was within easy reach. She reached down into the Moses basket and picked up her daughter. As she did so, she realised that there was a mild whitish-green glow beginning to emanate from her hands and forearms. This glow began to intensify around the areas where she was holding Emily until it became a bright fluorescent green glow!   Nicola was astounded at what was happening. She was not frightened by it and was actually excited. She immediately felt it must be something to do with the ETs. She was certain that the glowing light was emanating from her, not from an external source shining in through the window. She called out for Tom, who got out of bed and walked round next to her. When he saw what was taking place he was absolutely amazed. Nicola opened up Emily’s babygro to see if the light was coming from it or the nappy but it was not.   She laid Emily down on the bed. Even when not touching her, Emily continued to emit a glowing light. It began to subside. Nicola picked her up and began gently rubbing her. After about 5 minutes the glow became less intense and then vanished completely.   After putting Emily back in the basket, Nicola and Tom remained awake a while discussing what had happened. They decided that as soon as possible they would take Emily to the GP, just to get her checked out. As it was Christmas week the doctors was not open the following day, but the day after that they took her there. Nicola did not want to tell the doctor what had really happened, so instead told them that her daughter’s nappy had glowed green. She asked if it could have contaminated her in some way. The doctor examined Emily and concluded that she was fine.   This is a truly strange incident, and one which is hard to explain. It appears to have taken place for real, the fact that Tom saw it happening as well as Nicola suggests this and proves that it was not simply a dream Nicola was having or her imagination. It seems very unlikely that the glowing light was coming off something in the room or through the window, if it was then this would surely have been immediately obvious and no cause for concern. Could the light have been some form of energy that Nicola was passing on to her daughter for whatever reason, perhaps energy given to her by the ETs?   Further Paranormal Activity   In 2009 when she was 38, Nicola began to experience more unusual occurrences in her bedroom. These were different to what had happened when she was younger.   It began with an unusual scratching sensation coming from underneath the side of the bed and mattress. Nicola took the bed apart trying to find the cause but nothing was ever found. Later in the year on several occasions she felt the bed start to vibrate. She thought it was a mobile phone that had been left on the bed by mistake, but there was never anything found which could have been responsible. As time went on this activity seemed to increase in intensity, and the whole bed would strongly vibrate or even move a short distance.   After a while this activity subsided, but things did not settle down. Next came a number of occasions where she could hear what sounded like objects being moved around in the room. As it was dark she could never verify if this was taking place or not.   Soon after, she began to be woken up time and time again at exactly 3.03am by electrical devices activating by their own accord. For example the alarm clock would go off even though it was not set for that time. The TV would turn on and back off by itself. It even continued to do this after the plug in the socket was switched off, which of course is theoretically impossible. When Nicola became angry and unplugged and removed all electrical devices from the room, the fire alarm downstairs went off! This activity continued for several months and then completely ceased.   In August 2010, Nicola was lying in bed and suddenly felt like something was touching her on the back of the leg. There was nothing anywhere near the bed which could have been responsible. At the time she put it down to her imagination, although it sounds quite similar to the experiences she had earlier in her life.   These varied experiences are very interesting, although it is hard to say whether they are down to ET contact or not. There does appear to be a link between contact and paranormal activity. Many contactees report experiencing activity similar to this in their home. It is possible that through contact the individual’s senses are heightened or awakened, and this makes it more probable that they will experience ghostly activity. Much of what Nicola speaks of sounds like a poltergeist. The electrical activity she has mentioned is especially interesting as conactees often report electrical issues or faults in their proximity. Perhaps the presence of the ETs causes electrical disruption or it is down to something which has been actually changed inside the individual.   Haunted Cottage   In 1983 when she was 12, Nicola's family moved from their bungalow in Llanfair to a cottage in the same area. Either in that year or the following one, during the winter months, Nicola had an encounter with what she believed was a ghost. At the time she used to share her bedroom with her two sisters. One night before dropping off to sleep, she was lying on her back with her head slightly to the left.   Suddenly a luminous semi-translucent white figure appeared in front of her, several feet away. She sensed that it was feminine though this was not obvious from the figures appearance. It hovered towards her a bit, and extended its arm towards her. Nicola turned her head away so she was looking straight up, but she could still see the figure in her peripheral vision. She felt like screaming but instead just panicked and closed her eyes.   After about 5 minutes she re-opened her eyes and the figure was gone. When she told her parents about what happened they did seem to believe her, as they sensed the house may be haunted when they moved there.   There were other strange occurrences in the house as well as just this incident. On Nicola's first night in the house she felt constantly watched and had the strong feeling of a presence there. This feeling remained both day and night. Gradually she became ill until in the end she suffered from Peritonises. On numerous occasions the family members would hear footsteps on the stairs. Nicola was in the bathroom one evening, and suddenly the bathroom mirror cracked in two in front of her and dropped into the sink. Activity such as this continued until the family left the house in 1984.   It seems like these experiences may well have been down to ghostly activity rather than ET contact. But perhaps the reason why Nicola experienced them was because of heightened senses brought on by contact.   Psychic Messages   On several occasions Nicola has received messages of both things that have just happened and things that were yet to happen and then took place. When she gets these messages they appear in her mind like she is talking to herself. They are always direct with no conscious thought leading up to them.   It happened for the first time when she was living at a house in Pwllheli between the age of 15-17. She was brushing her teeth when suddenly she got a clear message in her mind saying "Helen has just died. Helen is not here anymore". Helen was a friend of the family who lived in Llangefni. About 5 hours later her best friend Laura rang up and informed her that Helen had died suddenly of meningitis. She had only been ill for less than 24 hours, and had died around the time that Nicola heard the message. She felt very upset, and strangely guilty almost as if she had caused it to happen.   In October of the same year, she was lying in bed and suddenly she got the message "John will be diagnosed with terminal cancer and will die before you finish the flats" John was her father in law, and he was working on a housing project in Pwllheli. The following month, her prediction appeared to be coming true. John became ill and started to become steadily worse. In late December he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was given a maximum of six months to live. He remained critically ill for a time, and the housing project was heavily delayed. However John did not die, the tumour actually started to shrink. So on this occasion, Nicola's prediction gratefully did not fully take place.   Again while living in Pwllheli, Nicola received a message about her gran, who was in a nursing home in Llanberdrog. Her gran was quite old and everyone felt that the end was near. In the early hours of the morning, Nicola received a message which said "Nain has just died. Don't be sad. She's had a good life". Later in the morning she found out that she had received the message several minutes after her gran had passed away.   These incidents are yet more evidence suggesting that Nicola has heightened senses. Many contactees report having psychic abilities such as premonitions. So there is the possibility that she has received these through ET contact, either intentionally or as a side effect.   Conclusion   As you can see, Nicola has had many unusual experiences. It is hard to say whether they are really down to ET contact or not. She has not had any definite experiences/sightings of craft or beings. But the feelings and thoughts she has had since an early age are very intriguing and I do wonder if some of her experiences have been related to contact in some way. The incident with her glowing hands, unusual electrical activity in her home, feeling of being observed and the psychic messages she has received are of particular interest. Perhaps in time Nicola will come to understand whether these incidents really are related to an extraterrestrial presence in her life or not. If she does have any further relevant experiences which she tells me about, they will be added to this report.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2010 Last Updated: 16/10/2024   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   In 2010 I was contacted via E-Mail by a man who I shall name “Chris”. He wanted to know ways of recovering lost memories that did not involve hypnotic regression. He had previously experienced two incidents which he wanted to learn more about.   Unfortunately Chris did not get back to me after a couple of initial E-Mails so I only have the specific information he provided. Therefore this report is not as thorough as most. However I still feel it is good to get these incidents down on record.   Disc In The Sand   Chris has a vivid memory of a bizarre incident which he believes occurred in the summer of 1973 when he was only two years old. His family had taken him and his cousins on holiday to St Ives in Cornwall. He remembers standing on the beach and looking at a group of adults who were staring down a hole in the sand. To his recollection this hole was about 6 feet across.   