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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 03/05/2023 Last Updated: 03/06/2023 In early April 2023 79 year old witness Trevor got in touch with BUFOG via our website’s sighting report form to inform us about an incident which occurred on 19th February. He described both observing and photographing a spherical shaped UFO. I got in touch with him via phone to go over the experience in depth. This report covers the incident and provides a detailed analysis of the photographs which were taken. Sighting Details From his house on Stone Bridge in Newport, Trevor has a clear view to the South West and the range of hills known as The Wreckin can easily be seen in the distance. Trevor enjoys this view and regularly enjoys taking photographs of it. At 11.20am on 19th February 2023 he was standing at the first floor back window of his house and doing precisely this. It was a cloudy day, but was quite still and dry. There was a low mist around The Wrekin which gave the impression of islands emerging from the sea. Glancing upward he noticed that there were several holes in the cloud layer through which light was pouring. Here’s a direct statement from Trevor’s testimony regarding what happened next. “One of the holes was becoming a sort of vortex delineated by the cloud which appeared to be moving around the hole. At this point an indistinct round mass formed within the hole and appeared to fall out of it.” This mass looked very similar to the colour of the cloud around it, but appeared artificial and spherical in shape. Trevor estimates that the hole was roughly half way between his location and The Wrekin, which would have made it approximately 4 miles away. The sky was covered in cloud, and the usual height for low lying cloud is 6500 feet. The spherical “object” appeared to descend downwards, appearing to be independent from the cloud around it. It impressed Trevor enough to get him to attempt to take a photograph of it on his iPhone 6s Plus mobile phone camera. However when he checked the image he found that the sphere was almost off the top of the photo: By now it had stopped moving roughly 150 feet below the cloud layer. He once again raised his smartphone and took four images of the sphere (just right of the middle): He then decided it would be good to attempt to zoom in on it to get a closer view. For about 30 seconds he lost sight of the sphere as he attempted to locate it on his zoomed in phone camera. Unfortunately he was unable to find it. When he looked back up the sphere, and the hole it had seemingly come from had both completely vanished. Post Sighting Actions Trevor was fascinated by what he had just witnessed. He felt sure that the sphere had been something physical rather than just a strange patch of cloud. He says that later in the day he contacted a nearby military establishment. Virgin sometimes fly balloons in the area and he wanted to confirm that this was not what he had seen. According to him they confirmed the presence of the object and told him that they had detected it on their digital radar system. They stated that it was between 40-60 feet in diameter. They also confirmed that there were no logged balloon flights in the area. However they did not comment on what they object may or may not have been. They apparently asked him not to disclose to anyone their name. Over the following days he informed numerous people about the incident including his wife, daughter and friends. He also kept an eye on the news to see if anyone else had reported seeing it, but did not find any articles relating to it. Photographic Analysis It is great that Trevor managed to capture the sphere on camera over numerous photographs. Here is the initial photo that he took, with the potential object ringed: Here is the first photograph in the sequence that Trevor took following the initial one, with the sphere once again ringed: Zoomed view of the sphere: Zoomed negative and enhanced view of the sphere making its shape clearer to see: Assessing the photographs on their own they do not appear particularly impressive. As Trevor stated, it is clear that the sphere is the same colour as the cloud around it, although this does not necessarily mean that it was cloud, which will be discussed later in this report. The hole it apparently dropped down out of is not very visible in the images. While I have no reason to doubt that the photos are genuine, and Trevor certainly came across as trustworthy, it is important to rule this possibility out. One of the best ways of doing so is to examine the metadata. This is a large amount of hidden information stored when the photograph is taken. It varies by camera make, and needs to be extracted from an original image, but it can be used to determine whether or not it has been tampered with after being taken. When a photograph is manipulated on computer, some of the metadata changes. While it is possible to manually manipulate the metadata to hide this fact, it requires a large amount of expertise to do so, and there are particular pieces of metadata which are extremely hard to fix once they have changed. In order to perform metadata analysis, I asked Trevor (without prior warning) to E-Mail me a previous picture he had taken on his smartphone. Below is the image he decided to immediately send me: This can be used as a control image to show how the metadata on his phone camera looks prior to any manipulation. I then purposely modified this image to compare against and see differences which appear: While differences can vary a little depending on the software used to perform the manipulation, the pattern is generally the same. For this analysis I modified the image on Paintshop Pro, one of the more commonly pieces of software which can be used to modify images. With the control image and a purposely modified image, it is possible to compare the metadata from these against the metadata from one of the original images. I have chosen to do this with the first from the sequence of images which was taken. Below is the metadata comparison between the control image (left), modified image (centre) and sphere image (right). I have highlighted a number of specific details which relate to the differences discovered: Differences between un-modified and modified iPhone 6s Plus image metadata: - The File Size of modified images is generally smaller as the compression using editing software is usually better than that from the phone camera software - Exif Byte Order changes in modified images - JFIF related metadata appears in modified images - ICC related metadata appears in modified images - In modified images Software changes to show the name and version of the editing software - In modified images the value for Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling is lost and displays Unknown (1) - In modified images Offset Time, Offset Time Original and Offset Time Digitized disappear - In modified images GPSH Positioning Error disappears - The Thumbnail Offset. Thumbnail Length and Thumbnail Image number values change in modified images - Maker Notes related metadata disappears in modified images - XMP related metadata appears in modified images - In modified images Run Time Since Power Up disappears - In modified images Flash appears - In modified images GPS Latitude Ref and GPS Longitude Ref appear - The order of Exif and Composite related metadata changes in modified images As you can see from the above metadata comparison, the sphere photograph matches the control image not the modified image, greatly implying that it is a legitimate non-modified image. Sighting Analysis This is an unusual sighting with some interesting aspects to it. Regarding the photographs, it seems very likely that they are genuine, however they do not appear particularly impressive. There is a spherical shape visible in them but it cannot really be confirmed as a solid object. If it were just the photographs provided with no testimonial evidence, I would immediately consider it just to be an unusual patch of cloud which happened to have formed a spherical shape temporarily. However there are numerous testimonial quotes which point away from this. Firstly Trevor stated that he actually saw the sphere descend over a couple of seconds and separate itself from the rest of the cloud layer. This does not really sound like usual behaviour – clouds generally slowly change shape and tend to drift the same direction across the sky. This manoeuvre certainly impressed him enough to focus on it and photograph it numerous times. There is also the fact that he claims that he contacted a military establishment after the incident was over, and they confirmed to him that there had been an object in that area of sky at that time. They apparently stated that it was not a tracked balloon, and even went as far as confirming its size and informing him that it had been detected on radar. The issue with this is of course that this communication took place over the phone rather than a written E-Mail, and according to Trevor he was asked not to pass on the name of the establishment to anyone. I have no reason to doubt that this call did indeed take place, but until I receive a response it is impossible to verify this aspect of the case. There are two RAF bases in the vicinity of Newport, RAF Cosford 7 miles to the South East, and RAF Shawbury, 10 miles to the West: It is likely that it was one of these bases. As they are both a roughly equal distance from the location the sphere was supposedly situated, it is very likely they both would have detected it on radar. What is unlikely is that they would answer my questions about the incident directly over the phone months after it took place. I instead raised a Freedom Of Information Request to see if I could obtain confirmation on the presence of the object. On 3rd June 2023 I received an official response to this request: Unfortunately, as you can see, radar and telecommunication information is only required to be held for 30 days, so they had no data available when the request was made which could have helped prove or disprove Trevor's claims. Could he have been mistaken regarding the manoeuvre it was seen to perform? Perhaps the sphere was just a patch of cloud which happened to get caught in an air current and suddenly separate from the rest of the cloud layer. This separate patch of cloud could then have dissipated while he was attempting to zoom in on it. Maybe the military establishment he contacted was referring to an entirely different object hidden from view by the clouds, there is nothing definite linking what they stated with with what is shown on the photos. If we assume that the witness was not mistaken, and there really was a spherical object present in the sky which was captured on camera, then what could it have been? It was clearly not an aircraft or helicopter. Flight Radar 24 confirms that there were no tracked aircraft in the vicinity at the time of the sighting: 360 Radar confirms that the area does not lie within an airway, and also that the area falls within controlled airspace, making an untracked aircraft also unlikely: The most likely alternative mundane explanation would be some kind of large inflatable. The military establishment stated that there were no planned balloon launches over the weekend of the incident, however this does not rule out a private untracked launch. That said, I would expect more of a noticeable difference between the object and the surrounding cloud, even if it was white or highly reflective silver. I have seen many photographs of distant balloons over the years and they tend to be more clearly defined. Could this have been a genuine sighting of something more unusual? If so then perhaps it was an advanced craft which was using some kind of stealth technology, purposely making itself appear similar to the cloud it was surrounded by. While you may feel that this explanation is improbable, it is still something worth considering. At the end of the day, the strength of this case currently rests not only on the numerous photographs which were taken, but also on the testimonial evidence provided by the single witness. He clearly does not have any personal gain in mind as he did not want his full name or contact details added to the report. He also came across as very believable in the extensive conversation I had with him. Is the witness's testimony, supported by the photos he managed to take, enough to confirm that this was a genuine anomalous object? That’s entirely up to you to decide… Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 23/05/2023 Last Updated: 24/05/2023 In early May 2023 a lady named Laura Wakelam got in touch via Facebook Messenger to ask whether I had previously investigated cases from around Wednesbury. I asked her why she was interested and she informed me that she had experienced a UFO in the area back in 2005 when she was 15 years old. I arranged an extensive phone call with her to go over what took place. Sighting Details Laura thinks the incident happened around October 2005. She is unsure of the exact month, but says that it was getting dark early in the evening so she feels it happened in late autumn of that year. Back then she used to live on Moor Street, Wednesbury with her parents and two younger brothers. She believes it took place around 7.30pm. She had gone up to her bedroom, leaving her parents and brothers downstairs, possibly searching for her mobile phone. She had a high sleeper bed in her room which was up against the front wall of the house with the window partially blocked. However there was no desk under the bed, so if she wished she could duck down under the bed to look out of the window, which had a net curtain on it. She noticed a white light coming from outside, so decided to crouch under the bed, lift the net curtain and take a look. It was a clear and dry night outside. Due to the time of year it was fully dark, but the road was lit by a number of street lights. She cannot recall whether she could see the stars or whether there was cloud cover. It was very quiet with no passing vehicles or pedestrians. Just off to her left, and visible over the neighbouring house roofs she could see the silhouette of an aerial object. It appeared to look like a domed-disc shape and roughly 40 feet across. It was tipped up at an angle of about 35 degrees, with the left side higher than the right. It seemed to be