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

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

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

After two very successful camping trips on previous years to famous UFO-related locations, Rendlesham Forest and Warminster, for 2026 BUFOG decided to go down a more mystical route. Pendle Hill in Lancashire is widely known as the setting for a number of witch trials back in 1612. The area is famous for paranormal goings on, and is very popular with ghost hunters. There have also been a number of UFO sightings in the vicinity of the hill, making it the perfect choice for our latest camping adventure! On the afternoon of Friday 10th July, many of us set off from various locations around Birmingham, with others coming from further afield. My wife Tasha, friend Ron and I headed up from Solihull along the M6 motorway. The journey was scheduled to take around two and a half hours, although this turned out to be a massive under-estimation due to numerous heavy traffic jams, and even a pile up at one point. It wasn’t long before something unusual, some would say extra-ordinary, occurred. It was an extremely warm and sunny day so we stopped off at a service station to grab a cold drink. The car park was quite sizeable and there were plenty of available spaces. However I didn’t drive into the first one I saw, I drove around a bit before finally choosing a space. I parked up and the three of us got out of the vehicle and stretched our legs. I turned around and UFO investigator Alan Foster, who was attending the camping trip, was standing right in front of me! We were all pretty surprised by the situation. After chatting for a brief moment, campers Paul and Lauren also appeared in their car! It was as if we’d been drawn together by mysterious forces outside of our understanding. Either that or it was all just one big coincidence, you decide! After the remainder of the extensive journey we finally arrived at our destination, Shay Gate Farm campsite on the outskirts of Colne. The site was very open with huge areas of grass available, and a wonderful view of the surrounding area. We chose our pitch alongside other attendees who’d beaten us to it, or, in the case of Lawrence and Nicola, had arrived the evening before. We got our tents sorted out, then Ron handed out some surprise individually named lanyards for everyone! Due to our late arrival it wasn’t long before we had to set off to Colne for a pre-booked meal at the Morris Dancers pub. The meal gave us all a chance to settle down and properly socialise. Most of the camping trip attendees were present, meaning there were over twenty of us! We commandeered the corner of the bar spread out across numerous tables. The food was excellent and the staff very accommodating. After the meal we returned to the campsite and got our fire pit started (a modified beer keg themed on the folk-punk band The Levellers). We then formed a large circle around it on camp chairs. The BUFOG dogs Lily and Amber showed off their adorable witch costumes. It was now time for our next planned activity – a drumming circle! A number of us had brought along many different types of drums and percussion instruments for everyone to have a go on. Guy led the circle with his excellent didgeridoo and drum playing abilities, and the rest of us kept the rhythm going. I’d say we did an admirable job considering many of us were not regular drummers. As the light began to fade in the sky, we settled down for some relaxed chats about UFOs, the paranormal and other fascinating topics. It was a really mild and still evening, very pleasant indeed. There was barely a cloud in the sky, and after the sun had fully set we got a great view of the stars, leading to an impromptu campsite sky watch. I got my laser pointer out which I used to point out various satellites crossing the sky. At our "base of operations" nothing out of the ordinary was spotted, but Paul and Lauren informed us they had seen a white point of light perform numerous sudden changes in direction from the outskirts of the camp site. We eventually settled down around 12:30am. The following morning the weather was still extremely pleasant, absolutely perfect for our plans. After fully waking up and eating some breakfast, Tasha and I donned our pointy hats and everyone gathered at “the hanging post” for a group shot. We then headed off on a short drive to Barley, the village closest to Pendle Hill. After having to immediately U-turn due to a sat nav malfunction, the remainder of the drive went smoothly. After arrival in Barley a number of attendees seized the opportunity to grab food and ice creams at The Cabin, a lovely little café situated at the edge of the car park. Richard clearly won the best dressed competition with his wonderful UFOs and Greys holiday shirt! Most of us then set off on our first activity of the day, a walk around the Pendle sculpture trail situated at Aitken Wood, just to the North of Barley. Unfortunately, there is no car park at the entrance to the wood itself, so our first task was to actually hike to reach it along a gradually sloping road. There was not much shade from the bright sunlight, but it was extremely picturesque, with some sheep-filled farmer’s fields, a reservoir, and the impressive sight of Pendle Hill in the distance to the West. Arriving at the wood we posed for another group shot before discovering that there was an even steeper slope ahead of us! Luckily at the top of this things flattened out and became easier to explore. There was a trail through the woods interspersed with loads of superb wood, stone and metal sculptures. Around every corner new sights awaited us, including a collection of mystical beasties, fascinating art pieces, animal plaques, and sculptures themed on the Pendle witches. Some of our favourites included a sneaky little goblin, a superbly ornate woodland throne, a unicorn and a painted carving of a wood nymph. The strangest thing we came across while exploring was a very odd brown-coloured two legged monstrosities with the head of a cherub. Truly the stuff of nightmares (or extremely odd dreams at the very least). After exploring the woods and managing to find our way out in one piece we headed back down the slope to Barley, and met up with those who had decided to skip the walk. It was then time for us to rest our weary legs and grab some lunch at The Cabin. Apart from a few straddlers who decided to grab some drinks at the Pendle Inn, the most famous bar in the vicinity of the hill, we then headed off to the nearby village of Roughlee. We parked up near to a metal statue of one of the most well-known individuals accused of witchcraft, a lady known as Alice Nutter. Tasha then gave a fascinating short talk on the witch trials, going over what took place and the reasons behind the accusations centuries ago. We then got back on the road and drove to Barrowford with the intention of visiting the Pendle Heritage Centre. Unfortunately, due to the FIFA World Cup Quarter Finals on later in the day they had closed the museum early. A little disappointed, we instead headed for the nearby Memorial Park. We were soon cheered up by the sight of some ducklings and baby coots swimming near the edge of the lake. With not much else to check out in the vicinity, and the looming car park closure time of 4pm getting ever closer, we returned to Barley to meet up with the others at the Pendle Inn. As we were back sooner than expected there was plenty of time for a drink and chat before dinner. Guy and Chris serenaded the other pub visitors in the beer garden on didgeridoo and handpan! (I think they enjoyed it) We were then led through to a large conservatory at the rear of the pub for our second pre-booked meal of the trip. It was a very nice room, but also extremely warm due to the fact that the roof was largely made out of glass. Once again the food was great quality, although I kind of wished I hadn’t ordered a dessert after seeing the size of the main course. Amanda dished out some lovely Pendle Hill Camping Trip key rings she and Rachel had got specially made. Tasha also gave her witch trials talk again for those who had missed it earlier in the day. With dinner out of the way it was time for our final planned activity of the trip. No BUFOG camping trip would be complete without at least one official sky watch, and there was only one logical place where this sky watch should take place! I’d originally planned for us to climb to the summit of Pendle Hill for the watch, in a similar way to how we’d ended up on Clay Hill in Wiltshire the previous year. However, after finding out about the scope of the hill I realised that for many of us this would not be feasible. Pendle Hill is a daunting 1827 feet high. From the Eastern side it has a couple of main paths to the summit – a winding snake-like path, and then a steeper V-shaped path made out of stone steps. The climb was braved by ten of us, with some opting to go partially up the winding path, and others heading up the steeper path right to the top. We headed along the path which led to the foot of the hill before before making our choice. Guy, Ron, Patrick, Chris and Lauren opted for the path to the summit. I accompanied Tasha, Alan, Sunrise and Paul to a roughly level area near one of the turns in the path just under half way up. We set up our chairs and admired the surroundings for a while. The sky was extremely clear with very little cloud. No aircraft, neither human-made or otherwise, could be made out, but the view was superb. I went over a number of UFO sightings which had occurred in the vicinity over the years. Although Pendle Hill is not known as a hot spot, several publicised historical incidents have occurred between 1951 and 2013. After a while we saw the others appear over the top of the hill and slowly make their way down to us. They explained that it had been very blustery at the summit, but the views were incredible. As the first signs of sunset appeared in the sky we decided to make a move to ensure that everyone got down safely. While no UFOs were seen, we did have this mysterious sighting of a levitating being while on the hill…. Apart from the moment where I stepped too close to a stinging nettle sticking out from a stile we had to pass through, we made it down to the road without incident. We struck a victory pose, then made our way back to Colne. Arriving back at the campsite we got the chairs back out for some banter, but it was windier than the first night, with less stars visible in the sky, so after a while decided to call it a night. Just before heading back to our tents Ron produced an LED-lit Frisbee he’d brought along. It wasn’t still enough to properly have a game, but he threw it into the air a few times just to see how it would look on camera. As you can see from the below photos, the results were quite striking! As we neared our tents we saw fireworks going off in the distance and realised that England must have won the match. A satisfying end to an absolutely superb day! On the return journey to Birmingham synchronicity struck a second time. We pulled in at the services near Stoke-On-Trent, once again to quench our thirst. Just like on the way up, we bumped into fellow campers, this time Chris and Kate, who were there for the same reason as us. Just like our previous camping trips it was an excellent weekend, and I’m happy so many of our regular meeting attendees, and others who found out about it via other means, turned up for it. Thanks all for making it such a spell-binding time! Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: James Brodie Release Date: 02/07/2026 This is an interesting case as this happened to me quite unexpectedly with multiple people present at the time. It was the 18th June and it was the monthly BUFOG Truth-seekers meeting at the Hotshots Snooker Club in Oldbury. The guest speaker was Julez Finch who gave a fantastic presentation on remote viewing. Julez Finch begins his talk at Birmingham UFO Group I initially went across to Julez prior to the presentation, and I had said that I had been trying to practise remote viewing and astral projection as they are both areas I am interested in. Andrew Hodrien was standing next to me at the time. I asked Julez how he made sense of random images and how did he know he was getting something genuine rather than random. He said the most important thing to do is to write it down. It only counts if you have empirical evidence. An oral account will not suffice. I saw down with colleagues and listened to the first part of the presentation. It was very interesting, but we were only 10 minutes in and I got a flash of an image. It was an oval shape but all I knew what that it was important. About a minute later I got a really strong feeling of butterflies, and I saw an image of a lighthouse with a star next to it. I also saw a wooded area and a treasure chest. As the presentation went on, the feeling of butterflies increased, so that it also became a compulsion, and I knew I had to write down the images. At half time I borrowed some paper and wrote down the images. James Brodie's drawings and notes Then with great trepidation, I approached Julez as I felt foolish and I showed him that I had had these images come to mind. They may be something, but they are probably nothing. I gave him the piece of paper and I said, could you hold on to the paper, so that if it proves to be something, there can be no trickery on my part. I went back to the audience and the second half began. Julez proceeds to talk about his own personal remote viewing experience and how we was tuning in to the Space X rocket, but initially he though it was a lighthouse, and he drew a star next to it. I had an absolute feeling of shock, because it was as I had drawn it. Some of the other remote viewing drawings Julez did relating to the Space X rocket launch I had dawn a treasure chest, which was supposed to represent money and Julez talked about he had turned down a job from a crypto group. I also drew the oval shape. I had written the shape was important, but I had put the number 67 in it. The oval shape corresponds with an experience Julez had when he said he saw an eye or oval shape that blasted him in light. Were as a couple of the images could be described as interpretations; the lighthouse and star were an absolute match. I wasn’t actively trying to connect, and it was the butterflies/ compulsion to write it down I found interesting. In an instance like this, the immediate thought has to be was there any form of autosuggestion. The performer Derren Brown has shown multiple times how inserting visual clues can lead a person to draw a particular image. If you look up the Heavens Gate image, you will see a great example as to how he manipulated two advertising executives to create an image that he predicted. However, in this case, that can be absolutely ruled out. There were no visual indicators, no mentions of rockets, or beach locations or indeed of lighthouses, let along a star next to it which is very specific. Julez giving his remote viewing talk For me personally I had physical proof of what happened. Multiple people saw me write it down and give it to Julez. Julez on his part said it was a beautiful example of precognitive tuning. So the question is, did the image come from me or was it a potential subconscious connection and transference of information? The key thing for me it to see whether it is repeatable in a controlled environment. There have been a couple of anecdotal instances where something similar has happened, but this is the first time where I have empirical evidence of something happening. I am going to look into this further and then I will share with the group my findings. Copyright James Brodie 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 07/07/2010 Last updated: 27/06/2024 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Introduction Carol lives with her husband Matt in Buxton, a small town in Derbyshire, England. Since an early age she has experienced strange occurrences. These occurrences suggest that she has experienced contact, which may or may not be ongoing. She may also have been protected from harm on numerous occasions. Her clearly UFO-related experiences began when, at 12 years old, she and her friend had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped craft and appear to have been taken aboard it. Later in her life she would go on to have other stunning UFO sightings, and experience something which suggests she may be involved with the ET hybrid breeding program. This report covers Carol’s experiences in rough order of when they took place. It includes a full transcript of her hypnotic regression, and is interspersed with drawings she has done of her experiences. The Investigation I first met Carol and her husband Matt at the Lancashire Anomalous Phenomena Investigation Society (LAPIS) UFO Conference on Sunday 22nd May 2010. We had a brief chat about her experiences. It was here that I first heard about her stunning close encounter with a UFO, which led to recurring flashbacks and dreams. She also spoke of an incident involving a baby which appeared to be of both human and extraterrestrial origin. This was clearly quite emotional for her. I informed her I would be happy to look into her experiences, and over the next two weeks discussed these in detail via E-Mail and phone. I was soon aware that this would prove to be one of the most stunning cases I have yet investigated. On Saturday 5th June, I and Rob Tudge, the hypnotherapist who assists me with cases involving contact, drove up to Derbyshire to meet up with Carol and Matt at their home in Buxton. After an initial catch up, Rob regressed Carol back to her two most interesting experiences – the saucer UFO sighting and the incident with the baby. I feel everyone involved got a lot out of it. You can read the full transcript of this regression later in this report. After the regression, Carol and Matt then took us out to the locations where various incidents had taken place for some photographs. Fortunately it was a bright sunny day, and it was an absolute pleasure exploring Buxton and the surrounding moorland. We then decided to stop at The Winking Man pub for a meal and discussion about UFOs. It was a truly fascinating day, and we were very thankful to Carol and Matt for their time. Soon after our visit to Buxton, Carol filled in the Contactee Questionnaire I often utilise. The questionnaire covers many of the signs and feelings that are associated with contact. This led to further potentially related incidents being uncovered. We have remained in touch via E-Mail and through the BUFOG Contactee Support meetings, and Carol has already informed me of further incidents which have happened since. The events that Carol, her friend and husband have experienced over the years are truly incredible, and thanks to Carol can now be revealed within this report. An Unknown Protector Even though most people do not remember anything at all from the first few years of their life, Carol remembers an incident which took place in August 1963 when she was only 18 months old. She was down the beach at Christ Church with her family – her parents Paul and Claire, sister Jane and grandmother Elizabeth. Her mum and grandmother had gone to buy ice creams, leaving her with her dad and sister. They were making sandcastles, and she was jealous because Paul had made a moat around her sister’s sandcastle which had filled with water. She had been told to stay away from the sea, but she decided to walk to the water’s edge with a bucket to get some water for herself. Carol bent down, and a wave came in and took her off her feet and swept her away. She was spinning face down in the water, which felt like she was in a tunnel. She has no memories at all about how she was saved or who gave her back to her parents. In 2003 she spoke with her parents about the incident. Her dad said he owed the person a debt of gratitude, and it played on his mind that he never got the chance to thank them. Her mum said she had showed up coughing and obviously soaking wet, but they did not see who had rescued her or taken her back to them. It is possible that Carol managed to get out of the water and find her way back to her dad and sister, and due to the shock completely forgot this taking place. However she was only 18 months at the time, and it seems unlikely that she would have been able to do this without any assistance. Could it be that she was aided by an unknown protector? Taken on it’s own this incident is far from conclusive, however this would not be the only time when she has been apparently protected from harm. There would be further events later in her life, some of which were much harder to explain, as you will see later in this report. Contactees often mention incidents such as this one, where they appear to be protected by the beings who they are in contact with, sometimes through psychic abilities they have gained as a result. This protection may be for the benefit of the individual or the benefit of the ETs, it is not currently known for sure either way. Invisible Assailant When she was 7 years old, Carol used to live with her family on Queens Road, Buxton. Carol’s bedroom used to be up in the attic of the house, which her dad had specially converted for her. Aerial map of Queens Road One morning after she had woken up but still lying on the bed, Carol lent over to get a book off a low shelf. Suddenly she felt a heavy impact in the middle of her back, like someone had thumped her hard. There was nothing that was above the bed which could have fallen onto her, and she was terrified. She stayed completely still for what seemed like an eternity, but was probably only a few minutes. In the end she finally decided to move, and ran straight out of the room. She ran downstairs and told her mum, but she would not believe her and told her to go and get the bobbles for her hair! This is an odd incident, and one which could appear hostile in intention. Contactees often report feeling the sensation of being touched, but it is possible this incident was nothing to do with ET contact. Perhaps when she leant down to get the book, it stretched a muscle which led to the feeling of being hit. Or perhaps there was a totally different paranormal explanation, such as ghostly activity. Saucer UFO & Contact Incident In 1974, when Carol was 12 years old and at secondary school, her and her friend Janet would have an experience which would impact greatly on their lives. On the day of the incident, Carol had gone round to Janet’s house. It was between 4pm and 6pm in the afternoon. While Janet’s mum made dinner, the girls decided to go out and post some envelopes for the blind around the local neighbourhood. Carol cannot remember whether this was something the school had arranged for them to do or whether this was organised by Janet’s mum. It was a clear and dry day and the sun was shining brightly. They had been out for about 20-30 minutes. As they walked along Ecclesbourne Drive, Carol suddenly noticed a strange object hovering over the housing on their right further down the road. She pointed it out to Janet and asked if she could see it too, to which she replied that she could. The object was about four houses away from their position. It was almost Saturn-shaped, with a dome on top, a dome underneath and a rim protruding around the centre, although the lower dome was flattened off. It was about the size of a caravan. The object was a dull silver colour, like the textured side of tin foil, and had a completely smooth surface. Around the rim were numerous multi-coloured flashing lights. On the base were what appeared to be flattened circular shapes. Carol compares these to the shapes on the top of some types of electrical shavers. At first these markings were not very visible, but the object was due to get a lot closer to the girls than it was when they first sighted it. Aerial map of Ecclesbourne Drive showing the location the girls were at when the incident began Drawing of the UFO Drawing of the markings on the base of the UFO Photograph in the direction the UFO was first sighted Carol was absolutely fascinated and awestruck by what she and Janet were looking at. However she was not frightened. She immediately felt certain that the object was an advanced craft of some kind – a genuine UFO! She knew that it was something many would find hard to believe if she were to talk about it. The craft appeared to be about 40 feet high when they first spotted it. It was also moving in their direction but off to the side of the road over the housing. It approached slowly, and appeared almost clumsy in motion. Carol does not remember it making any sound at all. As it approached, it also began to descend. The girls were standing next to a bungalow, and as it reached this bungalow it was so low it was almost touching the roof. At this point it must have been less than 25 feet in the air. The craft encircled the girls, and came to rest about 20-30 feet away in front of them in the road behind where they were standing. It did not fully land; it appeared to be hovering about 12-18 inches off the road surface. Photograph of the bungalow over which the craft hovered Photograph of me standing at the spot where the craft landed in the road Janet stood slightly behind Carol and to her side. Carol does not remember talking to her. The girls stared at the craft for an amount of time, Carol is not sure exactly how long because of the strangeness of the situation. Then suddenly without warning, a doorway started to open in the side of the lower half of the craft. Carol feels that the door must have come down to form a ramp to the ground. Inside the open doorway it was very dark. Drawing of the craft with open doorway Carol is not sure of exactly what happened next. She certainly feels that a lot more took place, which she cannot currently fully remember. She believes that beings must have come out of the craft. She has vague recollections of this, and knows that “they weren’t green”. These recollections have haunted her for many years. Her next clear memory was of the craft being back over the roof of the bungalow. It lifted straight upwards by about 10 feet, slightly swayed and then suddenly dramatically increased in speed and shot away. The girls began to walk back to Janet’s house, discussing what they had just witnessed. They agreed not to tell Janet’s mum as they felt she would not believe them. Later they talked more about the incident in Janet’s room. They were afraid that if they told anyone the government would take them away from their parents and lock them up, so they decided not to tell anyone about what had occurred. Carol remembers a time when she and Janet were told off for being late back home from somewhere. She is not absolutely sure that this took place after the encounter with the craft, but feels that it probably was. The incident became a secret between the girls. Carol found out later that Janet did not remember the craft coming down into the road at all; she only remembered it hovering over the housing. So it seems that, for whatever reason, she has less recall of what took place. For a while they would still discuss what they had seen, but then Janet no longer wanted to talk about the incident at all. Many years later she admitted to Carol that it was because it went against everything they had been taught. She didn’t know how to handle it, so preferred just to forget it happened. Carol is not sure when the flashbacks began. They come to her as dream-like memories, where she cannot be certain that they took place but she innately feels that they did. In these flashbacks, she sees herself standing to the right of Janet. They are in a place that appears larger than the size of the craft, and are leaning against something. To her right some distance away stands a dark haired boy. The boy is naked and looks like he is in a lulled confused state of mind. Neither she nor Janet speak to this boy. Carol then walks past a clear cylinder filled with a pink liquid. Suspended in this liquid is a naked woman who looks like she is asleep. She has long dark hair, is just over 5 feet tall and looks to be in her 40s. Carol can see her hair moving around in the liquid. Drawing of the woman in the cylinder She then meets a number of beings and is shown something, but she does not remember exactly what. At this point Janet is no longer with her. After an amount of time with these beings, it is then time for their meeting to come to an end. Carol doesn’t want them to leave her. They then assure her that they will see her again, but only when she dies. Carol is not sure whether or not Janet has experienced flashbacks too. Janet no longer wishes to discuss the incident with her so she has not been able to ask her about this aspect. Carol no longer regularly stays in touch with Janet. About ten years ago, Carol decided to be hypnotically regressed, to see if she could remember any further details about the incident. The hypnotherapist was named Mel Grant, and she was passed his details by BUFORA. He appeared to be experienced in regressing contactees, and asked her many questions prior to the regression. Under hypnosis she remembered the craft clearly, but could not remember anything which took place on board, she could only see the colour pink. When Rob regressed Carol, the link between the UFO sighting and the flashbacks was made clear, and additional details she was not aware of before were also uncovered. In 2001, Carol’s parents were looking to move house, and had gone to see a property for sale on Ecclesbourne Drive. For an unknown reason, the man at the house told her dad that he had seen an alien. Her father mentioned this to her because he was aware of her previous sighting. A number of years ago, Carol’s step father and his friend had been out drinking and were walking home along Ecclesbourne Drive when they too saw something. He told Carol whatever it was, it was so low in the air that it made them lie down to avoid hitting it. Sadly Carol informs me that he does not wish to speak further about this incident. Early in 2010, Carol went to visit her ex-neighbour Ernie, who now lives in Sheffield. She decided to tell him about her close encounter with the UFO. He mentioned to her that he used to know someone who lived in the vicinity of the sighting, and who claimed to have seen UFOs in the area on multiple occasions. She hopes to get the contact details for this man and get in touch some point in the near future. When Rob regressed her on 5th June 2010, Carol remembered further details including what the beings looked like (see regression transcript later). Reminders Within a year after her UFO encounter, Carol went to the dentist. She was sitting in the dentist chair, and he swung around the hydraulic arm with the light on the end. Carol felt a sense of familiarity about it, and for an unknown reason it reminded her of something off a flying saucer. It is possible this experience triggered a memory of something which had occurred previously. On another occasion years later when her and Matt went to the cinema, the lights down the edge of the aisles reminded her of something which would be aboard a flying saucer. It brought back a memory that she had seen something similar, which helped to strengthen her belief that she had been aboard the craft back when she was 12. Unexplained Scar Also within a year of the UFO incident, Carol discovered an unexplained scar on the ball of her right foot, which is still visible today. She only discovered it when she jumped down off the stage at school. She is certain that it wasn’t this action which actually caused the wound, and could not think of how it may have happened. Recent photograph of the scar Obviously it is not possible to say whether or not this scar was in any way linked to her contact experience. Carol may have just accidentally cut her foot on something without being aware of it. Often wounds such as this will only hurt when pressure is applied to them, and may be completely painless until noticed. Usually markings caused through contact experiences only show up for a short time before vanishing completely, but this was obviously a deep cut as it is still visible today. However it still has the possibility of being related, which is why I have included it here. The School Trip On one school trip to France, Carol remembers an unusual incident taking place. She was sitting with a group of her friends on a long padded bench in the lounge of the hotel where they were staying, watching TV and talking. The next thing she remembers is waking up in the lounge surrounded by German school children. This was a very bizarre situation for her. She did not remember falling asleep, and could not understand why her friends would have left her there on her own. She went to find them, and found them back in their hotel rooms. When she asked them about what happened they told her that they'd tried to wake her up but she would not. The whole incident felt very unusual to Carol. She says it felt very different to when you simply doze off and then wake back up a short while later. Perhaps she was just tired and while relaxing had dropped off. There is no way of knowing how hard her friends tried to wake her up. But considering how she felt about the incident, perhaps there is a more unusual explanation. A Narrow Escape In 1975 Carol was out in Buxton with her mum during stormy weather. They had been out visiting former neighbours, and were on their way back home. They were walking along the pavement by the roundabout that joins Fairfield Road with Spring Gardens. Suddenly she felt her mum pull her backwards and sideways towards a shop doorway by the shoulders. She regained her balance and was about to ask her why she had done that, when she felt a force pulling her head back by a few inches. A moment later a slate fell off the roof right in front of her face and landed right where she was standing only seconds before. Aerial map of the location where the incident took place Photograph of the incident location. The slate fell off the roof of one of the buildings seen on the right Carol is adamant that it was an actual physical force and not just intuition that something was about to happen. She has always felt that it was her granddad looking out for her. But could it have been the ETs? It certainly seems that someone or something was protecting her from harm. Handbag Incident In 1982 when she was 19, Carol went on a holiday to the Lake District with Janet. They set off in the early hours of the morning in Carol’s Mini Metro. It was a clear and sunny morning, and visibility was good. When they arrived, they stopped at a car park to see if some nearby shops were open. They soon discovered they were not, so pulled out of the car park. Carol had pushed her large handbag between the head restraint and the door frame. It fell out and landed on the back seat of the car. She wound her window