He wandered between the legs of the adult’s and looked over the edge of the hole. The walls were smooth, and it was about 12 feet deep. At the bottom of it was a circular shiny metallic disc. At the time he interpreted this as a jellyfish, and thought to himself how large it was.   Chris recalls steadying himself by putting his arm out and holding the knee of a man who was standing next to him. He looked up at the man and realised it was his father. He and all the other adults appeared to be transfixed. He did not say anything or look down at him. The next thing he recalls is of sitting on a small wall at the edge of the beach with an ice cream. In front of him sitting on the sand was four or five men wearing dark blue uniforms and sunglasses. He does not remember his family or any other adults being nearby. He tried licking the ice cream but it was sandy which he didn’t like, so he stopped eating it and it started to melt and drip onto his hand. One of the men in sunglasses looked up at him and said that he was lucky that he was too young to get his head fried. When the man spoke he appeared to do so without moving his lips. This is the last thing he remembers taking place that day.   Throughout his life Chris says that neither his parents nor sister mentioned the incident for many years. However in 2008 he re-visited St Ives with his parents. While down on the beach he asked his mother where the hole in the sand was. She pointed to the edge of the sea and simply said “Over there.”  She looked like she was going to continue to speak but then something stopped her. Chris noticed she had an odd expression on her face. His father looked away and did not comment.   In early 2010 his parents came to visit him at his home in Devon and they once again decided to go out to St Ives for the day. They walked along the beach together, and Chris found the low wall which he recollects sitting on. He didn’t mention anything to them, but this further cemented it as a real experience.   On the drive back to Devon along the A390 his mother suddenly stated that when he was very young he pointed at a light in the sky and asked “Is that the UFO?”  However after saying this she seemed to become agitated so he did not press her for any further information. It became clear to him that something very strange had taken place.  The Long Walk   When Chris was about 8 years old (around 1979) he was living in Moston, Manchester. His grandmother lived just around the corner, so they would regularly walk round to visit her.   On this particular occasion they set off like usual from their home, but when they arrived it was discovered that two hours had inexplicably gone by. Chris did not state how this time difference was discovered, but it must have involved his family as well as just himself due to his young age.   Conclusions   Chris has had a couple of very intriguing experiences (and by the sound of it possibly more). The unusual set of circumstances at St Ives is truly bizarre and unlike anything I have heard before. Due to his very young age at the time it may certainly just be down to childhood imagination. Perhaps it really was a jellyfish in a depression in the sand, which he now simply remembers as a metal disc in a deeper hole. Or even some kind of circular metallic debris. Maybe someone had purposely dug a hole and then placed a jellyfish or something similar in the base of it, and adults were crowding around to take a look. Maybe he then simply forgot being taken over to the wall to get an ice cream, and the group of uniformed men may just be other holiday goers and nothing out of the ordinary.   That said, there are some unusual aspects to the incident, including the apparent depth and smoothness of the hole, the fact that all the adults present seemed to be transfixed, the outfits the group of men were wearing and his memory of one of them speaking without moving his lips. Could the object really have been something more unusual such as a small landed/crashed craft?   I do not have much detail about the later incident, but it appears that Chris and other members of his family all experienced a couple of hours of missing time. The fact that there were multiple people involved clearly indicates that something must have taken place.   If Chris ever gets back in touch further details may be added to this report.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2010 Last Updated: 15/10/2024   In 2010 I was contacted by a man from Liverpool, who I shall name “Andrew”. He informed me that he has an interest in Ufology and other alternative news and information, but also has numerous other interests. He considers himself to normal and of sound mind.   Andrew says that he believes he has had a number of visitation experiences in his childhood but the details are quite blurred now. He recollects his adult experiences in much clearer detail.   Nosebleeds   Around 1995 Andrew started to experience regular nosebleeds from his right nostril on a near daily basis. These continue to this day, although their regularity has reduced somewhat. A year after these nosebleeds began, he noticed a strange anomaly in his right nostril. It felt like there was a hole inside it. He believes this anomaly is still present, and wonders if it is the cause of the nosebleeds, and if it is related to his contact experiences in any way.   At present he has not visited his GP about it or got it X-Rayed.   Beings Visitation   Mid-way through January 2008, Andrew had a disturbing experience which he believes could have been extra-terrestrial contact. The incident occurred in his current house in the area of Aintree, Liverpool.   At the time he was sharing the property with his partner. They had had an argument earlier in the evening, something which was very uncharacteristic of them. Andrew decided to sleep downstairs in the living room on an inflatable bed. He was not particularly stressed by what had happened and felt that in the morning everything would be fine again. He fell off to sleep just after midnight.   He awoke at about 3am. There was a clattering sound like something being knocked over, and also he found that his breathing seemed faster and deeper than normal. He is not sure which of these two things woke him up. It almost felt like something else was controlling his breathing.   Andrew is a light sleeper and he was certain that he was fully awake and not dreaming. He was lying front down on the mattress with his head facing to the left. When he tried to move he found he could not, he felt completely paralyzed apart from his eyes.   Close to him to his left he could sense the presence of a being of some kind, which was either short or kneeling. He also felt that there were two other beings behind him to the right, about 5 feet away, but he could not turn to see. He could however hear them bumping into things. It was quite dark in the room, especially to his left where he perceived the short/kneeling entity to be. He felt he could make out a rough shape but it was in shadow so no details could be made out.   For an unknown reason Andrew sensed that the small figure to his left was in control and was manipulating his breathing. He looked over at the light switch and thought to himself “I’ll turn on the light switch and see who’s in here” . This was the last thing he remembered. The next thing he knew it was the morning and his alarm clock was ringing. He was puzzled by what had taken place during the night. He stood up and looked around for ten minutes, but could not find anything out of place in the room.   Bicep Marking   The following evening Andrew was brushing his teeth when he noticed in the mirror a small circular red mark above his left bicep. He had no idea where this had come from, and wondered if it was something to do with what had taken place on the previous night.  He tried touching it but it didn’t hurt.   He took a couple of photographs of it for future reference. Soon after noticing the marking, it completely faded away. Andrew wonders if it was a bruise caused by being held tightly by one of the beings, or by having an instrument used on him.   Unexplained Lump   Later in the same month Andrew found a lump behind his left ear, just behind his jaw-line. It was about the size of the tip of a ball point pen. When he pushed on it, it would not hurt, but would move around under his skin a small amount.   He is not aware of how long it remained there for, but recently he checked for it again and it was no longer present.   Although the lump could have had a medical explanation, such as a temporary cyst, there is still the possibility that it was an implant, which was then later on removed.   Conclusions   It is hard to say whether Andrew’s experiences are definitely contact-related or not. Nosebleeds are a common after effect of contact, and the anomaly he believes he can feel is intriguing, however it could have a medical explanation. As he has not visited his GP about it this is impossible to confirm at present.   The visitation is interesting, however he did not see the beings themselves. Aspects of what he has described could easily be attributed to a sleep paralysis experience rather than contact. Shadowy forms and strange sounds are often described, as is a feeling of pressure which can make it hard to breathe. It is also known that sleep paralysis is more common during periods of stress or when sleeping in an unfamiliar place, both of which would again apply. There are a number of cross-overs between sleep paralysis and contact, and it is important to remain grounded.   It’s obviously intriguing that the mark on his bicep was found directly following the incident, and the lump behind his ear also found soon afterwards, but again neither can be confirmed as artificial. The marking could have simply been a bruise from unknowingly banging his arm against something (perhaps while asleep), and the lump could again have had a natural explanation. As it was not checked for being metallic or X-Rayed, and it is no longer present, we will never know for sure. Perhaps Andrew’s childhood experiences mean that the above incidents are down to contact, but we do not have any knowledge of what happened with those currently.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Originally forwarded by Richard Hall Release Date: 25/07/2011 Last Updated: 14/10/2024   In July 2011 I was contacted via Richard Hall’s website by a British company director named Stephen Joseph. He let me know about two stunning sightings he had witnessed the previous year while over in Greece where his company was operating from. These sightings appeared to be of the same or a very similar object, one which clearly displayed advanced intelligent manoeuvres.   