positioned just to the right of one of the back gardens of the opposite houses, and at a very low altitude, perhaps only 60 feet up. Coming from the left side of the object was a thin white beam of bright light, which was shining down into the garden to its left. This beam looked thinner and more sharply defined than the beam from a helicopter’s search light. The beam was sweeping around in circles like it was looking for something. However the object itself remained un-naturally still in the air. There appeared to be no sound coming from it at all. Laura was quite frightened by the odd appearance of the object, it’s stillness in the air and the beam coming from it. She stared at it for about 2 minutes, too scared to call out for her parents or brothers to come and see. Back in 2005 she had an early camera phone, however she did not have it on her at the time or knew where it was, and she was transfixed on watching the object. Suddenly the beam went off and the object vanished without trace. Then a few seconds later it reappeared directly over the roof of four houses along the road to the left, now in a horizontal position. It immediately started to flash a sequence of multi-coloured lights. These lights appeared around the central rim of the object one at a time, and it was these which drew Laura’s attention to its new position. At this point she was convinced that she was looking at something highly unusual and this was definitely not a patrol helicopter. The sequence took a number of seconds to proceed right round the craft in an anti-clockwise direction. There were two rotations of the lights before they ceased flashing. After this the object moved forward until it was positioned over the road. It then slowly began to tip up on its axis until it was positioned vertically! This took about 10 seconds. At this point of the sighting Laura should logically have been able to see it clearly, lit up by the street lights. But she only has vague recollections of its appearance. She feels that the memories of this may have been blocked from her mind. Once it was vertical the sequence of flashing lights once again occurred. It then came back down the road and moved back over to where it had initially been situated. Once again the beam came on a short while and did another circular sweep of the garden. It then came forward again, arcing round the front of the houses as it moved back up the road, until it was positioned over the far side of the crossroads with Kilvert Road. It remained there a short while, then moved away to the North East out of sight. Laura felt traumatized by what she had just witnessed. She sat there at the window thinking that she should go downstairs and tell her mother about what had occurred. She crouched down under the bed, but as she crossed her room she realised that the details of the incident were becoming hazy in her mind, and the feeling of trauma was subsiding. By the time she was downstairs it had gone completely. The details of what happened only came back to her ten years later when she decided to watch a UFO documentary about Bob Lazar, the man who claimed to have worked on back engineered craft at Area 51. At a certain point in the documentary Bob spoke about witnessing one of the craft tipping up vertically in the sky. Upon hearing this, Laura had a vivid flashback of what she had seen when she was 15. The details of the craft tipping up in the documentary had seemingly jogged her mind and caused the memories of the incident to return! Sighting Analysis This is a fascinating event and one which has numerous unusual and interesting aspects to it. It is quite rare that witnesses report seeing beams of light coming down from UFOs. But what exactly could it have been? The object could not have been an aeroplane due to the fact it was hovering motionless at numerous points within the sighting for an extended period of time, seemingly at very low altitude, and shining a light down onto the ground. The obvious mundane explanation which needs to be considered is that the object was a police helicopter checking the local vicinity for one reason or another. Unfortunately due to the fact it happened many years ago it will not be possible to get the police to confirm this one way or the other. Helicopters can of course send search lights down to the ground and can hover quite still in the air when required. Here is an example photo of one doing precisely this: However there are numerous aspects which do not fit with this explanation. Firstly the shape of the object was not right for a helicopter. True it was quite dark, and initially it might have just looked like a dark indiscriminate shape, but later in the sighting Laura was able to see its shape more clearly, as she has drawn. At no point in the sighting did the object display any standard navigation lights (and it was of course seen from different angles throughout the sighting). Helicopters normally have white, red and green navigation lights on them, as indicated below: Logically at least some of these would have been visible to the witness. In the previous night photograph of the helicopter the red tail strobe and lower of the two white strobes are clear to see. Laura says the stillness of the object in the sky appeared un-natural. Even a helicopter hovering in the same spot will tend to drift a little bit, but when this object came to a halt there appeared to be no drift at all. Also it is very likely that at that distance from her house Laura would have been able to hear the rotor blades if it was a patrol helicopter. Yet it appeared to be completely silent. The vertical tilting it performed and the row of flashing multi-coloured lights which were seen numerous times again both point away from this being a helicopter, or any other normal type of aircraft. 360 Radar confirms that the area does not fall within any airways: It also confirms that it does lie within controlled airspace: These reduce the likelihood of it being an untracked private aircraft. If it wasn’t an aircraft what else could it have been? It seemed much too large to be some kind of radio controlled model, and the sighting took place many years before drones were commercially available. The beam of light, controlled manoeuvres it performed and flashing sequence of lights also rule out some kind of large inflatable. There is also the fact that Laura completely forgot the incident took place almost immediately after it happened. Even though she was clearly shocked by the sighting, it is very unlikely that her mind would have blanked out the experience to the point that she could not remember it at all. I feel that this aspect of the incident is extremely important and points away from it being something mundane. When asked about this aspect of the experience, Laura stated the following: "I remember getting by the bed and I was going to go and tell my mum then I couldn't remember what it was, but I could feel that it was bad. Then as I got by the stairs that feeling went. Then when I was downstairs I didn't even know any of it. I just know that it traumatised me because every time I try to think about it, it does my head in. And when I first remembered it, it put me in shock. I still don't remember some things because I know I stared at it when it was upright just can't remember what the bottom of it looked like. But I know I stared at it" It seems likely that this was a genuine sighting of a domed-disc shaped advanced craft, possibly of ET origin. I have investigated many cases of UFOs of this shape before, and there are countless more on record. I have even dealt with cases where precisely the same lighting has been reported, with a rotating line of multi-coloured lights around the central rim. There are known cases where these craft have been seen to tip up vertical in the air, just as Laura reported. There are also cases on record where UFOs have been seen to send down beams of light as if scanning the ground, including the infamous Rendlesham Forest Incident. The blanking out of the incident from Laura’s mind is also a regular aspect of UFO encounters, often associated with direct contact. Usually only partial missing time occurs, but I have looked into numerous incidents where the memories of the experience have been completely removed, and it is only through a later “trigger” that they have returned. This trigger can sometimes be seeing/hearing details of a similar incident, which is precisely what happened in this instance. There does not appear to have been any direct contact or interaction with the experience. When the memories did return to Laura, she only recalled seeing it and then heading back downstairs after it had left the vicinity. It is of course possible that there was, but the memories of this have not yet returned. However if this did indeed happen, I feel there would be more of an indication of this such as a bright light or confirmation of missed time from her family. If it was an advanced craft, we can only speculate as to what it was doing in the area, or why it was shining beams of light down into the one specific garden. Due to its apparent size, the beams of light and sequence of flashing colourful lights, it is also possible that there were other witnesses to this incident who have yet to come forward. If you have any information relating to this sighting please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 18/05/2023 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used and certain locations have not been mentioned I have previously investigated two sightings by a man who I have named “Simon”. These are written up as separate case reports, the links to which can be found at the end of this report. In January 2023 he got back in touch with me via Whatsapp to report a third incident which he witnessed in 2014. This incident seemed to involve a low altitude object with a very unusual appearance, and possible military involvement. This report documents the bizarre series of events in depth. Incident Details Back in 2014 Simon rented an art studio which was part of a complex of buildings at a farm near a small village in Staffordshire (precise location provided but not disclosed here). The farm was owned by an elderly couple who were partially sighted, and in exchange for the rental costs he used to drive them places when required. On the morning of either 12th February or 8th April, one of the farm owners, “Margaret”, asked him to drive her to Kidderminster to see her aunt who was in a retirement home. Unfortunately Simon can’t recall which of these two specific dates it was, he is just aware that it was one of them. They set off on the journey at around 11am in Margaret’s old Volvo V70. It was a clear and sunny morning but quite cold. The journey time took just over an hour. They had made the journey several times before but every time would take a different route, it was not the most straightforward place to reach from their location. After remaining with Margaret’s aunt till around 1 pm they then began their journey back to the farm. At 1.20 pm they were travelling North West along a rural stretch of road between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth. Unfortunately, despite actively searching for it on numerous occasions and doing a thorough search on Google Maps, Simon has been unable to locate the road so is unaware of its name. It was a straight stretch of road with trees and bushes either side, with occasional gaps through which the surrounding fields were visible. It was not particularly busy, but there were other vehicles travelling in both directions. As he drove along, he noticed several helicopters circling over the road about half a mile ahead of them. They appeared to be at very low altitude, no higher than 100 feet up. Margaret is partially-sighted, and Simon brought them to her attention, asking “Can you see what I’m looking at Margaret?” She replied “Yes, what are they doing?” As they got closer Simon realised that they were black without any markings. Each had the side door slid open, and visible through the open doorway of each sat a single man. They were each dressed in a beige coloured uniform with black boots, balaclava-like head piece and rubber ear protectors. Each held an automatic rifle positioned downwards in the safety position. One of the men had a circular megaphone-like device strapped to his chest. As they drove under the helicopters Simon noted that he could not hear their rotor blades at all, despite being in quite close proximity. He looked either side of the road to see if he could work out what they were doing in the area. They happened to be driving past a gap in the hedgerow on the left side of the road. When he glanced to his left past Margaret in the passenger seat, he was able to see what was in the local vicinity. He only managed to see for a brief time before the view was once again blocked by the hedgerow, but Simon says that what he saw “will stay with him for the rest of his life.” There was a open grass-covered field, about 300 yards wide, beyond which was a dense copse of deciduous trees, which were about 45 feet high. But beyond these trees was a large and very peculiar object. It seemed to be airborne and slowly descending, with the lower part hidden from view behind the treetops. Due to its appearance, he immediately assumed it was some kind of aerial vehicle. It appeared to be about 400 yards (365 metres long). It was split into three distinct sections. The main body of the object was roughly rectangular in shape. But attached to this by a short circular neck was a spherical section. He assumed this was the front of the vehicle, like a cockpit area. Around this sphere was what appeared to be three bands of continuous windows, one around the centre, with another both above and below. These windows seemed to be made out of dark glass and nothing could be seen through them. The top and bottom sections of the sphere were yellow in colour, but the sections splitting the three bands of windows were black. All sections were shiny and reflective, like painted metal. The neck which linked the sphere to the main body of the object looked like a series of circular black-coloured rings which slowly expanded. The main body of the object was covered in different sections at different levels of depth, with some other smaller rows of windows at various locations across it. Like the sphere, the main section was also a mix of black and yellow