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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 17/12/2019 Helicopter Intercept In his twenties Rob would regulary go fishing with Mick on the pier at Helensburgh, 10 miles from Dumbarton. They would often stay up the whole night fishing for cod and then travel home in the morning. On a Saturday evening in November 1988 they caught the train to Helensburgh with the intention of fishing till the following morning. They got there around 5pm. There were lots of other people around on the pier at that time but as the evening went on there were less and less around until it was just them standing in the darkness. They had warm clothes and a bottle of Whiskey to see them through the night. It was overcast with low lying cloud cover but quite still. Behind them at the edge of the town Rob heard the familiar sound of taxis leaving the nearby taxi rank. This meant that the pubs had closed and it was about midnight. He then began to hear a regular ticking noise in the distance. He moved his head around and worked out that the sound was coming from the direction of Rhu along the coastline to the North West. The noise began to get louder. Rob then realised what it was. He said to Mick “Do you know what that is? That’s a helicopter! It’s actually coming down the water’s edge.” They then caught sight of it in the distance against the base of the cloud layer which was reflecting the lights of Helensburgh. They soon noticed that there were no navigation lights visible on it, it appeared to be flying dark. As it got closer they realised it was a military helicopter and that it was flying at full speed, with its nose dipped down towards the ground. Rob exclaimed “This thing’s coming directly towards us! If he doesn’t elevate soon he’s going to crash straight into this pier!” As soon as he had said this it started to gain altitude. It was now only about a hundred feet away from them along the beach. As it got close to the pier both Rob and Mick looked up to watch it fly overehead. It was now that they noticed a disc-shaped object in the sky directly over them! It looked completely black silhouetted against the cloud. It appeared to be about 300 feet above them and about 12 feet in diameter. The disc remained motionless for several seconds but then suddenly began moving away from them to the South West. As it began to head out across the estuary it picked up speed until it was going a little faster than the helicopter was flying at (Rob estimates about 50mph faster). They watched as the helicopter turned, clearly giving chase to the object. Both the disc and the helicopter flew off into the distance in the direction of Greenock. After seeing the UFO both Rob and Mick became very un-easy and felt a little vulnerable in their current location. They decided to reel their fishing rods in and head into the town. However it was now 12.30am and all the trains and buses to Dumbarton had stopped running. At the Co-Op on Sinclair Street they found a loading bay for delivery trucks and decided to rest there for the remainder of the night until morning. This felt preferable to remaining on the pier, despite the fact that they had nothing to do to pass the time, which highlights how uncomfortable they were feeling with the situation. In the morning when the trains finally began to run again they caught an early one back home. Caravan Nightmare Further along the coastline North West of Rhu is Gare Loch. The A814 runs along the Northern edge of the Loch. The road is usually very quiet as the only people who tend to use it are MOD staff on the way to Fastlane submarine base which is situated at the North West end of the Loch or residents of the sporadic properties in the area. A third of the way along the edge of the Loch is a gradually sloping hill which leads to Blairvadach stately home. This is used by the Council Office Planning Department. Part of the grounds of the estate were used for camping, and Mick’s dad Jimmy owned a caravan there. When he wasn’t using it himself, Jimmy would let Mick, his brother Raymond and Rob stay in it overnight. They would regularly take a boat out from Blairvadach Outdoor Education Centre, go out fishing on the loch in the day and then return to the caravan for the evening. One weekend they were out fishing when it begin to spit with a light rain. They decided to call it a day before the rain got any heavier. They tied up the boat at the boating centre and walked across the road to the caravan field. On arrival they put some music on and sat down for a relaxing evening with a few drinks. The main window end window of the van faced in a North Westerly direction with a view of part of the field including the six foot high hedge that separated it from the A814. There were also two smaller side windows. The curtains of the right side window were closed but the main window and left side window were uncovered. It was between 11pm-midnight and very dark outside. However it was possible to see the road due to the occasional street lights along it and the lights from the nearby Outdoor Education Centre. Looking out of the main window, Raymond suddenly remarked “Look at this guy here!” He drew Rob’s attention to a figure in the distance on the opposite side of the hedge. The figure appeared to be slowly heading in their direction and on the path alongside the edge of the road. But something wasn’t right. The figure seemed to be much too tall. It was possible to see them down to their waistline. But the hedge itself was 6 foot high, and was also at an elevated height of several feet from the road, so this meant that the figure would have to be about 15 foot in height. Rob’s immediate thought was that it must be someone hanging out of the top of a sunroof of a car which for one reason or another was travelling on the pavement instead of the road, and was out of sight behind the hedge. This was the only way he could rationalise what he was seeing. He looked down to the base of the hedge to see if there were any car lights visible but there was just darkness. The figure got closer and closer, moving at a constant speed. They got to about 25 feet away from the caravan. It was now possible to see features. The figure was wearing a black outfit. Its face was grey coloured, almost sickly looking. Its eyes were dark, almost like they were sunken into the head. Rob realised in that instant that he recognised this figure. It was the same being that had touched him on the shoulder back in 1971! He turned to Raymond and said “That’s the guy from Househillmuir Road!” He, Raymond and Mick stared out at the being as it continued along the path. There was no motion of movement in its upper body, it was as though it was drifting along at a constant speed rather than physically walking. Rob recalled that the being he had seen back in 1971 was about 5 feet in height. If this was indeed the same being then it must have been 10 feet off the ground to be able to see it as they were. This meant that it was either standing on something out of sight behind the hedge, or as Rob suspected was floating in mid-air. The being continued moving along the path. It went out of sight from the main window of the caravan. Rob, Raymond and Mick continued to watch it though the left side window. It was now only about 10 feet away from the van. As it was in alignment with them its head turned very slowly until it was looking right at them. Rob says the way that it did this was so eerie. It did not stop but continued until it was out of sight. The three witnesses began to discuss what they had just seen. Then without warning the caravan started to shake! There were loud thudding sounds like something was banging against it. With the thudding came a high pitched screaming sound which was horrifying to listen to. Rob, Raymond and Mick soon realised that the sounds and banging were coming from the right side of the van. Raymond slowly walked towards the right side window and pulled back the curtain. They were all shocked at what they saw. There was the face of a sheep pushed up against the glass! The sheep was terrified and letting out the screaming sounds. The thuds were its legs bashing against the outside of the van. The window was at least four feet off the ground. Something was lifting the sheep up into the air and pressing it forcefully against the window. Raymond backed away from the window in horror and the curtain fell back down. Immediately the banging and screaming sounds ceased. They never re-opened the curtain to see whether it was still there. All three witnesses were deeply un-nerved about what had just taken place. But Mick was especially affected by the series of events that had unfolded. He began briskly looking through all the cupboards of the caravan until he found some blue coloured rope. He then started to tie the latches of the door and all of the windows closed. By the time he had finished there was rope crossing the van like a spider web. He was clearly in a panicked state and wanted to make sure that the being did not come into the van. When he had finally finished and was happy everything was locked down he went and sat underneath the table. All three of them stayed awake all night. They were so frightened about what had happened that none of them got any sleep. They spent most of it discussing what had taken place. Around 6am when the morning light started to appear they discussed what to do. They were still nervous about going outside but decided it was time to get out of there. They untied the rope from the caravan door and all left together. There was no sign of the sheep outside. Usually they would catch a bus back to Helensburgh but it was too early for that. So they walked back to the town and caught a train home from there. There are many unusual and un-nerving aspects to what happened here. Why could the Grey be seen over the hedge? Was it really floating in the air? I have investigated other cases where Greys have been seen to float so this is not out of the question. It seems extremely likely that it was either there specifically for Rob, or perhaps for Mick and Raymond too. But if so why did it float along the path past the caravan instead of coming towards it (or even appearing inside it directly)? It clearly sensed they were looking at it as it turned to look back at them. Why would it travel along the path then vanish from sight and never re-appear? There is no suggestion that the witnesses were abducted. Maybe this was the original intention but due to the reactions of the witnesses this was called off, we will never know for sure. What happened with the sheep is truly horrifying. Why was it being lifted up into the air and pushed against the window? Was there some kind of energy doing this? Perhaps there was a craft over the van or in the vicinity and what was happening to the sheep was un-intentional. Perhaps the being was doing this using its mind or even physically picking it up. But if so why? To frighten the witnesses? If so, to what end? Why did this stop as soon as Raymond had put the curtain back down? Was this merely coincidence or something more? And what happened to the sheep? It clearly didn’t die as it was not lying on the grass outside of the van in the morning. Could it have been abducted aboard a craft and this is why the noises and banging instantly stopped? Or had it merely been dropped and then it ran off back to its own field? These are just some of the unanswered questions surrounding this fascinating yet disturbing incident. Night-Time Disc Robs older brother James sadly passed away in early February 1992. After he died Rob felt it was his duty to keep in touch with people who had known him throughout his life. One of his brother’s friends was named Peter. On an evening in late February Rob went round to visit him at his house on Flanders Street, Clydebank. When Rob arrived Peter was busy feeding his many pets. After he had finished they decided to take his pet Doberman out for a walk. At the end of Flanders Street is a small park. Beyond this is some open grassland. Peter’s dog would enjoy playing on this, so Rob and Peter made their way to the edge of it. The sun had already set but there was a perfectly clear star-filled sky overhead. It was still and not particularly cold. Rob and Peter stood at the top of the hill and let the dog loose to run onto the grassland. The only artificial light was a slight orange glow coming from Faifley Road behind them. In the direction they were facing there were just rural farmers’ fields. As they looked up at the stars the men suddenly noticed something up in the sky off ahead and to the left of them. There was a patch of stars which were clearly being blocked out by something solid. This patch seemed to grow and grow as it approached until it was right overhead. Rob knew exactly what it was – there was another disc directly above them! It had descended which is why it appeared had appeared to grow in size. It appeared to only be about 20 feet above them, just above the tree line. Looking up at the object they could make out no lines or markings, it was just a silhouette. They were only able to see three quarters of the object, it had descended so low that the furthest edge was obscured from view by foliage. Rob estimates it was about 25-30 feet in diameter. Without warning many very intense beams of white light suddenly appeared all around the rim radiating outward. As they shone they slowly rotated in an anti-clockwise direction and moved up and down in a fan-like motion. The beams lit up everything in the surroundings – the trees, insects flying in the air, even the buildings on the corner of Auchnacraig Road. Rob could barely believe what was happening. He turned to Peter and exclaimed “We are either blessed or cursed here!” The beams shone for about 30 seconds before all going out at once. Then the disc began moving away to the North East East in the direction of Milngaive. It travelled quite slowly, Rob estimates about 20-25 mph. As it moved away into the distance they were able to see a bit more of the object’s shape. It was flat on the base but gradually domed on top. The men watched it until it was out of sight. Unfortunately neither of them had a camera on them and back in the early 90s camera-enabled smartphones did not exist. Peter was quite un-nerved by what took place. After the incident he did not get back in touch with Rob, and seemed to be avoiding him on purpose. Rob has not kept in touch with him and so I am unable to speak with him about what he recollects. Distant UFO Sighting In the 90s Rob used to go out fishing on Loch Fyne with various friends. On one occasion he went there with his friend Gordon, Tony and Tony’s wife Tina. He had told his friends about his previous experiences. Gordon and Tina were quite open minded but Tony was very sceptical. It was late afternoon and the sun was starting to set. They decided to end their fishing excursion and return to the camp where they would be staying for the night. They lit a bonfire and then sat around it chatting. On the far side of the loch about a mile away is a road. From their camping location they would often see headlights of passing cars after dark which would appear and then disappear as the vehicles moved behind the trees and hills. It was now fully dark. Tony spotted a bright white light above the road and trees. He pointed it out asking “Is that a helicopter?” The light was quite dazzling to look directly at. It sat stationary above the trees. To the right hand side of it there was a reddish glow. The main beam of light was really intense. There were no visible navigation lights which would usually be seen on a distant helicopter. Also they were in a valley and it would have easily been possible to hear the rotor blades. The object appeared to be completely silent. Rob replied “That’s not a helicopter, it’s something else!” The object remained stationary for several minutes. Then