30th August 2010 Sighting   At 1am on the 30th August 2010 Stephen was sitting out on the balcony of his house in Arkitsa, Fthiotida, Greece. It was a clear still night and the stars were visible overhead. He was having a cup of tea and looking at his neighbours three storey house across the road.   He happened to glance to his right and noticed a light in the sky. He saw a glowing sphere of white light approaching extremely rapidly. It was at least 1 km away from his position, and looked to be moving faster than 200 mph. The object continued to approach until it was right above his neighbours house. It then immediately stopped, with no deceleration visible at all!   The object appeared to be about 1 metre in diameter. It was glowing extremely brightly but had clearly defined edges and did not light up the surrounding area at all. Stephen noticed that it appeared to be rotating on the spot. It was hovering about 3 metres above the roof of the house. He got the sense that it was looking into the property and was also aware of his presence.   After about 10 seconds it started to move again, this time much slower. It followed the roofline of the property, slowly descending. It then descended down next to the house until it was about 3 metres off the ground. Then suddenly it massively increased in speed and shot away across the fields towards the mountains in the distance! It covered 2 km in about 2 seconds and was lost from sight. It moved so fast that it left a glowing line of light as it went, which was visible right to the mountains for a brief moment.   Stephen was amazed at what he had just witnessed. It was clear that the glowing sphere had been under intelligent control, and that it had visited his neighbours property for a specific reason.   November 2010 Sighting   Several months after his initial sighting, Stephen once again witnessed the same or a very similar object. Once again he was out on the balcony of his home, and this time a friend was also present. This time the object was seen in the distance above the Egnatia Road, a nearby motorway that runs alongside the mountains behind Stephen’s home. Just like last time it was seen to travel at an incredibly fast speed in excess of Mach 1, and left a trace line behind it. Due to the similarities in appearance and movement it is probable that this was either the same object, or another of the same type.   Conclusions   These sightings are both very impressive due to the manoeuvres the object was seen to perform, especially during the initial incident. It was clearly under intelligent control due to the fact that it approached then immediately stopped over the roof of the neighbouring house, then moved around the side of it before flying away. The incredible speed and acceleration that it demonstrated numerous times immediately puts out of the question the idea that it was a white LED balloon or other glowing inflatable. It is also very unlikely to have been a remote controlled model or secret military craft, for what purpose would they build a glowing spherical object and then fly it in close proximity to a residential area?   I feel there is a high chance that the object seen was an advanced craft. Spheres are one of the more commonly reported craft types, and they are often seen to glow brightly after dark in the manner described by the witness. Due to their relative small size, they are probably un-manned and used for observational purposes.   The fact that the object was seen twice in the same area within a three month period is very interesting, and tends to suggest that it had been flying around and possibly monitoring the area for a period of time, though this is just a theory. We can only speculate on why it stopped over the neighbouring household – perhaps it was specifically interested in one or more of the occupants. Perhaps it was monitoring Stephen not the neighbours at all, and just happened to stop over their home. Perhaps it was not monitoring anyone and just happened to stop in the area for another reason. It is impossible to know its real agenda, but the witness sensed that it was performing a scan of some kind.   Other than the close proximity of the initial sighting, there is not much to indicate that it was directly interacting with Stephen. It is more likely that it was flying around the area for a while and he happened to see it on two occasions. It is probable that there were other witnesses to it, perhaps people driving along the road in the second incident.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 02/08/2010 Last Updated: 11/10/2024   On 21st July 2010 BUFOG received a very interesting sighting report from a man named John living at a place known as Henritta. Sadly he did not leave any contact details, and there are numerous places by this name so I am unable to state the exact location, however I believe this sighting took place in the USA.   Sighting Details   At 10.50pm on 17th July 2010 John was out on the driveway of his house. It was a clear night and the stars could be seen in the sky. He heard a helicopter coming from the East. It was coming towards his location. As it got closer he could make out that it was an army helicopter. Not only that, it appeared to be chasing after another object. John could not make out the exact shape of this object but it had red and green lights on it. Suddenly the object vastly increased in speed and flew away to the West in a matter of seconds. It did this in complete silence. The helicopter turned and came back round, and switched bright lights on as if it was searching for something.   John called his next door neighbour who also came outside and saw the helicopter. After about 5 minutes of circling the area it slowly flew away into the distance.   John also mentioned that his neighbour followed the UFO sighting on the internet, I assume that he means by this that it was reported by other people too. I have so far not been able to locate anything about this UFO.   Sighting Analysis   This is a fascinating incident and it is a shame that John did not leave his contact details as I would certainly have liked some further details. From what he has said, the UFO certainly sounds like it was something out of the ordinary due to the incredible speed at which it exited the area. It moved too fast to have been a conventional aircraft, model or inflatable of some kind. It is very intriguing that a military helicopter was following the object, and then proceeded to search the area after it had departed - this again suggests that it was something very unusual, possibly a genuine advanced craft. It also means that the military in the area were well aware of the object. If John gets back in touch then I will be able to add further details to this report.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 19/09/2010 Last Updated: 03/10/2024   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   Introduction   "Carol" lives in the small village of Cornwood close to Dartmoor, Devon. For many years she has had numerous strange experiences which have led her to believe she is in contact with extraterrestrial beings. She wants answers to her experiences – who these beings are and why they are in contact with her. This report will cover Carol’s experiences in depth, and features many witness drawings and photographs.   The Pale Beings   Soon after Carol and her family moved into their house at Plymouth in February 1980, she would often feel like she was being observed. Soon her and her son Timothy began to experience apparitions of strange pale-faced beings. These people looked young and were quite short. They always had their eyes closed and had thin wispy white hair. They would wear shapeless white gowns. Sometimes Carol would be woken up by two of the beings who would sit on her bed early in the morning. Occasionally she would feel one of them lying down in bed next to her at night. They seemed to take delight in trying to frighten her. They appeared to be lighter than a normal person of their size would be, similar in weight to a small cat.   One morning she got fed up with being woken up by them, and when they sat on the bed she shouted at them angrily. After doing so she felt guilty and actually apologised to them! With this the beings faded away, but a few moments later returned. One of them was now holding a tiny baby which they appeared to have brought to show her. This baby looked similar in appearance to the beings, and strangely had a navel-like protuberance coming from the back of its neck. After this incident they bothered Carol less and would sometimes appear but would no longer suddenly jump onto the bed.   When Timothy was still quite young, he came into Carol’s bedroom early one morning and said that someone was in bed next to him. Carol followed him back to his bedroom but could not see anything. She asked him about what he had seen, and he informed her that he had seen these funny looking people a lot and that they always had their eyes closed. Carol was immediately convinced that Timothy was being visited by these same beings.   On another occasion, both Carol and Timothy were awoken in the night by a loud clattering noise from outside of Timothy’s bedroom window. Timothy cried out and Carol went into his bedroom to see what was going on. She found Timothy standing on his bed and looking out of the window. He seemed to be in an almost trance-like state with wide staring eyes, like he was looking at something she couldn’t see. He told her he he could see a girl outside in the garden on his swing. He said “It’s a girl, but not our girl” (Meaning that it wasn’t his sister). Carol looked outside but could not see anything. She asked Timothy what the girl was wearing and he told her she was wearing a white nightdress.   This wasn’t the last time the clattering noise would be heard. Occasionally Carol liked to meditate. For an unknown reason the sound would sometimes start when she was deep in meditation. However it was a real sound that was audible to everyone not just herself, so wasn’t just in her head.   