colours, and looked quite complex in its structure. It was titled at a slight angle with the spherical section at the lower end, suggesting that it was coming in to land. Simon had never seen anything like it before in his life! He was absolutely awestruck by what he was looking at. Unfortunately he only managed to glimpse the object for a few seconds before it was lost behind the hedgerow again. Margaret was distracted by the helicopters and did not appear to have noticed it. Simon did not immediately tell her about what he had just seen as he did not want to frighten her. Now you may be wondering why at this moment he did not stop the car to continue observing the object. When I asked him this exact question, he informed me that there were a number of reasons for why he didn’t stop. Firstly there was no hard shoulder and embankments on either side, so there was nowhere safe to pull over. There were other vehicles behind him on the road, and he didn’t want to hold up the traffic, this could have even been dangerous and resulted in a pile up. He had Margaret in the car with him and felt responsible for her safety. Lastly, he felt a little threatened by the presence of the helicopters with armed men on board. He continued driving, thinking about what he had just witnessed. About a mile on there was a lay-by and he was able to pull over. However this was still surrounded by an embankment and he was unable to see the surrounding area. He could just make out the helicopters in the distance still circling. At this point he decided to tell Margaret about what he had seen. Once he was back at the farm and was able to check on his computer he looked at a website which confirmed that there had been no aircraft in the area at the time of the sighting. Obviously due to its appearance he did not think it was not a normal aircraft of any kind, but he decided to check anyway. This also confirmed that the military helicopters he had seen were untracked. He searched online for any planned military activities but could not find anything. The following day he was standing in the courtyard of the farm with Margaret discussing what had taken place. They then heard the sound of rotor blades. Looking up they saw what appeared to be a single helicopter of the same type they had seen the previous day hovering motionless in the sky. It had a disc-shaped device of some kind attached to the front of it. This one was flying at a higher altitude than the others had been, around 300 feet. After a few minutes they watched it fly away into the distance. After their discussion, Simon again checked for aircraft in the area on his computer but once more nothing came up, so the helicopter was again untracked. A number of weeks later he once again brought up the incident with Margaret in discussion. He was amazed to find that she could barely recollect what had taken place. He says that this was not at all like her, and despite her age she could usually remember details of incidents very clearly indeed. But for some reason she had almost entirely forgotten about seeing the helicopters over the road or what he had said about the strange object. Incident Analysis This is a very unusual sighting and Simon clearly witnessed something out of the ordinary. There are of course many questions regarding what took place. What could the object have been? Was the presence of the helicopters directly related to this object? If the object was not mundane, was this a military intercept or a pre-arranged event which they knew was going to occur? Was the helicopter seen the following day over the farm spying on him because its pilots were aware that he was a witness? First let’s discuss the object itself. I did initially wonder whether the object could have been something on the ground rather than in the air, such as a temporary construction, perhaps for a movie set. However Simon confirmed that in the few seconds he observed it for he actually saw it descending. When he first spotted it the base of the sphere could be seen above the trees. Several seconds later this had disappeared from view, and due to the short length of road which he drove along in that time I highly doubt this was due to a change in viewing angle. Therefore I believe unusual buildings, temporary or otherwise, can be discounted as the explanation. It was clearly not a normal aircraft of any kind, civilian or military. No aeroplanes or helicopters look anything like what was witnessed, and Simon also confirmed that there had been no tracked aircraft in the vicinity at the time. 360 Radar confirms that the area does fall within controlled airspace, and does not lie within any airways, which decreases the possibility of the object being an untracked aircraft of some kind: It was much too large to be a radio controlled model, drone or novelty balloon. Could it have been a much larger inflatable object? It had a very specific and unusual structure which tends to put the idea of it being a blimp out of the question. However there is a possibility that it was some kind of novelty hot air balloon just coming in to land behind the copse of trees. Simon said that it certainly appeared to be solid and metallic, however this explanation cannot be entirely ruled out, especially given the unusual shape, colouration and the fact that no extreme flight manoeuvres were observed. It seems likely that the helicopters were military in origin due to their colour, lack of markings and the armed individuals sitting inside them. If the object really was nothing more than a hot air balloon then they would of course have had no interest in it. There is also the individual helicopter of the same type observed the following day by the witnesses in the vicinity of the farm. Was the disc-shaped device attached to the front a listening device, and if so was this helicopter actively monitoring what Simon was saying about the object? They may have been able to find out the address the car was registered at and then approached to listen in to conversations. However if this was the case why wait until the following day to do so, surely they could have determined the address much sooner? Perhaps, like the helicopters over the road, it was merely a coincidence. On 20th April 2023 I raised a Freedom Of Information Request with the Ministry Of Defence to inquire as to whether any military exercises were taking place on either of the two known dates/times. On 17th May they came back with an official response: As you can see, the MOD claims that there were no military exercises taking place in the area which took place in the area at the dates/times provided by the witness . They suggested that the helicopters may instead have come from the civilian helicopter training school or police helicopter base at Wolverhampton Half Penny Green Airport. The fact the helicopters contained armed men means the first of these possibilities can immediately be discounted. Using Wayback Machine, a website which allows you to view previous saved versions of webpages, I checked a 2014 version of the the Aircraft FAQ page of the National Police Air Service (NPAS) website: As you can see, the page confirms that back in 2014 NPAS had a fleet of MD902's, a fleet of Eurocopter EC135's and a single EC145. When privately owned it is possible for these helicopter types to be painted in a range of colours, including black. For example here is a photograph of a black coloured MD902: However the FAQ confirms that all of the NPAS helicopters had the standard police navy and yellow colours back in 2014, so their MD902's would have looked like this: The above checks suggest that the helicopters which the witness observed could not have been civilian or NPAS. It should be noted that although the helicopters appeared to be unmarked, the colours of the UFO itself were somewhat similar to police helicopter colours - mostly dark but with bright yellow sections. This might imply that it was police-owned, but if so I have no idea what it could have been. If the object really was some kind of advanced craft, then it is an extremely unusual one. I have never investigated nor heard of any other cases involving a similar shaped craft. If it was, then the pilots of the helicopters must have been aware of its presence, and were potentially there to ensure that nobody stopped or approached it, or were even actively trying to provide a distraction for passing drivers so they wouldn’t spot it in the first place. It is disappointing that Simon is unable to determine the precise location where the incident took place. He says that this has been extremely frustrating. He visited the area about a year after the incident took place to see if he could track down where it happened, but after driving along all of the main roads between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth he could not find the stretch of road they were on at the time. He tried again in 2020 but again failed to find the location, which confuses him greatly. One thing I feel sure of is that Simon observed something that day. This does not come across as a fabricated story, the details provided are too unusual and specific. This is not the only UFO sighting Simon has experienced. As I stated at the start of the report, there are two other sightings of his which I have previously investigated. The first is a sighting of a disc-shaped UFO in 1978 witnessed by him and his wife at the time. Click here to go to the report on this. The second is a Flying Triangle sighting he witnessed in 2012. To go to the case report on this click here. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 15/10/2012 Last Updated: 20/04/2023 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Sighting Details It was 5.20 pm on the evening of a day in late October 1978. "Simon" and his wife at the time, "Chloe", were travelling home from Stafford after a day at work. They were driving along Eccleshall Road and had just passed through the village of Great Bridgeford. Immediately following the village was a stretch of road lined with trees and with farmer’s fields either side of it. Suddenly ahead of them off to the right of the road they saw a dark disc-shaped object. It appeared to be between 300-350 feet in the air, and was moving very slowly in a a South Westerly direction. At first they assumed it must be a helicopter but then they realised that it had no lights on. Photograph on the stretch of Eccleshall Road where the UFO was first sighted: The witnesses began to drive closer to the object. As they got nearer they realised that it was a very dark pewter colour, and had no visible markings on it or protrusions of any kind. It was roughly 30 feet in diameter, and was only moving at around 10-15  mph. It passed across the road in front of them at an angle of around 45 degrees. Despite the fact that there were other drivers on the road, nobody else seemed to have noticed the object, or did but did not bother stopping. Simon pulled up the car in an open gateway. Aerial map showing the location where the UFO was first spotted (A) and the gateway where the witnesses parked (B): As they got out of the car to continue watching it, the disc suddenly stopped moving. It hung in the air completely silently. Then, without warning, a ring of segmented lights around the circumference of the base of the object appeared. The lights were multi-coloured and included red, green, blue and yellow, possibly other colours. They were flashing on and off in sequence giving the appearance of rotation. Simon does not believe the UFO itself was rotating. After about 15 seconds the UFO started moving again on the same course and at the same speed as before. They continued to watch it until it went out of sight. Simon and his wife continued to watch the object for several minutes until it had gone out of sight. They were both amazed at what they had just seen, and also both felt like the UFO had stopped on their behalf so that they could get a good look at it. Photograph from the gateway in the direction the UFO moved off in: When they got back home, Simon immediately contacted their friend Tony who used to work for BUFORA. They were aware that he had an interest in the subject. They let him know about the sighting and immediately logged it. To Simon’s and my knowledge the report that was written up does not exist on-line anywhere, which is why I have decided to investigate this case. Later on Simon was informed by his brother-in-law that there had been another UFO sighting on the same evening. Someone in Pershaw had seen a very low bright red light at around 6.45 pm, 1 hour and 25 minutes after Simon and Chloe’s sighting. Pershaw is only several miles away from Great Bridgeford. Perhaps this was another sighting of the same object at a greater distance. Sighting Analysis This is a fascinating close encounter with what could well have been a genuine disc-shaped craft of extra-terrestrial origin. The fact that the object was moving on a steady course, then came to a halt in the sky just as the witnesses got out of their car, before continuing on its way, suggests that it was both under direct control and actually observing Simon and Chloe. It was clearly not a conventional aircraft of any kind, and was too large to have been a remote controlled model. The disc shape of the object and the rotating multi-coloured lights which suddenly appeared on it mean it was very unlikely to be a large inflatable object such as a blimp. We can only speculate as to the reason for these lights. It is interesting that they started while the witnesses were looking up at the object. This may suggest that they were putting on some kind of display on purpose. Or perhaps this was merely coincidence, and the lights served some other function. I have investigated other cases where disc-shaped craft with revolving lights around the rim have been observed, including abduction cases. Other than the sudden appearance of the lights, there is no evidence that the witnesses had any direct interaction with the craft or its occupants on this occasion. Due to the striking lighting configuration on the UFO, it is possible that there may have been other witnesses elsewhere who are yet to come forward. This is not the only UFO sighting that Simon has experienced. In 2012 he saw what may have been a Flying Triangle craft while on route to Fradley. Click here to go to the report on this incident. In 2014 he had another sighting of a very unusual shaped UFO and possible helicopter intercept between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth. Click here to read the report on this incident. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 07/05/2023 Last Updated: 10/05/2023 Note: For privacy reasons precise location details have been omitted In late April 2023 elderly gentleman Stephen was asking me some questions about a particular case I’d previously investigated. During our discussion he informed me of a UFO sighting he and his partner Christine had both experienced on the Queens Diamond Jubilee in 2022. I arranged a phone call to go over what took place. Sighting Details 2022 was an important year for the United Kingdom, with Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. As part of the celebrations the RAF’s Battle Of Britain Memorial flight (BBMF) appeared at numerous airshows around the country. The celebrations culminated in a four day bank holiday weekend from 3rd to 6th June. I was informed by the witnesses that around this time the Lancaster flew over Bewdley (probably on it’s way to/from the Midlands Air Festival Display on 3rd and 4th June). However I have checked on Flight Radar 24 around 2pm on 3rd and 4th June and there are no tracks for the Lancaster. This either means that Stephen has the date/time wrong or the Lancaster Bomber is not tracked on Flight Radar 24. I have reached out to the BBMF via E-Mail in an attempt to confirm when it flew over Bewdley. According to Stephen, when it was due to fly over, he and Christine stepped outside the front of their house with a Nikon camera to get a few shots of it. There was nobody else out on the street at the time. It was a very pleasant, clear and still day with only light cloud cover. They both began to look around the sky to see if they could spot the approaching plane. Suddenly Christine noticed an unusual high altitude object coming towards them from the North North West. It was initially at an elevation of 45 degrees and appeared to be around 30000 feet up. The object was a silvery colour and was reflecting the sunlight. However it did not look at all like a high altitude aircraft. It was a circular shape, giving the impression of a flattened disc rather than a sphere. No wings, tail or contrail were visible, and no sound could be heard (although it was of course very high up). Stephen estimated the object was moving at several hundred miles per hour, similar to an aircraft’s speed. If it was at the height it appeared to be he thinks it was about 100 feet across. However he was certain it was not a normal aircraft. He was fascinated by the object, so much so that he completely forgot to lift his camera and attempt to photograph it. He and Christine watched it approach and pass overhead. The object then entered (or was lost from view behind) a small cloud. They waited and sure enough it re-appeared out of the other side. About ten seconds after it had emerged from the cloud it suddenly vanished without trace! They were both amazed, as there were hardly any other clouds in the sky so there was nothing it could have been hidden behind, it was just gone. In total they had watched it for about 2 minutes. Stephen informed me that the fly over of the Lancaster paled into insignificance in relation to the sighting they had just had. He did not even bother taking any photographs of it, they were too busy discussing what had been witnessed! Later in the day they informed one of their neighbours about what they had seen. Christine’s Testimony While chatting with Stephen on the phone I asked if Christine could provide a quick statement on what she remembered seeing. Here is what she said about the incident. "We were basically wandering round the road looking up. We saw this thing appear coming towards us. I asked "Is that a UFO?" It went through a cloud, came out of the other side, carried on ten seconds and then suddenly disappeared. It looked like a silvery blob, roundish shape, certainly not an aeroplane, no wings or a contrail." Sighting Analysis Despite the fact this was a high altitude sighting, and the fact that the object did not perform any advanced manoeuvres, it is still an interesting incident due to a number of other aspects. There are a number of factors pointing away from it being a normal aeroplane/helicopter. At high altitude aircraft can lose their definition, and even sometimes be at such a height that no wings or tail can be made out. However the general shape of them can still usually be seen, for example appearing as a thin white line. However Stephen says he regularly sees aircraft flying overhead coming from RAF Cosford to the North. So he is very familiar with how high altitude aircraft appear. He is certain that this object truly was circular in shape. At the date/time that the witnesses believe the incident took place there were no tracked aircraft (The Lancaster or otherwise), however as previously mentioned it is possible the date/time is different to what was believed. 360 Radar confirms that the area to the North of Bewdley falls within the edge of controlled airspace, lowering the chances of it being an untracked aircraft: Another possibility is that it was an inflatable of some kind, such as a weather balloon. However Stephen believes it was moving too fast for this to be the explanation. It appeared to be on a controlled flight path, although when inflatables are caught in air currents they can travel on a straight line across the sky. That said, it is hard to accurately judge an object's height and therefore speed or size accurately. One aspect that might point away from either of these explanations is that the object suddenly vanished in a clear sky. I asked Stephen whether he thought that it could have been reflecting sunlight, but then moved to an angle where it was no longer doing so, giving the impression that it had disappeared. He does not believe that this would explain what they saw, he says the object was clear enough in the sky to make out the shape and not just a glinting light. Nor does he believe that it merely vanished into the distance. If the object really did suddenly disappear, this of course rules out mundane explanations such as planes or balloons. I have investigated numerous cases where UFOs have been seen to suddenly appear or vanish in a clear sky, tending to support the idea that they either possess advanced stealth technology, or perhaps the ability to move into another dimension at will. Is this what was witnessed by Stephen and Christine? As with many sightings on record it is hard to say for sure, especially without supporting photographic or video evidence. It is a shame that Stephen did not think to try photographing it at the time, although due to the height of the object it is likely it would not have come out particularly well anyway. It’s still good to get this incident down on record, and as many people were no doubt looking up at the sky that day, there may well be other witnesses who have yet to come forward. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: James Brodie Release Date: 28/04/2023 As you will know as an investigator, I am always looking for new sources of information for case studies. Recently I had reached out on social media as I had wanted to further investigate specifically Mantid contactee experiences. I had a number of people reach out to me, but Persephone stood out as someone who came across as genuine and very personable. What followed was a couple of weeks of conversation where I asked some general questions, and each time Persephone was able to give a lot of detail which really stood out from the rest. Persephone agreed to talk about her initial experiences which forms the basis of this case study. This specific case study starts in September 1997 when Persephone was 9 years old. There are some question marks regarding the specific date but given her age at the time that is completely understandable. Persephone resides in Bucks County Pennsylvania USA. It is a mainly suburban area with large houses with wooded areas located close to the farmland. It was a child friendly area with a number of younger families located in the area so you would often hear the sound of children playing in the area. One piece of information worth mentioning is that the area is rich in the history of the civil and revolutionary war with battlegrounds within the area. Persephone described the area that she lived in as an outer circle connected to a main road with a cul-de-sac. Near this area there were 2 roads that had an overgrown wooded area between them. Persephone described that the wooded area had a weird vibe to it that had been remarked on by others who lived in the area, but no other description was given. Photographs of the road Persephone used to live on: As Persephone was at school at the time, the bus driver would typically drop her off close to her home but on this occasion the bus driver dropped her off at the entrance to her neighbourhood which she remembers thinking was unusual at the time. She remembers the sky being very blue with some cloud cover, but otherwise a warm beautiful day. This time of year, was renowned for being very warm but typically as you would approach October, the temperatures would start to drop off. Persephone remembers as she entered the wooded area it was very still. Normally you would expect to hear the sounds of birds and local wildlife, with the sounds of families audible, but there was no sound at all. The time was around 3pm in the afternoon. She looked up at the sky and she suddenly had what she described as a very heavy feeling. She felt she was being followed by something. Persephone is who very interested in British and Irish Folklore, in her mind thought she was being chased by “the Unseelie Court”. It was a 2 min run to her door and she began to run. Crucially not looking behind her because she felt that it if you look behind, it gives power to that which is chasing you. As she started running, she felt there was a jump in time, because suddenly from the point of running she had reached her front door. She started frantically banging the front door but there was no one answering. She continued to bang and very distressed. She said she had a sense of defeat and turned around and sat on the step. When she looked out to the wooded area, she described a red mist or glow from the trees, and she said that she heard what she described as sounds from a battlefield. Suddenly the door opened, and it was her mum. Her mum asked where she had been as she was 45 minutes late. There were also no physical signs of distress on her face. Her mum brought her in as if nothing happened and that was the end of it. A brief description of the family for reference. Her Mother was a devout Catholic and would often refer to it for comfort. Her father was an engineer for nuclear power plants and built them all over the world and was an of the moment type of person who would give short shrift to anything out of the ordinary. Persephone would later describe her house as active which her mum did confirm, but this is something that will be potentially picked up in later conversation. This is where the case study would have ended if it hadn’t had been for February 2023. Persephone heard a podcast from someone who it turns out had had a similar experience and it started to trigger memories of her past experiences. She searched the MUFON therapist list which gave her a contact and for her to follow up with therapy sessions. She was told to start writing details as and when they came to her which started the process of unlocking additional memories. She started to have regression sessions with Fiona Harris who specialises in past life and quantum regression. Part of the therapy process focuses on the inner child and making peace with it. Often in the form of a gift that you give your younger self. In this case her younger self gave her a present in the form of a blue ball floating. This was unusual and remarked as such, but this was the key to unlocking her memories, and through continued regression she has been able to give a very detailed account as to what happened in that 45 min gap. Furthermore, Persephone then told me that there was an incident prior to the time slip and so we went back to that even before revisiting the initial time gap. In this prior event, she estimated that it was potentially a couple of days or weeks prior to the 45 min time slip. She described herself as being on swing by herself at school. She had said that at this time she was being bullied at school (due to, amongst other things, having a stigmatism in her eyes, so she was having to wear very thick corrective glasses) and so was often separate from the children, but there would always be other children and chaperones nearby. She said in this instance she was by herself but suddenly she was aware that there were no other children or chaperones nearby. She was singing to herself and was a fan of Phantom of the Opera and as a gifted child, she had memorised and could sing most of the verses. She was singing when suddenly she became aware that there were people near her. She said she got an impression that there was something behind a nearby building where they had come from, but she couldn’t explain any more than that. A man walked towards her, and she immediately got the impression that he was a teacher. He had what she thought were children standing behind him. However, she couldn’t focus on them as she felt that she was being compelled to focus on the man. She described him as being around 6ft 2” with blonde hair, incandescent blue eyes that were almost illuminous. He was wearing a navy or royal blue jumpsuit with no physical signs of zips or buttons; Persephone described him as if the suit was almost moulded to his body. He had gold letting near his lapel which she described as almost being like a name tag, although it appeared to be made up of geometric symbols that she couldn’t read although one looked like an upside-down triangle. He was pale, slender and had elegant hands. Persephone couldn’t remember anything about his feet, but he wore a silver belt that she had the impression that it did ‘something’. She says she can’t remember him opening his mouth to speak but she could clearly hear his voice. Interestingly she noticed that he spoke with what we would describe as a Queens English British Accent, like that of a British news reader. The being asked her what she was singing. She responded it was Phantom of the Opera and she mentioned the book was better, but she was sad she didn’t end up with Erik (the antagonist of the opera), and he said, “I sing too when I’m lonely.” He went on to say, “That strikes me as being lonely and sad, would you like me to be your friend?”