down, which is something she would very rarely do. She has no idea why she felt the need to do so at this time. They set off along the road away from the car park. Suddenly something flew right past her head, causing her to duck and slam the brakes on. She looked around and noticed that her handbag was lying in the road about 15-20 feet behind the car! It had somehow jumped up off the back seat of its own accord and flown out past her head and out of the open window. Carol got out of the car and walked back along the road to pick up the handbag. As she bent down to get it, she watched as a gold-coloured Allegro came screeching round a corner out of control further down on their side of the road. The driver managed to regain control of the vehicle. He got back onto the right side and drove past them. The girls realised that if they hadn’t stopped the car to get the handbag, the other car would have crashed into them. They were both convinced that something had thrown out the handbag on purpose to stop this event from taking place and save their lives. At the time they put it down to either Carol’s granddad or Janet’s mother. The Baby In 1982-83, when Carol was 19-20 years old, she became very ill with glandular fever, hepatitis and jaundice. During this time she would spend long periods of time sleeping on the settee at her parent’s house near to the former Devonshire Hospital. People would come and go all day but she would rarely wake up as she was so unwell. Carol has memories of something which took place around this time. She was very ill, so cannot be absolutely certain that it happened, but it feels very real to her. She remembers that one night; she was brought a baby at her parent’s home. She does not remember who brought her this baby; she just remembers being given it. When she looked at the baby she could see it was female but realised it was not human. The baby looked advanced in development for its size. She had very pale skin, large coal black eyes, a small mouth and black hair. Carol describes her as looking “most peculiar, and yet beautiful”. Out of all the features, it was the eyes which were most abnormal. Witness drawing of the baby Carol felt instinctively that this baby was her own. She was surprised and filled with love for her, and then got the chance to bond with her for a while. She talked and played with the baby and she responded in the same way a human baby would and appeared to be happy. Carol does not remember her making any noises. She believes that this went on from between 30 minutes to a few hours. Modified photograph which Carol found online which reminds her of how the baby looked She then remembers that after this time, the baby was taken away from her. Again she cannot remember who took it. This was very upsetting for her, but she feels that she was then comforted in some way. Once the baby was gone, she remembers feeling heartbroken but going off to sleep. Carol still finds this particular incident hard to deal with, and it stirs up strong emotions when she thinks back to it. Years later she would share the details of this incident with her husband Matt, who was already aware of her UFO encounter. When Rob regressed Carol on 5th June 2010, she recalled some of the details of this incident, which was very emotional for her (see regression transcript later). This incident is fascinating, and suggests that Carol is part of the ongoing breeding program. This appears to be one of the agendas of the Greys. They seem to be mixing our DNA with their own to create hybrid children. The reason behind this is not fully known, though some contactees claim to have been informed. The fact that the baby showed traits of the Greys suggests that Carol has at some point been in contact with this species, although she has no memories of this. Obviously some would say that this experience could have been a vivid dream brought on by Carol’s illness at the time, combined with a wish or need to be a mother. However if this were the case, surely she would have dreamt of a normal human baby, not one which showed clearly extraterrestrial traits? Many female contactees have reported similar experiences, where they have been shown babies which are not fully human, but which they recognise as their own. Some have also seen these hybrids at later stages of development as children, and even fully grown adults. Perhaps linked with this experience, on a couple of occasions Carol has felt like she is pregnant even though she knew she should not be. In 1987, when she was 24 years old, Carol was 6 weeks overdue and was experiencing signs of pregnancy, but then all of a sudden these feelings went away. A similar experience occurred in 2005. This could be down to false pregnancy syndrome or medical conditions, but on the other hand these incidents could be further signs that she is part of the hybrid breeding program. Electrical Disturbances Carol has experienced electrical disturbance in her home and elsewhere on numerous occasions. These experiences have not just occurred in one property, but have apparently only taken place after her first UFO encounter. About 6 times the TV or radio has come on of its own accord when she is near to it. Also on more than one occasion while watching TV, the channel has changed by itself when she has been thinking of changing it. In May 1984 when she was 22, Carol went on holiday to Las Vegas she kept getting electrical shocks off metallic things which she touched, such as car doors and shopping trolleys. It was like strong static had built up inside her for some reason. This can of course occur naturally, but seemed to be especially prevalent at this particular time. Of course this could have been down to the high amount of electrical lighting in the area, but then again perhaps not. Paranormal Activity Carol has experienced poltergeist-like activity in her home for many years, although it is possible that these incidents are just down to accidents and do not have a supernatural explanation at all. On a number of occasions she has witnessed objects fall off shelves or surfaces of their own accord. Also objects regularly go missing, sometimes they turn up, other times they have vanished and never been found again. Carol’s sister has also had a strange experience. She was at her parent’s house when they used to live in Leek, and was putting the children to bed. She tucked in Paul, who was 2 years old, and then went through to another room to put the baby to bed. Paul suddenly called out, asking who the man in his room was, and saying that he wouldn’t tell him. Then the airing cupboard doors flew open of their own accord, pushing over the safety gate at the top of the stairs. Also a baby drinking mug which had been on the chest of drawers was found downstairs. Individually these events could have a rational explanation but it was the fact that they all happened around the same time which was disturbing. A Presence In The Room In 1987 Carol had moved into her first place on her own. She was living in a flat in Buxton, directly above a pub known as The Horseshoe Inn on Fairfield Road. The building still exists but is no longer a pub. Aerial map showing the location of the building which used to be The Horseshoe Inn On one evening she went out on a date. When she returned home, she sat up reading in her room. Her pet cat was also present, sitting on the bed. Suddenly there was a bright white flash of light and the light fitting came crashing down and stopped just before it hit the floor, hanging on the wire. It was a rise and fall fitting, so Carol assumed the elastic had broken on it. She put it on a chair to ensure it would not fall further and break, and then went to bed. She was lying down, with the cat curled up on her thigh, and just about to drop off to sleep. Suddenly she felt the bed move, like someone had sat down on it. She thought it had just been her imagination, but then it moved a second time even more prominently. She was really upset and un-nerved by this, and ended up leaving the flat and sleeping at her sister’s house. The Sphere & The Policeman In 1988 when Carol was 25 a bizarre series of events took place, events which puzzle Carol to this day. On one evening, she and her friend Sharon had been out somewhere together, and then returned to her flat above The Horseshoe Inn. The cat was curled up in front of the fireplace. The end of the living room is semi-circular in shape and had a large window. Carol had drawn the curtains earlier in the evening. Suddenly about 6 foot off the floor, the curtains pushed out as if there was a spherical shape coming forward from behind. The cat immediately noticed and ran out of the room. Carol assumed it was someone climbing in through the window. She ran into the kitchen and got a carving knife. When she came back in the room there was no longer any shape behind the curtains. She handed the knife to Sharon, and slowly walked up to the curtains. When she checked behind them there was nothing there at all. Both witnesses were convinced that it had been something unusual, not just a draught blowing the curtain. Photograph of the building which used to be The Horseshoe Inn, indicating the window where the spherical shape appeared The girls remained at the flat and chatted about what had occurred. At 1.33am Carol walked into the bedroom and the radio switched itself on (See Electrical Disturbances section for more examples of this). This un-nerved Carol, and her and Sharon decided to walk back to Sharon’s place instead, as she felt uncomfortable remaining in the flat. Once they arrived at Sharon’s house, Carol lay down in the front room to go to sleep and Sharon went to her room. But Carol then began to see shadows moving around the room. By this time she was very spooked out and could not get to sleep. After a while Sharon popped her head around the door, and told Carol that she could not sleep either. So the girls decided to get into the car and sleep there instead! At about 2.30am, a policeman turned up and knocked on the window. They wound down the window and he asked “What are you girls doing?” Carol replied that they were just out. He then asked “Haven’t you got a home to go to?” Carol then told him that something had frightened them. He asked what, and she related to him the story of the shape coming through the curtain at her flat. The policeman asked “Would you like me to come and have a look behind the curtains?” Carol informed him that she had already checked and there was no-one there. Soon after, the policeman departed. After a short while he returned to the car. He knocked on the window again. When Carol wound the window down, he said “I’m not surprised you were frightened”. Carol asked “What makes you say that?” and he replied “I know who you are”. Carol was a funeral director at the time, and she wondered if he had found this out, and assumed that she felt she had seen a ghost. The odd aspect of this particular event was that Carol knew most of the policemen of Buxton as it is only a small town. But she had never seen this particular man before, nor recognised his car. Also she does not remember anything after speaking with him this second time. Till this day she has never seen the man again. Carol wonders if he really was a normal police officer or whether he was someone else entirely. There is even the possibility he was not even human, although considering the evidence this seems too great an assumption to make. Either way it was certainly a strange series of incidents. Glowing Orb Sighting One night in 1994/95, Carol and Janet were to experience their second UFO sighting. They had been out shopping in Hanley. They were driving back to Buxton along the A53. They were about 10 miles out of Buxton. As they started to drive up a slope in the road, they suddenly noticed a huge bright white glowing sphere in the sky. They were certain it wasn’t the moon (it actually appeared even bigger) and looked like it was at low altitude, at most 100 feet. It was off to the right of the car and appeared to be over a farm a bit further along the road. It was also moving slowly in their direction. Carol didn’t know what to make of the object, but Janet immediately assumed it was another sighting of an extraterrestrial craft and said out loud “Bloody hell not again!” Drawing of the UFO based on witness description Photograph from the sighting location in the direction which the UFO was first seen For some reason, Carol felt that if she could get around the corner at the top of the hill everything would be alright. She has no idea what lead her to think this. They drove up the slope, and reached the corner. When they looked back they could no longer see the object, it appeared to have gone. Photograph of the farm buildings just before the corner in the road After dropping off Janet, Carol returned home. When her husband Matt saw her he said it looked like she had seen a ghost. She told him about what she and Janet had seen. Matt suggested it may have been a helicopter coming from the nearby army training camp. However Carol was certain it had not just been a white light coming from an object, but that it was spherical in shape and had been self-illuminated. Sightings of large glowing spheres have been reported many times before, and there are some other cases I have investigated where UFOs of this type have been witnessed. It certainly appeared to be a self illuminated sphere, rather than just a bright white light attached to an object. Its appearance combined with the fact that no noise was heard coming from it suggests that it was not a helicopter. It is hard to think of a mundane explanation which could explain what was seen. The object seemed much too large to be an internally lit balloon of some kind, such as an LED blimp. Also the location where it took place is quite remote with not many buildings around, so it is unlikely someone would have been out there and flying such an object. It is also unlikely to have been naturally occurring phenomena such as an earth light/ball lightning due to its size and appearance, although this cannot be fully ruled out. The object did appear to be moving in the direction of the witnesses’ car. There is the possibility that it was there to observe either both Carol and Janet, or just one of them in particular. Due to their previous experiences this is something which should certainly be considered. Flying Triangle Sighting In 1996/97, Carol and her husband Matt were out in their car. They were on the A6 between Buxton and Taddington, and had stopped for a drink of coffee in a lay-by. It was a clear and still night, and was about 10pm. Photograph of the A6 lay-by Photograph of myself and Rob at the lay-by Carol suddenly noticed three red lights in the night sky in a triangular formation. They were at quite low altitude, and over the top of some trees to the South East. Carol is used to seeing planes flying into Manchester, and these lights looked lower in the sky. They appeared to be at least a couple of miles away from their position and off to the right of their vehicle over some trees. Witness drawing of how the UFO appeared at a distance Photograph from the sighting location, showing the patch of trees over which the UFO first appeared She pointed the lights out to Matt, and they got out of the car to get a better look. The lights were heading in their direction. As they got nearer, the couple realised that the lights were on the corners of a black coloured triangular-shaped craft. It looked to be quite thin in height, but was large in size, at least 100 feet from corner to corner. They could also now see a larger central light on the underside of the object. Carol remembers this light as also being red in colour, where as Matt remembers it being white. They had read about Flying Triangle UFO sightings, and assumed that it must be one of these. Witness drawing of the craft viewed from underneath The craft continued towards their position at a slow speed, and flew almost overhead but off to the right a short way. When it was near they could hear a droning sound coming from it. They continued to watch as it flew away into the distance to the North West towards a nearby quarry. Aerial map showing the location where the witnesses were parked and the path of the craft Photograph in the direction which the craft was heading It was a quiet night and Carol does not remember seeing any other cars on the road, so is unaware if anyone else saw the craft. Because of her previous UFO encounter, Carol checked to ensure that there was no missing time. She and Matt discussed what they had just witnessed. Matt thought that it was certainly unusual, but felt it was built by the military rather than aliens. This is an absolutely stunning close encounter with what appears to be a genuine Flying Triangle craft. The craft was close enough to them that they could make out its shape and lighting configuration and it did not appear to be a conventional aircraft of any kind. It was much too large to have been a remote controlled model. Although it did not perform any clearly intelligent manoeuvres, its constant flight path and the noise coming from it suggests it was powered. The craft did not seem to interact with either of the witnesses, so there is a chance that they were just at the right place at the right time. But considering Carol’s previous experiences, it may have been there for observation purposes. Some people believe that Flying Triangles are military-built rather than extraterrestrial. However due to the advanced characteristics and manoeuvring capabilities of these craft, the sometimes massive size of them, and the fact that they are sometimes seen over areas of high population, I believe that at least some of them are ET. Identical Markings! At some point prior to November 2002 (exact date unknown), Carol remembers an incident where both her and Matt awoke to find identical markings on them. She woke up and looking down at herself, she noticed a strange marking on her upper right side. It was a circular patch about 1cm across that looked more pronounced, almost blistered in appearance as the morning light hit it. Carol says it looked similar to a healed scar from a childhood injection, but of course she was certain that this is not what it was and this was the first time she had seen it. It was not raised off the skin, and was not painful in any way even when she touched it. Soon afterwards she noticed that Matt too had a marking in the same area. When she checked closely, she saw that the marking on him was exactly the same, in both size, shape and appearance! Neither her nor Matt could explain the markings, and felt certain that they were not simply insect bites. Carol is aware that the markings lasted for quite a while, but does not remember when they disappeared. At the time she did not attribute them to anything related to her other experiences, but now feels that they may be relevant. Were these markings a sign that both her and Matt had been abducted at some point and had an instrument used upon them? Neither Carol or Matt can remember anything unusual happening prior to their discovery. However it is very interesting that the markings were not only identical, but apparently appeared on the same night. Unidentified Lump A number of years ago (she is not sure of the exact year), Carol discovered a small solid lump on the outside of her left forearm. It felt like a small object underneath the skin. She would occasionally press on it and could feel it, but it would not move at all. Recently she looked for it again, and found that it was no longer there. Sadly she did not take any photographs of this lump, nor did she speak to her doctor about it. Contactees have sometimes discovered metallic implants which show up as small lumps under the skin. It is far from definite that Carol had one of these present in her arm for an amount of time, but is an interesting possibility to consider. Badly Dressed Carol usually wears a nightie to bed. On a number of occasions she has woken up in the morning to find that it is on inside out or no longer on her. Of course there is the possibility that this was through her own error – perhaps she thought she’d put it on but hadn’t, or accidentally put it on inside out. The reason this is mentioned is that is yet another sign that contact may have taken place. During most abduction experiences, the contactee is undressed so that the ETs can conduct examinations on them. Usually if they are clothed when they are taken they are dressed back up before being returned. However sometimes the ETs can get this wrong and put the clothing on the wrong way round or inside out. Some people question why such intelligent beings would make such a simple mistake, but perhaps they do not care whether clothing is on correctly, just that it is returned with the individual. Vibrations Occasionally just before she drops off to sleep, Carol feels rhythmic pulsing going through her body. When this occurs she does not panic and does not experience anything else unusual, so it may have nothing to do with her ET-related experiences. However contactees often report experiencing pulsing vibrations such as this, and some believe that it is a warning sign that contact is going to take place. Hypnotic Regression Rob Tudge, the hypnotherapist who conducted Carol’s regression on Saturday 5th June 2010, is experienced in regressing contactees and very knowledgeable on the subject. We decided prior to the regression that we would focus on two events – the saucer-shaped UFO incident when Carol was 12, and the incident with the baby which occurred 7-8 years later. Below is the complete transcript of the regression, including a picture that Carol drew directly following it. Note that prior to the regression Rob asked Carol what colour she finds most calming, to which she replied pink. He references this colour towards the start of the regression process. R: Just breathe, and breathe with your tummy if you can, breathe with your tummy, because we hold all our stress and tension in our chest, and if you are able to breathe with your tummy you get round that. Just breathe...that’s it. Nice and comfortable. And what I want you to do is imagine yourself at the top of 10 steps, you’re at the top of ten steps. And at the bottom of the steps you see a huge wooden door. You’re standing at the top of the ten steps, calm, comfortable, relaxed. And I want you to imagine a bubble of pink light around you. It’s above your head, and below your feet. If you stretched out your arms to the right and left you would be able to touch the inside of the bubble. And this bubble is there for your protection. And also imagine little tendrils, little roots growing out from your heels. They just grow out, they turn, go down into the structure below your feet, into the subsoil, right down into the rocks of the earth, and lock in the rocks of the earth. And those little tendrils, those little roots are there to ground you. So you’re standing at the top of ten steps, protected and grounded, calm, comfortable and relaxed. And I’ll ask you to take the first step down into peace and tranquillity. And step number two. And step number three. Calm, comfortable, relaxed, protected and grounded. And take another step down. And another step, down into peace and tranquillity. Half way down the steps now towards the huge wooden door. Step number six. And seven. And eight, almost there now. Nine. And ten. So you’re in front of this huge wooden door, you’re protected by a bubble of pink light, and grounded. Before you go through the door, I’m going to tell you what you’ll find on the other side. It’s just a simple room. Neutrally lit, with a door at the opposite end. That’s all it is. And when you’re ready, I’ll ask you to go through the door, close it behind you. Close it behind you and tell me when you’re in there. C: I’m in. R: Yeah. Excellent, thank you very much Carol. Very shortly I’m going to ask you to do some counting for me. I’m going to ask you to count backwards from 100 downward. And after counting each number I want you to say the words “deeper and deeper”. And each time you say the words “deeper and deeper” you get deeper and deeper relaxed, and deeper and deeper asleep. Before you say each number I want you to envisage that number in your minds eye. And you’ll notice something very interesting, because each number will become smaller and fainter than the number before it. And about the number 95 or 94 the number will become so small and so faint you’ll stop counting because you won’t be able to find it. So, start counting backwards from 100 out loud, saying the words “deeper and deeper”. C: 100, deeper and deeper. 99, deeper and deeper. 98, deeper and deeper. 97, deeper and deeper. 96, deeper and deeper. 95, dah...deeper and deeper, 95 deeper and deeper. 94, deeper and deeper, 93, deeper and deeper. 92, deeper and deeper. R: That’s great. C: 91... R: That’s wonderful. That’s fine. And now I’ll ask to put those numbers above your head. I’m going to count to three and snap my fingers, and as I snap my fingers you’re going to clear those numbers. And as you clear those numbers, so you clear your mind. One, two, three. Have those numbers cleared from memory? Have those numbers cleared from above your head? C: No. R: Still there? Ok let’s do it again. I’ll count to three, snap my fingers and as I snap my fingers so those numbers will clear from above you, and you’ll also clear your mind. One, two, three. Have they gone? C: Mmm. R: Thank you, ok. Very shortly I’m going to be talking to Carol’s subconscious mind, and I’ll be talking to her subconscious mind as if I’m speaking to another person. I don’t want you to think about my questions or consider your answers, but just give them as quickly as they come. I’ll count to three and snap my fingers, and when I snap my fingers your subconscious mind will present itself as a shape, a colour, a picture or a symbol. One, two, three. Tell me what you have. C: Triangle. R: Triangle, thank you. Triangle are you Carol’s subconscious mind, yes or no? C: Don’t think so. R: I’ll ask again. Triangle are you Carol’s subconscious mind, yes or no? C: Yes. R: Thank you subconscious mind, for appearing in that way. Subconscious mind, would it be appropriate to go back in safety and comfort to two incidents that we mentioned earlier? C: Yes. R: Thank you subconscious mind. Carol I want you to go back now in that room, in that neutral coloured room, right there. The triangle has now dissipated, we’re back facing the door at the far end of the room. C: Yeah. R: Good. Just breathe. Just breathe, and relax. We’re standing in front of that door, protected and grounded. And on the other side of that door is the incident that occurred when you were about 12 years old, Ecclesbourne Drive. You were with your friend Janet, that’s on the other side of the door. Just give yourself a moment, get your breath back. And I want you to be aware if at any time I am unhappy for any reason, or you are unhappy for any reason, just shout out the word “freeze” and in front of you things will freeze, they will just stay as they are, do you understand? C: Yeah, I do. R: So when you’re ready, open the door, and go through to the incident that occurred 1974, when you were about 12 years old in Buxton, in Ecclesbourne Drive, when you with your friend Janet. Open the door, go through and tell me what you see. C: There’s something, the domed object, I know it’s a flying saucer. R: You’re there already? C: Yeah. R: Where are you standing? C: On the footpath. R: You’re on the footpath. Is anybody with you? C: Janet. R: Janet’s with you, is she to your right or to your left? C: She’s in front of me. R: She’s in front of you. C: To the right. R: And tell me what you see. C: It’s a flying saucer, over the top of the house. R: There’s a flying saucer over the top of the house. What shape is it? C: It’s domed, and it’s got a dome underneath. R: Yes. Is there anything else on it? Besides the dome? C: A flange. R: Flange, ok. What else do you notice about it? C: I don’t know why it’s there. R: You don’t know why it’s there. What does Janet think about it? C: She’s silent. R: She’s silent? Is she looking at it? C: Yes. R: You’re looking at it? C: Yeah. R: Is there anybody else about? C: No. R: Ok. What happens next? C: It’s moving towards us. R: It’s moving towards you. C: Yeah. I want to have a good look at it. R: You want to have a good look at it. What happens next? C: It’s spinning. R: It’s spinning. Is it still coming towards you? C: No it’s stationary. R: Stationary now. How far away from you would you guess? C: It’s not far. R: It’s not far. Can you see any more details now it’s closer? C: There’s coloured lights. R: Coloured lights? C: Going round and round. R: Uh-huh. And how far off the ground is it, can you tell? C: About as high as two houses. R: Ok it’s about as high as two houses. C: Yeah. R: And what about Janet, what’s she doing? C: Nothing, we’re just looking. R: You’re just looking. You’re just looking at this flying saucer, it’s about the height of two houses, it’s got a dome on top... C: It’s going round. R: It’s going round? So it’s altering position? C: I’m looking at it. R: You’re looking at it. It’s moved, and you’re looking at it. C: It’s coming lower. R: It’s coming lower. Can you see more details? C: Yes, I can see all of it. R: You can see all of it? Tell me about all of it would you. C: It’s silver. R: Silver, ok. C: It’s only small. R: Uh-huh. C: It looks like it should be a lid on the roof. R: Ok. C: It’s going to hit the roof. R: It’s going to hit the roof you think? C: So close. R: Uh-huh. What colour would you say it is now it’s got a little closer. C: It’s still silver. R: It’s still silver, are the lights still exactly the same? C: No, no, the lights have stopped. R: The lights have stopped. C: There’s no lights left. R: No lights. And it’s come a little closer you say? C: Yeah, it’s over the bungalow. R: It’s over the bungalow now? How close is it to the top of the bungalow, can you tell me? C: Only a few inches. R: Only a few inches, so it has come down from the height of two houses to just over the bungalow? C: Yes it came down as it came round. R: Ok I understand. C: It’s moving. R: It’s moving. Which direction is it moving? C: It’s gone into the road. R: It’s gone into the road. So it fits in, are there buildings on both sides of the road? C: Yeah. R: And it fits in. C: It’s just...it’s just sitting there. R: It’s just sitting there. In front of you? C: Yeah. R: Is Janet closer to it or are you? C: I’m closer. R: You’re closer. You said before it was spinning, is it still spinning? C: No. The door’s opened. R: The door’s opened. C: Funny how it opened. R: Do you see anything in the opening? C: It’s dark. R: What else do you see? C: Nothing, it’s just dark. R: It’s dark. C: They’re going to come out. R: Did you say they’re going to come out? C: Yeah. R: Uh-huh. How do you know that? C: It’s there and they’re going to come out. R: It’s there and they’re going to come out. Ok. What happens next? C: It’s dark. R: It’s dark? C: Mmm. R: Dark around you? C: Yeah. R: How did that happen? C: I don’t know. R: Ok. C: Must not go near the right. R: Mustn’t go near the? C: Near the right. R: Who told you that? C: I just know. R: You just know, you shouldn’t go near the... C: Near the right. R: I understand, ok. Where’s Janet? C: She’s with me. R: She’s with you. Tell me what you see around you. C: It’s huge. It’s white light from...behind. R: White light from behind? C: Yeah. R: Behind what? C: Behind the edges. R: Behind the edges there’s a white light? C: Mmm. R: And how far are the edges from you do you think? C: A long way, it’s a big room. R: It’s a big room? C: Mhmm. R: Tell me are the walls vertical, are they curved? C: They’re curved. R: They’re curved, right. Can you see what’s above you? C: No. R: How long have you been there, do you know? C: I’ve only just got here. R: You’ve only just got here, ok. Are you still looking round? C: I’m in this...room. R: You’re just looking round. It’s dark. C: Mmm. R: And there’s white light coming from beyond the edges... C: Not too dark. R: Oh you have got a good view. Do you see anything that’s familiar here? C: No. R: You don’t recognise this at all? C: No. R: How would you describe the inside of this wide space? C: Just different. R: It’s just different. How did you get here? C: Oh...I don’t know. R: You’re just inside this large space? C: Mmm. R: Could I ask can you see any walls, any doors? Any doors or any openings? C: No. I know the opening where we came in? R: Mhmm. C: It’s behind me. R: You know the opening where you came in is behind you. Did you walk? C: I think so. Yeah. R: How do you feel now you’re in this space? C: I’m alright. R: Good, excellent. So you recognise the opening where you came in, and you’re just here. C: Mmm. I know I came into it, I can’t see it at the moment. R: Ok you know you came in that way, but you can’t see it? C: Yeah. R: That’s fine. And what happens next? C: There’s a boy. R: A boy? C: Mmm. R: How old is the boy would you guess? How old is he? C: He’s older than us. R: Ok. C: Probably nearly a lad. R: Ok, and is he near from you, or away from you, or where is he? C: Just over there. R: Just over there, ok. And what’s he doing? C: Nothing. He’s naked. (chuckles) R: He’s naked. Is that a bit embarrassing for you? C: Mmm. R: Ok. Do you recognise the boy? C: No. R: Is his hair fair or dark? C: It’s dark. R: Is it. Ok. As he’s naked, what’s his expression? C: It’s like he’s asleep. R: It’s like he’s asleep. Well I forgot to ask you, is he standing up? C: Yeah. R: He’s standing up and you think he’s asleep? C: Yeah. R: And what about Janet, is she looking at the boy? C: Yeah, we’re both kind of giggling. R: You’re both giggling. C: I don’t know why ‘cause our clothes are with us. R: Ah-ha, ok. So you’re clothed and he’s naked. He appears to be asleep, and you’re giggling. C: Our clothes are with us, we’re not wearing them. R: Your clothes are with you but you’re not wearing them? C: Mmm. R: Where are they? Are you hiding your clothes, are they on the floor, can you tell me? C: They’re resting, on...I don’t know what it is, but it’s pink. R: So you’re wearing something else? C: No. R: What have you got on that’s pink then? C: Nothing. R: So what happens next? C: I’m going out of the room. R: You’re going out. How do you know you’re going out of the room, did somebody... C: We’re moving. R: Say that again please. C: We’re moving. R: You’re moving. Have you been asked to move? C: We’re led somewhere. There’s a woman. R: Yes, tell me about the woman. C: It’s not right that she’s naked. She’s in, she’s in a cylinder. R: There’s a naked woman in a... C: She’s floating. R: There’s a naked woman in a cylinder. C: Yeah. R: Where is the woman in relation to you? C: She’s just here. R: Ok. C: I’ve never seen anything like it. R: You’ve never seen anything like it? C: No. R: There’s a woman in a cylinder, she’s naked? C: Yeah. R: What’s happening to her? C: I