These experiences are very interesting indeed. Carol felt at the time that the beings she and Timothy saw were ghosts which were haunting their property. At first she was frightened by them, but after a while got used to them. She decided to ask around and see if she could find out the history of the house. It turned out that one of the owners previous to the couple she had brought the house off was a lady who had got pregnant and tried to conceal the baby, eventually giving birth in the house with help from a neighbour. Carol was informed that she had ended up in a mental hospital, though for what reason and what happened to the baby remained a mystery. Carol decided to contact a local spiritualist church who sent round two ladies to take a look around the property. They informed her that they could sense a connection with children and the manipulation of pregnant women, though it is of course possible they were just making this up, Carol had, after all, informed them about the beings she had seen. When the family eventually moved out of the house, Carol found out that historically the area had been a leper burial ground. So the feeling was that the pale beings were ghosts. However I am not so sure. The description of the beings sounds similar to that of alien-human hybrids. The short height, pale features, thin wispy hair and what they were wearing are all very reminiscent of other contactee’s descriptions of hybrids. It is interesting that the beings would always keep their eyes closed; this is not something I have come across before. The way in which one of the beings showed Carol a small baby is another factor which leads me to believe the beings were hybrids. Many contactees are involved with the hybrid breeding program, and have eggs/sperm removed from them, which are then used to create alien-human cross breeds. Often the ETs bring the baby to the contactee to show them their own offspring, and sometimes even hand it to them for a while so they can bond with it. Could it be that the beings were hybrid, and could the baby that Carol was shown have been created using her own DNA? I feel this is certainly a possibility to consider, and would fit in with her other contact related experiences.   Shadow Being   A couple of times Carol also awoke in the night to find a shadowy shape standing by the side of her bed. This figure brought with it an extreme feeling of dread, and Carol was very frightened by it on both occasions. She could not make out any details; it was just a tall shape darker than the surroundings. Both times she closed her eyes and did not dare look again, and despite being frightened fell back off to sleep.   Entities such as this are often referred to as “shadow beings”. They are often seen by contactees, and many believe them to be related to contact in some way. ETs have the ability to mask their own appearance or the appearance of their surroundings. So these beings may well be ETs masking their true appearance. I have investigated numerous other contactees who have seen very similar beings to what Carol describes.   Paranormal Activity   As well as the various beings, Carol and her family experienced other strange goings on, both at the hose in Plymouth and their current house in Cornwood.   When Carol and her family moved into the house at Plymouth, there was a strange bad smell which appeared at random times during the first few months. This odour came and went, and seemed to move around the house. After several months it was not so regular but still happened occasionally for a year. It smelt a bit like gas, so Carol had someone round to check for gas leaks but there were none. They thought it may be a dead animal under the floorboards, so Carol next had all the floorboards lifted but no source of the smell could be found.   At their current house between the mid 90s and 2005 occasionally noises were heard downstairs at night time which sounded like somebody moving around. On one of these occasions, Timothy actually went downstairs to investigate. The dining room door was closed, and when he tried to open it, it felt like something was holding it shut. He was very frightened and rushed back up to Carol. They both went back downstairs together and tried opening the door and this time it opened absolutely fine.   Many contactees report experiencing paranormal activity around their homes. There appears to be a definite link between this activity and ET contact, although exactly what that link is has not yet been adequately explained. It is possible that through contact, the individuals gain heightened senses which enable them to detect and experience the spirit world more easily than most.   Spiked Spherical UFO Sighting   The first UFO encounter I will cover in this report was not actually witnessed by Carol, but by her daughter Heather who was 5 years old at the time. It took place in late April/early May 1980 at 3.30am while the family was living at Plymouth. After hearing about the incident from her daughter, Carol decided to contact Plymouth UFO Research Group (PUFORG) to report it officially. she kept the PUFORG report which was created, and sent me a copy while going over her experiences. There is little to gain in me re-investigating this UFO sighting from scratch, as PUFORG appear to have done an excellent job, so below is their report in its entirety, complete with drawings by her daughter. I tried to contact PUFORG to not only ask for official permission to reproduce the report, but also ask for further information. However so far have been unable to find contact details for them anywhere online. It is possible that they no longer exist as an active group.   This is a very interesting sighting of what appeared to be a solid artificially created object. Certain aspects such as the glowing windows and lighting suggest it was a craft. Carol feels certain that her daughter was awake and really saw the UFO, however when she went to check it was no longer there. Heather was quite young at the time, so we must consider the possibility that the object was something more mundane which she was mistaking for a craft, perhaps an oddly shaped inflatable. However it was apparently hovering almost stationary in the air for quite a length of time, surely a helium filled balloon or something drifting in the wind would not have been able to do this? Also because she observed it for quite a while, it seems unlikely that she was just dreaming or imagining the object. If we consider it may have been a hoax model of some kind, why would someone have been flying it so late at night where there would be little chance of it being seen? Another possibility is that it was a bright orb of light and the "spikes" Heather reported were actually flaring coming from this due to the brightness. However this does not take into account the three windows seen on the front of the object. I feel therefore that this may well have been a genuine sighting of an advanced craft, possibly of extraterrestrial origin. Could it have been there specifically for Heather, or even for Carol who was asleep elsewhere in the house at the time?   Out-Of-Body Experiences   In 1984 Carol had the first of numerous out-of-body experiences (Also referred to as astral projection). One night she awoke to find the room bathed in bright white light. Hanging down from the ceiling next to the bed was a long white string-like thing. Carol reached out and grabbed hold of it. It was about 6 inches wide by 1 inch deep, and felt a bit like a sheet of flexible polystyrene. She tugged on it, and it felt like it was unravelling like a roll of tissue paper. She kept tugging on the object and then suddenly realised that as she did this she was being drawn out of her physical body. She was now high up in the room close to the ceiling staring up at it. She felt like she was wide awake, and in complete control of what was happening. She was not scared and was more intrigued by the experience.   Carol experimented with moving and managed to move into a standing position and around by the side of the bed. Carol is short sighted and wears glasses, but takes them off at night time. She found that she could see more clearly than she would be able to when awake. She enjoyed the feeling of being weightless without the burden of her physical body.   At this point, a young man walked into her bedroom. He was a stranger to her, but for some reason she felt no fear. Carol believes this was due to the altered state she was in. The man was dressed in a waterproof pull over coverall. He asked Carol where she would like to go. She replied that she would like to go to Lutton (At the time she was contemplating moving to Lutton). This is her last clear memory of the experience. She has a blurred memory of walking around a house and seeing lots of other people. She does not know what happened to the young man. She remembers vividly coming back into her physical body. This happened slowly from her feet upwards. She heard what sounded like electrical crackling sounds while this was taking place.   In the morning Carol had a strong headache which lasted the whole day. She is certain that the experience was more than just a vivid dream.   Contactees often report having out-of-body experiences. It is possible that contact can sometimes occur on this metaphysical level. However there is no part of this particular experience which suggests that it was directly related to ET contact. The man that she saw is more likely to have been a manifestation brought on by the experience rather than extraterrestrial, although of course this cannot be confirmed beyond doubt.   Helicopter Bother   On an evening in 1989, Carol’s car was buzzed by a low flying helicopter. She was out in Plymouth on a road named Deep Lane. The helicopter apparently followed Carol to her destination in Lutton, and then remained hovering above it for a time. Carol was disturbed by the presence of this helicopter, and decided to phone the police. They could hear the noise over the phone, and decided to contact the MOD about the incident. Below is the MOD response letter that she received:   As you can see, the MOD claim that it was a Sea King helicopter which was on a training exercise. However Carol feels sure that it was specifically following her, rather than just coincidentally flying on the same route as she was driving. It is probable that the MOD explanation is real, so perhaps the pilot was just having some fun and buzzing Carol’s car on purpose.   There were two other incidents that took place at the same location on Deep Lane. Firstly soon after the helicopter incident, Carol found her way blocked by a BMW on its side. She approached the crash but there was already a policeman there who informed her that there was nothing she could do to help. On 21st January 2006 she was driving along the same road at 10.45pm. Suddenly a large white owl flew directly into the windscreen, striking both it and the roof of the car. Carol quickly turned the car around and went back to look for it. She found it injured in the middle of the road. She watched it for a minute, after which another vehicle was approaching. She flagged down the vehicle so that it would not accidentally hit the owl.  Incredibly the driver turned out to be a volunteer at a nearby owl sanctuary and took the owl into his care! Carol finds it interesting that these three different incidents have all occurred around the same location. However it seems unlikely that they are connected in any way, it is probably just down to coincidence.   