. She said yes, but never felt threatened or scared. She was aware of stranger danger, but she had a feeling that she already knew him. He asked, “Do you want me to take you away from here? Didn’t you want to be an Astronaut when you were younger?” Persephone didn’t question how he knew this, but she hesitated. She responded by saying her Mum would be mad if she skipped school. She said the whole time he was ‘talking to her’ he was leaning down on his knees so that he would have a non-threatening posture. When she said no, he said “Ok, I will come for you another day”. She can’t remember them leaving, or walking away, they literally disappeared, and she can remember something silver behind a building, a flash and then they were gone. Once it was gone; it was as if she realised something weird was going on. She suddenly wanted to be with the other kids. This whole conversation was unlocked as part of the regression session. This account is incredibly interesting. I was impressed with the attention to detail that Persephone was able to offer, but critically she is also consistent in the account that she gives. This is the precursor to the main event which is regarding the events within the time slip. Again, this was unlocked through regression. Persephone is in the wooded area and has begun to run home, she says suddenly she feels paralysed and that she is being taken up into the air. She described the perspective as being at the top of a rollercoaster she as you are coming over the edge looking down at the big drop. There was no feeling of inertia, or her heart was in her chest, it was just that she was up in the air and then everything went black. When she wakes up, she says that she is a room that her child mind calls "The Mezzanine". She says she doesn’t know why she want to refer to it by that name, but it fits. She describes as if she is in a massive office building. She described the office as if you were in the lobby and you looked upwards, you would see multiple levels of office floors either side. She stated that there were at least five floors that she could see, but there may have been more. She remembers it being a huge building to her, but that may have potentially been from a child’s perspective. Persephone described that the building was very busy, and she emphasised that everyone there had a function of some sort. It was a work that very specific that suits the situation. Everyone that was there had a purpose or specific task that they were there to do. The first thing she realises is that she lying completely naked on the table, it is like a doctors light which is above her head almost blinding her and she can’t really see past the light. She is aware that there are smaller grey beings, that aren’t children, and recognised, that these may have been the ‘children’ she had seen in the previous encounter. They were grey big black almond eyes, barely any nose features or mouth. She described them as almost mini medical assistances as they appeared to be performing tasks in the periphery. Her body is almost completely paralysed but she moves her head slightly to look around and notices there is a man completely naked in his fourties, unconscious in a bed close to her, but she looks away out of embarrassment as you would expect a child to. She also feels very groggy, almost out of it. There are areas of the room she can’t see which are blocked off by partitions. From the side of the room which she can’t really see from the light, a creature walks up to her. Originally, she had described him as an astronaut (The classic white suited, mirror helmet NASA image of an astronaut). For years as she had flashbacks and then later as her memories became unlocked, she still visualised him as a man in an astronaut suit. It wasn’t until she went through regression that that original image was replaced by an image of a dark coloured Mantid. She said it wasn’t quite a full Mantis in shape, but that would be the closest approximation to what she had seen. That her younger mind her protected her from an image that had been quite traumatic at the time. Persephone described that every time she has encountered him, he has been brusk, forthright, with no external emotions visible. Always straight to the point with possibly the worst bedside manner. She said that she felt as if she was waking up and he produced a metal instrument which created a pain towards the top of her nose. Persephone would go on to say she wasn’t sure if the instrument was put physically up her nose, but rather in the vicinity of it. She would go on to say this has caused later medical complications with breathing, and that she also developed a phobia around the procedure the Egyptians used to extract the brain out of the nose before the process of mummification. All things considered that would seem to be a sensible aversion given the circumstances. Persephone stated she started to feel a sense of panic raise through her, and she heard the Mantis voice say stay still as this is almost over. There was no discernible accent. One of the small beings reached under her ear, where this currently a mole, (which she showed me on camera) and nodded at the Mantis being who responded that they were done. She was rolled off and shuffled away by the smaller Grey beings. She was taken to another area of the room where they had her clothes. They started to put her clothes back on, but couldn’t work out how to do her stockings, so she had to do that herself. She was scared and freaked out but at the same time she was trying to process what was happening to her. The only things they didn’t give back to her were her shoes, backpack and blazer before moving her out of “The Mezzanine”. They took her to a long walkway where you had all the floors ascending either side, which took her into a central area which had loads of busy beings around her doing their function. She is taken up to a being who is 6 ft 2” wearing a black moulded suit which conforms to his body. He looks very important and is wearing black boots and possibly a highly collared robe of some kind. He had the appearance of someone who is incredibly important and gave her the feeling as such. He had short black hair that was cropped and wore black eyeliner which at the time to a self-proclaimed sheltered child seemed very funny. In follow-on notes that Persephone sent me, she felt that it was the same person from the prior incident and that he had in some way chosen a form that she would find attractive as she got older. She would go on to say that that look or type, would become the go to look as she got older though it was not one, she would’ve thought of as a 9 year old raised in a conservative environment. When she saw his face, it seemed that he was very annoyed. At the time she thought he was annoyed with her, but in hindsight she realised that the being was annoyed with the Mantis being. She went on to call the Mantid ‘The Mentor’ more as a nickname rather than anything more specific. The being said “My name is Demitrius, come with me”. He took her by the arm and took her down the hallway. Persephone begins to freak out and wants to be taken home. Demitrius is speaking to her through his mind, and she realises she can respond in the same way which causes her to become more alarmed. He takes her into a sunken room which has 2 steps down, similar to the American style ranch houses or a sunken room. The floor is soft and padded. There is a large bay window, but it has some sort of metallic shutter which is down, so you can’t look out. On the floor there are 5 beings that look like the other Greys, but they don’t appear to have a face with any discernible features. This really freaks Persephone out. They are sitting in a circle with one empty space. She later said she had the impression they were machines or there as assistants but not actual beings. In between them floating in the air is what Persephone describes as the metal bits of a Kinetic Sculpture. If you are of a certain age, you will recognise this as a popular toy, where you pressed an object against the metal pins, and it would leave an imprint of that object. She went on to describe the object as blue when it came together and would form a sphere, but up to that point it would appear as metallic pieces floating in mid-air prior to having something imprinted onto it. Persephone suggested that the metal didn’t want to form a sphere, but that the group of 5 were having to force it to come together as a sphere. All the five moved as one and as the object was moving around, they would all look at it. Then one of them would force it to become a sphere before moving on to the next being. In each case the being would look to their peer before passing the object, which went back into the centre retaining its original form. Persephone describes herself as being upset wanting to home, but Demitrius says "Stop, pay attention", and as soon as she looked at his face, she felt those feelings of fear leave her body. So she was now focusing. She then describes it as if Demitrius downloads a set of instructions into her head. He tried to explain how the game worked but it was in a block of information that Persephone couldn’t decode. It was a series of pictures in her head whilst at the same time looking at the task was ongoing. She simply couldn’t understand and was confused. Demitrius became frustrated. In follow-on notes, Persephone felt it was very important to add the dialogue she had forgotten during the interview but has in her notes from the regression: He said she had done it before. She said she didn’t understand. He called her Guenevere, to which she protested that wasn’t her name although interestingly she chose it as a confirmation name a few years later. He then seemed almost pleading and said “You don’t know your potential. You don’t remember who you are.” A Grey being approximately 5 ft 5” appeared that she realised had been walking alongside them the whole time. She identified her as being female. The being reaches out to touch Demitrius’s arm and telepathically says the word “Axillia.” (Persephone has no idea what this word means or the context for it but guessed it may be a title or something). From which he steps back and sighs. Persephone felt the sense that the grey being had a matronly vibe to her and she explained how to play the game. She had a kind motherly feeling to her, and however it was that she explained it to her, she then understood what she had to do. (Persephone can’t remember any words being exchanged). Persephone sat down in the empty space in the circle. She understood that she had to telekinetically keep the object together as a sphere but then you have to pass it on to the next person. To do that, you have to give a telepathic knock to let them know you’re handing it over and you must wait for them to fully take it so that the object doesn’t fall apart. She said that the object shattered to the floor in a thousand pieces on multiple occasions as she tried to get the hang of the exercise. Every time that would happen, the grey women would reform the object and start the exercise again. The objective was simply to form the object and hand it over with a telepathic knock and do it as fluidly as the faceless beings in the room, and finally Persephone would get the hang of it. At one point Persephone felt a sense of pride from behind her and looked over at Demitrius and saw that he appeared to have some sort of smile on his face. Persephone felt a preadolescent attraction to Demitrius momentarily as she was receiving praise and attention. The second her heart rate changes, Demitrius’s attention snaps and focuses on her. She goes on to explain that maybe for a moment she caught him in a vulnerable state of something she wasn’t supposed to catch. She gauges two responses. The first one is Demitrius thinking out loud that that is not his function - she said he seemed to be saying this to someone else. The second was that people - or humans - don’t look at him like that. Then suddenly that momentary emotion went blank. She felt she had done something wrong and then Demitrius responds in a low calculating voice, “Do you find me attractive?” The sphere behind her falls apart in the background as she loses control of it, feeling a little embarrassed. She responded yes, although she felt it was a weird question to ask coming from an adult. He responded by saying “Someday I will be something more to you, but for now I am just your friend”. After he said that Persephone said she had a feeling of relief. Persephone then explains there is blank piece of memory before she describes being taken to a flight deck of sorts. It is very dark which she thought was strange as you expect it to be illuminated with instrumentation. There was a chair in front of her with long arms which she describes as being of glass or some form of crystal that came around as almost two half-moons. On the surface of the arm were some golden glyphs which she couldn’t understand. They were either embossed or floating on top of the arms. The chair itself looked like a surprisingly normal black leather chair which Persephone found amusing as she expected it to look grander. Demitrius was explaining that the second glyph on the right was the emergency stop button which you have to remember for when you are flying. Persephone remarked that she couldn’t ever fly because of her astigmatism, which Demitrius found very amusing and was laughing out loud whilst holding onto the chair. She asked why he found that funny and he said you didn’t have to worry about your eyesight as that isn’t how you fly. He was about to explain what that meant when the door behind them opened and the Mantid appeared (The Mentor). The Mentor asked what was Demitrius doing? Demitrius responded that he was doing what he was asked to do by the Mantid and the Mentor said he was wasting time and she had been here for far too long. He walks up with a syringe which appeared to have a yellow solution in it. Persephone began to panic and Demitrius shushed her, captured her gaze with his and said, “It’ll all be right as rain, yeah?” The Mantid being shoots the