don’t know. R: Is she asleep? C: I don’t know. She might be dead. R: She might be dyed? C: Dead. R: You get the impression she’s dead? C: She might be. Her hair’s moving. But she’s not. R: Hair moving, but she’s not. And how do you feel as you look at this woman? C: I don’t really know really. R: Ok. Who told you to move, from where you were? C: I don’t know. R: Would you look round and see if there’s anybody else with you? Is Janet still with you? C: Thought she was behind me, but I don’t know where. R: Is the boy with you? C: No. R: He’s staying where he was? C: Yeah. R: Are you passing the lady in the cylinder. C: Yeah I’m past her now. R: You’ve past her now. C: It’s dark. R: It’s just dark. Can you see anything at all? Are you still in that big room or have you moved, have you moved away... C: No it’s smaller. R: Say that again. C: It’s small. R: It’s small, ok. It’s a smaller area. Could I ask if it’s a smaller room or a passageway? C: I’m not sure. R: That’s fine. What detail do you see? C: Some. R: You see? C: It’s like a screen. R: It’s like a screen? C: Mmm. I don’t understand it. R: What sorry what? C: What’s on it. I don’t. R: Just have a good look and try to describe what’s on it. C: I don’t understand it, it’s all lights. R: It’s all lights. So there are lights on the screen, is that to your right, or left or ahead of you? C: It’s ahead of me. R: Just ahead of you. Are you walking towards that screen? C: No, I’m stood near it. R: You’re stood near it. Are there any sounds in this place at all? C: No. R: It’s quiet. These lights on the screen, are they familiar to you at all? C: No. R: In no way familiar. So there’s a screen covered in lights, would I be correct in thinking that? C: Mmm. R: Difficult to understand. Would that be correct? C: Mmm. R: What happens next? Do you stay in front of the screen or do you move again? C: There’s a man. R: A man? C: He’s looking at me. R: Tell me about the man. C: He’s kind. R: He’s kind? Is he a tall man? C: Yeah. R: Can you tell me the colour of his hair? C: Blond. R: Blond. Could you tell me the colour of his eyes? C: Blue. R: Blue. What is he wearing? C: Green. R: He’s wearing green. Could you describe his clothing to me? C: It’s like a jumpsuit. R: It’s like a jumpsuit, ok. Is the chap who you’re looking at in the jumpsuit, does he appear to be skinny? Or well built? Or muscular? C: He’s a nice man. R: He’s a nice man, ok. Tell me how you know he’s a nice man. C: I just know. R: You just know. Generally we judge people by the way they look at us, sometimes we feel if someone smiles at us we feel a little better about them. Is this gentleman smiling at you? C: No. R: But you just know he’s kind? C: He’s nice. (Smiles) R: He’s a nice chap. I can see you smiling, you feel...you feel... C: Special. R: Excellent, yes. He’s making you feel special, is that correct? C: I know so. R: If you were to look at Janet, what would you say Janet saw? C: I don’t think she’s with me. R: Oh ok. So you’re looking at this gentleman with blond hair, with blue eyes, and a green jumpsuit. C: Mhmm. R: And he’s making you feel special. C: Uh-huh. R: Can you tell me what happens next? C: There’s other people. R: Other people. Have they come into your space or have you had to move again? C: No they’ve come. R: They’ve come. When you say there are other people... C: They’re all beautiful. R: They’re all beautiful. C: Mmm. R: In what way would you describe all these other people’s beauty? C: Just beautiful. R: Are they similar to the man in the green jumpsuit? C: They’re blond, but they haven’t got beards. R: Ok. Are they talking with the man that you first saw? C: No. R: Why have they come, have they come to see you? C: Mmm. R: What do you think? You’ve told you’re quite special. C: They’re going to leave me now. R: They’re going to leave you. C: Mmm. I don’t want them to go. R: You don’t want them to go. C: No, I want to stay with them. R: You want to stay with them. For what reason do you want to stay with them? C: Feel safe. R: You feel safe. C: I like them, they’re all nice. R: They’re all nice. How many of them are there, would you say? C: About four. R: They’re all blond. They’re all very nice. C: Mhmm. R: You want to stay with them because they make you feel safe. Is that correct? C: Mhmm. R: They’ve told you that you have to go. C: Mhmm. R: Have they all got green jumpsuits? C: No. R: No. So what have they got on, if they’re not wearing green jumpsuits? C: It’s like powder blue glittery coloured suit. R: Ok. I wonder if there might be any emblems, or badges, or anything on any of these err jumpsuits? C: No. R: No. And what happens next? C: They give me a drink. R: They’ve given you a drink. C: Mmm. R: What’s the drink held in? And what does the drink taste of? C: Can’t remember. R: That’s ok, that’s fine. Did they hand you the drink? C: Mhmm. R: So you have your drink, and then what happens? C: It’s (inaudible) R: Say that again please. C: The bottom of it, it looks familiar. R: The bottom of it looks familiar? C: Mmm. R: What does it remind you of? C: Shaver. R: A shaver, ok. C: It’s all wheels. R: It’s all wheels. So the bottom of it looks familiar, it’s all wheels. C: They’re going. R: They’re going. C: It’s back above the bungalow. R: Ah-hah, ok. Has it gone from sight now? C: (Shakes head) R: It’s still there? Tell me what you’re thinking as you look at it. C: It’s gone up. R: It’s gone straight up. C: It’s still there. R: It’s still there. Higher than it was? C: Ah yeah. R: But you can still see it? C: Oh yeah! It’s swaying. R: It’s swaying. C: It’s gone. R: It’s gone. Just like that it’s gone? C: Mhmm. R: Is Janet with you? C: Yeah. She’s back where we were. R: She’s with you and you’re back where you were. But the sky is now clear? C: Uh-huh. R: What does Janet say to you? C: We’re laughing. R: You’re laughing? C: (Chuckles) R: You’re looking at each other? C: Nobody’s going to believe us. (Laughs) R: Well you know what happened. C: Uh-huh. R: You’re looking at each other, and you’re laughing. Then what do you two do then? C: We’ve got to go back. R: So you’re walking back? C: Mhmm. R: And discussing what happened? C: Mmm. R: And you’re still laughing and giggling? C: No. R: Not now? C: No. Not giggling. R: Not giggling. C: I think she’s frightened. R: You think she’s frightened. So she’s not giggling because she’s frightened. C: She says we can’t tell anyone. R: Ahh. I wonder why she would say that? C: It’s just that they’ll lock us up. R: Did Janet say they’d lock you up if you told. C: Mmm. They’d take us away from our families. R: Ok. Well that’s her opinion. You know what you experienced. You know how you felt. You know what happened. C: I don’t know what happened. R: Was there something more? Was there something more you felt? C: Mmm. R: Could you...could you give yourself permission to remember something else? Give yourself permission to remember. What else? C: I want to remember. R: You don’t want to remember. C: No I want to, but I can’t. R: You want to. Ok, that’s fine. That’s fine. You’ve done very very well. Are you still with Janet? C: Yeah we’re in the bedroom now. R: Is Janet frightened? Mmm not any more. C: Mmm not any more. R: Not any more, ok. C: It’s our secret. R: It’s your secret. Just keep talking with Janet. Just keep speaking. Slowly, very gently come out of the image of you speaking to Janet. It’s slowly fading, just go very slowly to blackness. Just fade away. I want you to just relax and breathe. Just relax and breathe for me, in the darkness, protected and grounded. Calm, comfortable and totally relaxed and at ease. I’ll just give you a moment or two, to clear your mind. That’s good, that’s it. If you remember we had permission from your subconscious mind to go back to an incident at your parents house. C: Mmm. R: 1982 or 1983. C: Mhmm. R: Could you go back to that time back at your parents house, 1982 or 1983? C: Mmm. R: Tell me what’s around you and what you see. Just tell me what you see and what’s around you. C: I’m on the settee. R: You’re on the settee. What time is it? C: It’s late. R: It’s late? C: Dark out. R: It’s dark out. Are you alone in the house? C: No. R: Who’s in the house with you? C: My mum and dad are upstairs. R: They’re upstairs? C: Yeah. R: Ok. So you’re downstairs by yourself, it’s dark outside and it’s late. What happens next? C: (Chuckles) Beautiful. R: Could you tell me what’s beautiful? C: My little girl. She’s gorgeous (Starts to cry) R: Tell me where you are. C: I’m on the floor. R: You’re on the floor? C: She’s beautiful. R: You’re looking at her? Tell me about your beautiful little girl. C: She’s just beautiful. R: She’s beautiful. C: She’s so tiny. R: She’s so tiny? Who bought her to you? C: I don’t care. R: You don’t care who bought her, she’s just here. Is she looking at you? C: Yes. R: What’s she doing? C: Oh she’s so responsive. R: She’s so responsive. C: She’s very and she’s so so clever. R: How old would you say she was? C: Oh she’s not old. R: She’s not old? C: But she’s clever. She’s so brilliant. R: She’s brilliant. C: Yes. (Chuckles) R: Does she know you? C: Yes. R: And you obviously know her... C: Oh. R: Your reaction. Is it just a knowing, or have you been told? C: No, I know. R: You just know. C: Yes. R: Did she put her arms out to you? C: Yes. R: She did that first? C: Cuddling. R: You’re cuddling. How does that feel cuddling that little girl? C: It’s everything. R: It’s everything. And is she cuddling you? C: Yes. She’s so beautiful. R: Does she have a name? C: No. R: Can she speak? C: No. R: What are you saying to her then? C: I’m just talking to her. R: You’re just talking to her. C: It’s silly talk. R: Silly talk. Of course. That’s what we do to babies when we cuddle and hold them. How is she reacting to you? C: (Chuckles) R: What features do you recognise of yours? C: She’s got my hair. R: She’s got your hair? C: She’s giggling.. R: And she’s giggling. Ok. Are you holding her close to you or are you holding her at arms length? C: She’s just sat playing. R: You’re just sat playing. C: (Chuckles) R: What game do you play? C: We’re playing alphabetical on her feet.. R: That’s a good game. Babies love that, love that game. Does she laugh? C: Yeah. R: Does she laugh out loud? Can she do that? C: She’s laughing but I can’t hear it. R: She’s laughing but you can’t hear it? C: No. R: Is she having an about laugh? C: Yes. R: Ok. C: (Laughs) R: That must be wonderful to see. Tell me about her eyes would you? C: They’re very big, huge. R: They’re huge eyes? C: Yeah, and so dark. R: What colour would you say her eyes are? C: They’re black. R: They’re black. Ok. Are they black in their entirety? C: Mhmm. R: Can she hear you speaking to her? C: She’s got to go. (Crying) R: She’s got to go. You’ve seen her, you’ve held her, and you’ve loved her and interacted with her. And now she’s got to go. C: (Crying). R: Will you see her again? C: No. R: Did somebody tell you? C: I just know. R: You just know. Have you asked to see her again? C: I want to see her. R: You want to see her. Of course you want to see her again...She’s gone? C: Yeah. R: Where are you now? C: I’m on the settee. R: As you sit there on the settee, who would you think had the little girl who you just saw and held and interacted with? C: Don’t know. It’s all like a dream. R: It’s like a dream. C: (Crying). R: That’s a good girl. Slowly and surely the light where you are fades, and slowly and surely fades to darkness. And then an illuminated light comes on behind you. Just enough to illuminate a door. And it’s the door to the neutral coloured room. Open the door and go into that entrance, go into that neutral coloured area, whenever you’re ready. Got a huge wooden door at the other end of the room. And while you’re in this neutral coloured room I’ll ask you to thank your subconcious mind from the bottom of your heart for what it’s shared with us here today. C: Don’t want to. R: Did you say you don’t want to? C: Mmm. R: Could I ask why you don’t want to? C: It doesn’t share too much. R: Did you say... C: Doesn’t share too much. R: Doesn’t share too much. It’s worked very hard for you today to give you what you can deal with today, and we thank, I thank your subconscious mind for that. Perhaps in future it will allow you a bit more. This is the place to thank your subconcious mind for what it has given us today. The information that we’ve been given, and that we can work with. We’re going across to that big wooden door, that huge wooden door. Go through it and stand at the bottom of the steps, and perhaps you’ll tell me when you’ve done that. C: Yeah. R: Ok. You’re through the big door, excellent ok. Ok, step ten to nine, and eight and seven, and bringing all those thoughts, and all those feelings back with you, six, five, four. Almost at the top now, three, two, one. And in your own time, come back to this room, revived, refreshed and wide awake please. Regression Analysis Everyone was very pleased with how the regression turned out, although Carol was upset that even more details did not become apparent from it, as you can see by what she said towards the end. However she still brought back many details about the two incidents which were covered in it. She recalled in vivid detail the landing of the saucer-shaped craft, although she was already fully aware of this prior to the regression. The regression provided a clear link between the door opening in the craft, and her flashbacks of the darkened place. It seems logical that at least the initial room where she found herself was on board the craft, although she could still not remember who came out of the craft or actually being taken aboard it. Carol actually mentioned in the regression that the entrance to the craft lay behind her and Janet. The boy that they saw could well have been someone else who was taken prior to them, although this will never be known for certain unless he happens to read this report and gets in touch. It is unknown what happened after this initial memory. It is possible that someone (perhaps one of the beings seen later) came and got them. Or perhaps Carol just started to explore the craft on her own. It is unknown if Janet was still with her at this point or not, but from what Carol said it seems like she may have been elsewhere. The woman floating in the cylinder is a very interesting aspect, with many outstanding questions. Was she human, ET or even both? Alive or dead? What was she doing in the cylinder? Perhaps she was being cloned. Perhaps the cylinder was some sort of container to keep her in an unconscious state or to even keep her in stasis and stop her from ageing. Perhaps she was in the cylinder for medical reasons and it was healing or protecting her in some way. Many contactees have reported seeing beings, both human and alien, inside clear cylinders. However usually these are babies rather than fully grown adults, and are believed to be linked to the hybrid breeding program. Some people have actually reported being placed inside a cylinder for an unknown purpose, for example Garry Wood from the famous A70 abduction case which took place in Scotland in August 1992 (For full details of this case see Malcolm Robinson’s superb book “UFO Case Files Of Scotland”). Cylinders filled with pink fluid are less often discussed, but once again I do know of an example where this has been reported. The controversial witness Phil Schneider, who died under mysterious circumstances, reported on Dulce, a secret underground facility where he claimed Grey beings were being cloned in clear containers filled with pink liquid. The link below leads to a short reconstruction video showing these containers: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=1445368024781 Many people find Phil’s claims to be too farfetched, but what if they are true? If so, then this would suggest the woman that Carol saw had been cloned or grown from an embryo. I am very interested in this particular aspect of this incident. If you have seen something similar or know of any cases which mention this, please get in touch with BUFOG. After seeing the woman in the cylinder, Carol recalled seeing a screen covered in flashing lights which apparently made no sense to her. This was something new which she had not recalled before. It is possible that this screen was showing her things that she would take in subconsciously without being aware of what they meant. Or perhaps the lights seen on this screen had no meaning to them and were just something operational. Carol then met a number of beings, and was at last able to recall what they looked like. Prior to the regression she just remembered that they looked “beautiful”. The beings that she met are referred to as Nordics. These are one of the most widely reported species from contact experiences (One of the most famous abductions of all time, the Travis Walton case of 1975, included these beings) The Nordics are extremely human-like, with long blond hair and piercing blue eyes. Just as Carol reported, they are usually seen wearing one piece bodysuits. The fact that they look almost the same as our race is very intriguing and suggests that they are related to us in some way, or perhaps have even influenced our own evolution. Often Nordics are seen at the same time as the Grey-type beings, although Carol does not recall seeing any Greys during her experience. Drawing done by Carol directly after her regression of the face of the initial Nordic being Mock up of the initial Nordic Carol does not remember the Nordics speaking to her, although she did discuss them giving her a drink, another part of the experience she could not remember prior to the regression. She did discuss the fact that she felt they were all nice, and she got a feeling of kindness from them, something which has been talked of before by other contactees when referring to the Nordic race. Also Carol mentioned that they made her feel “special” – this perhaps means that she herself has been enhanced in some way by this or other experiences. She still could not recall actually leaving the craft and returning to the road. Perhaps the method this occurred by meant that she would be shut down and unable to recall the process. Or perhaps she was not on the craft; perhaps she had been taken somewhere else entirely. It is a shame that I am unable to discuss the experience with Janet, as she may also be getting flashbacks which match what Carol remembers. However I am not surprised that she may wish to block out what took place, and am grateful that Carol is more open to discussing it. The second event which Rob took Carol back to was visibly upsetting for her. Carol burst into tears when she recalled holding the baby. It was very emotional for everyone present, including her husband Matt who also witnessed the regression. Everything which Carol discussed she was already aware of, there were no additional details uncovered. The baby she held for a while appeared to be a hybrid, half human, half extraterrestrial. The ET traits it showed were those of the species known as the Greys. However she recognised it as her own baby. Unfortunately even under hypnosis Carol could not remember who brought her the baby or took it back away from her. These memories appear to be buried down deeply and at this time she is not able to recall them. Maybe this will change over time. Carol’s regression allowed her to come to terms with her experience, and a lot of bottled up emotions came spilling out. I hope that going forward she is more able to accept what took place. It seems very unlikely that such strong emotions would be brought on by nothing more than a dream. It was clear that she was experiencing and portraying very real feelings, which help confirm that this incident actually took place as she remembers. After the regression was over, Rob discussed what had taken place with Carol and ensured that she was ok. Black UFO Sighting On the evening Friday 25th June 2010, Carol was to have another sighting of an interesting aerial object. She was sitting out in the back garden of her house as it was very nice clear and still weather. Matt was inside watching TV. Carol was reading a book. She randomly glanced up at the sky and noticed something to her right. At first she thought it was a black coloured balloon. It was oval shaped, and was too far away to notice any markings on it. The object was completely silent. It was moving on a straight course across the sky in the direction of Goyt Valley to the North West West, at a lower altitude than planes/helicopters would usually fly at. It’s exact height was hard to judge. Witness drawing of the black UFO Photograph of sighting location Carol banged on the window to try and get Matt to come and take a look at the object, but he did not come outside. She watched the object for a couple of minutes. As it got further away from the area it approached some trees and appeared to also be slowly descending in altitude. It was now that Carol realised that it must have been much larger than a balloon, a small object would not have been visible at that distance. She estimates it was about the size of a car. The object disappeared behind the trees and was lost from sight. Aerial map showing the known path of the UFO Aerial map showing the nearby Errwood Reservoir, and the predicted path of the UFO Carol was sure that the object she had witnessed was something out of the ordinary. It was too large for a balloon, did not look like a hot air balloon or conventional aircraft. During the sighting she did not feel like the object was observing her or that it was there on her behalf. She was a little upset that Matt had not also seen the object. It is certain that what Carol saw was a definite object of some kind. But the question is, what was it? It certainly sounds too big to have been a standard balloon. I also agree with Carol that it did not look like a conventional aircraft. And even at a great distance it is easy to spot a hot air balloon by its distinctive shape, I do not believe that she would have been fooled by this. However I do wonder if it was a larger blimp or inflatable of some kind that was drifting in an air current, or even under remote control. Even if the weather conditions were still at ground level, at higher altitude it could have been breezy. The object did not display any manoeuvres that would suggest it was under intelligent control. Considering Carol’s previous experiences, there is still the possibility that it was something much more unusual. If it was an ET craft of some kind, could it have been interested in the nearby Goyt reservoirs? UFOs have often been reported around the area of reservoirs. Some people theorise that they drain water from them for their own usage. The UFO Carol saw was moving in the direction of the reservoirs. Obviously this could be just coincidence, but is another point to take into account. Conclusion As you can see, Carol has experienced some fascinating things over the years. I certainly believe that she is a contactee, and that there are other experiences she is currently not aware of. It is interesting to wonder whether she has always been a contactee, or whether this contact began with the close encounter with the craft when she was 12. There is no clear indication that her experiences prior to this were ET-related, but this is still a possibility. Although she has no further memories of being taken aboard craft, the incident with the hybrid baby, her other UFO sightings, the body markings and the many other unusual incidents she has experienced all point towards the possibility that her contact is ongoing. I am convinced that the experiences she has shared with me took place, and that Carol is completely trustworthy. There would be reason for her to have elaborated or made up any of these incidents, she has nothing to gain from doing so and is not trying to make any money out of what she has discussed. She is just an everyday person who has experienced incredible events. Many of these events have been witnessed by other people as well, which provides further verification that they took place. Carol may well have further experiences, and she has agreed to stay in touch and keep me informed. If any more information becomes available it will be added to this report. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2010

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 24/04/2026 Last Updated: 28/04/2026 Introduction In late January 2026 a lady named Nikki Baxter got in touch with BUFOG via our website’s sighting report form. She wanted to know whether anyone had reported UFO sightings around autumn 1988 at evening time in the area of Bournville, Birmingham. She went on to describe a sighting she had outside of her house around this time, and also discussed having strange dreams, finding markings on her body and having a sudden burst of creativity following this incident. She explained that many years ago a work colleague of her friend's husband arranged for UFO researchers Irene Bot and Nick Redfern to visit her. Later on she also contacted Tony Dodd about her experiences. However up until this point nobody had documented these experiences in depth. I got back in touch with her and over numerous E-Mails and phone calls discussed her experiences in depth. I discovered that she had written a diary covering some of her unusual dreams. She kindly photographed the pages from this diary and sent them through to me to analyse. In late April 2026 Nikki visited a hypnotherapist who assists BUFOG with contact cases to explore some of her experiences by regressive hypnosis. Unfortunately despite feeling that she was relaxing she was unable to sink into a regressive state. On The Roof Nikki cannot consciously recollect the first out-of-the-ordinary experience of her life. She was informed by her mother about what took place, and the details were later confirmed by both her old neighbour George and her aunt. It occurred on a Sunday in 1971 when she was only 5 years old. In her early childhood she lived on the ground floor of a maisonette on the corner between Elm Tree Road and Charlotte Road. Aerial map of the maisonette Today there is a car park on the opposite side of Charlotte Road, but there used to stand a factory. A locked iron gate prevented entry into the factory grounds when nobody was present. The factory building itself had brick walls, making it impossible to climb. One Sunday afternoon her mother was putting out some empty milk bottles on the front door step. As she bent down she glimpsed something red over the road on top of the factory building. She stood back up to get a better look but could not see anything. However before re-entering the flat she looked one last time, and saw the top of someone's head with red hair moving around. As Nikki had red hair her mother had an inclining something was not right. She began to check the rooms of the house and quickly realised that Nikki was nowhere to be seen. That's when she realised that Nikki was up on the roof! She went and got George to grab a ladder. He helped her climb over the closed gate. When she checked the building she could not find any obvious route that Nikki would have used to climb up there. There were no external staircases and no vegetation alongside the building. George helped get her back down off the roof. While this could be viewed as a possible early abduction experience, in which Nikki was put back in a different location to where she was taken from (which can seemingly sometimes occur), when I discussed the factory with Nikki she informed me that she would sometimes crawl under the locked gate and play inside the grounds with her friends. It is therefore entirely possible that she decided to go exploring on her own and then managed to find a well-hidden way to get up onto the roof. Malevolent Force Nikki used to share a bunk bed with her sister Joanna. She used to have the bottom bunk, her sister on the top. During her childhood years she endured a repeated vivid nightmare in which a shadowy evil form attacking her. In the dream she would find herself standing in the centre of a circular room, lined with book shelves. She was up off the floor, either hovering or standing on top an invisible box. As she stood there she would recite the Lord’s prayer. This is an unusual aspect because according to Nikki she was not brought up as a Christian, nor did her family attend church services. Suddenly a huge black shadowy form would come through the book shelves in front of her. As it came closer she would attempt to continue praying to fend it off, but she found that she either couldn’t speak, or strange sounds came out instead of actual words. At this realization her whole body would start to tremble. She would look down and realise she was holding a book. She would then begin looking through the book in an attempt to find the words of the prayer as the shadowy mass came closer and closer. But when she did she found that the pages were blank. As the entity reached her she would wake up in a cold sweat. Sometimes she would shout out in her sleep “Get off me! Get off me!” and punch at the mattress. This would cause Joanna to stir, who would then wake her up. While this could have had a paranormal explanation, it may just as easily have been night terrors which are quite common, especially in childhood. Rustling The repeated dream was not the only thing that occurred at the address. Nikki says that when she and Joanna got into bed to go to sleep they would sometimes hear something rustling inside their wooden wardrobe, which would frighten them both. In the end Nikki would get enough courage to get out of bed, run across to the bedroom door and switch the light on. As she did this the sound would always stop, and when she searched inside the wardrobe she never found anything which could have caused the noise. On some occasions when she switched the light back off and got back in the sound would begin again! Nikki puts these experiences down to a haunting at the property. However, there is the possibility that there was a small rodent inside the cupboard with a good hiding spot. Nikki disagrees with this as an explanation. She says that her mother was obsessed with cleaning all around the house, so it is very unlikely that there would have been any rodents managing to hide there. Another possibility is that the noises were caused by pipes of the central heating under the floor in the vicinity of the wardrobe. However Nikki says that there was only one heater that was situated in the alcove and it was never on, the only heat they in the living room. Colourful Wave In the early years of her life Nikki recalls being fascinated with trying to get into the upper section of an in-built cupboard alongside the bunk bed. One day in 1971 the main cupboard doors were open a little bit. Nikki climbed up onto the top bunk, reached over and grabbed hold of them. She ended up hanging in mid-air holding the top of them. Unfortunately the doors swung closed, slamming shut on her fingers! She called out for her mother and sister but unfortunately they could not hear her. She believes she hung there for about half an hour with no way to free herself. Eventually Joanne came back into the room. When she found out what had happened she called out for her mother too. Witness drawing of her hanging from the cupboard Eventually Nikki's mother heard the girls shouting for help, entered the room and thankfully freed Nikki from the cupboard doors. Four years later, one day in 1975, Nikki was grounded (she cannot remember the reason why). Her mother had sent her up to her room. She sat on the bunk bed bored and wishing to go outside and have fun with the other children in the neighbourhood. She was staring out of the bedroom window when she suddenly noticed something out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head round and was amazed to see an unusual form emerging through the closed doors of the in-built cupboard. It looked like a translucent wave made up of a rainbow of colours. It began to drift across the room undulating up and down as it moved. Nikki says that it was beautiful to look at, and she was fascinated by it rather than scared. Witness drawing of the anomaly emerging from the cupboard and starting to drift across the room She wondered if she was seeing things. She pinched her arm and rubbed her eyes to make sure she was wide awake. The anomaly was still present, roughly 5 feet off the floor, and slowly moving across the room. She was mesmerised by it. As it reached the wardrobe it seemed to disappear into the top of it. Nikki sat there for a while waiting for it to emerge. After a while she climbed down, opened the wardrobe and peered inside. There was nothing out of the ordinary, just some clothes and a few dead moths. She said out loud “I know you’re in here, I saw you!” Additional witness drawing of the anomaly She waited a while longer before deciding to go and tell her mother what she had just seen. When she entered the living room she found her mother had one of her friends over to visit. She said to her “Mum, I’ve just seen something strange in my bedroom!” However, her mother was agitated by the fact she had left her room while grounded. Her mother’s friend asked “What did you see dear?” Nikki said “I saw a coloured thing floating across my bedroom, which disappeared on top of the wardrobe.” But her mother put it down to her imagination and sent her back to her room. Back in the bedroom, Nikki decided to also take a look inside the built-in cupboard, but again there was not much in there. As she brushed the dust off her hands she began to question what she had seen. Many years later she was intrigued to know whether her mother could recollect the incident. She asked Joanna to speak with her about it and let her know. Her sister informed her that her mother remembered it, but she had apparently described it as a “coloured ball” rather than a wave. This discrepancy is interesting as Nikki has no memory of it looking like this. Due to the colours of the anomaly, I asked Nikki if she felt it could have been an unusual reflection of sunlight or another external light source coming in through the bedroom window. However she dismissed this possibility, stating that she had seen it physically emerge from the cupboard and also cross the room in the air rather than down at floor level. I agree that this does not sound like a reflection of light. In late April 2026 Nikki informed me that she had spoken with her Joanne about the incident where her fingers got trapped in the cupboard doors. Her sister mentioned that when she and her mother found her hanging there she was exclaiming "Colours! Colours!" Thinking back to her early obsession with the in-built cupboard, combined with what her sister informed her, Nikki wonders if she had seen something come out of there on a previous occasion, or at least sensed that there was something in there. Whispering Voices On numerous occasions Nikki thought she could hear whispering voices coming from the dark alcove by the side of the