The White Light   On Friday 27th November 1992 another strange experience took place. This incident was witnessed by Carol, her son Timothy and two of his friends. It was the evening time, between 7.30-8pm. It was a cold but clear and still night, and was a new moon at the time. Carol had gone to pick up Timothy from a friend’s house. They were walking home along a path. As they walked, they bumped into two of Timothy’s school friends who then began walking alongside them and chatting. They got to about 40-50 yards of their house.   All of a sudden, the horizon to the left of them to the South West became illuminated by an expanse of rippling white light! Carol’s initial thought was that it was a rare natural phenomena that she had never seen before. Everyone present stood still interested by the strange light. It appeared to be shining down from the sky from an unknown force.   After several seconds it began travelling towards them. At this point, her son’s friends started to panic a bit, but her and her son were excited and intrigued. The light swept across the road in front of them, and came to a stop directly over the top of Carol’s house – illuminating it and nothing else! The light appeared to fit exactly within the borders of the property. It was an incredible sight, because everything in the garden was lit up so brightly, while all around there was darkness.   Timothy immediately started running towards the light to try and get into it. That was Carol’s instinct too, but she had to calm down Timothy’s friends who were terrified aliens were coming for them! He got to within a few metres of the light when suddenly it completely switched off, leaving the house in darkness once more. Timothy looked disappointed, and Carol was disappointed too that the light had now gone. She was mystified by the light, but felt that it was linked with technology which we do not currently have. After the incident, the witnesses told various people about what happened, but no-one else seemed to have seen the light.   White Sphere UFO Sighting   In 1993 Carol was to have her first UFO sighting. It was between 10-11pm on the 19th May. Her daughter Heather called her and Timothy outside the front of the house to take a look at what she initially thought was the moon. It was a clear and still night with not much cloud cover. Heather pointed out the “moon” to the East. There was a huge glowing circular object on the horizon, which was partially hidden behind a hill about ½ a mile from their location. The object was a yellow-white colour and looked similar in size to a full moon. However it clearly wasn’t the moon, as this was a very thin crescent at the time and was visible elsewhere in the sky. The lower part of the object was hidden behind the hill, so it looked like a semi-circle. To the right of the object were two small red lights, which looked to be just above ground level. The large object and the red lights were all stationary.   The witnesses stood watching the three UFOs for about 15 minutes. During this time they did not think about going to get a camera, they were too busy staring at the objects. Suddenly the main object appeared to shine a bright white beam in their direction, after which it suddenly vanished from sight. As it did, the two red lights moved away from it to the right in a Southerly direction and were lost from sight behind some trees.   After the sighting, Carol contacted the Plymouth UFO Research Group to report the incident. Although Carol could not find the full report that she printed out, she was able to find the summary report. The section relating to her sighting is shown below:   Large glowing white spheres are one of the more commonly reported types of UFOs, and I have investigated quite a number of cases featuring similar objects. The object seen here was clearly not an internally lit balloon/inflatable of some kind, as it looked much too large and also it shone a beam of light and then suddenly vanished from sight. The red lights are also unexplainable and appear to have been linked to the main object. If they were helicopters then other white/green/blue lights would have also been visible.   Orange Mist   Since 1993 Carol witnessed the appearance of an orange mist in her bedroom during the night on many occasions. She is currently single so is alone in the room. Typically she would wake up in the middle of the night and look over at the windows of the room to see glowing orange mist/fog apparently pouring into the room from outside from around the edges of the curtains. There is a main window and a smaller side window, and the mist would tend to come from both of them, although sometimes it appeared denser through one. The mist looked self-luminescent but did not seem to light up the surroundings much. It appeared concentrated to a certain area rather than being widely dispersed. It spread out about a foot in width from around the window edges. Carol never felt threatened by its presence at all. When Carol first started seeing the mist her bed faced the windows so she would see it immediately when she opened her eyes. Whenever she saw it she would feel extremely drowsy and sink back off to sleep very fast. Carol says this feels like she is being sedated. She would often fight against this feeling and try to stay awake. Initially she would only be awake for several seconds before dropping off. However over time she found she was able to stay awake for longer.    Eventually she managed to get up out of bed and walk across the room towards the mist. As she was crossing the room she felt like she was doing this very slowly, like walking through treacle. She reached the window with the mist right in front of her and as she went to pull back the curtain it faded away in front of her eyes. She checked the clock and found it was approximately 3am. Carol remained awake a short while before returning to bed and going back off to sleep.   In 2003, 10 years after she had first seen the mist, these experiences appeared to cease. She would no longer wake up in the night time and no longer witnessed the mist appearing in her room. However this was not to be the last time she would see the mist (see later).   Contactees have reported seeing strange mists or fogs, sometimes around themselves or around other people. However this is the first time I have spoken with anyone who has experienced this strange phenomena. Could the mist have been some kind of entity which was visiting Carol? Perhaps it was something coming from an object outside the windows. But if it were physically there, and was not intelligent in any way, why would it have vanished when she approached it? Could the mist have been a recurring vivid dream, one which was so convincing that it remained even when Carol felt she was fully awake? This is a possibility that must be considered, and if so this would explain why it disappeared when she got near to it.   Dancing Lights   In 1993 and early 1994, Carol had numerous sightings of anomalous glowing white lights. She would mostly see them after 10pm on Friday, Saturday or Sunday evenings. These lights would fly across the sky on a straight path, but erratically jump around back and forth as they did so.   After a number of months of seeing the objects Carol informed PUFORG. She assumed that the lights had to be something mundane due to the amount of times she would see them. However PUFORG’s chairman Bob Boyd thought different. He informed her that the lights were not on a normal flight path for aircraft, and asked her if he and a friend could come and visit her to conduct a sky watch in her back garden and around the village. Carol agreed to this.   The sky watch took place in late autumn 1993. During this the lights once again made an appearance, as everyone hoped they would. They saw roughly a dozen of the lights, which flew in an arc across the sky from right to left, jumping about as they did. Carol took a photograph of one of these lights. When the photo was developed it seemed to show four orange pinpoints of light, the middle one being more pronounced than the others. The colour is probably due to the exposure, however the fact there were four lights is a mystery. It is possible that the outer lights are just reflections in the camera lens of the middle light. Carol wondered if the erratic jumping was actually an effect caused by numerous objects turning lights on and off extremely fast.   Bob and his friend tried to film the lights on video camera but sadly they were too small to come out properly. They seemed interested in the lights, but could come to no conclusion as to what they were. They were however convinced that they were not conventional aircraft.   By spring 1994 the lights had stopped appearing so regularly, however they did still occur from time to time, including 11th June 1994 on which quite a number were seen. Carol still occasionally sees them and informed me that the last time she saw some of them was in late August 2010. However some of these sightings may be explainable as Chinese lanterns. That said, lanterns do not jump about the sky, they tend to drift smoothly, so I do not feel that these are responsible for all the sightings. It is interesting to note that Carol started to witness these lights around the same time as the orange mist experiences began – were the two related in some way?   The Lady And The Gift   On 6th April 2004 Carol was to experience her first visitation by an actual being. She went to bed quite late, Carol thinks it was about 2am. She was starting to drop off to sleep, when she had an out-of-body experience. She felt herself floating out of her own body and began to spiral upwards over the bed. This continued until she was right up near the ceiling of the room. Carol looked down and could see herself lying still below. She felt very much awake during this experience. This was not the first time this had happened, and she was quite comfortable with it.   