syringe into her neck and she blacks out. The next thing she wakes up, running home, without any knowledge as to what has happened. From reviewing the experience, the only thing she couldn’t explain was the battlefield noises, and one possible solution for this, is that as part of the contactee experience, she may have psychically linked to her surroundings and there may have been a time slip connecting to previous battles on the site. After the discussion of the experience, Persephone sent me some additional thoughts. Some of those thoughts conclude that she received downloads of information that Demitrius is a teacher of thoughts, designed to teach psychic ability, but that the Mentor was his boss even though Demitrius was a more powerful being. She also had additional thoughts about the power dynamic and that maybe the Mantid was the creator in this environment with the other beings being subservient. Persephone also went on to state that Demitrius smells of cinnamon and in later exchanges there is often a lasting smell of cinnamon after an experience. Conclusion The first thing that becomes obvious very quickly is that Persephone comes across as an intelligent and sincere individual. There was an event which triggered her to look more closely into her experiences. There are different trains of thought regarding regression as there is an argument that often false memories can be implanted or unintentionally introduced. I looked into Fiona Harris and she is a respected individual in this field. Given her provenance within the contactee experiencer field it is highly unlikely that she would risk doing anything that put her career at risk. Furthermore, there is a level of detail which elevates this above the standard experience. Persephone is open and consistent in recalling her experience. There is no attempt to make any form of financial gain from the experience. Having recently worked with other contactees, there are elements which have been recalled that is not out in the public domain. There is so much going on here that I have only scratched the surface and hopefully I will be able to discuss more. I find the dynamic between the species incredibly interesting and that the Mantid may be the creator in this scenario. I believe that Persephone has natural ability and that may have attracted the ETs to make contact to see whether that skill could be tuned. This is very much an ongoing case, but I have been amazed at the level of detail and the plausibility that comes from the report. Given the opportunity I hope I can continue to work with Persephone. Copyright James Brodie 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 14/04/2023 Introduction Bill (William) Whitlock is an 84 year old gentleman from Birmingham. He regularly attends our monthly meetings in Oldbury, and it was during one of these meetings that I learnt about a fascinating UFO sighting he experienced while on active national service back in 1962 when he was 24 years old. At a later meeting I arranged to interview Bill alongside his daughter. The Malayan Emergency (Anti-British National Liberation War) was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya, a set of states in the Malay Peninsula and island of Singapore that were brought under British law in the late 18th to mid-20th century. The war began in 1948, and was between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth. The MNLA fought for independendce for Malaya from the British Empire. After the war officially came to an end in 1960, numerous British troops remained in the area to maintain peace, and Bill was part of one of these troops. Below is a photograph of a case containing the medals which Bill received (The second row - the medals in the first row were recieved by his father who also served in the armed forces): The title at the top of the frame indicates his identification number, and PTE stands for the position he held, Private. Below this is his name, William H. Whitlock. C Coy is the name of the troop he was part of, and below this is his regiment name, the Sherwood Foresters. The two medals Bill received were the Malaysian General Service Medal, and the Malaysian Pingat Jasa, which was given to him by the Malaysian Government. Sadly his original medals were stolen, the two shown in the photograph are replacements which had to be specially ordered. Sighting Details In the summer of 1962 Bill's regiment was stationed at the Far East Training Centre on the Northern edge of Singapore, near to Johor Strait which separates the island from Malaya. They were at the centre for jungle training. The centre was situated on a hill giving a stunning view of Malaya to the North. One evening Bill and his regiment (up to 20 soldiers) were sitting outside in a line on the hillside after a long day of training, facing towards Malaya. Suddenly a silver metallic domed-disc shaped object flew right overhead, brightly reflecting the sunlight! It was immediately noticed by some of the soldiers, who then pointed it out to the others. The object was at an altitude of approximately 1000 feet, and appeared to be quite large in size. Bill estimates it was about 250 feet across, similar to the length of a large commercial airliner. It began to move away from them, first heading over the Johor Strait and then out over the Malayan jungle. It was travelling on a straight and level course at approximately 150-200 mph, and certainly appeared to be under direct control. There was no detectable sound coming from it. Bill and his regiment watched the UFO move away into the distance for about 10 minutes. They were fascinated by it, and as they watched it they discussed what it could be. After the sighting was over, the officers of the regiment actually contacted other nearby camps to inquire as to whether it was anything that had been sent up by them. To Bill's knowledge, none of the other regiment's contacted were able to explain what had been observed. Sighting Analysis This is an incredible sighting of what appears to have been a genuine domed-disc shaped craft. It certainly appears to have been a solid silver-coloured object, so unusual atmospheric phenomena such as lenticular clouds or earth lights can be discounted. Due to their military background, Bill and the many other witnesses would have been very familiar with various types of aircraft in the area, both military and civilian. It certainly impressed the officers of the regiment enough to ring up other nearby camps to confirm nothing unusual had been launched, so it was clearly something out of the ordinary. I asked Bill if it could have been a large inflatable of some kind, but he says that the path it was on was too straight, there was no noticeable drift to it at all. The shape of the object does not fit with it being a blimp, and it was moving too quickly for a drifting object. Given it's appearance and movement, it seems likely that this was an advanced craft, possibly of extra-terrestrial origin. I have investigated many other cases where craft of this appearance have been witnessed, it is of course very much the "classic" flying saucer! It is great that it was witnessed by not just Bill, but also the rest of his regiment. As the UFO disappeared into the distance over the jungle, there is the possibility that it was also witnessed by others from different vantage points. Unfortunately Bill has not kept in touch with any of his old regiment. Searching for the incident online has not come back with anything, so at present I am unable to speak with any of the other witnesses, but welcome the opportunity should it arise. The sighting made a lasting impression on Bill, and decades on he still clearly remembers what he and his regiment witnessed. His genuine excitement in sharing the details with me was wonderful to see. I am extremely grateful that he has come forward to share this information and get this stunning sighting down on record. If you have any information relating to what was seen, please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 30/03/2023 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In early March 2023 I was contacted by phone by a man from Belbroughton named “Bill” who had recently had a stunning sighting of a triangular shaped UFO which flew over his house. I got the word out on Facebook but nobody else reported seeing the object (at least so far). This report documents the sighting in depth. Sighting Details Bill lives on Yew Tree Avenue, on the outskirts of the Clent Hills. On the evening of Wednesday 1st March 2023 he was sitting in the living room watching TV with his carer and ex-partner “Natalie”. It was around 8 pm and fully dark outside. The front window curtains of the room were not drawn, providing a view of the sky to the North North East over the tall hedgerow on the opposite side of the road. He happened to glance out of the window and immediately noticed several white lights in a triangular formation moving towards the property. He listened but was amazed to hear no sound. He asked Natalie “What’s that over there?” She looked out of the window too and upon seeing the lights simply replied “I don’t know.” Bill replied “I’ve got to see!” and leapt up out his chair. As he headed to the front door, and realising the lights might be something unusual, he called out to Natalie asking her to go and grab his phone, which unfortunately was in the kitchen at the time. He then opened the door and headed outside onto the drive. He could now see the object more clearly. It was a clearly defined equilateral triangle with a brightly glowing orange light at each corner. It was a clear evening, and the main body of the object could be seen silhouetted against the sky beyond. The UFO appeared to be no higher up than 1000 feet, and about the size of a fighter jet (approximately 50 feet across). It was moving no faster than 150 knots (172 mph), about the speed that a helicopter would fly at. As it got closer Bill began to hear a strange electrical crackling sound clearly coming from the object. The main body of the object looked reflective black in colour, with no visible markings or windows. The orange lights were not quite at each corner point but in a little bit on the underside of the object. Bill observed it approach for about 30 seconds. He wasn’t frightened of it, but was instead fascinated and mesmerised. As it passed nearly overhead he noticed that the base of the object appeared to be split into criss-cross sections. There was also a strange shimmering distortion spreading across the base. This distortion looked similar to a heat mirage which can sometimes be seen above a road surface on a hot day. The object flew past just off to his left, and over the roof of the neighbouring cottage. It vanished from sight over the roof due to the angle. Bill went back inside and ran through the house to the back garden. As he did he met Natalie who was in the process of getting his phone. Sadly by the time Bill had headed back outside the object was nowhere to be seen. He assumed it must have continued on a straight course and disappeared from sight over the woodland directly behind Yew Tree Lane to the South South West. Bill says that the following day he looked online to see if anyone else had reported seeing it (as if it had kept going on a straight path it would have flown right over Belbroughton), but found nothing. However he did find some older reports on the so called “Dudley Dorito” (a nickname given by the newspapers to one or more triangular UFOs seen and reported over the area of Dudley in recent years). Natalie’s Statement Although Natalie did not step outside, she still observed the UFO through the living room window for a number of seconds. She was more than happy to speak with me on the phone about the incident and provided the following testimonial statement: “Bill’s chair faces the window. He said what’s that over there? It was like a massive triangle with lights on each point. Could have been 100 foot. Was quite big, wasn’t too quick. Even though it was dark because of the lights could make out the shape. It was weird, and silent as well. I heard a helicopter afterwards. It was a clear sighting. It’s freaked me out now, if I’m outside and I hear any aircraft. The lights weren’t flashing, just an orange colour. It was quite big…sizeable. I could see it was black in colour. Even though it’s dark ‘cause there’s no light pollution I could see it blocking out the stars.” Sighting Analysis This appears to be a rather impressive multiple witness sighting of what is known as a Flying Triangle, one of the more commonly observed types of UFO. Regarding the authenticity of the witnesses, I have no issue with this. They both came across as extremely believable. Bill stated that he was rather sceptical of the subject up to this point, but this sighting had caused to view it in a whole new light. Natalie appeared genuinely spooked by what had happened. It was clear that this was a single large object with numerous lights on it instead of three smaller/distant objects flying in formation. Both Bill and Natalie confirmed that they could see the body of the object blocking out the night sky. Bill even mentioned the fact that he was certain it was actually black in colour, rather than it just being in shadow. This seems to put out of the question that the UFO was a formation of high altitude aircraft, Chinese lanterns/lit inflatables or distant drones. Bill informed me that he has an interest in aviation. He also said that he loves looking at the night sky, so is very familiar with how various types of aircraft look after dark. He is also familiar with how jet engines and propellers sound like. He is absolutely convinced that this was not a normal civilian or military aircraft of any kind. He said that when he initially saw it he thought it was a top secret aircraft and “the next evolution of stealth”, but that “nothing can fly that silent”. Checking Flight Radar 24 it can be seen that there were no tracked aircraft in the vicinity at that date and time: 360 Radar confirms that the area does not lie within an airway (usual flight route for aircraft): It also shows that the area does fall within controlled airspace, making it much less likely that the object was an untracked privately-flown aircraft: The lighting seen on the object does not correspond to normal aircraft navigation lights at all. These are usually a mix of white static, white strobing, red and