it began to slowly move to the right. It began to gain altitude keeping in line with the hillside and then disappeared. In total they had watched it for about 10-12 minutes. As with previous sightings nobody had brought a camera with them, and in this case the object was probably too distant to photograph anyway. The Disappearing Men Rob remembers the exact date that this unusual incident took place because it was his son’s 5th birthday – 1st June 2001. At the time his ex used to look after his son during the week and he would have him at weekends. Rob was living in Cardross, and each weekend he would pick up his son from his sister’s house on Jean Armour Drive, Clydebank. As he did not drive he used to get the train to Drumry train station and then walk from there. As usual he picked up his son around mid-day from his sister’s then began walking back towards the station with him. Their route took them Southward along Clarence Street, a gradually sloping straight road with Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses Church at the end corner. It was a really pleasant sunny and clear day, and there was very little traffic on the road. They were walking along the pavement on the left side of the road. At the base of the road on the far side the church was visible in the distance. As they reached the T-junction with Melfort Avenue, Rob noticed a man leaning against the white wall which runs alongside the boundary of the church. He was bent over forwards with both hands pressed against the wall. Standing next to him were two other men. Rob assumed that the man leaning over was ill in some way and the other men were there to assist him. As they continued down the hill Rob was able to see the three men more clearly. Strangely the man leaning against the wall was wearing what looked like a salmon-pink coloured robe which went right down to his feet! Rob was not able to make out his face but he could see that he had long hair. The two other men looked identical to one another. They were both about 7 feet tall. Their skin looked pale and their faces had a chiselled appearance. Again their clothing was unusual. They were both wearing what appeared to be green coloured body warmers and black trousers. This was especially bizarre considering how warm a day it was, their clothing looked completely inappropriate. Rob was intrigued and so crossed over the road and continued down the hill towards the men. Suddenly the two tall men began moving towards him and his son. One of them stepped into the road while the other remained on the pavement. They both began marching up the hill! As they got nearer the man on the pavement also stepped out onto the road. They continued briskly walking, staring directly at Rob as they approached. Rob kept shifting his eyes between the two tall men and the third man who was still leaning against the wall. Within moments they had reached them. But the men did not react or do anything they just continued marching right past them out in the road. Rob kept glancing at them as they moved. He glanced back towards the church and then saw that the third man had stopped leaning on the wall and was walking down to the far corner of the road away from him. When he glanced back the two tall men had vanished without trace! There was nowhere they could have gone to in the space of time Rob had looked away. Deeply puzzled by what had just happened he wanted to catch up with the remaining man in the robes. He briskly continued down the road with his son. The man reached the corner of the church and turned right onto Montrose Street, vanishing from sight. Within seconds Rob had caught up and also walked round the corner – and just like the two tall men the third man had now also gone. Rob was extremely frustrated at this fact and mystified as to what had just occurred. Due to the clothing the man had been wearing it would have been easy to spot him but he had vanished. Rob checked every car, every doorway in the nearby area just to make sure he had not stepped out of view but it was no use. The incident bothered Rob for a long time. He knew something very odd had happened but had no idea as to why it occurred. He even wondered if it was somehow religious in nature due to the fact the men had been initially standing alongside the church, although I feel that this could easily have just been coincidental and might not be anything to do with who the men were. Due to Rob’s many other contact related experiences there is definitely a possibility that these men were humanoid ETs, which would explain how they were able to suddenly vanish. However what they were doing there or why they approached but did not interact directly with Rob remains a mystery. Another Orb In 2007 Rob moved into a house on Alsatian Avenue, Clydebank with his partner Julie. For a couple of years nothing out of the ordinary occurred there. But one early evening in the autumn of either 2009 or 2010 things another incident took place. At the time Rob was considering setting up a video channel on Justin.tv to broadcast videos discussing some of his previous experiences. He had purchased a cheap web cam and was in the process of setting it up on the top of his computer monitor. He had already plugged it in so he could see himself on the screen, and the part of the living room immediately behind him. Suddenly he saw a fiery orange orb of light enter the frame. It looked to be between his computer chair and the couch and was about a foot off the floor. It was about the size of a football. It appeared to slow to a halt for a second. Surprised by the presence of the orb, Rob turned round to see it with his own eyes. He caught a glimpse of it for about a second, then it suddenly shot off across the living room at a great speed and vanished through the wall. On the other side of the wall was his bedroom. He headed through there but the orb was nowhere to be seen. If Rob had only seen the orb through the camera picture it could be easy to dismiss it as some kind of reflection or lens flare. But he saw it directly and also watched it shoot across the room, so was clearly physically there, similar to the orb seen many years before by him and his father. Possible Implant On a Thursday morning in the summer of 2010 Rob woke up with a dreadful pain in his lower right jaw. It had started hurting overnight and was swelling up. He went to his dentist and she performed an emergency tooth extraction. This seemed to stop the pain and obviously Rob thought this would be the end of it. But on the following morning the pain and swelling had returned even more intensely than before. Rob went back to his dentist. This time she told him she could not do anything further and he would have to go to Glasgow Dental Hospital for further work. He booked an emergency appointment and headed there later the same day. They extracted a second tooth alongside the one he had previously had out. There was very little pain on the Saturday, and Rob assumed his ordeal was finally over. However on the Sunday morning once again he work up with pain and swelling! He rang the hospital and booked a second emergency appointment. To attempt to see what was happening they took an X-ray. Rob was sitting in the dental chair and could see the photograph on the screen. On the photo he could see a close up of one of his teeth. A short distance under it there was another small object which appeared white on the image. It appeared to be 5-6mm long and stood out on the picture. Rob pointed at the object and asked the radiologist “What’s that?” The radiologist responded in a very abrupt tone “I don’t know what it is.” They then handed Rob a copy of the photograph and asked them to take it to the dentist. Rob had read about alien implants before and wondered if this could be one. As soon as he was out of sight of the radiologist, he opened up the envelope, took out the X-ray and photographed it on his mobile phone. He then took it to the dentist, who proceeded to extract a third tooth. The dentist made no mention of the small object and Rob did not ask him about it. Below is the photograph of the X-ray which Rob took, with the object of interest ringed in red. Rob informed me it is not as high quality as the original was: The white object in the upper middle of the photograph is one of Rob’s teeth. There are a number of possibilities for what the smaller object could be. Perhaps it is merely a bone fragment off the root of the tooth. It is the same colour as the tooth on the photograph. Perhaps it is some kind of cyst which was responsible for the pain that Rob endured and subsequent teeth extraction. But there is the possibility that it is in fact an implant placed there on a previous occasion. It is very likely Rob was abducted back in 1971, and may have been taken since but had the memories blanked out. It is possible that the object has since vanished. However if it is still there then the first step towards determining if it is an implant is to confirm that it is metallic. This in itself could prove to be difficult. I own a stud finder which can be used to detect implants under the skin. If Rob and I meet up at a later date I could use this on him. However Rob has had some metal fillings and these might set it off giving false readings. We will have to wait and see. A Strange Vision In late August of 2011 Rob was invited to attend the reception of the son of his friend Pete. It was an evening reception so beforehand he decided to go and visit his younger sister Julie. At the time she owned a fancy dress shop on Glasgow Road in Clydebank. Rob would occasionally pop in just to keep her company. He arrived at the shop about 4.30pm. There weren’t many other customers around, however there was a mum and daughter who were there to pick up a costume. Julie asked Rob “Could you do me a favour and go down the stairwell, find the box and get the wee girls costume she’s ordered?” Rob was happy to help and so headed down the steps to the cellar of the shop where the costume box had been stashed. He soon found it and knelt down next to it to look through it. Suddenly he felt something hit him in the left side of the head, so hard that it almost knocked him over! His first instinct was “We’re being robbed and someone’s just hit me in the head.” But as he leaned to the right he glanced round and could see there was nobody there. The impact had felt like someone had hit him in the head with a bat above his left ear. He didn’t want to freak his sister out so when he went back upstairs with the costume he didn’t mention what had happened. He soon headed back home to get ready for the reception. He was standing in his bedroom at the base of the bed, preparing his clothes and still thinking about what had happened at the shop. Suddenly there was another impact on his head exactly like before! He fell backwards onto the bed. He looked all around the room. Once again there was nobody there. Rob sat himself back up and rested on the corner of the bed. Again there was another impact, and he once more fell backwards. When he sat back up a second time he felt like he was almost going to black out. It was now that he realised he was not alone. At the right hand side of the base of the bed he saw three strange goblin-like creatures. They were crouching down and moving around. To their left was a man wearing a white coloured hooded robe. He had long grey hair and a beard. In his left hand he was holding a long wooden stick. He began hitting the three creatures with this stick. They cowered away from the blows, holding their hands up into the air to defend themselves. After a moment they backed off and vanished into the bedroom wall. Rob felt that it had been the three creatures which had been hitting him in the head and this man had helped him by frightening them away. He stood up and said “Thanks very much!” He then held out his hand and shook hands with the man. The man’s right hand felt very coarse and weathered. Rob asked “Is there anything I can do for you?” The man replied “Just be loyal.” After he said this he instantly vanished. Rob was extremely frightened by what had taken place so did not go the reception. The blows he had received to his head were quite traumatic. He was concerned that the man and three beings had been hallucinations brought on by a medical condition. Three days later he plucked up enough courage to go to his GP about what had happened. The GP referred him to Southern General Hospital to have a CAT scan. A number of days later he went for the scan. However when the results came back there was no sign of any trauma, growths or blood clots, it looked completely clear. This put his mind at ease. Since this incident Rob has never experienced the same thing again. The reason for the impacts on his head and the origins of the man and three creatures remains a mystery. Glowing Window In 2015 Julie worked at the local hospital and Rob would regularly pick her up after her shift ended. On an evening in October he was preparing to head out to get her. It was about 10pm and he was standing in the kitchen having a cigarette. The houses on the opposite side of the road are on a gradient and set higher up than his property was. He noticed out of the window a light just above the roof of the house directly opposite his. His first thought was that there was a youth messing around and opening a sky light. He kept looking and soon realised that the light wasn’t coming from a sky light in the roof itself but was beyond the roof. As his eyes became adjusted to what he was looking at, Rob began to interpret the shape as a cone-shaped window with orange-yellow light spilling out. It was like an upside down triangle with the lower point severed off. There were two black lines running down it separating the window into 3 distinct sections. Within the light he saw what he believed was the head of a being looking out and bobbing around. The window itself was not stationary but was slowly moving up and down, it would descend down behind the roof and then would reappear. Rob stared at it for a number of minutes. He was convinced there was a UFO hovering there behind the building, out of sight because of the darkness, and this glowing window was the only sign that it was there. He was so interested in watching it he did not think to try and take a photograph. Rob tells me that his phone at the time had a poor quality camera on it anyway, and it is unlikely much would have come out. He was not frightened, and wanted to make direct contact by the being he could see in the window. He threw his cigarette out of the open window, stepped back and then tried to contact it telepathically, inviting it to come on down and enter his house. He thought to himself “If you want to spy on me why don’t you just come down and talk to me?” He gestured with his hand, pointing towards the floor, inviting the being to come closer. He tried this for a short while, but nothing took place. Then the light suddenly went out. Rob did not walk across the street to see if anything was still there, he just assumed it had gone. He thought about what had happened for a short while, then left the house to pick up his girlfriend. He did not tell her about what he had seen as he thought it might frighten her. Due to the flattened cone shape of the object and the colour of the glow coming from it I did ask Rob whether it could have been a Chinese lantern hovering in the air and slowly drifting around. However Rob dismissed this. He informed me he not only knows what lanterns look like but has actually launched them himself numerous times, so would certainly have known how they appeared at different distances. The object which Rob saw remains a mystery, but considering his previous close encounters with craft it is entirely possible that this was indeed another close proximity sighting. Conclusions Rob has had some truly fascinating, sometimes un-nerving, encounters throughout his life. One of the aspects of his case which particularly stands out for me is the fact that most of these incidents have also involved other independent witnesses. This is quite rare, especially in cases involving contact. From the original experience involving him and his brother it is extremely likely that Rob is a contactee. Due to the missing time he currently has no memory of what took place in those missing hours, but everything which took place suggests that he and his brother were taken aboard the glowing disc. I hope to arrange for Rob to be regressed in the coming months to see if any additional details can be retrieved. It is common for contactees to have encounters with UFOs, and it is very probable that at least some of the later craft which Rob witnessed were there for him, perhaps monitoring him in some way. It is also very interesting that two of these incidents seemingly involved attempted interception of the craft by military forces. We have no way of knowing what the end result of these interceptions were but it is clear they were aware of the presence of the UFOs on these occasions. Obviously many of the incidents in this report include other individuals. Unfortunately at present I am not able to speak with any of them. Rob’s father has now passed away, and his brother Mick does not like to speak about the incidents that occurred. Rob has lost contact with some of the other people involved. His friend Raymond still lives in the area but is not yet ready to speak with me, so for now we only have Robs word to go on. However I find him a very sincere and believable man and have no doubt that he has had these stunning experiences. I would also like to thank him for his assistance in putting together this report, including the many location photographs he has obtained which have aided my understanding of his experiences. I hope that going forward he keeps in touch should anything else take place. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 17/12/2019 Introduction In early October 2019 a 58 year old Scottish man named Rob got in touch with me via telephone to discuss a number of fascinating, and in some cases frightening, UFO and contact related experiences which had happened throughout his life. Unlike many cases, most of these incidents involved multiple witnesses. This report covers these experiences in depth and features many photographs and drawings from Rob, as well as testimonial statements from some of the other people involved. Vision in the Wall Rob’s first unusual experience happed in late July of 1965. Usually I would have to query the witness to find out the details of what happened to them. However many years later Rob actually wrote down this and some of his other experiences in a diary. Below is his recollection of what took place. “One sunny summer morning shortly after my fifth birthday I was awake in bed nearest to the wall behind my brother. There were no curtains on the large bay windows and from where I was lying I could see into Govan dockyard, but all I could see was the tops of the many cranes that were there, they were busy moving to and fro, lifting this and that from the ships in dock like giant metal fingers moving around. I was just staring, day dreaming, but my mind was really on other things. Dad was on his way and Mick and I would be tucking into something special when we eventually got out of bed, but not before mum or dad, there were rules. Dad was home, it was just after seven in the morning and I knew better than to get out of bed, so I just stared out the window hoping that the time would pass quickly. Mick was fast asleep, and the house was still, very little traffic no real distractions or noise to speak of. With my back to the wall I was suddenly aware of a coldness, a chill if you like. I wrapped the blankets round me tighter but then I realized that I could see my own breath. I was puzzled for a moment but soon realized that this is happening. I turned round and what was once a recess wall with white wood chip wallpaper was now a complete image of a back lane with cobble stones and brick bin sheds on either side the full length of the lane. What five year olds imagination could ever have stretched as far as to conjure up such an image, not even in a dream? But there it was, as large as life, like a giant wall poster that could only be fit for a wall in Hell. The lane was about half the length of a football pitch and at the out her end of the lane I could see there was a figure standing with their head bowed down hiding their face. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, I froze on the spot. What was this, who was that standing at the other end of the lane? My curiosity was about to become a terrible reality. Suddenly the figure started to move down the lane, slowly at first, at walking pace with its head still bowed, then it quickened until it was almost at a running pace. It started to lift its head as it got closer and closer, now I could see it. Its head was elongated and misshaped, almost horse like with large dark eye sockets and sunken eyes. As it got closer I can see its eyes and with its brows turned down with an evil menacing look about it. Suddenly it was there, it was as if a hole had just opened up on the far side of the wall. Its long gnarly fingers were ripping at the wall creating a bigger and bigger hole until its head was completely though it, and now it was staring straight at me with its mouth open and a long slithering tongue lashing about. I didn’t hesitate, I catapulted myself over Mick not even taking the time to wake him. I ran like the wind in to my mum and dads room, in one movement I had grabbed the bottom of the bed clothes, lifted them over my head and shot under the blankets without stopping. I was moving that fast, what a fright they must have got but nothing compared to what had just happened to me. My dad throw his hand round to stop me from ending up at the back of the head board. I started screaming my head off. ‘The man, the man is in the wall, there’s a bad man in the wall!’ It probably took them about ten minutes to settle me down to a point where they could start asking me what was wrong. I repeated everything I had seen, they were not convinced and they put it down to a bad dream. Dad decided it was time to get me back into my bed. He woke Mick and said to go to the back of the bed and let me go to the front. Mick, under protest, complied and dad reassured me that it was just a bad dream and no monsters where in the wall, he returned to his room. Minutes past, then suddenly I could hear a raspy breathing sound. I was hoping that it was Mick but I could see my breath again. I grabbed the blankets and pulled them up over my head but curiosity was getting the better of me. Was I imagining things? Was this just a bad dream? Why the fuck did I do it? I turned round and there it was, lunging strait out of the wall at me with its tongue waving about! It was the most hideous thing to look at, I was off like a shot again but this time a got hold of Micks top and screamed at him to get up and run. To be honest I don’t know if he followed me or not. A few years ago I joined an online paranormal group, I posted a blog with the information about the thing in the wall and I got a message back. The nearest description I could give was the teacher from the Pink Floyd music video 'Another Brick In The Wall', the head shape is almost the same with the eyes set as far back. What five year old wouldn’t be scared of an image like this?” According to Rob the paranormal group he contacted informed him that the creature he had seen was a demon which was known to stalk children and caused activity similar to a poltergeist. However I can’t help but wonder if this terrifying incident was in fact an early visitation. Some of the aspects of the being Rob describes, such as the elongated face and dark eyes are reminiscent of a Grey. Greys have often been reported to appear from and step through bedroom walls, maybe some kind of portal to another location had opened and the being used this to arrive in Rob and Mick’s room. Also screen memories, where ETs mask their true appearance, are especially common in childhood, and it is possible that Rob interpreted the being as a monster and so this is what he saw. This is merely speculation due to the fact that later on Rob had other experiences clearly linked with contact, as you will see. Ghosts The being coming through the wall wasn’t the only unusual thing which occurred at the house. In Rob’s notes he eludes to the fact that there were numerous incidents of a paranormal nature. While these incidents are unlikely to be directly related to his contact experiences as they often involved other people, they are worth including. “It wasn’t easy for mum and dad to find accommodation, but there was plenty of room in that house. Even though it was a loft apartment everyone had a bed. My nana had her own room which was closer to the living room, mum and dad where in the room across from us. They were quite generous rooms, the one Mick and I had my uncle Jim slept in for many years until he met my aunt and moved out. It had been empty for some time but mum and dad had fixed it up as well as they could until hopefully something else would come along come along. There were strange things going on that Mick and I never knew about, but every now and then we would hear bits of information as we sat around the kitchen table which was the place everyone would gather, the heart of the house. We were hardly ever in the living room. I remember my aunt talking about the Polaroid photo that she had taken of my uncle on his birthday with his brothers at the bottom of the hall at the front door. Once the photo had developed, directly behind the 4 of them was a figure of an old woman with a crouched shawl over her head. She was looking over her right shoulder holding the shawl over the right side of her face peering out straight at the camera lens. It was unmistakeable, she didn’t belong there. No one had any idea who she was. As I got older, 18/19, I got to see that photo. The hallway was always poorly lit any time of the day or night, and you would find yourself running along the hall as fast as you could to the kitchen door. What a relief when the door opened and you were in the light and you could see a friendly face again! I remember almost squatting and putting my head down as I entered the ten foot high dark green front door of the house. I would run like the wind along the hall to the kitchen before I felt as if someone was brushing over my hair with their hand, it was a very strange sensation. Mick and I were in bed. There were still things that belonged to Jim in the room, mostly musical instruments, TV parts and an old wooden organ that you would have to pump air into with the foot pedals at the base. It sat in the alcove where part of the slate roof started sloping at the windows. Jim being a bit of an engineer got it from an old woman for repairing her black and white TV with every intention of fixing it but he never got round to it. It was late and I was fast asleep. Suddenly I could hear Mick screaming his head off! I sat up and looked at him. He was sitting up in bed and looking into the recess of the alcove. I could tell that he was scared with tears running down his face. I asked him several times what was wrong but he never answered. My mum and dad where on their way, I could hear them stirring. Mick became quiet. Dad was trying to open the door but was unable. Mick started to move his head from right to left towards the bedroom door as if he was following something moving in the room. Then he looked up as if someone was standing right next to him. Dad was still trying to get into the room. Mick started to lift up his hand and opened his fist like he was receiving something from someone. Then the door opened and dad was in. Dad asked him what was wrong. ‘The bad man’ he said. ‘What bad man?’ my dad asked. ‘The bad man that was sitting on top of the organ.’ Apparently he was sitting on top of the organ with his legs crossed and he had the classic devilish red eyes. ‘There’s no one there’ said dad. ‘I know, it's ok the lady chased him away’ Mick said. ‘What lady?’ asked dad. ‘What did she look like?’ Mick replied ‘She was lovely. She had a blue top on with a white scarf over her head, like the lady in Nanas pictures. She gave me something.’ ‘What did she give you?’ asked mum. Mick started to open his fist but there was nothing there. A look of disappointment came over his face, but the person he was describing my mum and dad believed was the Virgin Mary. The priest was called, he came to the house and blessed it, but it never made things any better. Could it get any worse? My mum was heavily pregnant with my sister, she had been preparing the evening meal with my aunt. As she bent down to place something in to the oven suddenly she felt someone, something trying to push her down and into the oven. She turned to my aunt at the table with a look of total shock, and next to my aunt a chair roses up as if it was stuck to the wall and hung there for a moment till it hit the floor. It was obvious that things where not getting any better, in fact it was quite the opposite, things had gone to another level! The priest was called again, but it was all they could do just to keep their wits about them and not crumble.” Nordic Visitation After all the paranormal activity at their home Rob’s parents decided they needed to move out. However the council would not allocate them a home straight away, so his mother’s parents offered to let them temporarily stay at their house on Alderman Road in the outskirts of Glasgow. Soon after moving in Rob’s parents purchased a bunk bed for him and his brother to sleep on. It was set up in the living room as this was the only space available for it. Mick being the eldest got the top bunk. Rob really wanted to try the top bunk so persistently moaned until his mother gave in and let him sleep on the top bunk for one night. It was during this night that Rob had another fascinating experience. As before, he wrote down the details of this incident. “It was getting dark and my grandparents had already retired for the night. Mum and dad set about getting James settled down for the night in the box room. Mick and I were in bed and the living room was in darkness except for the light coming from under the box room door. I had just dropped off to sleep or so I thought. The time I was unaware of but I could suddenly feel a presence above me to my right hand side. Then it happened. I felt someone kiss me on the lips softly. I opened my eye half expecting to see my mum standing over me, but instead there was a strange but really lovely looking woman leaning over me. I know it’s hard to believe almost incredible. I think about it still. Who was she? Why was she there? She really was quite beautiful with long blond hair and ruby red lips and eyes that looked like they were glowing with an intense shade of blue. She was smiling, and it was as if she was glowing. It took a second or two for me to realise that it wasn't my mum and I knew that my aunts had gone home. I started to scream at the top of my lungs with fright. I can still hear the sound I made. In a flash she had moved towards the kitchen door that was adjacent to the box room, and it was as if she just disappeared in a cloud as she turned right at the kitchen door. Mum and dad arrived late obviously. They got me out of bed and asked me to describe the woman and asked me if she said anything. She hadn’t.” Some of the aspects of this experience point towards it being a visitation by a Nordic being. These are usually reported as looking quite humanoid, having blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. Also I have investigated other cases where these beings have been seen to glow, just as Rob reports here. Many experiencers feel positive about encounters with these beings, and often sense that they are cared for by them or even protected from harm. If this was indeed a Nordic rather than a ghostly apparition of some kind, maybe this kiss was symbolic of this, and she wanted to let Rob know that she was there to look after him. Dual Abduction On Saturday 25th November 1971 Rob had an experience which has clear links with ET contact, an incident involving both a UFO and the apparent abduction of himself and Mick. He has documented this incredible incident in detail. “My cousin Jean was recruited to baby sit while my mum and dad went to my aunt and uncle’s wedding anniversary in Grangemouth. Jean was going on fourteen, my brother Mick had just turned twelve in September, I was ten. At school we would chat about the things we were watching on television, mostly cartoons or the odd scary movie, but one program in particular stood out, The Untouchables, a new US hit crime series, everyone was talking about it. The program in question was scheduled to start at 7pm that night. On the way out my father reminded Jean that I was to be in my bed for 7.30pm. Well at least i was going to get to see this amazing American Gangster show, something to talk about on Monday at school! At 6.30pm there was an announcement. ‘Due to unforeseen time delays in our scheduled programs the Untouchables will now be shown 30 minutes later than billed.’ This meant I’d be in bed when the program started. Well that was not going to work. I was going to watch the show and that’s that! But Mick made it quite plain that bed time was a lot closer than I thought and I wasn’t going to be watching the telly. Bang on 7.30pm Mick was out of his chair and trying to push me out of the living room. I had a firm grip on the door, using my foot as a door stop, it seemed as if I was winning for a moment but it wasn’t going to last long. The door was about to shut on me, the program was starting and I was still trying to look around the door to see what it was all about. Suddenly the room lit up. There was a bright light coming from outside in the street. The living room lit up like day light...much brighter than the street lights or car lights and it was still getting brighter! Jean let out a scream and shouted ‘Don’t go to the window, stay away from the window!’ But that never stopped me. Mick was in a trance so I pushed the door open wide and stepped back into the living room. The light got brighter and things started to disappear in the room, you couldn’t see the light from the bulb in the standing lamp next to the fireplace or the light from red bulb in the electric fire. The picture on the TV screen had disappeared too. I turned round to the window. It was ultra-bright, you couldn’t cast a shadow with your own hand on the living room wall. I ran to the window and lifted the net curtain over my head. As I looked out to my left I could see a light moving slowly from left to right. It was a beam of light hitting the road and up onto the pavement. It wasn’t a car, just a great big white ray of light on the ground. It started to get closer and moved across towards my friend house zigzagging its way along the street. The light crept up the wall and across the roof and down the front of wall the house next to my friend Billy. It moved to my right and out of sight. I wanted more, I wanted to know what it was. My eyes are stinging with the light, then it was gone from sight. Unchallenged by Mick I made a run for the front door, ran out of the side door, turned right and started to run to the bottom of the path next to the front gate. Down four steps and I was there. I turned to my right and looked up at this massive white circle hovering over the woman’s house next to the lane about 40 feet away from me. It looked quite funny at the time because the apex of the building it was over made it look as if it had a missing piece from it like a piece cut from a cake. It was broader than the house. The light was so intense that you couldn’t see anything above the white disc. I could hear Micks feet on the path heading towards me. He came down the stairs and stood right behind me at the gate. This was better than the Untouchables! I turned round to say something to him but when I looked at him he was light grey with a tinge of blue from head to toe. The hedges where grey blueish, the fence, the gate. Mick had a shirt with a bit of tartan in it but you couldn’t see any colour on it. The look he had on his face it was so scary. I said ‘Look at you!’ and Mick said the same thing back. I turned back round to look at the light. Suddenly I was aware of a hand on my right shoulder. I looked round and there was someone standing next to me. I could clearly see fingers on my right shoulder. I looked up and I could see that his face was as grey as everything around us, smooth with no hair. I could only see the side profile of him, but what was really strange about him was the things he was wearing. It was like a long gown from the neck down to the feet, but the strange thing about that was it was as black as a coal mine. I felt as if I could reach out and put my hand right into the blackness. I was mesmerized by the darkness, but if everything else around us was grey blueish, what made his gown react in that way? It was as if the light was being absorbed by the darkness. I looked back up at him, but he never turned round, he was staring into the light too. The next thing I could remember was of being in what appeared to be a pinkish like bubble. Then it started to disappear in front of me, dissolving. Bits of blue sky and sunshine started to appear through the top of the bubble and it was dissolving from top to bottom. There was no sound at first but slowly the sound of singing appeared. Music started to play in my left ear – ‘Where’s your mama gone, where’s your mama gone, far far away, far far away.’ That song is ingrained in my mind. The pink bubble was almost gone. I looked down to my right where a hole had appeared. It started to reveal a boy playing in the lane next to the electricity power box. He had a toy truck in his hand but he was just looking straight at me. I would have done the same thing too! I turned my head round to the left to see where the music was coming from and saw Mick standing in the same position he was in last night, but now it was daylight and why were we standing in the lane next to our house 30 feet away? I ran to the top of the lane to see where we had both been standing just moments ago. In actual fact it was still 7.35pm last night in my head, I really couldn’t understand it. It was about 9.30am maybe even 10am on a cold crisp November morning. I knew something was wrong, I knew it, but I hadn’t got a clue about what happened. Then a side window opened up on the house that the disc had been over last night. A woman appeared and said ‘Are you the two boys that have been out all night?’ We both made for the house, but the information was already disappearing from our minds as the minutes passed. Eventually I couldn’t remember anything, it was gone. But the memories of that night hadn’t quite disappeared into the back of my mind, tucked away never to be seen again, far from it.” So many aspects of this incident fit in with other cases on record, including some I have directly investigated. Many contact experiences begin with the location being flooded in white light. It seems clear that this light was coming directly from the glowing craft seen in the vicinity of the house. It is very probable that this light would have also spread into the other houses in the neighbourhood. You may then ask why no-one else had also stepped outside to see what was taking place. Although it was fully dark outside because of the time of year it was not particularly late. However it is probable that this craft was here specifically for Rob and his brother. There are many cases on record where other people in the surroundings have been temporarily “switched off”. Contactees have often reported not being able to wake sleeping family members or seeing other people in a trance-like state. This could have been what happened here, and if so this would explain why Rob and Mick were the only apparent witnesses to what was taking place outside. The being which touched Rob on the shoulder was clearly a Grey. While Rob did not see its face on this occasion (although would do at a later date), he did see that its head was completely hairless and grey in colour. It is very likely that this being was there to take him and his brother aboard the craft, although neither of them had any recollection of this. While he does not mention it in his notes, Rob informed me that other than the colouration the being’s hand looked human. This is a little odd as usually Greys are described as having elongated and smooth fingers. The boys then experienced missing time for approximately 14 hours. While it cannot currently be verified at this point, it is probable that they were aboard the craft during this time, and were then returned to the approximate, though not exact location where they were taken. The mottled pink “bubble” of energy seen around them when they were returned is very interesting. While I have investigated some cases involving glowing energy or swirling portals, I do not recall any where this exact same thing has been reported to me. It was clearly blocking out the sound, as this slowly returned as the bubble dissipated. It is fascinating to wonder what the boy with the toy truck saw. Did he witness Rob and his brother suddenly appear from thin air? It is unlikely we will ever find out. In his notes Rob describes how he and his brother ran back to where they had previously been standing, but then the memories of everything started to fade away until they were completely gone. While this is rare, I have investigated other cases where the exact same thing has been reported. And just as with this incident, some but not all of what took place returned at a later date. I believe that this is a memory block put in place on purpose by the ETs. It is probably intended to be permanent, but for whatever reason the memories sometimes come back, usually in the form of flashbacks or nightmares. How Rob and Mick recalled the incident will be discussed later in this report. During this time they were abducted Rob’s parents would of course have returned home. It is unknown what Jean remembered, she may have recalled seeing the glowing light and the boys running outside, or maybe it was all completely blanked from her mind too. Either way it is likely that they had searched the neighbourhood for the boys and asked around at neighbouring houses for any information as to their whereabouts. This would explain the question asked of them by the lady in the window. Soon after the incident his family moved house to Dumbarton outside Glasgow. Rob does not know why his parents did this, he says they had no reason to move at that time as they were settled. He wonders if his parents decided to move because of what had happened there. There are clues that his parents were aware that something related to UFOs or contact had taken place. Rob used to often go fishing with his father. On numerous occasions up to the age of 17 he recalls his father bringing up the subject of UFOs. At the time he did not associate this with anything, and his father did not specifically mention the incident. But looking back he wonders if he was trying to jog his memory of what had taken place. The Orb Contactees often report seeing glowing orbs of light in their proximity, and Rob’s case is no different. In July 1973 just before his 17th birthday he had an experience of this nature which was also witnessed by his father. They were now living in a house on Lochlea Avenue in Drumry, Clydebank. Below is Rob’s account of what took place. “I remember sitting with my dad one evening having a drink. There was a cupboard to the right hand side of my chair. Above that was an old serving hatch to the kitchen that had been blocked off years ago. My dad was at the other end of the living room with his chair next to the fire across from mine. We were talking for a while the usual things - fishing, snooker, more fishing, but my eye was now drawn down to the right hand side of my chair. I could see a ball of light moving along the top of the skirting board. The middle of the ball of light was bright white then in to a light pink and out to a bright red. It was bright for its size, powerful if you like, about the size of a marble but not solid, blended edges, smooth colour flow. It moved slowly towards the fireplace, along the skirting board. I quickly mentioned it to my dad and that he was about to see this thing. It moved left then right across the front of the fireplace and into plain sight. Dad could see it crossing the front of the electric fire towards him. ‘What the fuck is that?’ he exclaimed. Well he reacted the way I should have. It got closer to my dad, he was almost backing away as it drew nearer. It turned again down the other side of the fire place and along the back wall. My dad leapt to his feet and pulled his chair and a small drop leaf table away from the wall to see where it was but it had gone. We looked at each other in disbelief. What the hell was that and where did it go to? We sat for a long time talking about it. Deep down I knew what dad was thinking, but he wasn’t going to say for fear of panic in the house, so he said to me not to say to anyone about it, especially my young sisters.” It is unknown whether this orb of light was linked with his contact experiences, a ghostly apparition, or was some form of energy manifestation like ball lightning. However I was not surprised at all to learn of this incident as once again it is something often reported in cases of ET contact. Ghostly Dog The glowing orb would not be the only thing Rob would experience at the house Lochlea Avenue. This was just the beginning of paranormal events at the property, as Rob explains in his notes. “I came home from work one Saturday afternoon around 3-ish. My Saturday ritual every 3rd Saturday of the month after work was a shower, something to eat and head straight up stairs and back into bed. I was ready to settle down, get a few hours’ sleep and then get up later for a night out with my friends. I shut the bedroom door, closed the curtains and got back into bed. I was laying on my stomach with my hands under the pillows in front of me. I was ready for my 120 winks. Dozing off I was aware of something in the middle of the bed to my left almost at my waist. I could feel the mattress being pressed inwards as if something was turning round and round then scratching at the bed clothes. My first thoughts were that our dog Penny was on the bed beside me and she was settling down making her bed the way dogs do. I pulled my left hand out from under the pillow and moved it down and tried to brush her off the bed but my hand just ran right through the space I thought the dog might have been lying. There was nothing there. ‘Penny get off the bed’ I muttered, and moved my hand down further thinking she was there. Nothing! I got up and looked to the spot where this was all going on and there was nothing there. I looked down at the bottom of the bed. I could hear myself saying the words ‘Penny come on outside’ but I knew there was nothing there. I walked to the bedroom door looking over my shoulder and fumbling, reaching for the handle on the door so I can make a sharp exit. The door opened and I was off, right down the stairs. I burst into the living room. Dad was startled. ‘I just had a dog on my bed!’ I blurted out. ‘What?’ dad replied. ‘I just had a dog on my bed and thought it was Penny.’ ‘But Penny’s been here with me for ages’ he said. But he knew I was telling the truth and we both went back up to my room. After an inspection my dad said again ‘Don’t say a word to anyone.’ It really had started again. My head was buzzing, the memories of Glasgow started to rush in. But it was more personal, it was something making itself known to me. How close do you need to be to something like that and not be afraid or intimidated about it in some way? A week or two had passed, nothing had gone on in that time, but this particular night that was going to change. Dad and I were at home, the girls where in their beds or siting about in their room, Jamie was out with friends. It was an ordinary day, things had gone well, and dad and I had settled down for the night. It was my turn for making coffee. I was in the kitchen getting the coffee ready. For some reason my dad had taken the kitchen door off. Coffee in both hands I started to make my way to the living room. I had to put my left elbow up to turn the light switch off as my hands were full. Then I turned left down the hall towards the living room. I was stopped in my tracks. The lights in the hall were off but that was usual for us, we never left lights on if it wasn’t necessary, and we could navigate our way round the house without light. There was a dog in the hallway, sitting right in front of the living room door! I could clearly see it by the light coming from the glass panel in the front door. It was just sitting there. My first thought was ‘It’s Penny’ but there was no movement, nothing to suggest it was Penny. No tail wagging, no tongue hanging out panting as you would expect your dog to be doing. It was just looking up staring at me. The interesting thing about it was its eyes. They were a piercing bright bright green. I said ‘Right Penny move, come on, let’s go’ but nothing, it was just staring right at me, tilting its head from left to right, as if studying me. i was still thinking that it was Penny, what else could it be? I started to move towards the door. ‘Right Penny come on’ I said. Still no movement. I lifted my leg over it to get by and it was still there. I was getting quite annoyed at the dog thinking it was Penny being a bit of a wee pest. I opened the living room door and walked in. To my surprise Penny was sitting on the chair and my dad was on siting on the floor. ‘Dad, I’ve just seen the wee dog that was in my bed just now outside in the hall!’ I said. I put the coffee down and went back into the hall to see if it was still there but there was nothing to see. It was probably the first time that we had left a light on for any reason.” Poltergeist Activity Soon after witnessing the apparition of the dog, other paranormal activity began to occur in the house. Rob recollects a number of incidents involving unexplained sounds and moving objects. “You know your home, every little noise, creak, bump, bang that goes on, we had all become aware of that over the years. In the early hours one morning I came down the stairs to use the bathroom about 2-3am. There were no lights on. I was standing in the bathroom. I had left the door open, and had almost finished what I was doing. I could hear a noise from the hall behind me. Imagine coming down your own staircase from top to bottom and the noise you might hear from the wooden steps. Well you get to remember each step and the noise it made. If there was another noise to be heard it wold be me going back up the stairs and the noise would be reversed but that’s not what was happening. Almost done I could hear the noise again, but it had started at the top of the stairs. I turned to see who was coming down but there was no one there. The stairs where creaking as if someone was coming down right to the bottom of the stairs. A cold shiver ran down my back. What the hell was happening? Well I guess I was in the right place at the right time for a change. I wasn’t happy about going back up the stairs, well you wouldn’t be! It seemed that something was trying to get our attention, soon everyone was going to experience something, what it was and when was going to happen was the big question. Mum was away at the caravan site in Wigtonshire, the two girls and my brother had gone too, leaving dad and myself to get on with painting the living room and the hall. We had almost completed the hall and had called it a day. Dad went over to the shop and bought some beer for refreshment. We sat in the living room. The TV was on and we were chatting. Suddenly there was an almighty crashing noise from mum and dad’s bedroom upstairs directly above us! We did get a fright, it was so unexpected. Dad and I ran upstairs to see what was going on and when we got into the room there was nothing out of place, no mess. Nothing had been moved or touched. It was very strange but we soon realised what was going on. We had a visit again. The noise was real. I described it as if someone had gone in to the kitchen, taken the cutlery draw went upstairs into the bedroom and just slammed it onto the floor. We could hear the metal like forks and spoons hitting off each other, exactly like that. Saturday tea time. Dad had made mince and potatoes with dough balls. I got home from work, went straight into the kitchen and sat in my usual chair at the alcove. Dad came over to where I was sitting with my food. I was absolutely starving, early finishes on a Saturday meant I hadn’t had a lunch break. Dad had go back over to the sink to clean up some dishes. I was holding the fork to my mouth for my first bite. Suddenly my plate was airborne and heading for the back of my dad’s legs! The plate hit the back of his right leg and into the kitchen sink door. Dad turned to me and shouted at me, but he saw me with the fork in hand and a look of disbelief on my face. Mum decided that the girl’s bedroom should get freshened up with a lick of paint and new curtains. So my older brother and I set about doing that. All the windows were open and the furniture was back in place. It looked really nice, clean and drying out well. That night everyone was in bed. It was the back of 2am. We are all woken to the sound of one of my sisters screaming at the top of her lungs! My brother and I leapt to our feet and rushed into the girl’s bedroom. We put the lights on and saw my younger sister Julie sitting up in her bed, holding the blankets up to her face. Dad arrived and asked ‘What’s going on?’ We thought that someone had broken into the girl’s room through the bedroom window. ‘What happened?’ dad asked. Julie replied ‘There was a man standing there.’ ‘Where?’ asked dad. ‘Right next to my bed there at the window.’ ‘Did he say anything?’ ‘Yes, he said I'll get you if it's the last thing I do.’ Dad noticed that there was a hand print on the wall directly above Julie’s head board. The rest of the room was dry except for the wet hand print. My older brother had the biggest hands in the house. Dad said ‘Put your hand in that hand print.’ So he put his left hand over the wet print and lined his hand up. The fingers were at least and inch and a half longer, easily. This room seemed to hold a presence - very dark, very dangerous and very real.” White Disc Sighting It was a bright, clear and still summer’s day in 1986/87. Rob was round visiting his friend Michael (who like his elder brother he nicknamed Mick) at his house on Vanguard Street, Drumry. They were playing with his pet dog in the front garden. Rob was holding a rubber play toy which the dog would bite a hold of and he would then swing the dog round in the air. The semi-detached houses on the street have concrete steps leading up to their front doors. Mick’s mother Kathleen and sister (also named Kathleen) were sitting on the top step of the house watching them. Mick’s younger 9 year old brother Mark was also in the garden playing by himself. At the right hand edge of the garden is a 7 foot high hedge. As Rob picked up the dog into the air and swung him round he caught a glimpse of a white flattened object over the top of the hedge. He immediately thought someone had thrown a Frisbee over the hedge and instinctively ducked. But nothing landed in the garden. As he stood back up he looked towards Mick’s mother and sister on the step. They were staring past him into the distance with their mouths hanging open. Rob turned round to see what they were looking at. Roughly about 400-500 feet away East of their location in the sky visible above the hedge was a white object. It was a disc, but the top had a slight domed shape to it. Rob estimates it was about 7-9 metres in diameter and about 3 metres in height at its central point. It appeared to be about 200 feet off the ground. The underneath of the object was a brilliant white colour. The top was more cream coloured. However at intervals around it were what appeared to be scorched lines that were almost black in colour. The object was moving on a level course at roughly 30-35 mph. It was travelling to the South West in the direction of Glasgow Airport. To prevent it being lost from view Rob and Mick ran inside the house and to the front bedroom window to get a better view. The UFO passed over Clydebank Rugby Club. However as it neared the River Clyde it began to slowly turn to the right by 90 degrees. It then began flying to the North West following the river towards Earskine Bridge. They watched it intermittently through the gaps between the buildings until it was fully out of sight. They then went back downstairs and spoke with Mick’s mother about what they had just seen. Mick was sceptical that the object was truly anomalous and said “This is unbelievable! It must have been under remote control!” Rob dismissed this saying “Remote control? Did you see the size of the thing? IF it was remote control you would need to be able to keep in range of it and see it. Who would have been flying it? You’ve got to realise what you’ve just seen there!” Mick’s mother was dumbfounded at what had just occurred. She sat back down on the step and began rubbing sun tan lotion into her arms. Then everyone heard a dull roaring noise coming from the North East. The sound got louder and louder. Suddenly two harrier jump jets flew straight over the roof of the house! They were quite low altitude and the sound coming from them was tremendous. Mick’s mother got such a shock that she fell backwards into the open doorway of the house. The jets flew away in the direction the UFO had travelled. Rob informed me that he never saw any other jets fly over while visiting Mick. It seemed clear that they had been launched to intercept the disc they had seen. RAF Lossiemouth is 120 miles North of Glasgow and it is from here that Rob speculates they may have taken off from. Later on that evening Rob described to his girlfriend what they had witnessed. (Continued in Part 2) Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 20/11/2019 In late September 2019 I gave a talk and ran a live UFO investigation desk at an event known as the Supernatural Fayre. Towards the end of the day a man named Alan Darcy provided details of a UFO sighting he had experienced back in the mid 1990’s. Sighting Details On a day in either June or July of 1996 when he was 31 years old Alan visited his parents’ house in Wythall, Worcester with his wife and two daughters (precice location unknown at present). It was around 7-7.30pm in the evening and the weather was bright, sunny and still with a clear blue sky. One of them looked up and noticed a cigar-shaped silver coloured object in the sky through the window. They pointed it out to everyone else present. The object was completely stationary. There was no discernable noise, although the witnesses were viewing it from inside the house. It looked cylindrical but with rounded off ends. At first they thought it must be an aircraft coming in to land and travelling towards their location but they soon realised this was not the case. After watching it for about 30-40 seconds Alan went to find his parent’s binoculars while everyone else continued to observe the UFO. He returned a few minutes later and the object was still present. Looking through the binoculars Alan got a closer view of the object. It was chrome silver in colour all over with no discernable markings, lights or windows. Everyone continued to watch it for a number of minutes. Then suddenly the UFO shot off horizontally to the left extremely fast and was lost from sight! It was gone in less than a second. They were all astounded by what they had just witnessed. Sighting Analysis This is a very impressive sighting due to the movement the object was seen to perform. If it had remained stationary for the duration of the sighting I may have suggested it was some kind of large inflatable such as a solar airship or distant silver coloured blimp. However it could not have been this due to the manner in which it suddenly left the area at an extreme speed. It was stationary at first so was not an aeroplane, and Alan was able to see it clearly through the binoculars and confirmed it was not a helicopter or drone. I have investigated many reports of similar objects to this. The manoeuvre it performed suggested it was under intelligent control and exhibited advanced propulsion capabilities. Although no occupants were seen, I feel that due to both it's appearance and manouvering capabilities observed there is a high likelihood that this was a genuine sighting of an ET craft. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 07/11/2019 In late September 2019 I spoke at the Supernatural Fayre in Worcester, a single day event involving market stalls and speakers. For the remainder of the day I ran a live UFO investigation desk. One of the cases which was reported to me was a sighting by Nigel Webster, one of the Chairmen of Spectral Ghostseekers, a paranormal investigation group based in Birmingham. The group also have a big interest in UFOs, and have attended numerous BUFOG meetings. Sighting Details On the 13th April 2019 Nigel, other Chairman of Spectral Ghostseekers Paul Southey, and two friends Tim and Jason drove to Castle Ring, an Iron Age hill fort at the South East edge of Cannock Chase. Nigel had previously been recommended the location as a good place for a sky watch due to the amount of UFO activity reported in the area over the years. It was a clear and dry night and quite warm, which unfortunately meant there were lots of gnats in the air. They stood on the top of Castle Ring for a number of hours. Nothing unusual was seen in the sky, and they decided to set off home around 1.30am. The men walked back down to the car park at the base of Castle Ring. Tim back in his car and headed off. Nigel, Jason and Paul then stood at the open boot of their car packing away their equipment. At the far end of the car park is the base of the path which leads up onto Castle Ring. To the left of this is some trees and bushes. Nigel and Jason happened to be looking in this direction while Paul sat on the back seat of the car taking his boots off. Suddenly they both saw a glowing orb of light flying on a descending arc extremely fast. It looked quite small, perhaps a couple of feet across and appeared to be sparkling around its’ edges. Nigel remembered it being a pale green colour, but Jason remembers it being white. Both the men in tandem exclaimed “Look at that!” Paul immediately looked up but by this time the orb had come right down and seemingly entered the bushes. Whatever the object had been it was completely silent. Nigel and Jason both told Paul what they had just seen. He was a little disappointed that he had just missed seeing the object considering they had just finished a sky watch. A couple of days after the incident Paul asked both Nigel and Jason to independently draw what they had seen. It was from these drawings which they discovered that the colour they recalled the object being didn’t match, but other than this the drawings were identical. Unfortunately these drawings appear to have been lost. Sighting Analysis This is an intriguing sighting. Obviously when speaking with Nigel I asked him if he considered whether the object could have been a small meteorite. He said he does not think this was what it was as usually meteorites are just seen in the upper atmosphere burning up not at close proximity. Also there was no sound of any collision with the ground or signs that this had happened. He wonders instead whether the orb was perhaps an earth light. However these are quite rare in urbanized areas and Castle Ring is just North of the village of Chestall. It was a clear night so it could not have been ball lightning. Due to its appearance and small size it does not look like this was any form of manned craft. However it also moved far too fast to be a lit inflatable. If it was not a meteorite (a notion I feel cannot be entirely ruled out) then it seemed to be a ball of energy of some kind. Whatever it was it clearly took place as it was witnessed by both Nigel and Jason. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 02/11/2019 Paul Southey is one of the Chairmen of Spectral Ghostseekers, a paranormal investigation group which has been running for 11 years. In recent years his group have been interested in the subject UFOs because of the cross-over between the world of ufology and the world of ghosts – the paranormal activity often reported by experiencers following ET contact. On Saturday 28th September I was invited to speak at a paranormal-focused market day known as the Supernatural Fayre. In addition to my talk I also ran a live UFO investigation desk. Spectral Ghostseekers have attended numerous BUFOG meetings in the past, but this gave Paul the ideal opportunity to discuss a fascinating sighting he and a friend experienced at Rendlesham Forest, the location of the infamous series of UFO incidents in December 1980. Sighting Details Paul and his friend Tim visited the forest in Tim’s car on Friday 7th September 2018. It was a warm and sunny day. As it was their first time at the forest they parked on the visitor’s car park and walked the UFO trail which leads to various locations linked with the events from 1980. At around 4.45pm they were walking along one of the trails on their way back to the car when they suddenly both heard and felt a very strong sub-bass frequency. The noise lasted for several seconds and was quite loud and the vibrations could be felt in the air. It stopped abruptly and both witnesses were puzzled by what had just occurred. They initially thought that it must be a HGV on a nearby road, but Paul checked their location on his mobile phone GPS and they found they were nowhere near any roads. They waited for about 10 minutes to see if the sound would occur again but it did not, so in the end they continued their journey back to the car. After dark at around 10.30pm they returned to the forest. Tim parked in the car park a little further up the road and made their way to the fence at the edge of Capel Green, the farmer’s field in which a UFO landing took place back in 1980 that was witnessed by numerous military personnel. They spent several hours sky watching at the location. It was a very clear and still night, with the stars fully visible overhead. Only distant aircraft and satellites were observed. At around 12.45am a low mist began to appear so they decided to call it a night. They walked back to the car and left the forest with Tim at the wheel, heading West along Woodbridge Road towards the hotel they had booked for the night. They purposely drove slowly at around 20mph in the hopes of yet seeing something unusual. It was very dark as there are no streetlights on that stretch of road. In the distance ahead of them they suddenly noticed what at first appeared to be bright white car headlights coming down a hill. However they were positioned quite high above their position at an angle of about 30 degrees. Paul said to Tim “That’s a big hill!” Tim turned to him and said “There’s no hills around here, that’s why it’s an army base!” Puzzled by this Paul asked “So what’s that light?” Tim provided a written statement which covers what happened next. “As soon as we spotted it, it moved from a stationary position above the road quickly down and to the right putting itself behind a clump of trees. The road curved gradually to the right and we sped up to try and catch up with the light. As we came around the curve in the road the light came back up above the tree- line and moved quickly back cross the road dropping down to the left and behind more trees. We could see its glow through the trees before it dropped out of sight completely. We took another bend in the road at roughly 40 mph and caught sight of the light as it crossed from left to right in front of us again, before dropping behind the treeline to our right. It appeared to have moved back away from our position during this time and was maybe a quarter to half a mile away and dimmer than when we first saw it. Paul had by this time got his phone camera primed and was hanging out of the passenger side window. He managed to get a few seconds of footage as it passed back across the road from right to left and again further distant than when we had last seen it. That was the last we saw of it.” Below is the footage which Paul took on his phone: Transcript of the video: P: Oh what if that was a meteorite coming down or something? T: Hmm? P: What if that was a meteorite? T: No chance. P: I can’t even tell which side of the road that was coming down you know? There it is! Got it! I’ve got it on my camera. Shit, it’s gone behind the fucking thing! T: It’s moving. P: It is, but far ain’t picking it it up. The light is clearly visible on the video but Paul says the footage does not do it justice and it looked far brighter to the naked eye. In order to discount the idea that the light had been caused by a reflection of their own headlights Paul decided to retrace their route. He turned the car around and began driving back down towards the turn off to Rendlesham Forest at around 15mph, with a view to then turning back round to see if the light would come back. By now it was about 1.30am. About 60 yards before reaching the turning for the forest they noticed an old man coming towards them on the opposite side of the road riding a bicycle. He was wearing what looked like a dark blue jumpsuit and was cycling very slowly. The bicycle the man was riding appeared to be very old-fashioned and had a very small light strapped to the front of it. Both witnesses stared at him through the car window thinking “Why is he on a dark country lane with only a single light on at one thirty in the morning?” As they drove on past, the old man never acknowledged them he was just staring straight ahead. Witness drawing of the man on the bicycle: When they reached the forest car park Tim once again turned the car round and started to drive back along Woodbridge Road. Unsurprisingly they did not see the white light again. But what was far more confusing was that the man on the bicycle had completely vanished. They drove for several miles along the road but there was no sign of him. This was of course particularly spooky due to the type of bicycle he had been riding, and both men wondered whether they had encountered a ghostly apparition. Below is Tim’s recollection of the cyclist: “Around a half mile from the car park we suddenly saw an old gent dressed in an old boiler suit and riding a very old- fashioned pushbike coming down the road towards us. I slowed even further to around 10mph, and he passed us on the opposite side of the road without even glancing at us. This struck us as odd, but given what we’d seen 15 minutes earlier it didn’t register as how odd immediately. We carried on to the car park, turned round immediately and headed back. The journey time back to the same spot where we’d seen the old gentlemen took around two minutes. There was no sign of him along the road, despite carrying on for several miles.” The following day they drove back along Woodbridge Road to look for hidden turn offs which the man could have used. While there were no side roads for a number of miles, there were numerous forest paths which he could have conceivably decided to use (although you would have to ask why). Paul also E-Mailed a local UFO group and reported the sighting. They responded saying that other people had also reported seeing something. Paul never received further details of these other sightings, but it appears that there may have been additional witnesses. Sighting Analysis It’s fascinating that what sparked Paul’s interest in going to Rendlesham Forest were the links between ufology and the paranormal, and when he went there he may have seen a UFO and a ghost on the same night! The white light observed and apparently filmed by Paul was interesting. Although it was far too distant to confirm as something anomalous, the extremely fast manoeuvre it was seen to perform suggests it was something highly unusual rather than a normal aircraft or LED balloon. It was also too prominent to be a drone, this is something which was considered by Paul in his discussion with me. It is a shame that these extreme manoeuvres were not caught on film as this would have made the video footage more compelling. The encounter with the elderly cyclist is very spooky. While it was of course possible for a local man to be out cycling in the middle of the night, the way in which he vanished without trace is both intriguing and un-settling. Could this really have been an apparition haunting the road that leads down to the forest entrance? Or was it just someone out after dark who decided to then leave the road along one of the numerous paths at some point giving the appearance that they had vanished? Maybe there have already been other sightings of the cyclist we are yet to learn about, or will be other sightings in due course. Only time will tell. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 28/10/2019 On Saturday 28th September I was invited to speak at the Supernatural Fayre in Worcester, a day of paranormal-themed stalls and speaker lectures. After my talk I spent the remainder of the day running a live investigation desk, where I invited attendees to share their UFO experiences. It was here that I met Paula, who shared details of a fascinating multiple witness sighting from her childhood. Sighting Details When she was 7 years old Paula went to Parton Manor Infant School on Dinglewell, Churchdown. The school is still there today but Paula says a lot of buildings have been built on the grounds and it looks different to how it did in the past. One day in early summer of 1975 before breaking up for the holidays she was playing in the school playground with her friends. Paula cannot remember whether it was morning or lunch time break. It was a very pleasant sunny and still day. She looked up into the sky to her right and was amazed to see a domed-disc shaped object. It was roughly 500 feet off the ground and appeared to be a couple of miles from her location. It was about the size of a small aircraft, Paula estimates about 30 feet in diameter. The object was chrome silver in colour and reflecting the sunlight. The main body of the UFO was a flattened disc shape, but on the top was a curved dome. There were what looked like some thin windows or slits near the base of the dome. It was completely motionless at first, and was sitting at an angle of about 10 degrees. Paula immediately assumed it was a craft due to its appearance. She pointed it out to her friends shouting “Wow look it’s a UFO!” The 20 or so children in the playground all looked up and also saw the object. They ran to the fence at the edge of the playground to observe it. They were just tall enough to see the object over the top of the fence. Everyone was excited at what they were looking at. The UFO hovered silently for about 6 seconds. Then suddenly without warning it instantly accelerated and shot away at a diagonal to the right. It was lost from sight in about a second. There was no trail or smoke left behind it. Everyone was in awe of the situation and just stared at each other open mouthed. Some of her friends had smiles on their faces, others appeared to be in shock. Paula cannot remember whether she or anyone else told the teacher about what they’d all seen. However she does recall telling her parents about it in the evening. Her father dismissed it saying “Oh I don’t think so.” She wonders if there may have been other witnesses elsewhere as it was such a clear cloudless day, and as it was warm it is likely there would have been other people out and about. Sighting Analysis This is a stunning daylight sighting with many impressive aspects. It is rare for there to be so many witnesses, and how everyone reacted certainly proves that it was physically there in the sky. Even though the witnesses were all children (as far as Paula remembers) the shape of the object, apparent size and incredible manoeuvring capabilities displayed mean that mundane explanations can be discounted. It was clearly not a normal plane or helicopter, and the instant acceleration and speed that it left the area means it cannot have been a blimp, kite or inflatable of some kind. It instead appears to have been a solid metallic object under intelligent control. I find it quite likely that this was a genuine sighting of an extra-terrestrial craft. I have investigated numerous sightings of objects with a very similar appearance to what Paula reported. This incident has some similarities to the infamous 1994 Ariel School sighting in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, although in that case the UFO actually landed and a being was also observed which communicated with the children. As far as Paula is concerned no communication went on with her encounter. As to why the craft was there at that time in broad daylight we will probably never know. Due to the time of day and weather it is certainly possible that there may have been other witnesses. There is even the possibility that these other sightings were reported but as Paula was a child she may not have seen the relevant news items or newspaper articles. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 31/10/2019 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses Encounters with the mysterious Men In Black are statistically rare it the world of UFOs. However they have sometimes been reported to grill witnesses for information about things they have seen. The main focus of this report is a night of UFO sightings, and a related incident involving possible MIB which occurred many years later! Sightings Back in 1992 James was 18 years old and lived on Mayfield Road in Moseley with his parents, grandmother, sister Karen and pet dog Duke. Duke had arthritis in his hind legs but was still active, so James would regularly walk him around the local neighbourhood during the evening. The incident took place on 14th November. At the time James had an interest in UFOs and ran an online blog page named Paralnoia, which is no longer active. He documented what took place on the page, which is the reason he recalls the precise date it happened. He was out walking Duke. They were walking along Highfield Road which leads directly off Mayfield Road. It was about 7pm and a very pleasant still evening. Due to the time of year it was already fully dark. The stars were visible overhead. Suddenly Duke became agitated by something and began whimpering. Simon looked around to see what was causing this agitation. He happened to glance up into the sky. As he did he saw what appeared to be a bright white comet with a tail shoot across the sky in front of him from right to left in a curved arc. It moved slower than a meteorite, and appeared to be a few hundred feet up rather than out at the edge of the atmosphere. It travelled with quite a slow and deliberate movement. But this was not all he saw. As the comet-like object began to move away to the left it seemed to pass behind something invisible in the air. For a split second it illuminated the curved edge of a second large aerial object which was not visible to his naked eye! After this had occurred the dog immediately seemed to recover and stopped whimpering. He thought to himself “That’s really weird! I’ll go back to the house, get my binoculars out and have a look to see if anything’s there.” He quickly walked Duke the rest of the way three times as fast as usual. Within 5 minutes they were back home. There was nobody else in at the time. Duke would usually remain downstairs in the house as climbing up the stairs caused him pain. So James left him downstairs and went up to his bedroom. He grabbed his binoculars then opened the big bedroom window which had a view to the East. Highfield Road was to the right of the view. He looked to the left in the direction of Birmingham International airport and scanned the sky for normal aircraft. As he looked back to the right in the direction he had seen the comet-like object and the other invisible object he noticed two white orbs of light in the distance. They were in close proximity to one another but appeared to be darting back and forth, disappearing and reappearing, and curving around each other in erratic movements. They looked completely different to how a normal plane’s navigation lights would appear. James is not sure whether one light vanished or whether they merged but suddenly instead of two lights he was looking at a single white light which was travelling in his direction. At this moment he heard Duke start to whimper again and begin to climb the stairs. This is not something he would normally do because of the pain involved in doing so, it was clear that he was highly concerned and wanted comforting. As the light began to get closer he was able to observe it with his naked eye rather than through binoculars. He thought to himself “Right, is this an aeroplane?” The light continued approaching his location. James thought “Oh shit! This is getting really really close!” The object came to a halt above the tree at the base of the back garden to his house. It appeared to be several hundred feet up. It was now possible to make out what it actually looked like. What had initially appeared as a glowing light was now an oval-shaped disc with a curved top but a flat base. It was chrome silver in colour but was giving off a slight orange glow. James believes this was probably down to the streetlights reflecting on its surface. It appeared to be about the size of a medium jet - James estimates about 100 foot across. James also noticed that the atmosphere in the room had become very still, the air itself felt heavy. He also believes he felt a slight static charge all around him. He stood there transfixed by what he was observing, trying to take in as much detail as possible. He looked at the UFO through his binoculars to see if he could make out any markings or windows but there appeared to be none. Unfortunately he had no camera at the time and this was long before camera phones. He knew that what he was looking at was clearly not mundane. He decided to try and communicate audibly with the UFO. He said out loud “I can’t tell what you are, can you show me something?” At this moment, seemingly in response to his request, the object began to rotate slowly in a clockwise direction! This continued until the flat underside of the object was now facing the sky. After about 30 seconds of it hovering motionless it once again began moving slowly in his direction, but at a slower speed than before. James estimates it moved about 20 mph. It travelled on a straight and level course. As it passed over the house he lost sight of it through the window. James quickly ran downstairs and out onto the front drive to continue observing the object. He found it had completely vanished from sight. However he was greeted by his 16 year old sister who had just arrived home. She immediately exclaimed “Oh my god have you just seen that light over the house?!” James responded saying “I’ve just seen it up close. I think I might have seen a UFO!” He then queried whether Karen had actually seen anything, to which she responded “Well I wouldn’t have said I’d seen a light if I hadn’t seen anything.” She then went on to say that she had seen a light, then a bright flash and it was gone. The fact that his sister reported seeing a light rather than the oval-shaped metallic object is interesting. This was possibly due to the fact that she observed it at distance only, or that it was catching the light in such a way as to appear to be glowing. However it seemed that his sister had not only seen the object too but may have also witnessed it leaving the area! It was now just past 8pm. James went back into the house and up to his bedroom for another look out of the window to see if there was any further activity. He remained there a few minutes and saw nothing out of the ordinary. He then decided to find the number for the University of Birmingham Observatory and give them a call to confirm that there were no astronomical anomalies in the area which could potentially have accounted for some of what he had seen. He managed to get in touch and said to the man on the phone “Hi there. I think I’ve just seen something unusual in the sky. What I want to work out is whether there was anything unusual at the time such as rare aircraft or astronomical anomalies.” The man quickly dismissed him saying “No there isn’t anything around here, you’ve probably just seen Sirius.” James was slightly annoyed at this response as what he had seen was clearly not a star in the sky. But he simply said “OK, that’s fine” and ended the call. The following morning he checked the news, and scanned through all the local newspapers to see if anyone else had reported seeing anything, but there was nothing. James was mystified why there appeared to be no other witnesses (at least any that had come forward) as he had seen three separate objects across two sightings. An Unexpected Visit By 2005 James has moved into a house on Wyndham Road in Bearwood with his girlfriend Carol (now wife). One Saturday afternoon James was downstairs while Carol was doing housework upstairs. He heard a knock on the front door and went to answer it. He was greeted with the sight of a man and a woman. They were both wearing smart black suits with long black trenchcoats. The man looked to be in his late 50s. He was about 5 foot 8 inches tall. He had grey hair which looked a little unkempt considering the smartness of the clothing he was wearing. He was clean shaven. The woman looked Swedish, with blonde pulled back hair and blue eyes. She was taller than the man, about 6 foot 1 inch. She was carrying a black holdall bag. James’ first thought was that they were police and he was in some sort of trouble. This made him naturally guarded. The man began the conversation by saying “Hi there Mr Brody, we’d like to talk to you about something you reported some time ago. Can we come in?” His voice felt a little stern and direct. James thought to himself “Right I don’t know these people but clearly they know my name.” However he decided to honour the man’s request and responded “Ok, come on in.” James took them through to the living room. He asked them if they wanted to take off their jackets but they responded “No, that’s fine.” They both sat down alongside one another on the sofa, and James sat down in one of the armchairs. He then continued the conversation saying “Ok then, I’m not quite sure what you want to talk about?” The man responded, saying “Well we understand that you reported that you saw something in the sky.” James was surprised by this and exclaimed “Oh! Right ok!” The man continued “We want to talk about what you saw. You saw a number of things.” At this James was immediately suspicious of the people. They not only knew his name, but were also aware that he had seen multiple things that night, despite the fact that he had not informed anyone of this. On the night of the incident he had Birmingham Observatory if there were any atmospheric anomalies, but he had not gone into any detail about what he saw. The man then asked “Would you mind us asking you some questions about what you saw?” James responded saying “Ok, I agree I’ve seen a number of different things.” Then the man said “The first thing you saw – was it a comet?” This really surprised him as the first thing he had seen that night was the comet-like object. He gave the man a really puzzled look. At this moment the lady opened the holdall bag and pulled out a black ring binder. She then opened this up. The binder appeared to be full of A4 card pages covered in clear plastic film. She began flicking through the pages. James was not able to see these pages in detail but believes that they had on them various photographs of UFOs, mostly in colour but a few in black and white. When the lady had reached a particular page she lifted the binder up to show him, saying “Did you see this?” There on the page was a single colour photograph. It was the comet-like object he had seen! The image was of good quality. Behind the object was just dark sky, there were no reference points. But what bothered James the most was it was exactly what he had seen. The angle of the shot was exactly how he remembered seeing it from his memory of the incident, almost like a snapshot of his vision had been taken and turned into a printed photograph. As soon as James saw the picture he knew something was very wrong with the situation. He realised that he did not know who these people were, and didn’t know whether he should be guarded or not. He didn’t feel particularly threatened by them but neither did he feel secure. He responded to the lady’s question by saying “Yes it is – who are you?” She replied “We’ll get to that in a minute.” She then once more flicked through the binder to another page, before showing it to him again. James almost anticipated what was going to be on the page. Sure enough there was the oval-shaped object with the flattened base. This time the image was a little lower in quality, but it was still clear enough to see. The object was filling up most of the image, and there was just dark sky beyond it, but once again the angle was exactly how he remembered it hovering at the end of his back garden before it had started to rotate. It was as if someone had been there next to him in the room and taken a photograph. The lady asked “Did you see this?” James was quite confused by what was taking place and simply replied “Yes.” She then asked “Did you interact with this?” James wondered what she meant by this and asked “What do you mean, did I talk to it?” The lady clarified her query by asking “Did you speak to it?” Again James replied “Yes.” She then asked him “What did you say?” James said “I asked it to show be something and then it rotated.” The lady then asked “Did it do anything else?” James replied “No, it rotated and that was it.” However the lady’s questions continued. She asked “Following on from there have you had any problems with electronics, any sort of telekinesis or any increase in paranormal activity?” James could not really think of anything dramatic but responded “There has been occasional experiences but nothing sort of major. Sometimes I think I’ve seen something out of the corner of my eye, occasionally objects seem to vanish then appear elsewhere. But nothing I could say 100% I’ve seen. I did go through a couple of years of setting off shop alarms and metal detectors at airports but that has stopped.” In a very matter-of-fact way the lady simply replied “Well that tends to go after a while.” James was still not happy with what was happening so said “Right, I’ve told you all the information that I want to share with you. Could you now please tell me who you are?” At this the man started talking again, saying “We are an investigative group that review sightings. You obviously think you’ve seen something. It’s something we have past experience with. Thank you very much for your assistance.” This did not feel a satisfactory explanation so James continued “Are you able to tell me any more information about who you are? You’ve come into my house, you’ve asked for some very specific information, I’d like some more information about you.” At this moment the man and lady appeared to sidestep the question. They looked at each other and then the man said “Right it’s time for us to go.” They got up off the sofa. James showed them to the door. They stepped outside and without saying anything further to him walked down the drive and off along the road together until they were out of sight. Looking back at the incident James realises there’s so many questions he should have asked them. But he was completely disarmed by the situation as it was so bizarre. There are clearly many issues with who the people claimed to be. They said they were from an investigative group looking into UFO incidents. But they knew far too much about James and what he had seen. They knew his first and last name, and where he was living, despite having changed address since the incidents occurred. They knew he had seen multiple objects. They knew the appearance of what he had seen. The fact they knew these details is intriguing in itself, but there is a possible explanation. Back in 1992 James did contact Birmingham Observatory on the night of the incidents. He cannot remember whether he gave them his name but it is conceivable that he did. A UFO investigation group could have contacted the observatory and asked about historical calls they had received which may been related to UFOs. There may have been other witnesses who they spoke with confirming what things were seen in the sky that night. They may have assumed that James saw the same objects and then performed research to work out his current address. This scenario seems unlikely but is of course plausible. However the photographs the lady had of the objects are a side of the story much harder to explain. It is possible that these photographs were ones they had received from other witnesses they had previously spoken with. But the fact they were taken at an angle exactly how James recalled seeing them from is deeply puzzling. He saw nobody else in the area at the time when he had the sighting of the comet-like object. And obviously there was nobody there alongside him in his room when he had the second sighting. There are other very suspicious aspects to James’ meeting with the man and woman. Their conversation about the second UFO James saw from his bedroom window suggested that they were aware he had communicated with it. It was almost a leading question, like they knew that he had tried interacting with it by speaking to it. This is not information they could have gained from speaking with anyone else, including other potential witnesses. They also seemed very unwilling to give out information about who exactly they were. If they really were a UFO investigation group surely they would have provided him with details that he could contact them with in case he wanted to provide them with further information? Yet he never found out the name of their group or any way of keeping in touch. Similarly, if this were the case then the photographs would have to have come from other witnesses – and if so why would they not discuss these other witnesses with James and explain where the photographs had come from? There have been many cases involving the Men In Black where they appear to have either grilled witnesses for information directly, or have monitored them from afar, seemingly in a way to learn more about what has happened to them rather than warn them off speaking about it to anyone. Looking at all of the details of what took place I believe that this could be one of those cases. There are too many unusual aspects to what occurred here. We can only speculate as to why they would have been asking about the incidents 17 years after they took place, perhaps what happened was significant in some way. And perhaps the photographs were really from James’s mind, extracted and put down on film via unknown means. However one argument against this suggestion is that the second photograph was not as high quality as the first. If they had