Then someone entered her bedroom and walked across the room towards her bed. At this point Carol quickly returned to her body. Initially she thought it was her daughter, and she spoke to her, asking her to put the light on. But the figure just stood there about 3 feet from the bed without speaking. Carol began to feel uneasy and again asked the figure to put the light on several more times to no response. She realised that it was not her daughter. It was quite dark in the room, and she could not make out many details of the figure. She could see that it was female, was quite slender, and was wearing what looked like long robes with a covering like a large hood over her head. After standing still for at least a minute (which felt much longer at the time), the mysterious visitor approached the side of the bed. She reached out towards Carol and handed her a strange object. She lifted her hand and took the object without fear. The object was small and cylindrical in shape, about 2-3 inches in length. On the top of it was something that looked delicate, but she could not make this out clearly. It reminded her of dried leaves/flowers. As the lady handed her the object, she spoke to Carol saying “From grandmother, to mother, to daughter.” Carol did not understand what she meant by this. She is not sure whether she heard this like normal, or whether the voice appeared directly inside her mind. She could not see the lady’s mouth so had no idea whether or not she had opened it when she spoke. Carol thanked the lady and asked her what the object was, but she was once again silent. She then stepped back away from the bed. She remained motionless for at least 30 seconds. Then she strangely appeared to start breaking up into little squares from around the edges. This continued for a couple of minutes until she had completely vanished. Carol was absolutely fascinated to watch this occur.  When the lady had gone Carol felt that the object she had been handed had also vanished.   The entire incident had felt very real to Carol, and she feels that she was awake at the time and not just experiencing a vivid dream, although she does not put this possibility out of the question. One of the reasons why she felt it must have happened is that she did not go straight back off to sleep after the lady had gone, she remained awake thinking about what she had just experienced and what it meant.   About 10-15 minutes went by and then Carol heard the sound of a couple of helicopters approaching the house.  She lay in bed listening and wondering what they were doing in the area at that time of night. She heard them hovering and circling over the house for several minutes, after which they flew away. It seemed very odd that they had arrived so soon after the experience with the lady, and she wondered if they were connected in some way. A short while went by before she settled down to sleep.   In the morning she spoke to Timothy and Heather and they confirmed that they too had been woken up by the helicopters. They informed her that they had actually come back a second time a while later, Carol must have slept through this. After talking about the helicopters, she went over what she had experienced beforehand. They were interested but like herself had no explanation for what had occurred. Everyone speculated that perhaps the object was linked with DNA passed down the female line. Because of the strange way that the lady and object had vanished at the end of the experience, she wonders if it was something mechanical like a hologram. However the object that she was handed had certainly felt solid.   This is a truly fascinating experience with many unanswered questions. Who was the mysterious lady who paid Carol a visit? It is certainly possible that she was extraterrestrial. The species we refer to as the Nordics, and other species that have been reported, look extremely human – could the lady have belonged to one of these races? Or was she nothing more than a vivid dream? The incident began with an out-of-body experience – could this have lead in some way to a vision which was not physically taking place? If it was just a vision, at what point did this vision end and reality begin? Carol stayed awake after the lady had left, this tends to suggest that the experience was real rather than dreamed. Certain aspects of this experience could fit in with the condition known as sleep paralysis. However she was not paralysed at the time, she could move freely and reached up to take the object from the lady when it was handed to her.   What was this unusual object? It is certainly unlike anything I have come across before. It appeared to be a gift of some kind, but for what purpose? Perhaps it was symbolic of something, or perhaps when it vanished it was actually absorbed into Carol in some way. These are just suggestions and by no means definite.   The helicopters that appeared soon after the incident are also very interesting. Although this may have just been a coincidence, and they could have been in the area for another reason, this adds another level of intrigue to the incident. Could the people aboard these helicopters have been aware of the visitation Carol had experienced? Was there a craft seen in the area that they were attempting to track down? These are questions that will probably never be answered, but are worth considering.   Telephone Issues   Over the years Carol’s family have had many strange experiences when using the phone. Sometimes they have heard clicking noises, echoes and even an unidentified man’s voice. Also for a time, their phone was apparently automatically dialling 999! Carol kept getting calls from the police asking her to stop ringing them up.   Contactees often experience electrical disturbances, with equipment malfunctioning or switching on and off, and lights sometimes flickering. Could the phone issues experienced have been caused by this? Obviously there is the possibility that their phone was not working correctly and that this has nothing to do with Carol’s other experiences.   Glowing Humanoid Visitation   Some point in 2005 Carol had another visitation in the middle of the night. But unlike the lady, this experience was quite frightening. She does not know what time she awoke, but it was still very dark. Standing two feet from her alongside the bed was a glowing being. She saw it immediately when she opened her eyes, and was both shocked and frightened by its presence.   The being had a slender humanoid build, with thin arms and legs. It appeared to be almost 6 feet in height. The most fascinating thing about the being was the fact that it appeared to be solid, but was lit internally by an intense glowing light which caused it to appear semi-translucent. This light made the being appear an orange-pink colour. Carol could make out veins and internal organs inside the being’s form. However she does not remember seeing any bones, which she felt was odd. As well as these details, she noted that its armpits were more rounded in shape, rather than v-shaped like humans usually have. Strangely Carol does not remember what the beings head looked like. She felt that she should have been able to see this, but does not currently remember any details. Neither does she remember what the beings hands looked like. She thinks the beings lower legs and feet were hidden out of view due to how close the being was standing. The being felt very much alive, but it was standing still.   Carol only looked at the being for a couple of seconds, just long enough to register what was happening, before she shut them tightly in fear. She lay as still as she could, terrified that the being would detect any movement she made. Inexplicably she then sank off to sleep, which she says felt very un-natural considering the situation.   In the morning Carol told both her children, they did not really know how to react but seemed to believe her. She realised she could not remember what the beings face looked like, and decided to perform a test. She got her daughter (who is almost as tall as her) to stand in the position where the being had been. Carol found that she could easily see her daughters head, so in theory should have been able to see the beings. Later she also shared the experience with a couple of friends, who were both very intrigued.   This could well have been a visitation by another humanoid type/species, perhaps presenting itself in this manner for a particular reason. The fact she could see its internal structure, and that the light appeared to be emanating from within it is very interesting indeed. Its colouration reminded her of the orange mist she had seen many times, is there a connection between the two? Maybe the mist was actually the same or a similar being appearing to her in a different form.   The way in which she could not remember what the beings face/head looked like is also interesting and has been reported before. It is possible that the being was masking its facial features from Carol, or that she could see it at the time but her memory was wiped of this particular aspect of the incident.   The being was not seen to interact with her in any way, but it is interesting that she quickly dropped back off to sleep. Considering she was so scared this seems unusual, and suggests that this was done deliberately. If this was the case then more could have happened to her which she cannot consciously remember.   Unexplained Lights   On boxing day 2008 Carol was to have another UFO sighting. At the time she was sleeping in a different bedroom to the one where she had seen the beings and mist. This bedroom was at the front of the house, and had no curtains on the window. She woke up about 3am. She was facing the window and lay there staring out into the night sky. It was a clear night and the stars were fully visible. She then noticed a glowing light which was brighter than the stars, looked larger, and more yellow in colouration. It was moving across the sky from the left to the right of her vision. However its path was not straight, it kept jumping around and also flashing.   Carol was intrigued as to what it could be. She got out of bed, opened the window and leaned out to try and listen for any noise coming from the object. It was completely silent. She continued to watch the object until it had flown away out of sight. Carol got back into bed and lay there thinking about what it could have been. Suddenly an image appeared in her mind. She saw a triangular shaped craft with rounded corners, covered in lights. This took her by surprise and she has no idea whether it was just her imagination or something which had been implanted. She soon dropped back off to sleep.   Later in the night, at an unknown time, she woke up a second time. Remembering what she had seen earlier, she again peered out of the window. Amazingly she saw something else! In the position where the yellow light had first been, there was a bright blue glowing light. She stared at the light and it flared brightly then vanished. Like the first incident, Carol was certain that she was awake, and wondered what both the lights could have been.   