bathroom. During the daytime it wasn’t so bad, but at night she was really frightened of it. Sometimes she would need to use the bathroom during the night. She used to dread this happening as she would need to run along the long hallway to reach the light switch for the bathroom. When she exited the bathroom she used to get back to her room as fast as possible. Nikki felt that if she had remained there long enough she would have heard the voices. Years later she mentioned the whisperings coming from the alcove to her brother and sister. They confirmed that they had also heard the same noises. The Seated Man One night Nikki dreamt that she was on her way back home. The front door was open, and the light from outside lit up the first part of the hallway. As she made her way up the hall, she could see into the living room through the open door. She was surprised to see a table and chairs in there (She was aware in the dream that her family did not own this furniture). As she walked along the hall the light coming in from outside faded, so she began to walk slower. She began to get a bad feeling. She then saw that the chair in front of her had a man sitting in it with his back to her. The man appeared to have shoulder length black hair. The man’s head began to turn really slowly towards her. Immediately she had a feeling that if she looked at him his face would be some kind of demon. She turned around and ran out of the house and along the road. As she ran she looked around and realised that the man was following her but again appeared to be moving in slow motion. As she ran round a corner in the road she was met with the sight of two men. She begged them for help. They led her down the road towards a nearby row of shops and into the off licence. At this moment the dream ended. It is possible that this was a recollection of an actual memory, or perhaps spirits attempting to communicate with her while she was asleep. Haunted Flats At the age of 17 Nikki moved out of the maisonette she had grown up in. Over the next few years she moved several times before finally settling in a ground floor bedsit in Oak Court on Alder Lane, Bournville. Aerial map of Alder Lane indicating Oak Court Nikki says that, just like the maisonette, the block of flats she moved into was also haunted. Both her and both she and other residents experienced a variety of paranormal activity there. She informed me of a number of occasions when she would wake during the night and see translucent orbs of various colours floating in her room. These would quickly fade away. On one night she had a dream about an old lady who was walking through the bedsit. She was wearing a puffed out skirt and a red hat. She walked straight through the wall to the left of Nikki's bed. As she did Nikki reached out and tried to grab the hat off her head, but she was gone. Due to how old-fashioned the lady's clothing appeared, Nikki wonders if it was an apparition. On another occasion she saw a black silhouette in the shape of a lady. It was on the white coloured cupboards that surrounded the bed area. There was nothing obvious which was casting this shadow. When she spoke of these incidents with a girl who lived in the same block, her neighbour informed her that she had a radio which would often switch on by itself when she arrived home. Descending Lights In the autumn of 1988 Nikki had the experience which initially prompted her to get in touch. It was evening time and getting dark outside. She was sitting on the sofa in the living room watching television. As the light level dropped the room got darker and darker, with the only light coming from the TV screen and light coming in from a lamppost situated at the entrance of Alder Lane. Usually she would get up and switch on the light and close the curtains, but on this particular evening she couldn’t be bothered. Photograph of Oak Court indicating the living room window At around 8:30-9 pm she suddenly noticed something strange out of the corner of her eye out of the living room window, something glowing. “What the hell is that”, she said alarmingly. She got up and raced over to the window. Just south of Alder Lane is an embankment covered in trees, beyond which is Bournville School. Just above the tree line at the top of this embankment was two huge bright white lights, quite far apart from each other. In between them was a smaller red coloured light. Aerial map indicating the bedsit (A), embankment (B) and Bournville School (C) At first glance she thought it was a plane that was going to crash, but she then realized the lights were slowly descending rather than coming towards her. She next wondered if it was a helicopter, but it appeared to be completely silent. At the distance it was at she would have surely been able to hear the rotor blades. Photograph of the embankment from Alder Lane The next thing she became aware of she was waking up in her bed the following morning! She had no recollection of going to sleep. She also had stabbing pains in both temples. She gave her head a gentle massage, and after five minutes it started to calm down. She got up and made some breakfast. While sitting down and eating she happened to glance out of the window. Immediately she had a flash back to the evening before. She remembered seeing the lights but strangely could not recollect what happened next. She was a bit concerned by this so went to meet her neighbours and asked them if they had seen anything outside on the previous evening. However, they could not recall seeing anything, and when she told them about the lights she felt that they did not believe her. Soon afterwards she also told her sister Joanna, and a few friends. Most of them looked at her strangely like she was going mad. “Someone else must have seen something!” she thought to herself. One of her close friends named Sandy was the last person she told. Sandy had not seen anything either. She suggested that maybe she had fallen asleep and dreamt about the lights. Nikki dismissed this suggestion, stating that she was sure she had been awake. Sandy asked her what happened after she realized it wasn’t a helicopter. Nikki racked her brain trying to think back. All she got was an image in her mind of her turning away from the window and walking back to the sofa, almost like she was in some kind of trance. She knew that she would not have done this. At the very least she would have gone and knocked on the door of her neighbour Martin and pointed out the lights to him. Two weeks later she met up with Joanna. Her sister said “Hi, I’ve been meaning to pop over yours.” Nikki asked her why. Joanna looked through her bag and pulled out a newspaper clipping. She handed it to Nikki. The article stated that there had been numerous sightings of lights over Birmingham and the areas of Redditch around the same time that she had seen the lights! Unfortunately, she did not keep this clipping, but believes it may have been from the Bromsgrove News. Surge of Creativity The same night that she read the newspaper clipping about the lights as she lay on her pillow her mind began swimming with thoughts. These thoughts began to form rhyming sentences. She thought to herself “What’s going on?” She had never been good at creative writing. The theme of the poem was world peace, with humankind putting its differences aside once and for all. She was wondering whether to get up and write it down as she knew that her memory was not good at recalling things at a later point, but she was too tired so decided to drop off to sleep. However, when she awoke in the morning she was surprised to find the words were still clear in her mind so she now wrote it down. Throughout the day she had a feeling that something was going to happen, although she did not know exactly what. When she went to bed the feeling remained, and when she woke she felt sure something had taken place during the night. In the months following the incident she would write further poems. It was as if something had triggered inside her greatly increasing her creativity. Pregnancy, Death & Rebirth On another night Nikki had an extremely detailed and long dream. It began in a hotel. She noticed that she looked pregnant. She looked down at herself and could see what looked like an elbow pushing outward around her navel. The dream shifted and she was now walking across a large grass field. She came across a car and in this car was her friend Sandy. As Sandy was a nurse she asked her to examine her. Sandy agreed to this and started feeling her distended abdomen. She began to look puzzled, and then guided Nikki to a building, before telling her that she would get a doctor to come and see her. After a short while a doctor in a white coat approached her. He too examined her. He went on to say that she was indeed pregnant, but that the baby was too large for her to carry. He then asked her to wait outside with two gentlemen who she didn’t know. She followed the men outside. As they were waiting one of the men was looking over the fields and had noticed some lights in the sky over by a few trees, which were at the far end of the field. “Hey, can you two see that?” he asked excitedly pointing in the direction of the lights. Both I and the other man looked up and were amazed to see hovering in mid-air three spheres of light. One of them was light blue, one yellow and one green. They all had a light blue hue around them. Witness drawing of herself and the two men, with the spheres hovering in the distance They decided to head towards the spheres to get a closer look. Nikki noticed there were areas of sand. One of them lay ahead of her, and as she trod onto it she began to sink! She warned the two men that it was sinking sand. However, they did not believe her and so also began to cross, and like her then also began to sink. Witness drawing of her and the men sinking into the sand They started to panic and sink further until they were all swallowed up. Now the dream changed again and she found herself standing on an embankment. It looked like there had been an earthquake which had left openings in the ground. One of these openings had a mound of earth, and on top of this she noticed a figure. She was shocked to see that it was her own dead body lying in a foetal position. She then heard the sound of rushing water. The opening in the ground was beginning to fill with water making its way towards her body. Witness drawing of her dead body on the mound of earth and the approaching flood She felt like she was out of her physical body and needed to get back to it before it got washed away. She noticed a man off to her right and shouted at him for help. The man seemed to not be able to see or hear her, but she hoped that her request would somehow be understood. The man seemed to notice her body. He jumped down and pulled it up to the safety of the solid ground. He then began attempting to resuscitate her. Witness drawing of the man resuscitating her with her spirit watching over She looked down at her spiritual form and realised she was beginning to fade. The next thing she knew she awoke back in her physical body. She thanked the man for saving her and then began telling him about the other two men who were also in trouble. However the man did not believe her and felt she must be confused. He led her back to the hotel where she had been situated at the start of the dream. There she met with her partner and sister. She told them what had happened but they did not believe her. They thought she was going mad. Angry at them Nikki ran out of the hotel. She ended up in the shopping centre of a town. She found a block of toilets and ran inside to hide. However, the cubicle she ran inside had many locks to close. She was frantically bolting them when a young blonde haired girl approached and told her not to be afraid and to go with her. Nikki agreed and the girl took her to a shop with TVs in the window. One of the television sets was just displaying white noise. She asked the girl “Where are we going?” The girl pointed at the television. They both got pulled through the glass window and into the TV screen. Nikki found herself in a basement-like room with lots of other teenagers. The girl informed her she would be safe there. This was where the dream ended. When the details came back to her she was very intrigued by some of its many aspects, including the unusual pregnancy, glowing spheres and out of body experience. MIB Around 1994 Nikki had a dream in which she was in standing in the kitchen during the daytime. She looked over at the doorway. There was a man standing there wearing a black suit and rimmed hat. He was white and looked to be in his late 30s. He was pointing towards the kitchen window. In the dream she wasn’t frightened of this unfamiliar man standing in her house. She looked at the window but couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary. She turned back to him puzzled at what he was pointing at. But the man continued to point. Nikki looked back round again just to make sure there was nothing there. Witness drawing of the Man In Black in the kitchen (Face not drawn because she can't recollect it clearly) Immediately she floated forwards in a standing position, passing right through the kitchen worktop and the window extremely fast! This is where the dream ended. The memories of what happened were extremely vivid. This is a fascinating dream as it contains numerous elements linking it with contact, despite the fact that at this stage Nikki had not looked into the subject. She had no knowledge of the “Men In Black”. Could this have been memories of a previous abduction taking place? Many people report being floated through windows/solid objects when being taken. Inspired Art Between the years of 1994-1999 Nikki studied for an art diploma at Bournville College. During this she created many abstract art pieces. Some of these contain elements which are reminiscent of craft. Others contain symbolic writing. Below are some examples: Nikki wonders if she was inspired by her contact experiences or influenced subconciously in some way to draw them. She also created a number of repeated pattern drawings that more clearly show craft, although by this point she had started to look into the subject because of her experiences: She was inspired to draw Grey beings, or even design sculptures around them, such as salt shakers and mugs. Nikki says that these drawings were based on the beings she recollected seeing on previous occasions, not just on what she had learnt about the contact subject: Triangular Marking & Nordic Dream One spring/summer’s day in the mid 1990’s Nikki was having a bath when the door buzzer went off. She jumped out of the bath, wrapped a towel around herself and ran to the intercom to find out who it was. It was her Uncle Dean. She let him into the block, unlocked the front door and then ran back into the bathroom to continue washing. While still in the bath the buzzer went off a second time! This time it was Sandy. Dean let her in and they both went and waited for Nikki in the living room. As Nikki was drying herself she noticed an odd marking on the side of her right knee. It looked like a triangle of straight lines. Nikki exclaimed out loud “What the fuck!” She bent over to get a closer look. The lines were a dark purple colour and appeared to be just under the skin. There was no swelling or signs of bruising around them. She could not think of anything she could have potentially bumped into causing the injury. She put a top and underwear on then called Sandy into the bathroom to take a look. Sandy asked “What’s that?” She got closer before exclaiming “A triangle!” Nikki responded “I know that much, but what’s it doing on my knee?” Sandy suggested “Have you banged yourself against anything that might have created that type of impression?” She licked her finger and tried rubbing the lines, perhaps momentarily thinking they were ink. Nikki said “No, not that I can think of, the strange thing is that I just washed myself whilst in the bath and I swear it wasn’t there then, I mean you wouldn’t miss something that big would you?” Sandy then said that it looked similar to a marking caused by laser surgery, but again noted the lack of swelling or bruising. In the end she stated “I don’t know Nik, I don’t know what to say”, with a confused look on her face. Nikki said “Oh well, at least I know I’m not hallucinating. I think I’ll show Dean, the more witness’s the better.” Wrapping a towel around her upper legs she walked into the living room and showed her uncle the marking. “How you done that?” he asked. Nikki replied “I don’t know, it’s just appeared, what you think might have caused it?” But like Sandy he had no idea what it was. Sandy put on the kettle to make everyone a cup of tea, and Nikki changed the subject as the atmosphere in the room felt a little weird. That night she had another vivid dream. In the dream she found herself up by the ceiling of the living room looking down at herself sitting on the floor and staring at the TV. Initially the screen was just displaying static but then an image appeared. She could see on the screen a couple having intercourse on a stone table. The man seemed particularly tall and had shoulder length blond hair. The woman under him was much shorter and had short wavy dark hair. The image then changed to a piece of wood covered in leaves. A beetle scuttled along the wood then vanished. She then watched herself turn and look around the room as if sensing a presence. She sprang to her feet and went over to turn the light on, but the light switch did not work. She walked through to the adjoining kitchen but that light did not work either. She turned to go back into the living room but could now see something on the floor about three feet in front of her. It was a dark form of a figure about the size of a child. She could only make out two white coloured eyes. She shouted angrily “Get out of my flat! What are you doing in my flat? Get out!” The dream changed and she now found herself standing in front of the bathroom door. The bathroom was brightly lit by an unknown source. Standing in the light was humanoid figure almost seven feet in height. It was unclothed and had long blond hair. For an unknown reason she felt that it was male, despite the fact that it appeared to have no genitals. Next the figure spoke with her telepathically. He asked her “Are you afraid?” She sharply responded audibly “No I am not!” This was where the dream ended. She sat up in bed and checked the time. It was 2:05am. After going to the bathroom she managed to quickly drop back off to sleep. Several days later her friend Kul from her sculpture class came round to visit. Nikki informed him of the dream. Kul suggested that it might have been her guardian angel. When she informed Sandy suggested the same. A number of weeks later Sandy came to visit and brought with her a book on the contact phenomenon she had spotted at the local library. When Nikki read the book she was fascinated, but one page in particular caught her attention. It mentioned Nordic beings and their association with being a "guardian angel". It also mentioned that people who have been in contact with these beings claimed to have been given artistic and written abilities. Nikki was shocked, and wondered whether the dream she had was a flashback to meeting one of these beings. Her dream certainly has numerous aspects which fit with contact. The sense of presence and electrical disruptions are commonly reported. The small figure which appeared in front of her could well have been a visitation by a Grey, although these tend to have black or dark coloured eyes, not white as she reported. The tall blond humanoid in the bathroom sounds very similar to a Nordic, one of the other types/species regularly reported. The fact that he spoke telepathically points towards this possibility. Grey Visitation In another vivid dream Nikki was awoke by something moving on top of her duvet. She sat up and reached out to see if she could find out what was on the bed, as her eyes were still getting accustomed to the dark. Her hand brushed against something cold with what felt like long thin legs. She stared down the bed and she could now make out what it was. It looked like a large mechanical spider with red and black long spindly legs. The legs made a tapping sound as it scurried away from her. Witness drawing of the mechanical spider She got out of bed, walked through to the living room and sat down on the sofa. Suddenly she felt something rushing past her. She stuck out her hand and grabbed what felt like a small-sized hand. Pulling it towards her she could make out a little body about the size of a young child. It had thin arms and legs and a distended belly and was unclothed. For an unknown reason she picked it up and placed it on her lap like she would do her own child. It was cold and clammy to the touch. Nikki looked at the being's face but for some reason could not see any facial details at all. It was quite dark but she should still have been able to make this out at the distance she was from it. She decided to try turning on the light to see if that would help. She stood up, carrying it over to the light switch, but the light did not come on. She walked through to the kitchen but the switch wouldn’t work there either. She then exited the bedsit and went to the lobby, as that had a light which was on all night. However, it was dark there too. The power to the vicinity was clearly not working. Witness drawing of holding the small being She re-entered the flat and walked back through to the living room. Looking down she realised she was no longer holding the being. It was also lighter in there. Through the doorway to the adjoining bedroom she could see her boyfriend continuing to sleep. Standing on top of the bed were three of the short beings. They were about 3.5 feet in height, unclothed and with grey-brown coloured skin. Unlike the initial being she had been holding she could see their faces clearly. They had black almond-shaped eyes, small nostrils and thin slits for mouths. These beings were of course what we refer to as Greys, although at this point in her life Nikki had not looked into contact so was unaware of this. It looked like they were having trouble standing on the mattress. They wobbled around finding it hard to get their balance. She attempted to shout to wake up Gez but no sound came out. She walked over to the bed and shook his leg. Witness drawing of the Greys on the bed He began to stir. She pointed at the beings to show him when he opened his eyes. This was where the dream ended. The fact that Nikki remembered seeing Grey beings in this dream, despite having no knowledge of the contact phenomenon at the time, means that this was very likely recollection of a visitation experience. Nikki was no longer with Gez at the time of this dream so this appears to have been a flashback to an incident that had occurred on a previous occasion. It is possible that the spider-like creatures she initially saw was a screen memory, as sometimes the beings are known to mask their appearance fully. Or perhaps it was some kind of controlled device which the Greys were utilizing. Another possibility is that this dream was a mix of fact and fiction, with some imaginary elements to it. The way in which she could not see the face of the being she initially held is fascinating, especially considering the fact that I have investigated other cases previously where exactly the same thing has been reported. It appears that sometimes Greys seem to hide their facial features from the experiencer, almost like a partial screen memory. The reason why they do this is unknown, and it is interesting that she could clearly see the faces of the Greys standing on the bed. It is also worth noting the sudden changes in her recollection. One moment the lights would not work and she was holding the Grey, the next it had vanished and it was lighter in the flat. It is possible that there is an element of missing time here, and that more took place which she cannot remember at present. Growing One day Nikki dropped off while travelling on a train. She dreamt that she was in a field walking towards a couple of wooden tables. Standing to the side of them was a man in a dark coloured suit. On the opposite side was a small Marquette with its entrance open. She walked towards the Marquette and the man in the suit seemed to fade from view. A woman then emerged from out of the tent, seemingly floating gracefully. She was very beautiful with long flowing gold and white hair. She was surrounded by a golden radiance. She was wearing a long flowing skirt of pastel colours. As the woman approached Nikki realised that her irises were a mixture of colours which seemed to be changing. She was mesmerised by them. The woman pointed at her and stated “You are growing!” Confused, Nikki replied “What?” Again the woman stated “You are growing!” With this she awoke. The Spheres Another vivid dream Nikki had occurred around 1997. In this dream she was back in the maisonette she grew up in, and lying down in her bedroom at night. One of her mother’s friends had stopped over and the house smelt of cigarette smoke and alcohol. She decided to open a window to let in some fresh air. When she opened the curtains to her astonishment, there were three coloured spheres about the size of a medicine ball (14 inches), floating outside the window of her room, moving slightly up and down and rotating. The colours were something she had never seen before. Nikki describes the colours as "a wondrous sight, somewhat like the pictures you’d see in space of the universe, swirling multi-coloured sprays and mists of amazing beauty, that when seeing it made your insides go all soft and calm." Abduction Witnesses One evening Nikki had been out drinking with friends. During the night she dreamt that she was sitting on the sofa. She looked to her right through the open kitchen doorway. Outside and staring through the kitchen window was a small group of people, including a young white man who was slightly balding, and a Jamaican lady. Wondering what the people were doing there she got up, walked through to the kitchen and loudly asked “What are you doing?” The man replied through the glass with another question, “Are you alright?” Nikki responded saying “Yes, why shouldn’t I be?” The man said “We saw everything, that strange craft… I saw you through your window. You were there one minute and then the next you were gone!” He seemed genuinely concerned. Nikki turned around and saw that the carpet of the living room was no longer there, instead it was covered in soil. She was worried about what the landlord would say. She went through to the bathroom to calm down, but it was even worse in there, like an explosion had gone off damaging all the furnishings. Suddenly the dream changed and she was sitting in her living room. The people were there standing around her chatting about what they had seen. The man said “We saw everything, but the strange thing is I couldn’t move a limb, I mean you could say I froze in fright as I’ve never seen anything like that before, but, well it was as though everything around me had stopped moving too.” At this Nikki awoke to the alarm clock ringing. She began to wonder what the dream was about, blaming it on the fact she’d been drinking. Later in the day she was at the college for her sculpting class. She decided to use the canteen for lunch. She looked round the room but realised all the seats were taken. Looking for somewhere else to sit she began to walk along a glass-walled corridor which had a view across an open courtyard. There were many other groups of students there. She noticed a man standing against the railing of the stairs. He had a big grin on his face. For an unknown reason she sensed that she would get to know him. A week later she was working on a pyramid-shaped sculpture in her classroom. She suddenly felt someone looking at her. She turned around and realised it was the man she had noticed in the courtyard. He introduced himself as Peter. They soon began dating. A couple of years later Nikki began an arts and design course at Gosta Green University. There she met a lady named Sophia. In due course they became friends. Around this time Nikki was looking for an excuse to move away from the bedsit on Alder Lane. She soon discovered that Sophia was also interested in moving home, so they agreed to move into a flat together on Castle Square, Weoley Castle. One day she was relaxing with Peter and Sophia at their new flat when she suddenly realised that it was them she had dreamed about previously. They were the balding man and Jamaican lady from her dream! The dream Nikki recollected has elements linking it with an abduction experience. It couldn’t have been a direct flashback though, as some of the aspects were clearly imagined. Due to the fact that by this time she had read about contact, there is of course the possibility that her brain was just coming up with a dream themed on the subject. However, it also appears to have contained a precognition of meeting Peter and Sophia. Experiencers regularly report having precognitions / premonitions of future events. Bruised Knees A number of months later she and Peter had begun dating. They had been out for the evening and he had stopped over at the flat. In the morning Nikki was awoken by a jolt of pain coming from her left leg. Peter’s hand was on her leg at the time. She screamed out loud “Fucking hell, what the fuck are you doing?!” Peter sat up quickly and asked “What’s the matter?” Nikki asked “What did you do to my leg?” Surprised by her outburst he responded “I only touched your bloody leg!” Nikki pulled the duvet down to check her leg. As she looked at the side of it she was shocked to see a large bruise the size of a satsuma on the inside of her left knee. It was a dark purple colour. Upon seeing the bruise Peter asked “What the fuck have you done to yourself?” “Me? I ain’t done nothing!” Nikki responded. When she checked further she found an identical bruise on the inside of her right knee. It too was very tender. Peter asked “How the hell have you done that?” Nikki said “I don’t know. They weren’t there last night, I would have noticed.” Peter suggested that she may have banged her legs together in her sleep. Nikki disagreed, stating that the bruises were not at the location where her legs met, and surely if she had done that she would have immediately woken up in pain. Peter then suggested it may be down to blood clotting, although Nikki felt that it was a bit odd this would have happened symmetrically on both legs. When she got out of bed she realised that the bruises did not hurt to walk on, they were only tender when she touched them. Unknown Light Source A year after moving into the flat on Castle Square Nikki and Sophia moved into another flat above a row of shops of Weoley Avenue in the nearby vicinity of Lodge Hill Cemetery. Aerial map of Weoley Avenue indicating the row of shops (A) and Lodge Hill Cemetery (B) Photograph of the front of the shops on Weoley Avenue One evening they saw a strange glowing light coming through the front window, which quickly vanished. Nikki went downstairs, stepped outside and took two photographs of the surroundings in case anything could be picked up. Below are scans of these two photographs: The slightly lighter tone of the initial photograph is very likely going to be down to the camera adjusting to the low lighting conditions. However, on the second of the photos there appeared to be a white orb with two movement trail coming off it. Nikki did not see anything with her own eyes at the time of taking the image, so there is a possibility it is light reflection of a small object drifting past the camera lens. The movement trails can easily be put down to camera shake. That said, it is interesting that this photo was taken soon after Nikki and Sophia witnessed a glowing light coming through the front window. The Owl One night in either 1999/2000 Nikki's 9 year old niece and one of her friends came and spent the night at the flat. Nikki was awoken in the middle of the night by the sound of them both hysterically crying. She went on through to their room to find out what the matter was. They informed her that they had seen an owl sitting outside the bedroom window and peering in at them (They had left the curtains open as it was relatively dark outside). To comfort them Nikki said "It's alright, it's only an owl!" But they then responded saying "No, it was massive! A really huge owl which covered the whole window. It scared us!" It is of course possible that what the children had seen was indeed just a large owl which had surprised and frightened them. However it should be noted that there are many cases on record, including cases I have directly investigated, where ETs have appeared in the guise of an owl using a screen memory. Could this have been a potential visitation? Footprints On another night Nikki woke up and walked downstairs to use the bathroom. On the way back up as she reached the top of the stairs she noticed two brown-coloured bare footprints on the top two steps facing in the direction of her room. She was puzzled by them but it was the middle of the night so she went back to her room and pulled back the quilt to get into bed. Down near the end of the mattress she saw some brown stains. She checked on the soles of her feet and found what at first appeared to be dried and ingrained mud. However, she soon discovered that it was in fact excrement. Horrified by the discovery she changed the bed clothes and scrubbed her feet clean. Nikki is prone to sleep walking, so she wondered whether she had walked outside and had trodden in some dog mess. But the main issue with this theory was the fact that the footprints on the carpet were only at the top of the stairs. Surely if this had happened they would have tracked right from the front door and up the steps? It was as if she had just been placed there. This bizarre situation only happened the once, but the mystery of what took place still weighs on her mind. The Talking Dog In August 2003 Nikki decided to start documenting her experiences in a personal diary. During my investigation into her case she usefully sent me photographs of the pages of this diary for analysis. This has given me a greater understanding of her more recent experiences, and also means that we have the precise dates when they have occurred. The first incident she documented was a strange dream which occurred during the night of 21st August 2003. Below is what she wrote about this dream: “Me and Mark walking up the road. I saw a strange light in the sky that was white and cloudy. It moved fast. Mark saw it, then the light came down and brightened up the street. I was scared. We went home. It followed us into the house and lit up the room. Then a dog appeared or something talking in a strange foreign language. I said I didn't understand. Then he said "Africa great explosion in the air." It seemed to be scared of