green, not orange as reported. The object was much too large to be a drone, and again these usually have white, red or green lights on them. A large lit triangular inflatable seems unlikely, why would such an object be built and flown after dark in the first place? Bill stated that it definitely looked like it was flying on a controlled path, there was no noticeable drifting or rotation as it approached. There are also the matters of the unusual electrical sound the object was making, and the distortion seen on its underside as it passed over. Neither of these aspects would fit with any of the mundane explanations described above. Despite the fact that the object did not perform any particularly advanced manoeuvres, I feel it is likely that this was a genuine sighting of a Flying Triangle craft. This is one of the more commonly reported types of craft. They are almost always black/dark in colour and often have a light at each corner as described (although sometimes other lights are also seen). Whether the craft was human in origin or not is going to be down to your personal opinion. The witnesses did not observe any occupants on this occasion. That said I have investigated many cases where these objects have performed much more extreme manoeuvres and also been involved in contact cases. I have also investigated many that have taken place over city centres. If Flying Triangles really are all top secret military craft, then why would they be regularly flown over populated areas in clear sight? I would like to thank Bill and Natalie for coming forward with the details of this impressive sighting. If you have any further information regarding it please do get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 14/03/2023 In January 2023 I spoke with a lady named Nina Scott via Facebook Messenger about a couple of sightings from earlier in her life which she wanted to get down on record. This report covers the more recent of these sightings. There is a link to her childhood sighting at the base of it. Sighting Details In August 2015 Nina went on holiday with her ex-husband and their two daughters to St Brides Bay in Pembrokeshire. They stayed at a holiday cottage in a hamlet known as Carreg Mabws, South of the village of Mathry. The area is very rural, and the cottage is surrounded in farmer’s fields. At the back of the property is a small garden with shrubbery at the far end, beyond which is an open field which slopes gradually upward. It was the penultimate night of their holiday (a Thursday). Nina happened to wake up about 1 am. She decided to get up out of bed and go to use the bathroom. She stepped out of the bedroom onto the landing. Above the stairwell is a tall window which gives a view of the surrounding area to the West. As she walked along the landing she happened to glance out of this window. Near the far end of the neighbouring field, about 800 feet away from her location, she saw what appeared to be a huge glowing circle/sphere of amber-coloured light. Within this she could see three smaller orbs of even brighter light. It seemed to be hovering a good height above the ridge of the hill, and seemed to be about the size of a double decker bus. Immediately she thought to herself “Shit! What the hell is that?” For a brief moment she thought it might be the full moon low down in the sky, but realised it was too large and close to be this. She stared at the object, puzzled by its appearance. It was completely static and she could not hear any sound coming from it. She did not call out to wake her ex-husband up as she thought he may want to leave the cottage and get closer to whatever it was, and she instinctively felt this would not be a good idea. After two minutes she had to go to use the bathroom. When she returned a minute later the glowing sphere was no longer visible. Nina felt extremely un-nerved by what she had just witnessed. She got back into bed and pulled the covers up and over her head, and settled back down to sleep. In the morning Nina informed her ex-husband about what she had seen and why she had not woken him up. He informed her that at some point during the night he too had awoken to find the room he was in flooded in bright light! In a semi-awakened state he thought to himself that it could not have been moonlight as it was a cloudy night, and it could not have been a nearby helicopter as there was no sound. After hearing the story Nina was secretly pleased that it was the last day of their holiday as she felt nervous about staying any further nights in the cottage. Once she was back home she E-Mailed BUFORA to inform them about the sighting. A couple of weeks later BUFORA responded via E-Mail and stated that there had been a couple of other sightings of a very similar object in the vicinity prior to the night of her sighting. Unfortunately Nina was unable to locate the response E-Mail for inclusion in this report. Sighting Analysis This is an intriguing sighting with some odd aspects to it. One possible explanation which can be ruled out is that the object was the full moon low in the sky. When near the horizon the moon can of course sometimes appear orane in colour. However Nina has informed me that she checked an online Lunar Calendar and confirmed that it had not been a full moon that night. Below is a link to the calendar: https://www.calendar-uk.co.uk/lunar-calendar/august/2015/?fbclid=IwAR2yIWhOySJPFmiUXosnZndqksOC_VeCLGQd4Mg65k2hmV0r44Z9GSHMbsc Nina is certain that they stayed at the cottage either the first or second week of August, and that the incident took place on a Thursday. As you can see this would have meant that the moon was either a half-moon or thin crescent, so could not have been responsible for what was seen. I asked Nina if it could have been a very bright light attached to a vehicle or some farm machinery near the top of the field. There is a road that runs along the ridge, but the object seemed to have sharply defined edges, and was too large in size to be caused by headlights. If it was a bright light (or multiple lights merging into one) attached to farm machinery of some kind then it seems odd that it would be left on to that time of morning, and I am unaware of any machinery which would have such a light/lights. If it was an actual glowing spherical shaped object with other lights either on or within it, what could it have been? 360 Radar confirms that the area does fall within an airway, meaning that commercial jets do fly over the vicinity: However it was stationary for a couple of minutes. Even if it had been travelling towards her location, which might have initially given the appearance of being motionless, it is likely some movement would have been seen in that time period. It did not have the appearance of a helicopter hovering at low altitude. No normal navigation lights were observed, and at the distance it was the sound of rotor blades would likely have been heard. And it seemed too large and the wrong shape to be a drone or other radio controlled model. A large lit inflatable or a landed hot air balloon lit by the flame at the base seem unlikely, why would someone be flying such an object at that time of morning? Besides which a hot air balloon on the ground or taking off would not have this appearance. The glow from the flame would only be intermittent not constant, and would very much be at the base, with the silhouette of the balloon seen above. Some aspects of the sighting would fit with it being an earth light. These are quite rare, but are usually seen over rural areas. They are circular in shape and last for a short period of time before fading away. However the object sounds too large in size to have been this, and also had the other smaller distinct orbs within it, rather than being uniform in colour. The light which was seen by Nina’s ex-husband could not have come from the object, as the bedroom he was sleeping in was on the other side of the cottage so the window was not facing the same direction as the one on the landing. So this appears to be unrelated. Although some contact experiences can start with a glowing white light flooding the room, there are no other indications that such an experience took place, although due to the missing time phenomenon this cannot be fully ruled out. It cannot be confirmed beyond doubt that the glowing sphere seen by Nina was an actual solid object and not just an extremely vivid light which appeared to be spherical in shape. It did not perform any manoeuvres and was relatively close to the ground, so it is hard to say for sure whether it was something airborne or not, although to Nina it certainly appeared to be. Due to the number of unresolved questions it remains a perplexing mystery, at least for now. As mentioned, Nina had another very different sighting back in her childhood. Click here to go to the separate case report. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Release Date: 14/03/2023 Author: Dave Hodrien In January 2023 I was contacted by a lady named Nina Scott via Facebook messenger. She wanted to discuss a couple of sightings she had experienced previously in her life. This report documents the first of these sightings, which took place in Olton, Birmingham. Sighting Details The incident happened on a bright and sunny afternoon in the summer of either 1979 or 1980 when Nina was 8 or 9 years old. At the time her mother worked at Olton Hollow, a line of shops which leads to the edge of Acocks Green. She and her mother had been doing some shopping in the area, and were now walking South East along Warwick Road towards where they lived. Nina happened to look up into the sky and noticed a number of unusual objects. At a sharp angle of about 70 degrees, there were 7 identical looking disc-shaped objects lined up in a row. Each one was reflective silver in colour and cigar-shaped (at least from the angle they were viewing them). They appeared to be at very high altitude and were completely static. There was only wispy cloud at the time so they could be seen quite clearly. She pointed the objects out to her mother, and they both started to glance at them as they continued walking up Warwick Road. The objects certainly looked unusual and Nina is certain that they were solid objects in the sky, and were not a formation of aeroplanes or helicopters. After watching them on and off for a number of minutes the objects were hidden from view behind a cloud. After the cloud passed by the witnesses expected the UFOs to still be present by they had vanished without trace. Nina says that the memories of the incident have remained with her for over 40 years. It certainly seems to have made a lasting impression. Sighting Analysis This is an intriguing sighting due to the appearance and positioning of the objects. It seems improbable that they were an optical illusion in the sky caused by reflection of sunlight. The incident happened decades before drones were commercially available, so this cannot have been the explanation. The sighting location is only two miles from Birmingham International Airport as shown on the below image. Although distant planes at high altitude can sometimes appear as reflective cigar-shaped objects, and numerous planes could be have been flown in the formation observed, Nina is convinced that the UFOs were static in the sky as they walked up the road, meaning that this could not have been the explanation. It would be less conceivable for distant helicopters to have the appearance of cigars, but not impossible. And perhaps coincidentally this formation decided to move off in the same direction as the cloud at precicely the same moment and speed, giving the appearance that they had vanished, although you may feel the odds of this are quite low. As the airport is situated North East of the sighting location, if a formation of helicopters had come from there, the witnesses would have been viewing them from a side on perspective. That said, despite the proximity of the airport 360 Radar confirms that the area does not lie within an airway (recognised route which aircraft follow): However it does unsurisingly confirm that the area does fall within controlled airspace, making it unlikely for the objects to have been privately flown aircraft: If they were not aeroplanes, helicopters or drones what else could they have been? It’s unlikely that identical blimps would be flown in such large numbers one after the other. However a launch of a number of novelty balloons could conceivably take place. If caught in an air current these balloons could line up. Maybe from certain angles the objects were less reflective, and so were still present in the sky, but appeared to have vanished as the witnesses walked up the road and their angle of view shifted. However you would also expect them to rotate rather than all be positioned horizontally. Also some movement via natural drift, even if quite slow, would still be expected. That said, this was quite a distant sighting, and the objects did not perform any manoeuvres which would indicate intelligence. Due to the distance of the sighting, and apparent lack of movement, there are a number of possible mundane explanations that cannot be entirely ruled out. That said, neither can they be confirmed, so this sighting will likely remain a mystery. As mentioned at the start of this report, Nina has had a second sighting much later in her life. To read the report on this incident click here Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 14/02/2023 Last Updated: 27/02/2023 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In January 2023 I was contacted by a man from Yardley Wood, Birmingham who I shall name “Lewis”. He informed me that since early 2022 he had experienced a number of incidents involving beings and other phenomena. He also informed me that he had set up IR cameras on the outside of his house, and some of the incidents had intriguing video evidence to support them. This report details each of these experiences in depth and includes video analysis where relevant. Grey Visitation & Remote Viewing On the evening of 11th February 2022 Lewis had a few drinks with his wife “Helen”. They went to bed like normal about 10.30pm. During the night he suddenly awoke for an unknown reason. He was lying on his right side, with Helen facing the other way alongside him. He was fully covered in the duvet, which he said was unusual. He informed me that on the odd occasion when he is alone he tends to sleep like this