The Mist Returns   Carol has always held the notion that there is some sort of intelligence behind the mist and that it was linked in some way with other dimensions. On 14th August 2010 she was meditating and decided to attempt to contact this intelligence. She asked the question in her mind:   “I want to know the truth about the orange light, what caused it and why it came, and why it has stopped coming. I want to see it again and be able to understand the truth. I want to know who or what the lady was who gave me the message and the gift, why did she come to me and what does it mean? It is time for me to know the truth about myself and why these things have happened.” That night, she awoke around 3am and saw that the mist had returned! However this time instead of it coming from around the curtains of the windows, it was coming into the bedroom from the door, which was ajar. However just as she had done many years before, she immediately dropped back off to sleep before she could act. She did not sense any communication at any point during the experience, so the reappearance of the mist is a mystery – however it was obviously in response to her request earlier that day.   Grill Shadow   On 16th September 2010, Carol went to bed about midnight. Even though she had initially felt tired, for some reason she could not get to sleep for quite a while. In the early hours of the morning she opened her eyes a couple of times because she was sure there had been a white flash of light, which she had seen through her closed eyelids.   At about 3am she turned over in bed and once again woke up. She saw a soft white light coming in through the bedroom windows and from around her bedroom door which was slightly ajar. The white light coming through the window appeared to be shimmering and rippling. The light coming through the door had the shadow of a black grill overlaying it. Carol was not afraid, she was more curious of what it was. She kept screwing her eyes up and looking again to make sure she was not just dreaming or imagining what she was seeing. She was certain she was fully awake. After a short while she decided to get up and walk over to the light to investigate it more closely. However as soon as she’d had this thought she suddenly began to feel very sleepy. She felt that something was doing this on purpose, which seemed to be the case, because as soon as she decided to stay put and continue observing from a distance the sleepiness receded.   She continued to watch the light for about 10 minutes before finally dropping off to sleep. Her cat was in the room at the time and did not seem bothered by the light at all.   Could this white light have been from a craft that was hovering outside the house? Perhaps the light was coming through some kind of grill on this craft and making the shadowed pattern on the wall. Or was Carol being shown this pattern for a particular reason? It does seem that this experience actually happened and that Carol was not just dreaming.   Conclusion   Despite the fact that Carol has not had any clear memories of being taken aboard a craft, I feel it is quite likely she is a contactee, due to the number of contact-related experiences she has had. She has had numerous visitations by various types of beings, had multiple sightings of UFOs and is also expressing signs that she has heightened senses, another factor which is quite common with ET contact. During most of her experiences other witnesses have also been present, which suggests that the incidents have really taken place and are not just being imagined. I wish her all the best for the future and hope that over time she gains more of an understanding of what is happening to her.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 02/06/2010 Last Updated 01/10/2024 Sighting Details   In late May 2010 I was contacted by "Becky" (actual name withheld) who informed me of two unusual UFOs that her and her husband had witnessed over Burton-on-Trent. It was 9.30pm on the evening of 23rd May, and was a clear and pleasant evening. The sun was just starting to set. Becky happened to look up into the sky, and was amazed to see two strange objects moving at speed. Both of the objects looked like silver coloured oval hoops. One of them had a piece sticking out of it. They were on a straight flight path and appeared to be moving as fast as an aircraft would. The object with the protrusion from it was spinning and turning about different directions. The UFOs appeared to be completely silent.   The couple watched for a couple of minutes as the objects moved away into the distance. They could barely believe what they were seeing, and were convinced that it was something out of the ordinary.   Sighting Analysis   I have not been able to get in contact with the witnesses to ask them any more details on this sighting. But from the information they have provided, it certainly seems like an interesting sighting. The objects were obviously not conventional aircraft of any kind, I am certain of this because of their unusual shape.   However I do wonder if they were silver coloured novelty balloons, such as balloons in the shape of number 0's. Perhaps they were at a lower altitude and moving slower than how they appeared to be. The objects did not display any intelligent manoeuvres, and their straight flight path could be put down to them drifting in an air current. Also the fact that the one with the protrusion was spinning and rotating also points towards the possibility that the objects were being blown in the wind. I feel that going on the current details of the sighting, this seems like the most probable explanation for what was seen. If the witnesses get back in touch they may be able to provide further evidence which points away from this possibility.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Ian Jones Release Date: 30/09/2024 The Sighting: Occurred in 1977 Time of Year: Probably 15th – 16th September Time of Day: Between 8pm and 9pm The Place: West Heath, Birmingham   West Heath is a residential area of Birmingham, England on the boundary with Worcestershire. Forming the larger part of the ward of Longbridge and West Heath it is situated between Kings Norton, Northfield, Longbridge and Cofton Hackett. It is just to the north-west of the A441 Redditch Road.   Sighting Description Kaz Kelsell's description of her sighting: “I was 14 when I saw a UFO in West Heath on an evening in 1977. The time of night was about 8-9pm. It was about September, clear sky. I was on the Fordrough near the shops. Near Aire Croft. I was waiting outside a phone box waiting to use it, when I looked up and about 100 foot away, there was a large UFO hovering above a house in Aire Croft. It was, the size was smaller than a helicopter. Big enough to see from where I was. It was near the roof, directly above the bedroom window. No noise at all, even when it zoomed off. It was silent, large, a strip of different colours not like a plane nor a police helicopter. It hovered over the house for at least 3-4 minutes. I was in disbelief what I was watching. Then a young lad came to use the phone box and he saw it and he was more frightened than me. He was shocked and watched it too. Then, all of a sudden, it shot across the evening sky, no sound. Your eyes could not follow it as it went at top speed. I can't tell you west to east, but it was on the left of my vision then shot across the sky to my right. He looked at me and I was stunned. I got in the phone box and rang my parents to say I was coming home late and I told them that I had saw a UFO. They didn't believe me. I got home about 9pm-ish and on the local radio BRMB, people were ringing up saying they had seen a UFO. My parents had nothing to say after that. Years later, I was watching a programme on UFO's and Shaun Ryder was in Manchester in Sept 1977 and he saw one too. I think it was the same one. Shaun Ryder saw one around that time in Manchester. I know he described his experience on a programme he was in about UFO's. This was a few years ago on the tv. Reading the article, it seems his 1977 experience was 6.45am. Next day.   I have told only a few people in my life and this is the first time I have drawn it, the colours were so bright and shone through the porthole- looking windows. It was spinning that fast, but you could see the colours.” I asked Kaz whether she felt any emotions, like being frightened? Her response was: “Funny enough not frightened but more what the hell? That's a UFO and what are they doing hovering over that house... not thinking that they could be taking someone. The lad near me was more frightened than me.” The shops where Kaz had the sighting in 1977 have long since been demolished, along with the phone box. Kaz kindly forwarded some map prints showing this area and marked on details of where she was and where the object she saw hovered above the houses nearby.  Above is the local area, with the arrow pointing to Aire Croft. In the above aerial photo, Kaz was standing approximately where the “0” marker is on the white car, where 26 The Fordrough is now. This was where there were shops in 1977. The phone box she was waiting outside of was located there. The object was roughly directly above the house at about 9 Aire Croft. Note that on this recent photo there are mature trees between where Kaz was standing and where she saw the object, but Kaz reports that they were not there in 1977. So, she had a clear view. Below is a 2024 photo of the same area, with a phone box in the top right-hand corner, above the red line. If Kaz was standing there, observing the object, and it moved away from her left to her right side then it moved in an approximately NW to SE direction. Below is a May 2022 picture from the rear of the property, showing the position in which Kaz saw the object, with added notes by the witness. Below   is the position of the object above the house, from the front of the property (May 2022 photo). The distance between Kaz and the object was quite close. As such it falls into the Hynek classification system as an example of: Close Encounters of the First Kind (CE1) – Sightings where the UFO, whatever its appearance, comes near enough to a witness—typically within about 500 feet—that details of the UFO can be readily observed. There is no interaction with the witness or the environment. Kaz was able to see the shape and size of the object and that it was spinning and details of port-hole type windows with multi-coloured lights shining out through them. Shaun Ryder's Sighting The report by Shaun Ryder Kaz refers to is described in an article in The Guardian on 2nd November 2013: Shaun Ryder on UFOs: 'It's not that I want to believe – it's impossible not to' | Shaun Ryder | The Guardian Here is what Simon Hattenstone, who wrote the article, reported he said: "Shaun Ryder was 15 when he first saw one. He'd just started as a messenger boy at the post office, and was walking to the bus stop on Hilton Lane, Little Hulton. It was 6.45am, pitch black when he looked up into the sky. "At first it was still, and then it went, 'Voooooooom!' And then again: 'Voooooooom!' Classic zig-zag, hovered, then went off at 10,000 miles an hour. Like Star Trek. Boom. Gone. Yeah!" He then describes another sighting: "Another bus stop a few months later in 1978. This time he's at Irlams o' Th' Height in Salford, it's around 5pm. "Hundreds of lights going across the sky really slow, and I'm thinking, 'God, are we being invaded?' The next day in the papers it said: 'Mysterious lights in the sky – lights at Salford rugby ground have gone mad.' And that was bullshit because when the lights at rugby grounds start moving around, it's nothing like these." These accounts were in a much longer article about Shaun’s interest in UFOs and was promoting his new 4-episode tv show, which started later that month: Shaun Ryder on UFOs ( history.co.uk )   Then, on the This Morning TV show on 8th November 2013, he gave more details about that first sighting: https://youtu.be/wd1IET6aMQk He was on the way to a bus-stop: "It was about 7am, I saw this thing just hovering then it just shot off, stayed still, shot off again, did a sort of zig-zag, came back over the bus-stop, stayed there for a few seconds then shot off, that was like 1978." Unfortunately, in this second source, Shaun says it took place in 1978, which is several months later than he implies it happened in the Guardian article, which was closer in time to when Kaz says she had her sighting. Therefore, with this confusion over when they happened, linking these sightings is not possible.   