the dog that was with us. Then was walking up the road where loads of people had crowded around. There were angels fighting each other, then they were talking to us saying we got to do better. They began to throw balls of light at people who then disappeared. Then they threw some at me but somehow I protected myself over and over until the angels had a discussion. Went into room, felt like a man. They gave me wings. This is certainly an intriguing dream. Clearly some elements sound quite fantastical, such as the battle of angels fighting with the crowd of people. Yet other aspects appear to be linked to the UFO subject. Nikki describes seeing a fast moving white light in the sky which chased them right back to their house. It is possible that the talking dog she described is something commonly referred to as a “screen memory” – Where beings, and sometimes their craft, appear in alternative forms, often something less frightening or familiar to the individual. If so then perhaps what it told her was a future prediction of some kind. The only incidents I can find which it could have been referring to would be volcanic eruptions, the most recent of which happened on 25th November 2025 in Ethiopia. However, the wording used sounds more like the explosive break-up of a meteorite / craft rather than a volcano. It is worth considering that this dream was a mix of a flashback to a real incident and other elements from her imagination, a consideration that should be taken into account when looking at her other dream recollections. Procedure Resistance One night in 2004 Nikki had an unsettling dream in which she was awoken from her sleep by something pulling on her quilt. Still half asleep, she reached out to pull the quilt back up around her and felt a figure at the edge of the bed. It had long thin arms which were cold to the touch. It reached out and tried to drag her out of the bed. She screamed out “No! Get off me!” She then felt other beings also grab hold of her. She continued to fight back shouting “Let me go! Leave me alone!” Her stomach then began to hurt. She tried reaching down to soothe the pain but found that she could not move. She tried really hard to push her hands towards her belly. Slowly she was able to do so. When she did she felt something rounded, cold and clammy positioned over her. She found she could look down and tried to look down to see what it was but couldn’t see clearly. She looked to her left and saw the man in the black suit she remembered previously seeing in the kitchen standing alongside the bed with a colourful device in his hands. Angry about the pain she fought hard to push whatever was over her away. Eventually she managed to do so and this seemed to break her out of the trance and she found she could move freely. She jumped up out of bed, realising that the object she had pushed away was the head of a Grey. Feeling trapped by the being she looked around the room for a weapon to defend herself. There was a brown glass on the cabinet in the corner of the room. She grabbed it and smashed it forcefully over the Grey’s head. It fell to the floor and pink blood began to run out from its injured head over the floorboards. Some other Greys entered the room. They surrounded her and led her back to the bed. The man in black told her to lie back down. She refused saying “No! You’re hurting me!” The man lifted up the device in his hands and responded saying that if she did not lie back down he would use it on her. Nikki asked whether what the Greys had to do to her would hurt. Again referring to the device the man said “This will hurt you more!” Witness drawing of the Man In Black standing by the bed, Grey leaning over her and the injured Grey on the floor This is all she could remember taking place. In the morning when she woke up she had a headache and a sore stomach. She looked for any signs of blood on the floorboards but there was nothing. She put it down to a strange dream, aided by the fact that she knew she did not have the brown coloured glass she had grabbed off the cabinet. A couple of days later she had washed her duvet and pillow case and was putting them back on the bed when she noticed faded patches on both of them. She could not be certain but she felt that they had not previously been present. She had also used a standard wash cycle so did not believe that they had been damaged in the wash. Below is a photograph of the pillow case showing the faded patches: As fabrics can naturally fade over time there is no definite proof that this was in any way linked with what she recollected. It should also be noted that the incident cannot have occurred as she remembered, either during the night or on a previous occasion, due to the presence of an object she knew she did not own, and the fact that no blood stains were found on the floorboards. However, as with some of her other dreams, there is the possibility that it was a flashback to a visitation overlaid with imaginary elements. Perhaps she did fight back against the Grey, and perhaps it fell to the floor when she did so, and this was then represented in the dream as her hitting it with an object and it getting physically injured. Invisible Assault A couple of years later on 24th January 2006 Nikki had another dream about a malevolent presence at the maisonette she grew up in: “Dreamt I was at old house where we grew up. I was asleep in the bedroom although it seemed I was sleeping on the floor, I was aware Jo was also in the room. I awoke to a noise which was coming from the hall way it was making me scared, I tried to get back to sleep then I felt whatever it was, was in the room with me. I then heard the noise again. With it came a gush of wind then I felt something pulling at my quilt I put a hand out to pull the quilt back and I felt something which was on top of me, I tried to scream but was frozen with fear, when I eventually gained the courage to call out, I woke calling Jo's name and realized I was in my own bed in my own house all alone.” Soon after experiencing this dream, and thinking back to all the unusual events that happened at the maisonette, she decided to do some research on the area she grew up in. She discovered that the street was bombed in the Birmingham bombings in 1941-2, and that the maisonette that she grew up in was built on top of one of the bomb sites where a corner house used to be situated. This corner house took a direct hit. The three occupants in the house, a man, his wife and teenage daughter, all died in the blast. She wonders if the ghosts of this previous family had remained at the location and were responsible for some of the things which took place there. There are numerous websites online which confirm that the corner house between Elm Tree Road and Charlotte Road was hit and destroyed, including the following example: https://stirchleybaths.org/2013/02/26/audio-ww2-bomb-shrapnel-in-my-loft/ The Birmigham Air Raids Rememberance Association (BARRA) website lists the three victims and their ages at the time: Body Markings On 29th September 2008 Nikki awoke to find some unusual markings at multiple places on her body, and also an aching tooth. She again wrote about this in her diary and included some sketches: “Awoke today with a small red triangle mark about 2 inches below my belly button slightly to the left.” Witness drawing of the triangle "I also had bruises which had the form of three finger marks on the inside left leg just above the knee joins the leg.” Witness drawing of the bruises “My tooth the one on the back top left was also giving me jip? Very sore, hard to eat as it hurting.” Both of the markings Nikki found were intriguing. The triangle, although small in size, looks like it was quite straight edged and artificial in design. The bruises on her thigh looked reminiscent of finger marks, as if something had tightly grabbed hold of her during the night. These markings would have been more compelling if Nikki had also recollected seeing beings or a craft during the night. As she did not there is of course the possibility that they were natural, maybe caused by her moving and bumping into something. Perhaps the aching tooth was also just down to tooth decay rather than something having been done to it. However, the idea that they were contact-related cannot be ruled out. Scratched Less than a fortnight later on 8th November Nikki woke with another unexplained injury. On this occasion she had also experienced a vivid dream about a shadowy figure, although she did not remember this dream till the following day. Her diary entry reads as follows: “Dream. 9th Nov 08 remembered. I remembered in the evening whilst putting a dirty top into the wash bin in the toilet, I didn't put the light on as I had some light from the kitchen door, however when approaching the wash bin it was unusually dark whether that was due to my eyes adjusting from going from a lit room to a half lit one? Anyhow I got a little freaked out. That's when I remembered the dream I must have had. But for some reason I didn't feel like it was? I was in my house as it is new and I was aware of something in my bedroom. 'I've had this kind of experience before' it felt, although something was on my bed next to me. I could feel its heavy presence pressed against the duvet. I was trying to shout ‘get out’ but the words only formed in my mind, I only remember fragments of this ‘dream’. I remember being in my other room as well seeing there a shadowy figure moving in the darkness. I knew somehow they were here for me. I didn't want to go with them I tried to get them to go. I awoke with a 3 inch red scratch on my forearm. This might be due to a broken night, it was a little rough on the edge. Can't be sure though. Belly once flattish is now quite bloated. Had organic bacon, eggs, 2 pieces of bread this morn home made veg curry rice half nan bread tortilla wrap.” The dream Nikki recollected is similar to others she has previously described, which may potentially be down to sleep paralysis or night terrors. Perhaps the scratch on her arm had been caused by her lashing out in the night, something which she directly mentioned so has clearly considered. However, she does also describe feeling more bloated than usual, so this was not the only thing which was out of the ordinary. Hand Bruises On the night of 15th May 2014 Nikki began to get a headache. When she awoke in the morning she discovered numerous bruises on her right hand and wrists she could not account for. She wrote about this in her diary: "Night of the full moon late on the night I began to have a headache. Got worse in the morning. Noticed bruising on right hand and wrist, and a bruise on the inside of left wrist?" Witness drawing of the bruises As Nikki did not recollect any contact incidents taking place in the night it is possible the bruises had a medical explanation. It is also possible that for whatever reason Nikki was moving around in the night and bashed her arms together causing the bruises, although she has never been informed that she is prone to do this by any of her partners. Infection Dreams Nikki has had several disturbing dreams about people getting infected by an alien life form. The second of these took place on 9th August 2015, and was documented in her diary: “Had a nightmarish dream about some kind of alien being that had overtaken people, who then were trying to infect others. It was a skinny thing that would come out of them when the people threw their hands towards anyone. There was panic everywhere. People made it so far but then got caught. Then one person, not sure if it was me, had got free and was back on embankment or something with a canal where there were two men. They were planning to set an explosion to kill the infection. I went, or the individual went, with them and I saw them go into woods then find a black helicopter, a long one, like military. I felt that they had stole it. As we began to rise the ground was alight with explosions. Then they were travelling. They were keeping low to set off the other explosions. Then there were loads of other black helicopters. They were after them. They began to fire on them. The dream ended when I saw them get shot and the woman was shot in her face but they had done their job. (I was seeing from an outside point of view).” The most recent dream took place in 2020. It was so disturbing that Nikki says that she woke up crying, and had to phone her brother after she woke up from it at around 2am. In this dream people outside the block of flats where she lives were running about jumping over fences and trying to flee. She found herself on the ground floor looking out of the window. She saw a man and a women in front of her. The man began to shake. His veins visibly contained a black coloured fluid. He then collapsed on the floor. The women went limp and fell against the window then down to the ground. Nikki was then in the hallway of her flat near the front door. Suddenly out of nowhere, someone was behind her and had their arm around her neck pulling her away from the front door. She tried to reach the letterbox with her feet to knock it to alert someone. This is where the dream ended. These dreams sound very much like a recurring nightmare, with elements that come across like a horror science fiction story. I have not dealt with any other cases which have involved such alien creatures. Although black un-marked military helicopters have been reported before, they make sense in the context of what she was dreaming about. There is nothing really which points towards this being flashbacks to one or more actual experiences. Light & Triangles For several years Nikki experienced no unusual incidents. However, on 14th April 2018 she had a sighting of an unidentified light in the sky, which led to her recollecting the details of a UFO related dream! Her diary entry explains what happened: “Dreamt, well I remembered my dream, whilst looking out my kitchen window there was a bright light source where there shouldn't have been. The sun was over the opposite side. Clouds came and covered the area. The only blue sky but that was showing was now covered. I then remembered the dream due to seeing those black clouds. I remember some of the dream. I was outside and I noticed these triangular shapes zipping quite fast from cloud to cloud, as many as 15-20. Someone was with me and I pointed them out to them. At first they didn't know what I was on about, but then they too saw the craft.” The sighting she had from her kitchen sounds interesting. The object was a glowing light of some kind which lit up the sky. The clouds which then appeared and covered the area seemed to trigger memories of a dream she had experienced prior to this point in which she seemingly was observing a large formation of fast moving triangular shaped UFOs moving around in the sky. While Flying Triangles are one of the more commonly described types of craft, this may easily have just been a dream. If it had occurred then it had clearly been wiped from her conscious mind up until this point, but there was no sign of actual contact having taken place. Abduction Attempts? At 3:50am in the morning of 21st July 2020 Nikki had another dream which may have been related to previous visitations/abductions. After experiencing it she wrote a new diary entry discussing what she remembered: “Dreamt ‘they’ came for me. First the little ones, the Greys I think. I was in my house although different to the house I am in now. I awoke in the dark to something trying to grab me. I began calling on Yeshua Jesus to save me, I said ‘I rebuke you in the name of Yeshua Jesus Christ.’ I kept saying it, although it was hard, as the words seemed to be prevented from coming out of my mouth, but I just kept repeating it till it came out. Then I heard a child crying and its mother. I think they were after the child too. I tried putting the light on but it would not come on. So I kept repeating ‘I rebuke you in the name of Yeshua Jesus Christ’, saying no-one is allowed to take my body without my will, I do not belong to you. Then the light came back on. I then was thanking Yeshua Jesus. ‘Thank you, thank you!’ Then I went back to bed, and again something came for me. This time it was bigger in size. It came at me. I fought with it again, rebuking it in the living word, and again something was preventing me from speaking the words. This happened every time. But I persisted until the words came out. After all I had in my hands was some type of black material like clothing or something. Then the lights came on again, then went off and it all started again. I actually woke up out of my dream. So I said it again while awake ‘You do not own my body, you cannot take my body without my will, I rebuke you in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus Christ.’ I then fell back to sleep, then dreamt of being attacked again, this time by what looked like a small dog. It spoke to me as I wrestled with it, but it was addressing Christ Yeshua Jesus. It said ‘I have been looking for you, I have something.’ I forgot what, but something to do with relics. I grabbed it by the mouth and tried to throw it out of the window but couldn't throw it off the ridge so chose the top window to make sure it fell over the ridge. I was high up so I wanted it to fall on the ground. I managed to do it. The lights came back on, then went off again. I was walking around my flat or house saying ‘I rebuke you in the name of Yeshua Jesus Christ. Again my words weren't coming out properly. I then began to float up to the ceiling. I kept repeating what I said. I felt the ceiling with my hands and body, Then I was back on the ground. The lights came back on, then I was in bed and something came straight at me. I fought with it and again was trying to rebuke it again. Something was preventing me from forming the words again. I kept trying. Eventually I said it. I said no weapon formed against me shall prosper, for he that is in me is mightier than he had is in this world. I woke up. Usually when I have these type of dreams I awake scared, but this time I felt less scared.” In this incident, Nikki’s religious beliefs become clear. Yeshua HaMashiach is Hebrew for “Jesus the Messiah”. Numerous times in the dream something attempted to grab hold of her and she tried calling on Jesus to help fight it off. Although she felt that the beings coming for her were Greys, she did not them directly on this occasion. She does describe other intriguing elements linked with contact, such as electrical disturbances stopping the lights from coming on, lifting up into the air against her will, and being unable to shout out. It is intriguing that she again mentions interacting with a talking dog, just like the dream from back in August 2003. Perhaps, just like last time, this was a screen memory masking the appearance of an ET. If these were memories of one or more visitations, they appear to have taken place at her previous house. Unwelcome Visitor The following year, on 22nd May 2021, Nikki had another dream that something had come for her during the night: “I had another one of those disturbing dreams. I was in bed and felt somebody something get into my bed and move beside me, holding me whilst I was asleep. I felt it slam into me. I was scared I pretended I was asleep. It was as though it was feeling me up? I let it at first but then I began to get very frightened. I tried to move and felt that its arm was around my waist. I grabbed at it and felt its hand. I grabbed at it and it only had 3 fingers or two fingers and a thumb? I was trying to scream out to get off me but nothing would come out. Whether this was because I was scared I don't know. I tried a few more times but my voice would not come out. I eventually got free and got out of my bed. The thing got out and ran out of the room. I saw its shadowy figure as it was dark. I chased it then realized I was in Pixie's house, I was now on the landing. It was going down the stairs. I couldn't see so tried to put on the light. It wouldn't work I was now trying to call out to Joanna although she doesn't live here. I got into Pixie's room where I think Jo is. I try calling to her but my voice still won't be heard. I wake up. Then I dream of his name - Tee Bussh. Was freaky!!!” Like the previous dream Nikki did not clearly see the being that was present, she only saw its silhouette as it ran out of the room. However, the description of the feel of its hand sounds like it may well have been a Grey. I have investigated other cases where these beings have sometimes laid down alongside experiencers, potentially imitating the position they find the individual in. Orbs In The Storm In June 2022 Nikki had another strange dream involving a UFO sighting: “Fell asleep in the afternoon 12.30. Dreamt I was with Dash walking. Was wondering where to take him. Was walking past a phone box when something was thrown by me as we passed, a plastic bottle. As no-one was there I was curious as to where it came from. There was a phone box next to it so I walked back to where the bottle lay on the pavement. I looked into the phone box. There was an Alsatian dog on its hind legs looking out of the window. I opened it. There was a man inside leaned to the side. I asked him if he was okay. He said he was sleeping. I asked if he wanted some water but for some reason my eyes were closed. Like I was very tired. I was saying ‘Is it hot there?’ because of the dog inside the box being there. I offered to buy him some water. As my eyes were still closed I felt him grab at my waist. I tried to open my eyes but they would not open. I said ‘What are you doing? Let go!’ a little freaked out. Then my eyes are open. The dog was now a man with the other man. They said they don't need any help so I left them. Then as I was walking I noticed I had a hot water bottle on my stomach feeling hot. I took it out and was wondering why I took it with me. Then I am at home. I am looking out of the window as I just woke up and was going to take Dash for another walk. As I looked out it was day time but it was like night time. Very dark storm clouds, and I saw 4 lights, orange in colour, in the sky.” Witness drawing of the orange orbs “Then it began to rain and was very stormy. Even so I got the dog ready and left my flat. Only when I went through the front door I was on ground level. The lobby I was in was not my block of flats. I was in a different place. As we left the lobby everything had changed. I looked at Dash. He was now a man. I told him we had not better go too far as we might get lost as everything had changed. He asked me to look to see if the keys were the same, so I did, and I had different keys. It was unsettling. We began to walk back. It was no longer stormy outside. We approached some men on some steps. I asked them what had happened. They said ‘You noticed the changes then? It's the end.’ Then someone was lifted into the sky. I said ‘Have I been left here? I don't want to stay here in this beast system.’ Woke up feeling not good about that dream.” It is unknown whether some elements of it are flashbacks to an experience, or just a result of her interest in the subject. I have dealt with many cases of orange glowing orbs over the years, although in some of these incidents the objects have probably been sky lanterns. Disc Formation In another dream Nikki was walking through a park in the daytime. She came across a large crowd of people sitting on the grass, some of whom she recognised. She tried talking with them but they were all in a trance-like state and did not respond. Looking up into the sky she saw many silver-coloured disc shaped craft hovering motionless and silently above. She does not recall anything else taking place after this point. Witness drawing of the park dream As Nikki was unfamiliar with the surroundings it is possible that this was just a dream with elements of the UFO subject, but again this is hard to say for certain. Leg Bruises In early September 2024 Nikki began to feel feverish and unwell. On the morning of 12th September 2024 she awoke with a headache and some bruises on her upper legs. She wrote about this in her diary: "Woke up with a headache and it has lasted throughout the day. Had sweat like fever (?) for the last three to four days and felt sick. Now my stomach is swollen and uncomfortable. Had bruises on the outer sides of my top legs." Witness drawing of the leg bruises Due to the other symptoms that Nikki experienced around this time it is possible that the bruises had a medical explanation of some kind. She does not recall anything contact-related happening in the night although this cannot be entirely ruled out, as the memories may have been removed from her mind. Body Marking Photographs One morning Nikki awoke to find a long straight scratch going right down her right leg from the knee to the ankle: Nikki says that there is nothing sharp edged alongside the bed which she could have rubbed her leg along in her sleep. Also, if she did this, you would expect her to wake up in pain, so this marking is a mystery. It is clearly an injury rather than natural. On numerous occasions she has woken to find two small round sore markings on her body. Sometimes these have appeared on her belly or arm. The below photograph is of when she discovered the markings on her knee: In early January 2025 Nikki was having aches in her right calf. One morning she was massaging the back of it with her hand when she felt an area of dry skin. When she checked what was there she saw a circular are that was red and rough with what appeared to be a straight edged triangle visble in the centre: At first she thought it might be ring worm, but there were no similar markings anywhere else. She happened to have an upcoming appointment on 7th January with her dermatologist to discuss the results of a sample they had taken from a suspicious lump on her arm. She decided to take a photograph of the marking to show him. By the time of the appointment the mark had almost disappeared, but Nikki showed him the photo to ask for his opinion. He said “It seems okay now, so I wouldn’t worry about it.” Nikki asked him what could cause such a marking and why it appeared to have a triangle in it. He said that you can get geometric shaped rashes that it could have been caused by anything an allergy of some kind, but not to worry as it seemed to be sorted out. That night Nikki checked online to see if she could find a rash similar to it, but was unsuccessful. I too have had a look as part of this investigation. While there are photographs of straight edged rashes, these have been caused by patches put on the skin so can be discounted. When she checked the photograph she also noticed a second anomaly diagonally above the rash, a smaller circle of darker pink coloured skin with an obvious straight line through it, reminiscent of the head of a nail or paracetamol tablet. She did not notice this at the time. I did ask Nikki if she felt the triangular lines could have been caused by her digging her fingernails into her skin to stop irritation. However it seems likely that if this had been the cause of them the dermatologist would have been able to diagnose this as the reason when they checked the photograph. Below is a photograph of the professional diagnosis of the dermatologist (censored for privacy): As you can see they stated that it was a "coin-shaped lesion with prominent blood vessels", but did not mention anything about damage caused to it by scratching, suggesting that this was not the explanation for the triangular lines within it. Health Concerns Since her teens Nikki suffered from pain before, during and after her menstrual cycle. For many years this caused great discomfort and concern. In the early 1990s she was diagnosed with a rare condition known as Endometriosis. This is a chronic condition where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside it, typically in the pelvis, causing inflammation and scar tissue. Nikki soon found out that there was no easy way to cure this condition. She has however noted that many of her contact experiences have seemingly happened around the time of her menstrual cycle. She wonders if her condition has been a result of her experiences. She has thought deeply about this over the years. Here are some of those thoughts in her own words. "Having had gone down the road of many operations and hormonal experimental drugs, years later I was in the same exact position as when I was first diagnosed. Still in constant pain. So I was wondering what caused this illness. Doctors and the 'experts' in the gynaecological department would tell me there is no cure, they don't know what drives it, what causes it. And now today, thirty years later, young women are still being fobbed off and ignored, left in pain, left undiagnosed. Those who have a diagnosis are still being told by the medical professionals that they don't know what is causing the cells of the lining of the womb to be outside of the womb. I asked whether there is there a hole in my womb. Nope, no hole. So how do the cells of the lining of the womb get out of the womb and attach itself to various organs? If the alien abduction phenomena is real, whether other worldly beings or government mass manipulation, or both, and if women are being taken by these beings, and they are having some sort of procedure done to them to impregnate them to produce hybrids, then these beings after some time come back for the foetus, and they somehow take the foetus away from the lining of the womb via the abdomen, then that foetus would most likely have on it some of the cells of the lining on the womb still attached to it. So when the foetus is pulled out of the womb, those bits could be deposited on places outside the womb. Is that possible? To me, it would explain why the cell lining could get outside of the womb and onto the various organs. I do know that Endometriosis can cause infertility, is that why nothing seems to be done by the way of progress in understanding what causes this disease? As these beings want depopulation of the masses? I wonder how many women who have had encounters with these beings have been diagnosed with Endometriosis, and I often wonder if it is in fact caused by being tampered with by these beings." Although I have investigated a number of cases involving women who are experiencing contact and have health issues, none of them have reported this same condition to me. Of course this does not mean there are not other cases out there which other researchers have looked into. Scrap Book Drawings When going through her old sketchbook Nikki found a number of drawings she had done many years ago of beings, visitations and abductions. Some of them appear to show herself as a child. Nikki says that she was planning to write a novel about contact and include elements of her actual experiences in it. She says that these drawings may well be made up incidents visualizing incidents she was planning to write about in this book, but is not certain. She wonders if some of them were other actual experiences which were then blanked from her mind: Conclusions Nikki has had many fascinating experiences throughout her life, both while wide awake and while fast asleep. While many of these experiences have come back to her as vivid dreams, this does not necessarily mean that they can be dismissed simply dreams. Some of them could very well be flashbacks to contact experiences which have occurred either recently or historically, in some cases potentially mixed with imaginary elements. A few of these dreams have included possible precognitive visions of future events, some of which may not yet have come to pass. Experiences she has had while awake involve various kinds of paranormal activity, discovery of body markings, and of course the mysterious lights and potential missing time which prompted her to reach out to me. If Nikki decides to attempt any other regressions, and these are successful, the details of what is uncovered may be added to this report in due course. I would like to thank her for the extensive amount of information, photographs and drawings she has sent to me and allowed me to include in this report. They have been extremely valuable in gaining an deeper insight into her experiences. I feel that the best way to wrap up this extensive report is with one of Nikki's poems, all about the contact phenomenon, and loosely based on her own experiences. A fleeting glance across the green plain Murky dark cloud which promise us rain? Sharp bolts of light shooting across the sky Clapping of thunder that was sounding near by Then there’s a light, quite some distance away As it gets closer "What is it?" you say Your mind is as cloudy as the thundery skies Like the feeling you get when someone you know dies Next you’re wondering, all dazed and confused You find that your body is painful and bruised Your memory is all shoddy, you can’t make out why Did you see something glowing, way up high in the sky? Now you want answers to all your thoughts and your dreams To finally find out what on earth it all means Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2022 Last Updated: 27/04/2026 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Incident Details Around 1983 in his early teens Martin lived in Bozeat, Northamptonshire. He used to regularly go camping with his friend “Steve” in an open field alongside Horn Wood. Aerial map indicating Bozeat (A) and Horn Wood (B) On one of these camping excursions soon after settling down to sleep in the tent they noticed green and red coloured lights visible through the tent lining. They opened the door to the tent to have a look at where the lights were coming from. They saw two orbs, one green and one red, hovering over near the hedge at the edge of the field. They were zig zagging back and forth as they moved along. After a moment they disappeared. Photograph of the field where the witnesses camped They then looked off to their left towards a path about a quarter of a mile away which ran around the outer edge of the wood. They were surprised to see a girl standing there. She looked to be about the same age as them, 13-14 years old. She was quite attractive and had long brown hair. They decided to walk over to speak with her. As they approached they watched her walk off into the edge of the wood and vanish from sight. When they arrived at where she had previously been they saw an opening in the wood which was very dark. The next thing he became aware of it was morning time and he and Steve were waking up in the tent. He was feeling dazed and found it hard to concentrate. He was also hungry and thirsty. Steve ran off across the field to the nearby farmhouse. Martin decided to head back into Bozeat to get something to eat and drink. When he arrived at the village he noticed a line of children waiting at a bus stop in school uniform. He assumed it must be a school trip as it was Sunday morning so school should have been closed. After getting some food and drink he walked back home. When he arrived his mother asked where he had been. He said he’d been at the tent. His mother replied “Don’t lie to me, you weren’t there!” Confused by what she meant Martin questioned her further. It was now that he found out It was in fact Tuesday morning. Both he and Steve appeared to have two entire days of missing time! When they had not returned to the village on Sunday their parents and cousins had apparently headed to the field and found the tent empty. They assumed that they had ran off across the field. Soon after the incident Steve’s father stopped him from speaking with Martin, no doubt angry or concerned regarding what had taken place. His parents told him that they’d been informed that he was acting strangely. Six months later his family moved away from Bozeat. Martin did not attempt to contact him. At the time this was all Martin could not remember anything between reaching the edge of the wood, and waking up on Tuesday morning. However, around 2009 at the age of 40 he began to have flashbacks to what took place. He did not recall seeing the girl at any point. But he did remember two entities of some kind standing close to him. They were charcoal black in colour and like they were made of mist, with no distinct shape or bone structure. One was standing behind him, the other in front of him. He sensed that one of them was extremely old. The other was younger and interacted with him, akin to a “good cop, bad cop” situation. He remembers it joking with him, like it was having fun with him. He also remembered being up in the air about 400 feet above the wood after dark. He could see the back garden of his grandmother’s house. It was lit up really brightly, more illuminated than it should have been. When these memories started to come back to him he wondered if he and Steve had been drugged, but the whole situation made no sense, it was too strange. Martin feels that the entities he met with unlocked something in his brain. He says that he has a high level of intuition, and when he meets people for the first time he senses things about them which he shouldn’t know. He also sensed that something big was going to take place in 2025 which would affect many people. In recent years he was diagnosed with PTSD. He believes this is directly related to what took place. Incident Analysis This is a bizarre and mysterious series of events which could well have been related to contact. It began with the sighting of some glowing orbs of light performing unusual manoeuvres. These could potentially have been hovering devices linked with what took place. The girl that was seen was possibly a humanoid being. Another possibility is that she was a being utilising a screen memory to appear in that form, perhaps to reduce the fear of the situation or prompt the boys to approach. The fact that the boys had two entire days of missing time is fascinating. Clearly something took place which involved both of them for an extensive period. They had no contact with anyone out at the field prior to the incident beginning, so it seems improbable that they were drugged. In this scenario someone would have had to have spiked their drinks before they set off on their excursion. Then there’s the oddities of the glowing orbs and the girl on the path. These cannot have been visual hallucinations because they both saw the same thing. I have investigated numerous cases before where the memories of incidents are completely removed for an extensive period of time but then slowly start to return, sometimes seemingly naturally for no obvious reason. The encounter with the mist-like entities that Martin recollects is certainly unusual. Again it is possible that this was down to a screen memory. The other memory he has of looking down from the air above the wood and seeing his grandmother’s garden lit up in the distance is bizarre. It is possible that he was viewing this through a window aboard a craft, but the reason for why it was lit up more brightly than it should have been is unknown. The fact that Martin informed me that since the incident he feels that he has enhanced intuition when meeting others, and also a possible premonition of some kind, is again telling. He has not got back in touch since the end of 2025 so I have no way of knowing whether he relates anything that took place during the year with his premonition. Many experiencers report having one or more psychic abilities. The reason for this link with contact is unknown, although there are numerous theories. It certainly sounds like the incident has had a profound impact on Martin’s life leading to issues on a long term basis. It’s good to hear that he has reached out for support from his GP on this. I hope that in time he gains more of an understanding of what took place. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 17/03/2026 Last Updated: 23/04/2026   Introduction   My wife Natasha’s maiden name is Patching. Many years ago she reached out to a lady from Tampa, Florida named Sherrie Patching who she came across on Facebook. In February 2026 we took a flight to Tampa for a cruise around the Gulf of Mexico. Because we were in the area and had a number of hours available, Natasha decided that it would be a great opportunity to meet up with Sherrie and her son Brandon.   On the morning of 13th February Brandon arrived at our bed & breakfast in his truck, and we headed to a nearby breakfast diner for some food and conversation. During our chat Sherrie wanted to find out more about my work as a UFO investigator. She also went over the details of a fascinating incident which she and her friend Peggy had experienced back in the late 1960s.   After I was back from the cruise I got back in touch via Facebook Messenger video call to go over everything in more depth. As it happened so long ago there were gaps in Sherrie’s recollection of events, but there was still enough detail to warrant this case report.   Incident Details   Back in the 1960s Sherrie’s husband Jimmy was a travelling salesman. He and Sherrie used to travel around various states as part of a crew of young adults. They would visit colleges to speak with students and sell magazines.   Around late 1967 to early 1968 they were either in Alabama or Texas (sadly Sherrie cannot recollect the precise location). One day she and her friend Peggy were sent out by their manager (Peggy’s older brother Bill) to visit a college.   At around 6pm they left the college and began the drive back to the motel where they were staying. Peggy owned a car which they had used to get to the college.   They were driving along a wide highway in a very rural location. Either side of the road were flat farmer’s fields. It was a clear, dry and still evening. Sherrie recollects that it was not particularly busy on the road but there were occasional other vehicles.   They were relaxing and listening to music. As Peggy drove along the road and the sun slowly set, Sherrie stared out of the passenger side window at the open fields on the right. After a while she noticed a white light in the distance which appeared to be a yard light on a farm. This was quite common to see in the area because the farm houses were usually positioned quite far away from the edge of the road.   She kept her eye on the light. After a short while she realised that it was still visible and did not appear to have moved. The longer she watched it, the more she became aware that the light was moving! It appeared to be travelling at the same speed as their own car.   She let her friend know, saying “Peggy, look at this light out my side of the car, it seems to be travelling at the same speed we’re going!” Peggy glanced at the light but did not try slowing down or stopping the car to see if the light did the same.   They continued their journey. At the same time as observing the light, Sherrie began to notice that cars were occasionally pulling over and stopping at the side of the road. It looked like they had also spotted the light and had stopped to check it out.   Suddenly the white light seemed to dim. As it did the object behind it came into view. It appeared to be disc shaped and hovering just over the tree-line. It looked dark grey in colour, although this may have been partially due to the low amount of light in the sky at this point.   What happened next left no doubt that the object was something very unusual. To Sherrie's recollection it suddenly shot extremely rapidly towards the highway, roughly a mile ahead of them. As it got close to the road it suddenly ascended and passed over the road in a semi-circular arc!   When it reached the left side of the highway, at roughly the altitude it had been before, it hovered still for a brief moment. Then it suddenly shot vertically at a tremendous speed, vanishing in seconds due to the height. Sherrie could barely believe what she had just witnessed. She excitedly told Peggy what she had just seen.   Sketch showing the path of the UFO from Sherrie's recollection She could recall the remainder of the drive to the motel. However, she did remember that when they arrived there the rest the crew were waiting in a group outside. They appeared very concerned. They had apparently arrived at the motel much later than expected.   When Sherrie informed the crew about what they had seen they laughed at her. Because of this negative reaction this was the last time Sherrie discussed the incident with anyone. She doesn’t recall even going back over the details with Peggy.   After the incident Sherrie found that she could not relax while travelling in the car after dark. She became fascinated with looking up at the sky in the hopes of seeing something again. This led to an interest in the UFO subject. The more she read, the more she became convinced that she and Peggy had witnessed an alien craft.   One day in the early 1970s she was sitting in her doctor’s office waiting for an appointment. She came across an article about the Betty & Barney Hill abduction case. As she read the details her whole body became nervous and she started to shake.   Photograph of Betty & Barney Hill   In the mid-70s she was visiting her mother in Memphis, Tennessee. While she was there the movie of the case The UFO Incident happened to be on television. The film re-ignited her interest in what had happened to her and Peggy.   Still from The UFO Incident Her husband got in touch with the crew manager via phone, who passed on Peggy’s number. Sherrie then gave her a call. Even though she couldn’t speak for long because of the call expenses back then, she was so thrilled to discuss the incident with her.   She asked her “Do you remember that experience we had when we were driving back from college?” Peggy excitedly responded “Oh my god yes!” They both confirmed with one another that they’d never felt able to talk about it with anyone else. This brief call convinced her that she had not lost her mind and the incident had actually taken place.   Over the following decades Peggy formed a deeper understanding of the subject. She was comfortable with what had happened, but just wanted to know more about where the craft had come from, who was piloting it and why they had been there.   In the 1990s she once again felt a strong compulsion to get back in touch with Peggy. Jimmy once again managed to get hold of her telephone number. By now calls were much cheaper and Sherrie was able to have a much deeper conversation about what Peggy remembered. When Peggy described the incident, Sherrie was shocked to realise that her recollection of events was significantly different to what she personally recalled. But something deep inside her knew that what Peggy informed her was the truth.   Instead of the UFO being off in the distance, Peggy said that the craft had approached right over the car. Sherrie was apparently terrified and was trying to climb out of the passenger side window while the car was in motion. Peggy kept screaming at her to not be afraid, shouting “They didn’t hurt us! They didn’t hurt us!” She used her left hand to keep steering, and her right to grab hold of Sherrie. She then stated that the UFO flew ahead of them before performing the semi-circular manoeuvre over the road.   Sketch of possible actual path of the UFO: Thinking back to the incident, Sherrie had convinced herself that the reason they had arrived late to the motel was because they had spent time at a party at the college before departing. However, Peggy informed her this was not the case, and they had left on time, around 6pm. The journey time to the motel should have been no more than 3 hours, yet when they arrived it had been around 11pm.   Peggy stated that her brother Bill was extremely worried and wanted to find out what had happened. She said that she went back to his room to discuss things, and when they went there they were met by two unknown men who started pressing her regarding what had happened. Apparently Bill was quite strong, and when he got involved they backed off.   Incident Analysis   Towards the start of the investigation I asked Sherrie if I would also be able to speak with Peggy regarding what she recollected happening. Sherrie had not spoken with her in a good while, but did have her contact details so got in touch with her via phone. Unfortunately, a complication arose. Peggy is an author and has written a novel. She is working with a production company to adapt this into a movie. The company has expressed an interest in making a film relating to her and Sherrie's UFO encounter in the future, and as a result she has apparently signed a contract stating that she will not give any interviews relating to it. This means that at present I only have Sherrie’s testimony of events to go on. However, after speaking with her directly and via Messenger numerous times I have absolutely no doubt that the details she has provided were accurate to the best of her knowledge.   If the UFO had remained as a distant white light seemingly following alongside them at the same speed, I would have potentially put it down to a bright star/planet low down in the sky. However, the fact that the light dimmed revealing the disc-shaped object puts this possibility out of the question.   The manoeuvres it was seen to perform were clearly advanced. It could not have been an aeroplane as before it ascended vertically it came to a halt in the sky. It was moving much too rapidly to have been a helicopter, and the incident occurred many decades before drones were available. It was also moving much too fast for other mundane explanations such as an inflatable drifting on air currents or radio controlled model.   What Peggy later informed Sherrie over the phone is absolutely fascinating. It suggests that both of them were abducted that evening, and that Peggy potentially had some knowledge of this fact. At the very least she seemed to be aware of the fact that the UFO had approached and hovered over the car.   Whether she had any conscious memories of what happened next, or was just making the assumption that they’d been taken due to how Sherrie was reacting is unknown at present. It is also unclear whether Sherrie was traumatised just by the fact that the UFO had flown close to them, or whether at the time she was aware that something else had happened.   The fact that they arrived back at the motel much later than expected, as confirmed by the concern of the rest of the crew on their arrival, combined with what Peggy confirmed over the phone, indicates that there was a period of time that could not be accounted for, at least a couple of hours.   There is also the implication that there was some kind of surveillance going on regarding what had happened, with two unidentified men trying to press Peggy for answers at her brother’s motel room. If Peggy decides to provide a statement at a later point we may find out more about these intriguing aspects of the case.   Sadly, in April I received the heart-breaking news that Sherrie had passed away. My final conversation with her was regarding her thoughts on the content of this case report. She informed me that she was happy with the accuracy of the details, and thanked me for documenting her experience. I will ensure that going forward it is retained as an enduring record of her fascinating testimony. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 28/10/2021 In early October 2021 Brandon Ward joined our Facebook community group BUFOG Truthseekers and posted a video from his Youtube channel. In this video he described having contact experiences and his drive to share them with people in order to assist with understanding of the subject and speak with others who have had similar experiences. I got in touch with him to go over these incidents in more depth and write this case report. As with many repeat contactees, Brandon has had a variety of experiences since childhood which will be discussed in depth throughout this report. Vision of the Earth Brandon was born in Islington, London, and spent the early years of his life there. When he was 5 years old he had an extremely vivid dream. In this dream he found himself standing on the rocky surface of the Moon and looking back at the Earth. It felt like he was physically there, but could breathe normally. There were no beings or craft seen, but the dream was so vivid for him that it deeply affected him, and he still remembers it clearly today. Example photograph of the Earth taken from the Moon It is of course unknown whether this vision has anything to do with his later contact experiences or not, but it is interesting that it made such a lasting impact on him. Phone Home When he was 7 Brandon watched Stephen Spielberg’s classic alien movie ET: The Extra-terrestrial. For a reason unknown to him, he felt a very powerful connection to this film, especially the being itself. It affected him on a deeply emotional level, and he knew deep down that something similar had happened to him, that he had met with a being of some kind. The alien being from ET: The Extra-terrestrial Now of course ET is a very emotional film, however Brandon says that his feelings towards it ran deeper than that. He did not share his thoughts on this with his family, but it is something which has remained with him ever since. Sphere & Triangle By 2009 at age 14 Brandon had moved with his mother, two brothers and two sisters to a house on Thongsley in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Late evening on 8th June at around 11pm he was lying down in bed with the light off and about to settle down to sleep. There was a heat wave at the time so he had his bedroom window open to cool down the room. The curtains were drawn but due to the angle he could see a thin strip of night sky around the edge of them. Aerial map of Thongsley Suddenly there was an orange glowing light coming from outside. He sat up on the bed and pulled the curtains apart to take a look at where the light was coming from. He was amazed at what he saw. It was a clear night outside with the moon and stars fully visible. Coming in from the right of his vision about 50 metres away from the house were two strange objects. They were level with his upstairs window, so at an altitude of about 20 feet. The first appeared to be a glowing orange spherical-shaped object. It had a line of small white lights running around its centre, and it is clear that the light was coming from this object. It appeared to be about 30 feet across. Behind it a short distance was what appeared to be a flattened black triangular shaped object with no lights on. It was visible against the night sky and blocking out the stars. It was much smaller than the sphere, about 12 feet in length. Witness drawing of the two UFOs Both of the objects were travelling on a straight and level course at quite a slow speed, perhaps 20 mph. They retained the same distance from one another as they moved but certainly appeared to be two separate objects. As they reached the left side of the view from the window, without warning both objects shot away diagonally upward into the sky! They made no sound as they performed this manoeuvre and were gone in less than a second. Brandon was both shocked and awestruck at what he had just witnessed. He ran downstairs to get his older brother Edward (who was 15 at the time). Edward came running back upstairs with him. He pointed out of the window and explained what he had just seen. Edward did not laugh at him and seemed to believe what he was told. Brandon did not mention the incident to his mother. The orange sphere was clearly not a normal aeroplane or helicopter. It was close enough to see in detail, and had none of the normal navigation lights of an aircraft. 360 Radar confirms that the area does not lie within a normal airway: It also confirms that it does lie in controlled airspace, which decreases the likelihood of private untracked flights: Although the sphere was the right colour for a Chinese lantern, the fact that it had a line of white lights around it tends to imply it was not. It also seemed to be much too large to have been a lantern. It seems unlikely that the triangular object was a normal aircraft as it seemingly had no lights on it at all. While it would be possible for a military aircraft to “fly dark” I find it unlikely they would do this over a highly populated urban area. Also the way in which the objects suddenly greatly accelerated in speed and shot away, ascending as they did, confirms that they were not mundane in any way and were also clearly related to one another. Glowing Lights Astoundingly, after seeing the spherical and triangular UFOs, Brandon claims to have seen unidentified objects in the sky every night for the next three months. He says that because of the initial sighting he would purposely look out of his bedroom window late at night, and to his recollection something would always take place. The majority of these sightings involved orbs of light of various colours. Sometimes they would visibly change colour – red, green, blue, orange, yellow. On some occasions an orb would flash and then others would seemingly emerge from it. On other occasions the opposite would occur – there would be multiple orbs flying along together and they would appear to merge into one. There was an open field close to where he lived. On one occasion he saw lights down low coming from behind a copse of trees at the edge of the field. He was tempted to go and investigate, but was too frightened of what he might find. Because the sightings were repeated this gave Brandon an opportunity to capture them on camera. He says that he tried this on multiple occasions using his smartphone, but unfortunately the camera was not good enough to pick up the objects as they were too distant. This frustrated him as he wanted to capture some evidence of them for verification. On multiple occasions he tried to show his brother the objects. Sometimes they would only briefly appear and by the time Edward had reached the window they had gone. On other occasions he did get there in time but when Brandon pointed them out to him for some reason he could not see them. After this has happened a few times he stopped telling him about them as he didn’t want him to think he was going mad. Interestingly, a number of other sightings of unidentified lights had taken place over Huntingdon in the months leading up to Brandon’s sightings. Below is a link to a Hunts Post article about these sightings: https://www.huntspost.co.uk/lifestyle/ufo-patrol-strange-lights-seen-in-sky-over-huntingdon-4922744 Although I feel that at least some of these incidents could well have been down to launches of Chinese lanterns, there is still the possibility that some were genuine UFO sightings, perhaps linked with what Brandon was seeing. Like the newspaper report, some of Brandon’s sightings could have potentially had mundane explanations. There are numerous things which can appear as glowing orbs of light after dark including distant aircraft, lanterns, LED balloons, drones and radio controlled models. However it is very interesting that he was having so many sightings over such a short space of time which seemed to begin with the sighting of the oval-shaped and triangular-shaped UFOs. Purple Stains It was a week day in the first week of July 2009. Like normal Brandon woke to the sound of his alarm at 8am in order to get ready for school. He sat up in bed in his pyjamas and immediately noticed something very odd. There were light purple stains on the front of both the top and bottom of his pyjamas. It looked like liquid which had splashed up him and dried. Looking around at the bed he also saw similar stains on the centre of the pillow case and centre of the bed sheets. There was no detectable odour to the stains, however he did not attempt to smell them closely. Witness drawing of the stains on his night clothes and bedding Because of the UFO sightings he had been having he assumed that these were related and that he may have been abducted in the night, even though he had no recollection of anything taking place. He was disturbed at the presence of the stains and didn’t want to entertain the notion that something had happened to him. He wanted to get rid of the evidence so his family wouldn’t see, to put it out of his mind as much as possible. He took off his pyjamas, and then put them, the pillow case and bed sheet into a plastic bag he happened to have under his bed. He then got dressed and immediately headed outside to the bins in the back garden. He pushed the bin liner deep inside the bin so that nobody would find it, and then turned to walk back into the house. As he walked back along the path he suddenly noticed something in the sky over the house. Looking up he saw what appeared to be a black coloured disc about 35 feet in diameter. It seemed to be about 400 feet up and was hovering motionless. This only served to confirm to him further that something had taken place. He was un-nerved and confused by what was happening. He tried his best to ignore the presence of the UFO and continued inside the house leaving it hovering there in the sky. He is unaware of how long it may have remained in the area. Witness drawing of the disc over the house The family moved house around 3 months later. For many years Brandon believed that nothing else had taken place at the property. However in September 2021 when he decided to start filming himself for YouTube he had a flashback to another incident where he had once again found purple stains. On this second occasion they had just been on his pyjamas not his bed clothes. Like before he had thrown them away in the bin, not wishing to think about what might have taken place. For whatever reason he had not remembered this incident, but in talking about his experiences it came back to him. These incidents are absolutely fascinating. I asked Brandon if the stains could have been a drink of some kind that he had perhaps got in his sleep and then accidentally spilled over himself and the bed. He informed me that there were no purple coloured drinks e.g. fizzy pop, squash in the house at that time which could have been responsible. If he had gone and got a drink, brought it back into the bedroom and then spilled it surely he would have found an empty glass either near his bed or on the floor? Methylated spirits is often dyed a light purple colour, however Brandon is unaware of any being in the house. Also if this were tipped onto his clothing and the bed covers it would have smelled strongly of alcohol, even at a distance. Another aspect which points away from it being a spilled drink of some kind is the fact that it happened on two separate occasions, and that the second occasion was seemingly blocked from his mind. While this may just have been down to because of how frightened he was about what was happening, there are many cases on record involving contact and close encounters with craft where memories have been blocked out, sometimes entirely, for long periods of time. These memories can later come back in the form of flashbacks just as Brandon has described. The fact that he had a UFO sighting at the same time as disposing of the stained items is amazing. He only observed it a brief moment, but it certainly did not appear to be a normal aircraft or helicopter. While misidentification of a balloon or blimp cannot be entirely ruled out, the timing of the sighting is very interesting and could suggest it really was related, as Brandon believed it to be. While I have not directly dealt with any other cases involving stains to clothing or bedding, I am aware of a number of cases where this has happened. A great example is the infamous Betty and Barney Hill abduction case, in which a pink coloured substance was found on the dress of Betty Hill. Perhaps this was even the same material due to the similarity in colouration. It is a shame that Brandon threw away the clothing and bedding, but it is also fully understandable given the situation. I have investigated several cases where people have discovered strange stain-like markings on their skin which have faded over time. Pair of Orbs In 2011 the family once again moved house to Kipling Road in Wolverhampton. For the first couple of years at this property nothing unusual took place. Aerial map of Kipling Road In May 2012 Edward informed Brandon that he had started to see flashes of light in the night sky. Wondering whether activity was starting up again, they began both standing out after dark in the back garden in the hopes of seeing something together. They were not disappointed. It was about 10pm and a clear and dry night, with very little cloud cover. They were standing facing the East, but occasionally looking round to get a clear view of the sky. Suddenly they noticed a couple of red glowing orbs coming in from the West. The orbs were at quite a high altitude and positioned alongside one another. They were travelling at quite a fast speed across the sky. The orbs were moving on a roughly straight course, but as they flew they wavered from side to side, almost performing a zigzag motion. They flew right overhead, and within 5 seconds had vanished into the distance to the West. Witness drawing of the red orbs over the garden The brothers had no camera on them at the time as they did not really expect to see anything substantial. Brandon says that even if they had the sighting was too fast and too distant to have really come out. There are a number of aspects of this sighting which point away from it being down to either one or two normal aircraft. While red is one of the colours of navigation lights, it would usually be possible to see other colours such as white and green, or flashing strobes. Aircraft fly on a completely straight course, they do not waver left and right as Brandon reports the objects did. 360 Radar confirms that the area is not within an airway, but is within controlled airspace: While it would be possible for Chinese lanterns to be buffeted by air currents and waver back and forth as they drifted along, Brandon says that the orbs were cherry red in colour rather than the amber orange commonly associated with lanterns. Red coloured LED balloons would be possible, however they seemed to be moving much too fast to be these, crossing the sky in only 5 seconds. Earth lights are very unlikely as an explanation. These are very rare, tend to only occur in rural locations not over urbanised areas, drift slowly or hover still, and usually appear much closer to the ground. These characteristics would also apply to ball lightning too. This only occurs in stormy weather conditions, and if reports are to be believed is usually bright white/blue-white in colour and quite small in size. Orange Orbs Later in the month Brandon and Edward were once again outside in the back garden star-gazing. It was about 11pm and another pleasant evening. They looked to their left in the direction of Bee Lane playing fields which is a short distance to the North of Kipling Road. There is a line of tall trees around the edge of the playing fields which were visible from the garden. Suddenly the witnesses saw three orange glowing orbs emerge one at a time from behind a particularly tall tree. The orbs floated on a level and straight course and slowly travelled along before disappearing into the distance. Witness drawing of the first of the orange orbs Again the brothers did not have a camera with them, so we have no footage to examine. However the colour of the orbs combined with the movement pattern observed suggests that they might have been several Chinese lanterns. Brandon says that the glow coming from them was consistently bright. Often lanterns are seen to flicker in brightness due to the fire inside them, however this does not happen on all occasions. Lanterns can often drift on air currents and float along one after the other just as reported here. Also they were very popular back in 2012 as this was when they were still legal and commercially available. Therefore this explanation cannot be entirely ruled out. A Sighting on Demand Due to the fact they were having numerous sightings, in late May Brandon decided to purchase a camera in case they saw anything else. One evening he and Edward decided to walk to the centre of Bee Lane playing field close to their house to sky watch. It was about 11pm and there was nobody else around. Aerial map of Bee Lane playing field showing the location where the witnesses stood After about 10 minutes of being out there and nothing appearing, Brandon decided that he would try to call out to see if he could get something to appear. A moment after doing so, a white point of light suddenly appeared directly overhead! It appeared to be at very high altitude and immediately started travelling to the West. Brandon quickly lifted the camera and tried videoing it. Unfortunately it was too distant to come out. The light was visible for about 10 seconds and then suddenly vanished again, as quickly as it had initially appeared. Soon after having the sighting of the light, the boys decided to head back home. As they turned around the batteries for the camera suddenly seemed to drain completely. He checked his phone and found that the batteries of this had also seemingly drained. He was certain they had both been fully charged when they walked out to the field. As they reached the edge of the playing field, Brandon suddenly saw another white light descend rapidly down behind their house in the distance. This seemed to have been too pronounced to have been a meteorite. When they arrived back home the camera and phone seemed to come back on and once again have charge to them. This is an interesting series of events, however it is possible that the white light which was observed at the playing field was a satellite, and it was merely a coincidence that it had appeared shortly after Brandon asking for something to appear. It had the appearance of a satellite and moved on a straight course. Satellites can sometimes be invisible and only appear when they turn to a certain angle and are caught by the sun’s rays. Although the other white light did not appear to be