as he gets frightened, but not when Helen is also present in the room. There appeared to be glowing light in the room, which he could see shining through the bed covers. He seemed to be completely paralyzed and there was also an intense feeling that there was something else in the room. Lewis thinks he called out to wake Helen up but she did not respond. This seemed to go on for about 30 seconds. Then suddenly there was two very bright flashes of light, two seconds apart from one another. The first flash was bright white. But the second was more red in colour. As it occurred, he saw the image of three silhouetted Grey beings standing in thge light. They were short, with large egg-shaped heads and slender bodies. The central one was standing a little closer and reaching out towards him with an outstretched hand. In the vision the beings seemed to be standing several metres away from him. Upon seeing them he jumped in panic. He immediately found himself lying in the darkness of the room covered in sweat. The bed covers were no longer over his head, but he could still not move. He was understandably extremely frightened of what was taking place. He looked at the clock and found that it was 1.05 am. He lay there for what appeared to be about five minutes. After this the paralysis seemed to subside and he found he could move again. He rolled over onto his left side and dropped off to sleep. In the morning he didn’t mention what had happened to Helen, as he thought she’d just put it down to a dream based on his interests in the subject. However the infra-red camera on the front wall of the house had been on during the night, so he decided to check it to see if anything unusual was caught. Below is the camera footage from 1.00 am to 1.16 am: At 1.00.42 am a car drives past with its headlights on: This results in the bright security light of the house on the opposite side of the road briefly coming on: While this could be interpreted as being responsible for the two flashes Lewis saw, this does not really make sense as they were not bright enough to light up the room in this manner. Also, even though the car driving past was brief and could be interpreted as a flash, the security light remained on for 6 seconds. At 1.04.38 am a curved shape very briefly appears lower down on the camera and then a moment later seems to move downward extremely fast and vanish: Still of the object ringed in red: Lewis interprets this as a triangular object over the house reflected in the parked car windscreen, but I am not so certain. The entire footage has all sorts of small moving shapes which appear and vanish. These are going to be down to a mix of insects, airborne debris and cobwebs on the lens getting caught in the camera light. The shape which appears at this point of the footage is no more detailed than anything else which appears, and certainly not detailed enough to confirm as a reflection of an object in the car windscreen. In addition to the UFO subject, Lewis also has an interest in remote viewing and fully believes in its reality. On 24th March he decided to post on a remote viewing Facebook group page asking for someone to do a remote view on what had taken place back in February. As a target for the remote view he used a night time photograph of the front of his house: This target image was obviously not given to the remote viewer prior to the reading. A lady got back to him almost immediately and said she’d be happy to give it a go. Soon afterwards she provided him with the following drawings and associated details: 1. “Not the US” 2. “Lots of shades of grey and black” 3. “Somehow these all fit together in my head. That’s all I’ve got from but it, I feel like you had some type of spirit activity also and I don’t have any idea how to draw it” 4. “I feel like there’s also cards flipping but I know if that’s me projecting to get a reading or not” Regarding the pictures, Lewis says that there are trees outside of his house which are bare of leaves in February. He is intrigued by the rippling lines and wonders if they relate to a craft positioned over the house during the experience. Lewis believes the third drawing relates to his house, which does have a jutted out roof just as she has drawn. He wonders if the stick figure standing on the bush/cloud relates to one of the Grey beings which he saw. Regarding the written points, she was obviously right regarding point 1 as the experience happened in the UK, although it is possible that she may have inferred this from the fact that Lewis himself was not American. Lewis wonders if the shades of grey and black which she mentions in point 2 relates to the black and white CCTV footage he examined the following day. He is also intrigued by the spirit activity comment in point 3. Fascinated by her responses, on 30th March Lewis got the lady to do a second remote viewing. This time the target image he used was a photograph of his bedroom window from inside of the room: Again the lady came back with numerous drawings and points: “The first part is an interior wall. The window is the most significant part in my head. That’s I was drawn to but I saw most of a wall” “I’m guessing the hedges are seen from the window but again I’m not sure on the why” “Oh and the color red somehow fits” The similarities between the target image and what the lady drew are clear to see. She’s first drawn a window from an inside perspective. And she’s also drawn a potted plant on a piece of furniture with legs, of which there were numerous in the photograph. It is possible to see bushes in the local vicinity from the window. The remote viewings performed on targets related to Lewis’s experience are interesting and there are clearly some links. In both viewings the images drawn clearly have close themes to the target images, which is somewhat impressive. However neither reading reveals much about what may have taken place. Regarding the incident itself, it is intriguing, although does have some of the hallmarks of a sleep paralysis experience. When experiencing paralysis people often report feelings of dread, the sense of a presence in the room, the inability to shout out, unusual light anomalies and a gradual return to normality. As Lewis already had an interest in the contact phenomenon when the incident occurred, it is possible that his brain linked what was happening with contact causing him to see the Grey silhouettes as part of the experience. The beings were clearly not standing alongside the bed in the room itself, they were only seen briefly during the second flash of light. This all said, an unusual visitation cannot be entirely ruled out. Contact through Meditation? In January 2022 Lewis decided to start regular meditation sessions to relax his mind. He had never tried meditation before but was intrigued by it. He also read online that it was sometimes possible to reach out and achieve contact with alien beings. With an interest in the subject, this was a prospect that fascinated him. He began to meditate a couple of times a week for up to half an hour each time. On 19th March he was 9 minutes into a timed meditation session when he decided to “reach out” to see if any other intelligences were present. Suddenly the detailed image of a Grey appeared in his mind. It was only half visible, its left side hidden in shadow. Its eyes were deep and fully black. Strangely, it had some kind of fleshy muzzle over the lower half of its face, covering the mouth. Lewis was shocked at the sudden appearance of the being, as he had never had any detailed visions like this before. It did not appear to directly communicate with him in any way. A minute later the alarm clock he had set went off and he snapped out of his meditative state. While it cannot be ruled out that this was an actual contact experience, the fact that Lewis was meditating at the time increases the chances that it was just a vision in his mind brought on by his interest in the subject and willingness for something to respond to his request. A Second Visitation Later in the same month, on 21st March, Lewis had another unusual visitation experience during the night. It started extremely similar to the first, with him suddenly waking with the feeling of something in the room. Once again he was under the duvet lying on his right side, with light visible coming through the material. But this time he could also feel something walking about on top of the covers. In his mind he reached out and grabbed whatever it was by the wrist and neck and pinned it against the bedroom wall. Even though he could not see it due to the darkness he felt sure it was a Grey. As he held it against the wall he screamed out for his wife. Like before he suddenly opened his eyes and found there was no being there in the room. However his arms were still outstretched like they had been grabbing hold of something. He was paralyzed and lying down in his bed, absolutely terrified. Helen was fast asleep so clearly he had not been calling out for her, or he had but she was unable to hear him. After a number of minutes the paralysis went away. This time it was approximately 2 am. Again the surreal elements of this incident lead me to believe that it might possibly be sleep paralysis rather than an actual contact experience. There are some definite cross overs which always need to be taken into consideration. Later on Lewis once again checked the infra-red camera footage from the night. At 2.00.03 am a blurred object appears for a single frame of the footage. It is positioned at the top left of the car windscreen: Enhanced and zoomed still showing the unidentified shape: Lewis says that there were a number of insects seen crossing the lens but these remained visible for multiple frames, making the unusual shape stand out. He wonders if it was the reflection of something, but again I feel it is far more likely to be an insect or airborne debris briefly caught in the camera. The Golden Sphere Over the weekend of 26th-27th March Lewis had a couple of bad night’s sleep with vivid nightmares that included alien beings. This led to him being extremely anxious at work on the Monday. He decided to ask one of his friends about what to do to do. His friend advised him to create a mental boundary before going to sleep, mentally telling the beings that they are not welcome. That evening he and Helen went to sleep about 10.30 pm. He still felt extremely nervous of what might happen, so found it extremely hard to drop off. He lay there on his right side and seemed to slip into a trance like state. At this moment it suddenly felt like he was sinking into a vat of fluid filled with bubbles. Remembering what his friend had said earlier, he immediately said in his mind “No I don’t want this!” Immediately he snapped out of the trance-like state. He rolled over in bed and settled back down. After a short while he once more seemed to slip back into this state. However this time he saw a fiery golden coloured sphere surrounded in several interlocking rings which were revolving around it! After a moment, strange language-like symbols began to appear around its edges and fly towards him. Some of the symbols were clearer than others, and one in particular kept repeating. As he read these symbols a sense of calm washed over him and he felt at peace rather than frightened. As quickly as it had appeared, the fiery sphere and symbols all vanished. In that moment some thoughts came to his mind extremely clearly: - Positive emotions, such as hope, joy, pride etc. are high energy / frequency - Negative emotions, such as fear, anger, hatred etc. are low energy / frequency - That he was on a ‘journey’ of some sort After this he dropped off to sleep. In the morning he sketched the symbol that had repeated itself the most. For a period of time after this experience he slept much sounder and no longer had the fear he was initially feeling. He says that from this point he continued to have vivid dreams but the nature of them changed, they became more explorative rather than frightening. Later in the year Lewis posted the sketch of the symbol he’d done on an internet forum to see if anyone could help identify it or explain what it means. In response to this someone posted a painting of two Grey beings wearing dresses. Each of the dresses had a symbol imprinted on it, and one of these two symbols looked quite similar (although not identical) to what he had seen turned on its side: This is quite an interesting experience, and I do wonder if it was an information download of some kind. If so this would clearly indicate that Lewis is experiencing contact, which adds weight to his previous encounters. However due to the fact that he has extremely vivid dreams, and that he was in a trance-like state at the time, it is possible that this was merely something his brain concocted as opposed to something which was definitely being shown to him intentionally. The similarity of the drawn symbol to that from the painting, and its obvious links with the subject, are interesting, although as you can see the two are not identical to one another, so this similarity could be just coincidental. Conclusion Looking at Lewis’s experiences from a measured perspective, it is hard to confirm one way or the other whether he is experiencing contact or not. Clearly he has had numerous experiences where Greys and other fascinating visions have been seen, however there are also signs that during these encounters he may well have been experiencing sleep paralysis, or seen things while under an induced or involuntary meditative state. His fascination with contact prior to the incidents could have resulted in these experiences incorporating elements of the subject. The remote viewing sessions linked with the first incident are intriguing but offer very few answers, and I do not feel that anything has been captured on CCTV which cannot be explained as insects, cobwebs or dust particles. I have seen plenty of extremely similar pieces of footage before. This all said, there is still the possibility that Lewis has experienced contact. These beings often manifest in very unusual ways, and there are many aspects of the subject which are esoteric in nature. It is important not to fully dismiss things without being absolutely certain. I would like to thank Lewis for passing on this information and hope that he keeps in touch if anything else should occur going forward. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2023