Other Sightings Around This Time As Kaz reports, when she got home she heard many people phoning the local radio station BRMB about having seen something the same evening. I did contact BRMB, but had this response, which is not surprising given how long ago this was: “You are talking about something from a very long time ago. There is nobody working at the new BRMB who was there at the time. There is a Facebook group/forum called BRMB radio remembered that may give you answers.” I have placed a request on this FB group’s page, but after several weeks have had no response at all. The newspaper reports at the time I have found are for 15th and 16th September 1977 in the Wolverhampton Express and Star. On the 15th September it wrote about many people having reported strange shapes flashing in the sky and coloured lights on the objects. On the 16th September it wrote about many UFO sightings locally in the Black Country, probably debris from Skylab  [my italics] and that Beacon Radio had been flooded with reports. The first report for the 15th September does suggest similarities with what Kaz reported. The second report, on the 16th  September, is a clear attempt to debunk things - there was no debris from Skylab anywhere over the UK at anytime during 1977, so whoever thought that “explanation” up hadn’t done any research. However, taken together, these articles do confirm there were many reports of something unusual in the skies during the middle days of September 1977 in the West Midlands. I have not found any reports of colourful objects similar to that Kaz describes, anywhere else in the UK around that time. Conclusions Kaz has provided a detailed account of what she saw, with a clear drawing of the object. She saw it fairly close up – less than 100 yards away above houses. She saw it for several minutes as it was stationary. It was smaller than a helicopter. She saw it leave the area at high speed. She did not feel frightened, just a bit stunned/surprised. A young lad also saw it and reacted as being frightened.   It was not anything to do with the weather at the time, because the sky was clear. It was not something astronomical that was mis-identified, because it was too large and colourful and moved quickly. It was not an aircraft, or a helicopter, because these are very loud and do not fly around, or hover, in the way Kaz describes, nor do they look the same as the object she describes. It was not a glider, because these do not remain stationary for minutes over a housing estate and do not fly away suddenly at top speed. Nor do they fly at night, or have lights. It was not a balloon, blimp, kite, or similar aerial object, because these move with the wind and would not be stationary for several minutes and then “shoot off” at top speed, too fast to follow. Drones were not around in 1977. It was not satellite debris, because that wouldn’t hover in the air, nor would it then shoot off horizontally and disappear from sight. Debris falls and crash lands somewhere. There was no satellite debris reported over any part of the country during that year.   Therefore, unless more information becomes available to help identify what Kaz saw , this has to be filed as an Unidentified Flying Object / Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Did anyone else see this object anywhere over Birmingham during September 1977? If you did, please get in touch with BUFOG. Copyright Ian Jones 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Report Forwarded by Richard Hall Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2010 Last Updated: 30/09/2024   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Sighting Details   In July or August 1989 "Mark" was sitting in his mother’s garden with a friend in the early hours of the morning. It was a clear and warm night. The two witnesses were chatting and relaxing. At about 1am they suddenly noticed a round orange light ascending directly upwards. The light was in the distance, at most 5 miles away from them. Mark assumed that it was a flare or firework. The light ascended for 3-4 seconds. Then suddenly without warning it momentarily stopped. It then shot away upwards and to the left at an incredible speed. Mark estimates this speed was thousands of miles an hour. Within a split second the light had vanished from sight. Immediately they were convinced that what they had seen was neither a flare or firework or any other conventional object. They were astounded by what they had witnessed.   In the days following their sighting Mark informs me that there were other UFO sightings reported in the area. Many years have past but he has still found no explanation for what he saw. Sighting Analysis   This is a straightforward multiple witness sighting of what was clearly an highly unusual object. If it wasn’t for the incredible manoeuvre the object performed I would have suggested it was a Chinese lantern. These appear like orange orbs of light at a distance, and if it was a clear and still night would ascend vertically with no air currents to cause them to drift. However the fact the object instantly accelerated to an incredible speed and left the area means it must have been something highly unusual. It could not have been a lantern, a flare, a firework or other lit inflatable. Neither could it have been a conventional aircraft of any kind.   Of course we cannot say whether or not it was ET in origin. As it was distant we do not even know what its true shape was. However this type of manoeuvre has been reported many times before with other UFO sightings. It suggests that the object was under intelligent control. I feel that the speed it moved away at is far in advance of anything our military possesses, either publically or in secret. Surely a normal aircraft moving at such speed would kill a human pilot due to the G-force it would create? Maybe the object was being controlled remotely and was unmanned. Perhaps it was a back engineered craft being flown by humans, this is of course a possibility. Either way this certainly appears to be a genuine sighting of an advanced craft of some kind.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2010 Last Updated: 29/09/2024 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Unfortunately the key individual involved in this case only sent initial details via E-Mail and did not respond to any further correspondence, so we only have minimal information regarding his experiences. However they sound interesting so I have decided to release them anyway. "Steve" may potentially decide to get back in touch in the future, or other witnesses to these events may come forward. Steve states that he has had an interest in the UFO subject since high school and is a member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He also says that he is a water douser and amateur photographer. He claims that he has had an interest in the UFO subject since high school and has been visited by beings. He describes this incident as "something similar to the Alaska movie The Fourth Kind" . This suggests that it involved a visitation or potential abduction by Grey beings, or may even have involved an owl screen memory (It should be noted that The Fourth Kind is not based on a genuine contact case but is instead a horror movie based upon aspects of the contact phenomenon) Steve says that in the earlier years of his life he doubted whether this incident actually took place, but a long time ago he looked into other similar experiences and it dawned on him that it happened to him and was not just a bad dream. He also claims to have seen many different craft over the years, of a variety of shapes. He has not provided information on specifically when or where these sightings took place. On one occasion he says he was on a weekend beach holiday with his wife and they were staying at an apartment. He had an argument with his wife around 3 o'clock in the morning, and afterwards decided to go to the upper porch to calm down. He lay down on a reclining beach chair looking straight up at the early morning sky. He says that he then saw several UFOs enter a larger "mother ship" by flying into its base. He states that this manoeuvre only took a few seconds and it amazed him at how co-ordinated it was. He saw all this with his naked eye. He says that the larger craft appeared to be at an altitude of about 25000 feet and was absolutely huge, perhaps a mile across. He did not provide any further details regarding what happened next, but says that later on he also saw three other cloud-like objects which hovered above him no higher than 300 feet. He believes they were about 10 feet in diameter. Steve says that he was frightened of these objects but also fascinated by them, and certainly believed them to be ET craft. He was so overwhelmed by their presence that he extended his arms up towards them and bravely said out loud "Come and take me!" Like before he did not state how this sighting ended, but says that after that he woke up his wife and they happened to see another UFO flying in North Easterly direction several miles away from the location. It was white in colour and performed erratic manoeuvres, moving back and forth and up and down in the sky. Unfortunately this is the only information which Steve provided about these incidents. However I have decided to release the details anyway in case he gets back in touch or other witnesses come forward. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024