a meteorite to Brandon, this explanation cannot be ruled out, sometimes meteorites can look extremely bright and large, and seem to come right down to the ground before fading away. The sudden draining of the camera and phone batteries is an interesting anomaly, however there is nothing to prove that this was in any way linked with either of the lights which were observed. Visitation Whether the sightings in May were truly anomalous or not, a couple of weeks later on the night of 8th June 2012 Brandon had an experience which was clearly linked with contact. He awoke in the middle of the night to find that he was paralyzed and floating a short distance above his bed in a lying down position. It was quite dark in the room, the only light coming from the door, which was slightly ajar, with the lit hallway beyond. He could only move his eyes. He tried shouting out in fear of the situation but no sound came out. Looking to the left across the room he saw a Grey being standing by the wall near the door. It was about 5 foot 9 inches in height. It appeared to be unclothed and had blue-grey coloured skin. The being was very slender and had very long thin arms and fingers, and an elongated neck. Its head was pear-shaped, with black almond-shaped eyes, two small nostrils and a slit for a mouth. There were no ears visible. The being had its arms stretched outwards a little by its sides. It had a look of concentration on its face. Witness drawing of the Grey standing on the far side of the room and him floating over the bed Brandon started to float across the room towards the being. It was extremely quiet like everything was muted. He tried to struggle against what was happening but could not move. Because of his previous experiences he had looked into the UFO subject, and was aware that he may not recollect the incident afterwards. As he began to get closer to the Grey he thought to himself “Remember this when you wake up!” again and again. He reached the being and it held out its arms and cradled him in them. He looked up at its face for a brief moment, before glancing away in fear of it. He looked to his right and momentarily saw the head of a second being also standing in the room. Not knowing where to look he shifted his eyes to look straight upwards again. At this moment there was a break in his memory. Things suddenly switched. He found his head was tilted right backwards and the door had been fully opened, flooding the bedroom in light. At this point he fully blacked out. Witness drawing of the Grey holding him and bedroom door wide open His next recollection was of waking up in the morning. At first he had no memory of what had taken place during the night. However he did feel exhausted, almost as if he had not been asleep at all. About an hour later he suddenly remembered what had happened. It started with him remembering the words he had said to himself over and over. With this the memories of the beings in the room came back to him. Up until present he has no further memories of what may have taken place. After realising something had happened he briefly checked over himself, but could not find any unusual markings. He then ran downstairs and got his brother. He took him back up to his room and excitedly told him everything which he could remember happening. Brandon was extremely anxious about what had taken place, but for him it was finally confirmation that something was definitely going on in his life, and that what had happened previously was real. It is important to note that when people find themselves fully or partially paralyzed during the night the explanation can sometimes be sleep paralysis. However the fact that Brandon saw Grey beings and also floated across his room tends to imply this was a contact experience. Also Brandon has actually had sleep paralysis as a child numerous times and says that this felt completely different. Greys in the Mist In late June, three weeks after the previous incident, Brandon was once again visited by Greys. Like before he awoke at an unknown time of night and found that he was fully paralyzed. However there were two big differences to his previous experience. The room seemed filled in thick white mist, making it impossible to see any of the furnishings. The mist did not smell of anything, and the room seemed to be at normal temperature. The other difference to before was that he could hear a buzzing sound in his ears. It almost sounded like energy charging up. Suddenly three Greys emerged from the mist and began to walk towards him across the room. Because of the mist it was hard to see their features, they just looked like silhouettes, but they had the same shape as the beings he had seen previously. Witness drawing of the three Grey silhouettes As they got near to him he blacked out. Like before he woke in the morning with no immediate recollection of the experience. He felt fatigued so wondered if something else had taken place. About an hour after being up he suddenly had a flashback of the Greys standing in the mist. Like the first visitation, it is possible that he was abducted after he blacked out, but at present he has no memories of being elsewhere. Line of Orbs By 2020 Brandon had moved to Campion House, a high rise block of flats on Hobgate Road. His flat is right up on the 20th floor, giving him a clear view of the surrounding area. Aerial map of Campion House At 11pm on 30th July 2020 he arrived home after visiting his step-father. He stepped out onto the balcony to get some air. It was a pleasant and still evening. There was no cloud cover and the stars could be seen. He was looking up at a diagonal into the sky to the South West. Suddenly a glowing white orb of light seemingly appeared out of nowhere. It began to move slowly to the North West on a straight course. After about 5 seconds it vanished without trace. A moment later another identical orb appeared, travelling on the same course, and vanishing like the previous one had. This pattern was continued up to 20 times, one orb following after the other, always on the same course. After examining the facts of what took place I feel it is extremely likely that what Brandon witnessed on this occasion was Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, potentially launching. I cannot find anything online linking this particular date with a launch, but there are lots of similarities. When they are first launched the satellites all follow the same path one after another. At first they can be extremely close together but then slowly spread out. Later on once out in orbit they are then manoeuvred to where they need to be. Example photograph of a Starlink satellite launch The fact that the objects both appeared and vanished in the same areas of sky could well be down to reflection of sunlight. Satellites are only visible when the sun’s rays catch them. Sometimes this depends on the angle the satellite is. When at the wrong angle they can be completely invisible, but as they turn suddenly seem to appear. This would fit with the satellites all following the same course. I feel that this adequately explains the incident, and Brandon agrees with this probable explanation. Unexplained Lights In late May 2021 around 10.30pm Brandon was sitting down in the living room of the flat writing down notes on some of his experiences. Suddenly the entire room lit up extremely brightly in white light. It lasted for about 2 seconds and then switched back off again. Brandon compared it to an extended lightning strike. There was no easy explanation for what had caused the light, and he immediately associated it with his contact experiences, thinking “They’re here!” Photograph of Campion House He stepped outside onto the balcony to see if anything out of the ordinary could be seen. It was a normal clear and still evening. Off to his right on the far side of the nearby railway line he noticed two red orbs flying side by side and coming in from the North. They were only a short distance higher than his 20th floor balcony, he was looking up at them at an elevation of about 5 degrees. The orbs appeared to be two separate objects as opposed to two red lights on a single object. They seemed to be about 10 metres apart from one another. Witness drawing of the red orbs over the railway line The orbs glided along on a roughly straight course, but did waver up and down a little as they went. They were moving at quite a slow speed, perhaps 40 mph. Brandon watched them for about 20 seconds as they flew South. They got to a position in front of him, visible in the sky over the gap between the two nearest high rises. Suddenly both of the orbs seemed to dim right down at the same moment. Brandon could just about make out two dark oblong-shaped objects which the lights had clearly been coming from. These continued to fly on the same course for several seconds and were then lost from sight. Arial map showing the direction the orbs were in when they dimmed Brandon looked back to the North where the objects had come from and realised there was a third identical orb of red light again travelling South. He glanced to the left briefly. When he looked back this third orb had completely vanished. He went back into the flat, grabbed his mobile phone, and headed back onto the balcony to ring his brother and tell him all about what had just happened. As he was describing the red orbs he suddenly noticed a round lime green coloured light coming up the wall of the neighbouring high rise to the West. The light was quite small but very bright. As it reached the top of the flats it seemed to vanish. Arial map showing Campion House (A) and the high rise the green light appeared on (B) Photograph of the high rise the green light moved up Witness drawing of the green light on the high rise He went back inside and sat down on the couch. Immediately the green light appeared shining on the left side of his chest! It had distinct edges to it and was about 20 cm across. It seemed to be completely stationary. He turned on the sofa until it was on his left arm, wondering where it was coming from. He was still on the phone to his brother but did not tell him about this latest development as it seemed too much, he felt that he wouldn’t believe him. Witness drawing of his flat interior and the green light on his chest Brandon stared out of the window trying to see the source of the light. Suddenly it blinked out. He expected it to return, but it did not re-appear. This is a bizarre series of events. Although it is tempting to link them all together due to the timing, this may of course be coincidental so it is wise to analyse each individually. The white light that flooded the room is very interesting, given the fact that Brandon was on the 20th floor, so therefore it cannot have been the lights of a ground vehicle. It was clear weather so a lightning strike or sheet lightning is not going to be the explanation. If it was the search light of a nearby helicopter surely Brandon would have heard its rotor blades, or seen it when he emerged onto the balcony? Many contactees have reported bright white light during contact experiences, sometimes coming in from outside through a window, and other times seemingly having no distinguishable source. However this would usually be followed by actual contact of one kind or another, with this it seemingly did not. It seems unlikely that the red orbs were aircraft. Other navigation lights would likely have been visible. Also the area is not in an airway, and lies within controlled airspace: They could potentially have been two drones being flown remotely. However the way in which they wavered up and down as they moved sounds more akin to two inflatables drifting on an air current. The colour was cherry red not amber orange, so I find it unlikely they were Chinese lanterns. These are also quite hard to get hold of these days, although can still be occasionally launched. Perhaps two red LED balloons was the explanation here, and they happened to both run out of batteries at the same moment. However even with these possibilities, none of them are definite explanations. What happened with the green light is very odd. The most obvious source of the light on the high rise would be a green coloured laser light being shone by someone. This would be bright enough to see, even at that distance. However, in order for someone to have shone it up the building in the way that it was seen, the person with it would have had to have been standing on the ground between the two high rises, or would have had to have been shining it off a balcony lower down in Campion House. But how then would it have ended up shining onto Brandon’s chest moments later when he went and sat back down inside the flat? Considering he is on the 20th floor the only way this could occur would be from someone shining it from an aerial object like a helicopter, or from one of the top floors on the neighbouring block of flats. There was barely any time at all between the two lights, merely seconds, nothing like enough time for an individual to enter the neighbouring high rise and get up to a floor level with or above Brandon’s flat. Brandon had been outside on the balcony moments earlier so it was obvious there were no aircraft in the vicinity. There was nothing inside the flat itself which could have accounted for the light, and this would not explain how it shone on the other block of flats. There is a possibility that after shining the laser ligt on the high rise its owner then shone it at Brandon's flat (perhaps noticing him up there on the balcony moments earlier). It may then have reflected on the glass and ended up falling on him. However this seems improbable, and the incident remains truly anomalous. YouTube Channel In recent years Brandon has felt that he should talk more about his experiences so that others can learn from them. In 2021 he started to record videos for a new YouTube channel in which he talks openly about his experiences. He hopes that these videos will help others undergoing similar experiences, and is also interested in speaking with these individuals. His channel “Guided By The Greys” can be found at the below address: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCehVoVKTY8codPIpVaVfgIA Conclusion As you can see, Brandon has had numerous fascinating experiences, some of which definitely appear to be linked with contact. His two visitation experiences in 2012 may well have involved abduction experiences that he cannot currently recollect. The unusual purple stains he found on his bedclothes in 2009 on two occasions are very intriguing, and again could point towards contact incidents. It is such a shame that he did not keep the bed clothes as we could have had them scientifically examined. Yet of course at the time he was frightened of what was occuring and so wanted to distance himself from it. It is only in recent years that he has become more curious towards his experiences. I think it's great that he has decided to go public with his experiences and talk openly about them on YouTube. The more witnesses who do this, the more we can learn about the subject and more conclusions can be drawn regarding what is taking place. I hope that Brandon keeps in touch and updates me with any further incidents that may occur. He may also decide to be hypnotically regressed to see if any further details can be remembered. This report will be kept up-to-date with any developments. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2021

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 28/09/2021 Note: For anonymity reasons, pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses Introduction People who experience contact are often deeply affected by their experiences and fearful of them, which can sometimes lead to them not wishing to talk openly about what has occurred. Chris originally got in touch with me back in 2003 when he was 24 years old. However it soon became apparent that he was not comfortable with discussing what had occurred in his life due to how traumatic it had been. I asked him to get back in touch when he felt ready to talk. It has taken him 8 years to come to terms with his experiences and be able to talk about them in depth with me. On 25th May 2021 he got in touch via E-Mail. Over the coming days we held numerous lengthly Skype conversations to go over everything. Chris has had contact experiences since childhood up until recent years. This detailed report covers these experiences in chronological order. Ghostly Occurrences Chris’s earliest experiences actually involved paranormal activity as opposed to being directly related to contact. Due to the apparent link between contact and paranormal events these incidents have been included for interest purposes. In his childhood Chris used to live with his grandparents on Holtshill Lane, Walsall, Birmingham. It was a rather spooky old house, and on many occasions unexplained incidents took place. These incidents were largely ignored by his grandparents, who were quite sceptically minded. Aerial map of Holtshill Lane Before he was born, Chris’s grandparents used to own a pet cat named Garfield due to its orange coloured fur. Sadly Garfield had passed away and Chris never got to meet him. However from about age 6 onwards, Chris recalls that roughly once a year, usually around August he or his grandparents would hear a single cat meow. It would always occur in the living room while people were relaxing and seemingly come from behind the sofa. Chris says that it was clearly audible and in the room itself rather than an echo coming in from outside, and his grandparents associated it with Garfield. When he discussed one of the occurrences with his mum, she confirmed to him that Garfield used to rest behind the sofa on a regular basis. He was seemingly continuing to do this after death! Chris says this occurred every year right up until he left the house at age 25. On a number of occasions Chris would see shadowy forms out of the corner of his eye. These were usually low down towards the floor and he took them to be ghostly cats. On one occasion he caught a clearer glimpse of one of them as it moved along the landing and entered his bedroom. He saw it from the base of the staircase. He assumed it was his grandparent’s pet cat. When he went to check in the room there was nothing there. Quite regularly Chris would hear footsteps come up the stairs during the night. He says that his grandparents would not stay up late so the sounds could not be attributed to them. Besides, he could see the top of the stairs from his bedroom door which he would leave ajar. Chris says that the footsteps were quite heavy and deliberate, they were too regular to just be creaks on the floorboards. They would come up the stairs and then stop when they reached the landing. He was too un-nerved to ever get up out of bed to check. He says these incidents tended to occur in clusters, he might hear them a few times a number of days apart, and then things would quieten down a while before returning. He did mention the footsteps to his grandfather on one occasion, but his grandfather was dismissive. Occasionally Chris or his grandparents would smell the scent of a fruity perfume in the living room. This would occur in a particular patch of air and would sometimes move across the room. Chris noted that often this would occur around the same time period as footsteps were being heard on the stairs, not precisely just within days of each other. He found out from his mother that his great grandmother, who passed away before he was born, used to wear similar perfume. At other times they would smell the pungent odour of cigar smoke. When he described this smell to his mother she confirmed that his great grandfather used to smoke cigars which had this scent to them. There would also be unusual activity with the television sets in the house, both the one in the living room and the smaller one in his bedroom. Chris says that they would sometimes switch on of their own accord. All of a sudden the sound of static would occur. They would never do this while people were nearby to them, only when there was nobody in the room. On other occasions Chris would hear the power button for the living room TV being pressed very fast in quick succession. He says that once he had two friends from school over and they heard it too and were extremely un-nerved. Many experiencers of contact also report having paranormal experiences around their homes. However it is unknown if any of this activity was linked with Chris’s contact experiences or not, as they were not solely being experienced by him (although his grandparents were rather dismissive of them). Initial Visitation The earliest contact experience which Chris can recollect occurred in the spring of 1996 when he was 7 years old. He used to sleep in a narrow bedroom on the lower part of a metal bunk bed. Due to the previous paranormal activity he was uncomfortable at night and used to leave the bedroom light on. He awoke during the night with the feeling of a presence in the room. He did not check the clock but felt it must have been around 2am. When he opened his eyes he was immediately greeted by the sight of a being leaning over him and staring down at his face. Due to the bedroom light it was just a silhouette, no facial features could be made out. He could only see its head, neck and upper torso. It had an over-sized head which was shaped like an upside down pear, a thin neck and slender body frame. He felt like this entity was staring straight through him. He was immediately terrified of it, and pulled the duvet up over his face. This was the last thing he recalled doing. He did not remember dropping off to sleep, the next thing he became aware of was of his grandparents waking him up in the morning at around 7.30am. When he got up out of bed he realised his pyjamas were on backwards. He also felt very fatigued and achy, as if he had done strenuous exercise the previous day. His grandparents commented on his pyjamas, asking him why he had undressed and re-dressed himself. Chris did not share with them what he remembered seeing in the night. He informed me that they were quite sceptically minded and would not have believed him, so he used to keep what was happening to himself. The shape of the silhouette described by Chris fits in with that of a Grey, which would be confirmed by following experiences. Greys generally have a thin body and neck, with a large pear-shaped head. It should also be noted that Chris was not paralyzed as he was able to pull the duvet covers over his face, so this discounts sleep paralysis as an explanation. Even though he cannot currently recollect being taken, there are signs which point towards the idea that he may have been. I have investigated and read about a number of abduction cases where the beings seem to have re-dressed people wrongly before returning them. It suggests that they are aware that the individual has had clothing on when they have been taken, but that they either do not know what way round it should go back on, or do but don’t really care about whether it is put back on correctly. A feeling of fatigue is a commonly reported after effect of abduction experiences too, I have spoken with many people who have described this before. Both of these aspects would also be experienced again in later encounters, as you will see. First Abduction Recollection In the summer of 1996, within months of the visitation, Chris had another more significant experience. By this time his grandparents had bought him a new single bed. It was situated underneath the window with the foot of the bed facing the bedroom door. Once again Chris awoke in the night with the feeling that something was there in the room. When he lifted his head up a short distance to look around the room he realised there was a being standing at the foot of his bed. The bedroom light was once again on, but because of the difference in position he could now see it clearly and make out details. The being was about 5 feet in height. It appeared to be unclothed. Its skin was smooth and grey in colour, and almost looked like rubber. It had a slender body with thin arms that hung down by its sides. Not many facial details could be made out, only its eyes, which were large, completely black and almond-shaped. No nostrils, mouth or ears were visible. He could not tell if it was unclothed or if it was wearing a full body suit which completely covered it. The being was the same shape as the one he had seen previously, and he felt it was the same entity. It was a Grey, the most commonly reported type of ET, although he did not know this at the time as he had no interest in the UFO subject as a child. He reacted the same as before, pulling the duvet up quickly over his head. However in doing so it moved up, exposing his lower legs. The next thing he knew, he felt the being grab both of his ankles. The grip was quite strong and its skin felt extremely cold. When I asked Chris to describe the sensation he said it was “similar to a rubber band ball after being left outside overnight”. After this he then immediately blacked out, which he said felt like being given anaesthetic, he was aware of it happening. He came round and immediately looked down at his ankles expecting to once again see the being. However he now found that he was floating outside of his upstairs bedroom window in the air, about 20 feet off the ground! He was still in a lying down position the same as he had been in bed, and at this point still wearing his pyjamas. He was slowly ascending but could not see anything above him. It was night time but not particularly cold. However he realised it was incredibly quiet, it was as if normal background noise of his neighbourhood had been completely muted. This only lasted a moment before another wave of sleep washed over him and he passed out again. When he came round again he now found himself in an unfamiliar location. He was lying down on a flat bench like structure which felt cold like metal. He realised he was now unclothed. Adjusting his vision and glancing around he found he was in the middle of a large circular room roughly 30 feet across. There was enough light to see but no obvious source, it was an ambient glow which allowed him to see his surroundings. The walls and floor of the room were flat and a silvery grey colour but not reflective. Towards the top of the room the light faded and it was impossible to see the ceiling clearly, although he assumed it was there. Either side of him roughly 5 feet away were other benches like the one he was on. They were solid blocks which protruded out of the floor. There was no other furnishings in the room and no visible doors or windows. The temperature of the room felt normal, it wasn’t particularly warm or cold. The air in the room felt very clean and pure, it had no discernable smell. He could hear a low rhythmic humming sound which seemed to be coming from all around rather than from a particular direction. He could actual feel this hum as low vibrations through the bench he was lying on. Chris tried to move and realised he was paralyzed from the neck downwards. This immediately frightened him and he began to panic. As he was panicking a being entered the room, although he did not see how, there was no apparent doorway it had come through. He just realised it was standing there at the edge of the room beyond his feet, roughly 25 feet away. This being looked different to the one he had seen in his room. It was the same shape and height, but its face looked much darker in colour. As he watched it walked briskly towards him, locking its eyes on him. It came round to the left side of the bench and stood level with his chest. Its arms swayed as it walked, but it felt very controlled and smooth. When I asked Chris about this aspect of the experience he said the way it walked reminded him of the scene in the movie My Fair Lady where actress Audrey Hepburn walked with a book balancing on her head (the being’s arms were down by its sides though). Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady It was now that he could see it more clearly. From the base of the neck it looked the same as the previous being, a rubbery grey colour. But rather than also having a grey face, its head was covered in dark brown coloured scales that were slightly paler at their tips. However the eyes looked the same, jet black and almond-shaped. It still had no discernable nose or mouth although this was possibly due to the darkness of its skin. Chris does not recall whether the hands were exposed as he was transfixed by its face. The grey rubbery skin-tight suit it appeared to be wearing had no insignia, belt or markings. Now that it was close to him he was even more frightened. He began to cry in fear, too frightened to shout out. As it looked at him it felt extremely threatening. The being then spoke to him telepathically. In his mind he heard the words “You shouldn’t be awake and witnessing this.” The voice sounded angry but was not particularly male or female. A moment later, without the being interacting with him in any way, he blacked out. The next thing he became aware of was his grandparents waking him up. The feeling of dread was still there but quickly subsided when he realised he recognised his surroundings. He recalled what had happened in the night and was frightened because it felt so vivid and real, not like how a nightmare would usually feel. He sat up in bed and found that once again his pyjamas were on wrong. This time the trousers were correct but his top was on backwards. Like the previous experience he felt extremely fatigued. His grandparents commented saying “You’ve put your pyjamas on wrongly again. You look like you haven’t slept!” When he checked in the mirror his eyes looked dark and a little sunken. Once again he did not tell his grandparents what had happened. In the days following the experience he felt very uneasy going to bed, to the point that he would stay awake as long as possible until he passed out from exhaustion. Gradually after about a week this subsided and he was able to settle easier again. He was just grateful it had passed and hoped that nothing else would occur. Unfortunately this was far from the end of events. Group Abduction Chris’s next contact experience took place in late April 1997 soon after his 8th birthday. It began with a very strange audible anomaly. He was lying in bed but still wide awake. There had not been much other unusual paranormal activity in the house for a while and he had started to sleep with the bedroom light off. He began to hear what sounded like muffled voices conversing with one another. Initially he thought that it was coming from the television downstairs. He shouted down to his grandfather, who confirmed that the TV was not on. The noises continued. Listening intently to try and find the source, they sounded like they were coming from his guitar amp. It sounded almost like French but it was not clear enough to make out any actual words. Chris assumed that it was feedback coming through the amp, until he realised it was not plugged in. This made him a little un-nerved, but because he was tired at this point he chose to actively ignore it and settled down to sleep. He woke up to find himself floating in a lying down position about 2 foot above the bed. The duvet had slipped off him to his right and was lying on the floor. He had a strong feeling of butterflies in his stomach. He glanced around as this happened so must have been able to move his head, but Chris says he is unsure if he was partially paralyzed, he just went along with what was happening. He drifted backwards and passed through the closed window to his room head first! Outside he could feel the cool night air hit him. It was fully dark, and Chris thinks it must have been around 2am but he was not able to confirm this. When he looked upward above him, he saw a black sillouette of a large object which was blocking out the stars. He is unsure of the exact shape as it covered most of his view. He says the colour was “blacker than black, like a void”. He began to slowly ascend towards this sillouette. He was intrigued to see detail behind the blackness, but before he got near enough to see anything he blacked out. When he came round he found himself back in the circular room with the three benches. But this time he was not on the bench. Nor was he alone. He was no longer in his pyjamas, was in a standing position and appeared to be stuck to the wall of the room, a few inches off the floor. There was seemingly no restraints, he was being held against it by a force of some kind. His arms were stretched up above him and his legs were parted at diagonals from one another. Looking across the room directly opposite him was a group of three other people, all of them adults who were unclothed. There were two men with short brown coloured hair, and a woman with longer blond coloured hair. They seemed to be a trance like state. They had their eyes open but were not reacting or moving at all. To the left and right sides of the room like 4 points of a compass there were two other groups of three, made up of a mix of adults and teenagers. Again they appeared to be in a trance. Everyone was in the same pose that he was in and he also noted that everyone was Caucasian. Chris found he was largely paralyzed, but could tilt his head a bit. When he did this he found that he was the central person in a group of three. There was a man to his left and a woman to his right. Again they were not moving. However he could not see them clearly as he could not bend his head right round. Despite the bizarre situation Chris felt calm, possibly due to the fact that there were other people present this time. Over the first two minutes of the experience Chris simply looked around. He did not try speaking to either of the people next to him. He just seemed to accept everything like it was normal, almost as if he understood what was happening and didn’t feel the need to ask them anything. Thinking back to the experience this puzzles him. Initially this was the end of his recollection. He suddenly became aware that it was morning and his grandparents were waking him up like normal at approximately 7.30am. His pyjamas were missing entirely, he was still unclothed. His grandparents asked him where they were, to which he responded “I don’t know!” They were clearly annoyed at him and thought that he had hidden them or disposed of them. Once again he felt extremely fatigued. When he checked himself in the mirror he noted that his chest looked more pink than it would usually do. He also had a pain in his groin and at a certain point on the right side of his body between his ribs. This pain was so intense that he found it hard to cope. He told his grandparents, but did not mention his recollection. Chris thinks that they probably thought he was making excuses to take a day off school, but they agreed that he didn’t have to go in that day. After a number of hours the pain in his groin and side diminished. There were no obvious markings. However Chris says that to this day there is a point on his right hand side which causes a sharp pain if he presses on it. This point is only on the right and corresponds with this incident. He never found his pyjamas, they had completely vanished. He assumed that there was more that had taken place, and for whatever reason he had not been re-dressed. Initially seeing the groups of people stuck to the wall of the circular room was the last thing he could remember, he had no idea of where the pain in his groin and side had come from. However from this point Chris began to start having vivid recurring nightmares about this incident which continue to this day. Up until around age 21 he would get this dream roughly twice a year. It would not be particularly traumatic but he was clearly remembering the experience. From age 21 onwards the dream began to occur more regularly, roughly once every 4 months. Chris also began to remember more of what had taken place. Bit by bit he started to dream for longer periods of time, and each time he would recollect additional details. Below is a full overview of what Chris has currently remembered up to this point. At a diagonal to his left in between the two other groups of people a dark rectangular opening suddenly appeared in the wall. It went right up the wall until it was lost in the darkness near the ceiling, there was no discernable top to it. In from this darkness stepped a group of eight beings. Four of them were similar to the Grey he had seen at the base of his bed, but they were shorter this time, roughly 4 feet in height. The other four were the brown scaled beings he had seen before. It felt to Chris almost like they were doctors and nurses – like the scaled ones were in charge and the shorter Greys were there to assist them. The brown scaled beings appeared to be conversing with one another, making gestures with their arms and looking at each other. The four shorter Greys separated off from them, and one walked over to stand in front of each group of three people. The one that came up to him stopped about 6-7 feet away. Even now Chris did not feel threatened at all. After a couple of minutes had passed the scaled beings seemed to finish their conversing. One walked over to stand in front of each group like the shorter Greys had already done. His eyes became fixed on this being and he watched as it looked him up and down without speaking a word. Chris now began to panic because of the situation and what may be about to happen. However he then heard a telepathic voice in his head say “Stay calm. This will be over soon. It’s not going to hurt.” He felt that this voice had come from the shorter Grey being, despite the fact that there was no physical movements which would suggest this. As he heard the words he felt a wave of calmness pass through him. Chris describes this as similar to “the rush of endorphins you get after you finish riding a rollercoaster.” The scaled being stepped closer and moved between him and the shorter being. It stared right through him as if he didn’t exist. The sense of threat and dread began to sink back in. Chris thought to himself “Please don’t hurt me!” The scaled being seemingly picked up on this thought as it then responded to him saying “Don’t worry, this won’t last long!” However Chris says this voice was different to the previous one, it felt more callous and indifferent towards him. A moment later he suddenly felt an excruciating pain in his groin. He was not able to look down to see what was occurring. The being continued to stare directly at him with its arms by its sides. Chris says that this pain was intense, stating “My groin shot with flame, hot pain to point I want to scream.” However when he attempted to shout out, nothing happened, the paralysis stopped him from making a sound. Chris was now terrified of what was happening and started openly crying. In reaction to this the scaled being spoke telepathically, asking him “Why are you crying? Just accept what’s happening.” The voice felt cold and emotionless, completely devoid of empathy. He then felt another sharp pain on his right side. It felt like a tube being pushed into him between his ribs. Again he was unable to look down at this, but he could feel it tugging at his skin. Tears streamed down his face, and he heard a voice in his mind over and over saying “Why are you crying? This will be over soon.” It almost felt like the being was annoyed at his reaction to what was happening. This went on for a number of minutes. Chris thinks it was at least 3 minutes but it felt much longer because of the fear and the pain. This is currently the furthest point Chris has been able to recollect. Even this was gradual, for example it is only the last two years that Chris was able to clearly see the face of the scaled being in front of him. Before this point its face had looked like static, as if it was putting on some kind of memory block which was preventing him from seeing it clearly (despite the fact that he’d seen this type on a previous occasion). I have investigated other cases were precisely the same thing has been reported. Chris says that the night he remembered its face clearly for the first time he had a massive panic attack and was unable to sleep for the remainder of the night. Chris clearly seems to still have missing memories towards the end of the experience. It is possible that in due course he may decide to be hypnotised to see if any further details emerge, however due to the trauma of this experience he is hesitant to proceed down this route at present. It was obvious from his voice when discussing this event with me that it was still affecting him all these years on. I have investigated numerous cases before where groups of abductees have been taken at the same time, and also cases where people have been observed in a trance like state exactly as Chris reports, but I have not yet come across any cases where the same procedure has been mentioned, with people being stuck to the walls of the room. This does not mean there are no cases out there, it just means it is unusual. However the contact subject is extremely complex. The fact that a painful procedure of some kind was performed on his groin means that Chris may be involved in the “hybrid program” – one of the observed on-going agendas of the ETs in which they appear to be creating cross breeds between themselves and humans. However there is no other evidence which points towards this at present. Superman A number of years went by with no further experiences, just the repeated nightmares of the previous abduction. However in the early summer of either 2000 or 2001 when he was 11/12 years old something else occurred. During the night he had an extremely vivid dream. In this dream he found himself in Walsall town centre hovering in the air above Park Street. He was face up in a lying down position, and was flying back and forth along the high street staring downward towards his feet. It was daytime and there were shoppers down on the ground walking about. Nobody appeared to spot him flying above them. Chris says the feeling was exciting and really fun. He was into superheroes as a child, and it felt to him like he was Superman. Aerial map of Park Street Photograph of Park Street, the main shopping cetre of Walsall This happened for a while, with him flying back and forth. It felt like this was controlled and he was going along with it rather than having the freedom to fly wherever he liked. He then began to notice a feeling of something being done to his right side, in the same position as he’d got the sharp pain years ago. It felt like something was being undone, but was not painful in any way. At this realisation his vision slowly shifted, almost like he was being pulled out of the dream. He found himself lying down on a flat surface in a darkened area. Unlike the previous abductions, the surface he was now on felt warm and comfortable, but was still solid. Chris does not know if he was paralyzed or not, he said he felt relaxed and did not feel the need to move. Due to the increased darkness of the surrounding room and the difference in feel of the surface he was on, he thinks it may have been a different location to his previous abduction experiences. There were three beings standing alongside him to his right. They were still Greys, but looked different to the ones he had seen previously. They had pale blue-grey coloured skin. Their head was not quite as bulbous and their eyes were smaller in size, though still black. These ones had discernable nostril holes and thin slit for a mouth which was quite narrow in width. They were unclothed and had smooth skin, with very little bone structure visible. One of the beings stared towards him. Unlike the scaled beings he had seen on previous occasions, these ones felt entirely different. When he met eyes with it, he felt overwhelmingly happy and grateful towards the being. He then heard it speak telepathically with him. In his mind he heard the words “Its ok, we've got you. We're here to help you.” The voice was very calming and re-assuring. This is where the experience ended. When he woke up in the morning he felt completely relaxed, like he had had a very good night’s sleep. There were no physical differences or markings noticed. A couple of months later he had a repeat experience, largely the same as the first. Like the group abduction incident it felt like a flashback to it rather than an entirely new event. Again the three beings were standing there alongside him. The one nearest to his head was reassuring him telepathically while the other two were doing something to his right side, but he could not see as he was transfixed on the nearest being. Again when he woke in the morning he felt well rested. An Apology and a Reward Roughly two months on another similar experience occurred, but this time with noticeable differences. Like before it started with the vision of flying over Walsall. However this was only very brief, it quickly shifted to the beings. But also he was now standing up, with the three beings gathered around him roughly 2-3 feet away. He was actually a little taller than them so was slightly looking down at them. There was white ambient light around him and the beings coming from an indeterminate source. This bled away into darkness like before, it was not possible to see any walls or ceiling. Chris felt extremely comfortable with the situation, he says there was a warm fuzzy feeling in his chest. The beings appeared to be radiating pure empathy and love towards him to the point that he could physically feel it. He was not in any way frightened of them, they felt very familiar to him almost like family. He stood there about 10-15 seconds. Then the central being directly in front of him began to speak with him telepathically. It told him that the previous beings had done something to his chest which had left damage. It then told him that they’d fixed what had been done and he should make a recovery soon. It seemed extremely apologetic about this, like it was something that they had not intended to happen. The words were very re-assuring. Like the other beings there was no discernable sex to them. Thinking back to the experience, Chris says that he did not ask them any questions because of how familiar and friendly it all felt. It was as if he had no need to ask them anything, even though they gave him very little detail as to exactly what had happened or how they had fixed it. The being then said to him that because of what had happened to him they wanted to leave him with a gift. With this the surroundings and the beings faded away and were replaced with stars all around him. He says it was exhilarating and truly amazing. He felt like he was standing out in space but could breathe completely normally. He has no idea whether this was a mental projection in his mind, or whether the location he was in had genuinely become see-through and was actually situated in space, although he suspects the former of these. Interestingly Chris says that as a child he was fascinated in astronomy and space, so this is possibly why they chose to show him this. The vision lasted for about 5 minutes. He did not try walking around as he was so awestruck, but did look about in different directions. After this the stars faded and he was back with the beings again. The central being then said to him “It’s time to go now. We’ve got to take you home.” Chris simply responded “Ok” in his mind. This was the last thing he remembered, he next realised he was being woken up like usual. He was so excited by what had occurred in the night, he wanted to shout out loud, but felt his grandparents would just put it down to a dream. He felt like he was on a natural high. This feeling lasted for a number of days, he was extremely happy and upbeat for about a week after the experience. A Frightening Visitation In autumn of 2005/2006 when Chris was 16/17 he was staying at his girlfriend’s Sarah’s house on Norton Terrace, Brownhills. Her father used to make him a makeshift bed in the living room out of sofa cushions. He recalls waking in the night with the same feeling of dread that he’d felt in his childhood. He opened his eyes and peered across the room. It was dark but there was a bit of light coming in through the curtains from the nearby street lights, so it was clear enough to make out some details. Chris rolled over to his right to face the doorway to the middle room which led through to the kitchen. It was now that he noticed a dark figure standing in the corner of the room roughly 10 feet away. It had the shape of a Grey, but was completely black like a silhouette. Chris says that there was enough light in the room to make out some features, it was like it was intentionally masking them from him. The being was not moving but he could sense anger from it. He was un-nerved by it but rather than get up out of bed he decided to roll over and pretend it wasn’t there. He did so, pulling the duvet covers up and shutting his eyes. Immediately he felt the presence of the being approach behind him. He then heard a low guttural growl in his right ear. Chris says he felt the breath of the being which was really cold. He was so frightened to move or look, he just lay there not knowing what to do. Chris does not know what happened next. He does not recall blacking out but the next thing he was aware of was of waking up naturally. It felt instantaneous like no time had passed at all and he expected the being to still be there leaning over him but it had gone. It was 6.30am, much earlier than he would usually wake up at. He felt fatigued, similar to how he had felt on previous occasions. He was un-nerved by what had happened so decided to get up and play on his mobile phone until his girlfriend and her family woke up a couple of hours later. The incident played on his mind throughout the day. He was not his usual self, something Sarah picked up on. In the afternoon they were out on a walk in some local fields and she asked him if he was alright. Chris desperately wanted the experience to be linked to something other than the abductions he had experienced in childhood. Trying to find an alternative explanation for what had occurred he asked her if her house was haunted. She looked at him strangely and said no. In 2012 years after they had separated, Chris happened to speak with her again, and this incident was brought up in conversation. Sarah now confided in him that soon after he had asked her about the house being haunted she had seen a dark figure standing at the edge of the field watching them. She did not tell Chris this at the time as she did not want to un-nerve him further. Unfortunately he has not kept in contact with Sarah so I am unable to speak with her about this incident. Red Orb In July 2008 Chris was 18 and at college. By now he had moved from his old bedroom to a larger room at the edge of the house. He used to stay up quite late talking with friends online. One night he went to bed around 1.30am. He was lying down and trying to settle but his mind was still active and he had not yet closed his eyes. At the time it was warm so he had left the curtains open and the side windows ajar to let in some cool air. He suddenly noticed the presence of a red point of light on the surface of the main window arch. It was small and looked like it was coming from a laser pointer. He immediately assumed that there was someone mucking about in the nearby car park or even within the garden and shining a laser into the room. He got up and peered out of the window but there was nobody there. Mock up of the red orb on the window arch Looking at the point of bright red light he realised it had now moved further into the room along the wall. He also realised it was not shining on the wall itself but was a floating bright point of light hovering about a foot away from the wall! It was drifting slowly across the room smoothly, but was not flying exactly in a straight line, it was move wavering as it went. He thought to himself “This is new! What the hell is this?” As he watched it reached the far side of the room then started coming back towards the window over the bed. It got to about 3 feet away from the window when it suddenly picked up in speed, descended in an arc, passed directly through the main closed window and flew away into the darkness outside! He thought about what he had just seen for a while, then settled down and went to sleep. It’s hard to explain what occurred here. As Chris told me about the experience I wondered if it could have been a firefly. However this would not have been able to pass through the closed window so this can be discounted as an explanation. Also these tend to be yellow in colour rather than cherry red as Chris described. It could not have been a laser pointer as Chris was certain it was floating in the air across the room not just shining along the wall. In addition to this he said that there would have been no way of anyone to shine it further into the room from ground level. By all accounts it appears to have been some kind of orb of energy. Computer Games Roughly two months after seeing the orb Chris’s grandparents had bought a new pet cat. It used to love coming into his room at night and curling up on the bed. He was woken between 2.30-3am by a sudden noise. He immediately recognised the sound as that of his wired computer mouse being dropped onto the desk. He would regularly use his computer so was used to how this sounded. Once again he had left the curtains open and there was enough light coming in from outside to make our the furnishings of the room. He stared across at the computer desk to try and work out what had happened. A moment later Chris claims that he witnessed the mouse actually lift up off the desk a few inches and then once more drop onto the desk! At this moment the cat on the bed became very agitated. It arched its back and started hissing. Chris then noticed that the revolving computer chair which he had tucked under the desk was now facing him, and it was not empty. In the chair was what looked like an area of swirling mist. This mist had a slight copper orange glow to it. There was no determinate shape to the mist, it was just localised within the seat of the chair, at most a couple of feet across. It reminded Chris of a cloud of vapour formed by someone vaping, billowing and moving. After a number of seconds the cat suddenly jumped off the bed and ran out of the bedroom. A moment later the mist seemed to dissipate and vanish from sight. Chris says that for the following few nights he heard the mouse being dropped like before, sometimes multiple times in quick succession, but he would ignore it and not look over to the desk. He also says that the cat refused to enter the room for about a week after the incident. This series of incidents could well be linked with paranormal activity going on in the home rather than contact directly. It very much sounds like poltergeist activity and some kind of ghostly apparition. However it is still possible that this was ET related, perhaps manifesting in an unusual way. Light Sequence About a week after the computer activity had calmed down something else unusual occurred. Again Chris had stayed up till about 1.30-2am recording footage for Youtube. This time the curtains on the window were closed, blocking out most ambient light. He was lying down in bed but had not closed his eyes. Suddenly a series of bar-shaped lights lit up in sequence across his bedroom ceiling one after the other in quick succession! There were five lights each of which looked identical. Each one lit up in turn over a couple of seconds. Chris looked around to see what could possibly have made the lights but there was no real explanation for what had caused them. There were no lights on in the room. He was not moving or holding anything which could have caused an unusual reflection. If the curtains of the room had been open he would have suspected it was coming in from outside, but they were not. About 5 seconds later the light sequence occurred again, exactly the same as before. 5 seconds after this it occurred a third time. The sequence was exactly the same as before but this time it was much faster, and took less than a second to cross the ceiling. After this there was nothing. Chris says it took about half an hour to settle down after the incident as he mulled it over in his mind. Due to the proximity of this to the previous activity involving his computer it may have been another paranormal manifestation. However experiencers regularly report unusual light phenomena both preceding and during contact experiences. The Creature Chris’s next experience is a rather bizarre one. It was roughly a month after the lights on his bedroom ceiling. He woke up lying on his front with his head facing towards the bedroom door. His girlfriend was asleep next to him. Looking on the clock on the wall he saw it was around 2.30am. He found that he could not move. Staring at the door he saw a strange spindly creature on all fours close to the floor. It had the same copper orange colour as the mist he had seen on the desk chair. The creature quickly scuttled across the floor, so fast that he could barely see it. It jumped up onto the bed, pinning his legs to the mattress then he felt it grip his arms around the wrists. He sensed dread from this creature like it wanted to cause him harm. Unable to move, he then heard the creature utter the same low growl as the Grey had done on the previous occasion. He was terrified and tried to scream out for help but found he was unable to. Chris does not know what happened next, he just found he was waking up in the morning to his alarm clock at 7am. He told his girlfriend about what had happened but she did not remember anything happening during the night. A lot of the aspects of this experience point towards a sleep paralysis experience as opposed to contact, a possibility which Chris definitely entertains. During sleep paralysis the individual will find they cannot move or make a sound. They will sometimes see strange moving forms in the room that will jump on them and hold them down. It does of course have numerous links to his previous experiences – the colour of it matching the mist, the growl noise it made. It is possible that these experiences were weighing on his mind and this led to him conjuring up the creature. Arm Marking On a morning in April 2009 Chris awoke to find a strange marking on his right forearm. He does not recall anything unusual happening during the night. When he looked at his arm, he found a long area which had a strange tan brown colouration to it, almost like iodine stain. It went from the base of his right hand to half way along his inner forearm. It has a defined edge to it rather than being gradual like a bruise. He tried scratching at the marking and washing it off, neither of which worked. Unfortunately he did take a photograph of the stain as he was rushed and had to get ready for work. He had a morning shift at Tesco superstore in Walsall. As his manager was concerned by cleanliness, Chris decided to wear a long sleeved jumper so he would not see the marking. Once home from his shift soon after mid-day he checked his arm again and found that the stain had disappeared, but had been replaced with what appeared to be three puncture marks in a triangular shape with a fourth in the middle. There were also very pale lines linking the four different points. The strange marking was just below his right wrist. He was certain they had not been there previously. He touched the dots but there was no pain from them, even though they looked sore. He decided at this point to get a photograph of the marking as it puzzled him: After a number of days the dots faded and vanished. However Chris says that since then they have come back from time to time, especially when it is warm weather. Below is a photograph which he took of them while I was speaking with him about his experiences in May 2021: Many contactees have found markings on their body following experiences. Sometimes they have memories of the ETs using instruments on them at the same location. Chris has no such memories at present, but as memories are often blocked out it is possible that he was taken during the night and had something done to his right arm. UFO Fly Past On a weekend in mid-August 2015 Chris took his partner Nicola to Blackpool for the day. They had just returned home and were walking along the path to the front door. It was 7-8pm in the evening. The sun hadn’t quite set but it was dark in the sky. It was a warm and pleasant evening with some scattered cloud. Chris suddenly noticed that it was un-naturally quiet. There would usually be ambient noise – birds chirping in the trees, dogs barking, vegetation rustling in the breeze. But it was silent. He then noticed something moving up in the sky to his left. Looking in the direction of this movement he saw what appeared to be two V shaped formations of pulsing red lights. The two formations were exactly the same size and shape, one following the other. Chris was convinced that they were two objects with 5 lights in the underside of each, although it was impossible to see any solid shapes between the lights due to the darkness of the sky. The rear object was a little off to the right rather than exactly behind the first. The objects appeared to be around 1000 feet up although this was quite hard to judge. They were moving on a straight and level course. Chris estimates they were travelling at approximately 200 mph. Photograph of the sighting location in the direction the UFOs were visible He drew Nicola’s attention to the lights, exclaiming “Nicky, look up!” They both watched the lights travel on a level course in a westerly direction. They passed right over some nearby blocks of flats known as Paddock Flats. They continued to watch for about 20 seconds until they had vanished from sight behind the flats. Unfortunately neither of them had a camera on them, and Chris had left his smartphone in the car. Aerial map showing the path of the UFOs After the objects had gone Nicola asked Chris “What was that? I’ve never seen anything like that before!” Chris responded “I’ve no idea! That was really weird!” They then both headed inside the house. As usual they did not mention what they’d seen to Chris’s grandparents. The lights were clearly not two normal aeroplanes or helicopters. While red is one of the standard navigation light colours seen on aircraft, there would usually only be one red light along with other white/green lights, either constantly bright or strobing. Also the area does not fall within an airway, as confirmed by 360 Radar: While it's possible that these really were two craft with red lights in their underside, there remains the possibility that they were a formation of Chinese lanterns which had been launched. Chris says the lights were pulsing which would fit with the flickering that occurs with lanterns, and while they are usually an amber orange colour they can sometimes appear almost red. Back in 2015 lanterns were very popular and widely available, and the sighting took place after the sun had largely set, conceivably a good time for a lantern launch to take place. For this sighting to have been lanterns they would of course have had to have been coincidentally in the formation of two V shapes. This may seem unlikely but cannot be ruled out entirely. Figure At The Window By 2018 Chris and Nicola had moved into a house together in Bloxwich (address ommitted for confidentiality). On 18th October Chris was just finishing his work shift at 7.30pm when he got a call from Nicola. She sounded very upset. She explained to Chris that there were strange bright flashes of light occurring outside in the garden. Chris had gone over his previous experiences with Nicola, the only person he has ever really confided in about what has happened. She said “I know what you’re going to say. I don’t want it to be that! Just get back home now.” Chris drove home as fast as he could. He checked the garden and shed but found nothing which could have explained the lights. A number of hours later they both settled down to sleep. At the time they had had an argument and Chris was sleeping downstairs on the sofa. He awoke some point between 2.30-3am. He felt a little achy, the sofa was not particularly comfortable. The living room light was off but there was enough light coming in from behind the curtains to see the furnishings. From where he was lying he could see into the adjoining kitchen. The light was off but there was some light coming in from nearby streetlights. He happened to glance up at the kitchen window and immediately froze in shock. Standing outside the kitchen window was what appeared to be a Grey looking in at him. As he had just woken up he initially wondered if his eyes were deceiving him. He tried moving his head around to see if the figure was a reflection, but it was still there. He stood up off the sofa, keeping his eyes on the being. As he did he watched it tilt its head upward to continue following him with its eyes. Its arms were hanging down by its sides and it was standing quite still. Chris walked cautiously across the living room towards the kitchen door, fully expecting the figure to vanish. It did not, it remained in place staring intensely at him. At the open doorway he was now only 10 feet away from it and he could see it quite clearly. The being looked the same as those he had seen in his childhood, 5 foot tall with rubbery grey coloured skin and black almond-shaped eyes. He kept telling himself it’s not there, it can’t be. He was horrified that the beings from his earlier experiences had seemingly returned to him. Chris says he stared at it, not knowing what to do. He tried to speak with it in his mind, saying “I don’t want anything to do with you.” The being did not respond to this. After 2 minutes Chris decided that the best thing to do would be to block his view of it and hope it did not come into the house. He closed the kitchen door so he could no longer see it outside. He then turned the living room light on. He sat down a while before walking upstairs to check on Nicola and his daughter. Both of them were fast asleep. He returned downstairs and was so disturbed he remained awake until morning. Sadly Chris did not think about grabbing his smartphone and taking a photograph of the Grey. He was too frightened and transfixed by its presence. He did not tell Nicola what had happened straight away as he thought it would upset her. Later on he did discuss the incident with her. This is quite an un-nerving experience, and I could tell from Chris’s voice as he discussed it with me that it affected him deeply. I asked Chris whether there was any chance the figure was just a strange reflection caused by the lighting outside. He said that he actually tried looking at the window on following nights to see if he could recreate what he had seen, but he could not. He also said that although the being did not really move its body, its head did noticeably move as it tracked him, to all intents and purposes it was physical and standing right outside the window. I have investigated a number of cases where Greys have been seen peering into windows from outside. The reason for the presence of the being is of course unknown. Perhaps it intended on taking him but when he woke up this interrupted its plans. Chris does not feel that he was abducted, but as memories can be blocked out this possibility remains. Baby Talk Around the same time as seeing the being at the window, Chris says that his 2 year old daughter was more active than usual during the night. They had a baby monitor and for about a week before and a week after the visitation his daughter would start making noises that sounded like she was having a conversation with something in her room. Chris and Nicola would hear her over the baby monitor. Initially Chris assumed that she was sleep talking and largely ignored what was happening. However after the visitation he was far more alarmed by it and would immediately rush into his daughters room. Whenever he did this he says that he would find her standing at the edge of the cot staring at the corner of the room, but there would never be anything there. This occurred for about two weeks, roughly every other night and then she seemed to calm down. Obviously this may not have anything to do with Chris’s contact experiences. His daughter may have just been randomly making noises. But due to the proximity to the Grey visitation it is understandable why Chris was alarmed by it and wondered if there was any connection. Conclusion As you can see Chris has had some very interesting and compelling contact experiences. Due to the types of entities seen and after effects of the events I find it very likely that Chris has experienced some real ET visitations and abductions as opposed to just had vivid nightmares. He did not look into the contact subject for many years yet was interacting with beings which have been reported by many contactees around the world. There is also signs that Chris has had experiences of a more paranormal nature. Some of the more unusual experiences involving light anomalies or moving objects could be considered to be ghostly phenomena, but may have been indirectly linked with contact, it is hard to say for certain. I have asked Chris to keep in touch with me and if anything else occurs it should be added to this report. I also hope that he will provide some drawings to add in due course. Chris is considering the possibility of arranging a hypnotic regression to see if further details can be uncovered. If this takes place the transcript will be added as well as any findings. I would like to thank Chris for finally having the bravery to finally speak about his experiences with me so that this case report could be written. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2021

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