been extracted in some way surely they would have both been of the same quality? This is just one of many questions that currently remain unanswered. While Carol did not actually witness the two visitors herself she still remembers the incident. Here is what she recalls about what took place… “I don’t have a direct recollection of the two people as I was upstairs at the time, however when I did come downstairs, my husband seemed very puzzled as to what had just happened. I know the visitors had been there for around 30 minutes and as I understand it they were very interested in talking about James experience although there elements that I know he hadn’t discussed with anyone else. We spent some time discussing who we thought they may have been and it wasn’t until sometime later that we considered that they may have been the MIB. I know it initially concerned James as he said they knew some very intimate details. We also wondered if they would return but to my knowledge there hasn’t been a follow up visit”. Daughter’s Guardian In the autumn of 2007 James and Carol moved to George Road, Five Ways. Carol was heavily pregnant with their daughter Nicola at the time, who was due to be born in the third week of January 2008. It was the evening of 20th December. James and Carol were relaxing in the living room alongside one another on the sofa. All of a sudden James noticed that the air around him had become very cold. It was so cold that it was possible to see his breath. He pointed it out to Carol saying “Look at this, you can see my breath!” He looked around the room for anything which could be causing a draught such as an open door or window but there was nothing which could account for it. He decided to swap places with Carol on the sofa to see if she could feel it to. However when she did this the cold air seemed to follow James. The side of the sofa he was previously sitting on now appeared normal, but he could still feel the cold air around him. He got up off the sofa entirely and walked to the other side of the room. Again the cold air followed him. It quickly became apparent that it was focused around him specifically, not the location in the room. James was standing up near one of the corners of the room when he and Carol noticed a small pinprick of intensely bright white light appear down by one of the walls. It slowly increased in size until it was as big as a 50 pence piece. Then it suddenly vanished. As it did so every single electrical device in the room containing a battery went dead! There was no sound but they soon realised that their phones, the laptop and camcorder had all lost their charge! James rang up his friends with an interest in the paranormal to tell them about what happened. When he told them they asked him if Carol was alright. He wondered why and they suggested that perhaps the activity he had just experienced was some kind of warning. At the time James did not dwell on this too much, but on New Years Eve Carol went into labour early and had to get an emergency C section during which Nicola was almost lost. After a number of days Carol and Nicola came home from hospital. Nicola was still quite poorly with Jaudis. They had prepared a nursery for her along the landing from their bedroom. James also purchased a baby monitor to keep an eye on her while she was in there. Soon after they returned home James and Carol were in their room and Nicola had been put down to sleep in the nursery. A short while passed and Nicola started to cry. As she began James looked over to their open bedroom door and noticed something. Out on the landing, floating about 3 feet off the ground was what looked like a small bubble. It was about an inch in diameter and did not appear to be giving off any light, but appeared to be energy of some kind rather than a physical object. James got up off the bed and walked towards it. As he got closer the orb moved left down the landing out of view. He walked out onto the landing and looking to the left he saw the orb again, this time hovering outside the door of the nursery. He began to walk towards it and again as he got close it moved left, disappearing through the door to the nursery. When he went inside there was no sign of it. He picked up Nicola to comfort her. This was not the only time this orb was seen. James says that for the period of several weeks while Nicola was recovering fully it appeared on many times when she started to cry. It would not appear every time, but most occasions it would occur. It would always appear in the same location and height off the floor, but was clearly intelligent as it would only move whenever he approached it, like it was leading him into the nursery. It was not just James that saw the orb, Carol confirmed that she could see it too, but would try to ignore it. James was more interested in what was happening and as it was repeatable he attempted to capture the orb on his Sony HD camera using normal photographic mode and infra-red mode. Unfortunately the orb would not show up on camera, either video footage or still photographs. Nor would it show up on their mobile phone cameras. This perhaps suggests that it was some kind of psychic phenomenon which was only visible directly. In total James estimates it occurred about 20 or so times over 3-4 weeks, after which it was never seen again. He feels that it may have been a lost relative looking after his new daughter in the vulnerable early weeks of her life. The Figure The summer of 2010 was very warm, and therefore James and Carol only had their thin duvet cover on the bed. One night James woke up with a start around 2am for an unknown reason. In the corner of the room was a cupboard against which was leaning a number of carrier bags filled with second hand clothing. He looked across the room at this corner. Standing there was what appeared to be the sillouette of a tall humanoid figure. It appeared to be 6 foot 5 inches tall and had no features, it was just a dark grey coloured shape, but one which appeared solid. Its arms were down by its side. James put his head under the duvet cover for 5 seconds and then looked again. The figure was still there! He knew now that he was fully awake and that there was something physically there in the room. He thought to himself “I’m going to get up and confront it.” But before he did that he wanted to wake Carol up to gain confirmation that it was definitely there. He reached over and tried to gently wake her up without causing too much noise. It took a couple of attempts but in the end she stirred. While keeping his eyes on the figure he asked her “Carol, can you see that in the corner?” She lifted her head to look towards it. At that exact second the figure faded away before his eyes! As it went he heard the sound of the bags collapsing. He got up out of bed and walked over to where the figure had been. As expected the carrier bags had fallen flat on the ground. The figure was nowhere to be seen. In the following days James wondered if the figure would make a return. To attempt to capture physical evidence of its presence he put talcum powder on the floor in the corner of the room in an attempt to obtain footprints. However this was the last he saw of it. Orb Videos In May 2011 James attempted to capture paranormal activity on camera in his living room. For two consecutive days he set up a camera and invited any spirits present to show themselves. On both videos he managed to capture some small orbs which darted across the frame. In the first video shot on the 24th May James specifically asked for two orbs to appear together on camera. Shortly after asking this an orb appears, closely followed by two more. Here is the video footage: Below are three stills of the orbs seen in the footage ringed in red: Transcript of the first video: "OK then thank you for coming forwards before now. What I need is 'cause people will say this is going to be dust or something like that there so do you think you could show two orbs together on the screen, in front of me so I can say that it's really happpening?" "OK I think I got that. Do you think you could do that again for me? Two orbs?" (First orb appears) "Wow! Thank you so much!" (Two more orbs appear) "Thank you." James filmed a second video in the same location on the following day in an attempt to capture further activity. In this video many orbs are seen passing the camera. A particularly visible one drifts across the screen while James is asking for activity to occur: Still of the orb which passes across the camera at 35 seconds into the footage which James specifically takes note of: Transcript of the second video: "OK then thank you for coming forwards before now. What I need is 'cause people will say this is going to be dust or something like that there so do you think you could show two orbs together on the screen, in front of me so I can say that it's really happpening?" "I'm a bit disappointed that the other camera didn't really pick anything up, so I'm not sure really that anything has actually happened, so um...is there anything you can do for me?" "Anything in particular?" "Do you think you can maybe move something for... (Orb drifts across camera) Ok. Ok thank you for that." "Anything else? Do you think you can maybe show yourself?" While these could be evidence of paranormal activity, I feel that they could just as easily be dust drifting past the camera. None of the orbs perform any manoeuvres which would designate intelligence, and there is no sign that they are self-illuminated. It is interesting that the orbs in the first video appeared a short time after James asked for something to occur, and that for the previous 37 seconds there was nothing observed, but this could just be coincidence. Make of the videos what you will. Conclusions The sightings that James had back in 1992 and subsequent visit by apparent MIB are fascinating and hard to explain. What could the comet-like object that he witnessed have been? Was it actually a bright meteorite that happened to pass across the sky and led him to catch a glimpse of the UFO which was cloaked and in most circumstances invisible to the naked eye? Or could it have been a craft of some kind, perhaps returning to meet with the other cloaked craft? It is unknown if this cloaked object was the same as the oval shaped UFO seen a short while later, but It seems probable that it was due to the proximity of the sightings in both time and location, but there is no way of verifying this. Also if it was cloaked initially then why make its presence known later on? The oval shaped object was clearly not a mundane aircraft or other aerial object such as a balloon. Due to its characteristics and manoeuvres, including the apparent direct interaction James had with it, I find it very likely that this was a genuine sighting of an advanced ET craft. As for the individuals who turned up at James’ door many years later, there are too many unusual aspects to the incident to merely explain as ufologists researching an old case. I feel the evidence certainly points towards a visit by the MIB. Perhaps they were interested in the direct interaction James had with the craft and wanted to see how it affected him, but it is a mystery as to why they would wait so many years before speaking with him. While the more recent paranormal activity experienced by James may be completely un-related to his previous experiences, there is the possibility that his direct interaction with the oval-shaped craft may have triggered heightened senses, which in turn led to paranormal activity in his proximity. Most experiencers of ET contact also report activity of this nature so there may be a connection. I hope that James will keep in touch regarding any further experiences he has. If so this report will be kept up-to-date. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Ian gave an absolutely fascinating talk last week, covering his UFO sightings and other paranormal experiences, a psychic investigation in Ireland and details which suggest he may have found the definitive location of an ancient temple built by the Knights Templar! He had way more to discuss which he did not have time to go over, so I've decided to invite him back for a second time to continue his talk on Thursday 14th November. The previously planned Derrel Sims implant documentary screening will be postponed till a later date.

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 17/09/2019 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In August 2019 I was put in touch with an 83 year old man named Lester. He has a heart condition and wanted to get his various UFO experiences down on record while he still has time. Over two extensive phone calls we discussed four fascinating experiences from his life which have taken place in a variety of places. UFO Over Westcott Lester first got interested in the subject of UFOs back in 1962. He informs me there was a UK wide UFO flap at the time which he recalls reading about. This also happened to be the year of his first UFO sighting, when he was 26 years old. At the time he lived in Quainton, Buckinghamshire. He worked at CBS Records on the Western outskirts of Aylesbury, several miles away. Five miles West of Aylesbury is Westcott Rocket Propulsion Establishment. Until the mid-1990s the establishment designed and developed rocket motors used in British guided missiles and research vehicles. Lester would regularly hear the roar of rocket engines being tested while at his work place. One bright and clear summer’s day Lester was relaxing in the canteen and glanced out of the window. The surrounding area was quite flat and it was possible to see for miles to the North, including a veiew of Wescott in the distance. Above the establishment he noticed a light grey coloured object hovering motionlessly in the sky. It appeared to be about 800 feet off the ground. Due to the distance it was hard to determine the shape or size of the object. He had some binoculars with him and decided to take a look, but even through these it was hard to see it clearly. Sadly he did not have a camera, but it was probably too far away to pick up anyway. Fascinated by what it could be, Lester watched the object for about 6-7 minutes. During this time he called a couple of his work colleagues to also observe it. They briefly watched it before leaving to do other things. Then suddenly without warning the object shot away at an incredible speed to the West. As it went it flew on a level and straight course. It moved like a bullet and in less than a second had vanished from sight! Lester was astounded by what he had witnessed. He knew the object could not have been a rocket as they were incapable of hovering at a stand-still, and it left the area at such a speed that it clearly was not a helicopter. He believed he had witnessed an alien craft, one which had been possibly checking out the rocket testing facility. This experience made him question things more and further increased his interest in the subject. Reflections By 1966 Lester had moved into a rural cottage situated between the villages of Steeple Claydon and Verney Junction. The lane on which he lived had a gate which led to a field. This field was about 600 feet long and beyond it was a small spinney about 80 yards in length. At the northern edge of the spinney was Claydon Brook. One day in summer time Lester went out for a countryside walk by himself. He walked up the field and across the spinney. As he neared Claydon Brook he noticed something unusual reflected in the water. It looked like a row of rounded windows or portholes. He thought to himself “What the devil’s that?” He looked up into the air to where he felt the object making the reflection should be but there was nothing there. When he looked back into the water the reflections were still there. At this point he began to feel anxious like he was being watched by something. Something invisible to his naked eye but showing up in the water’s surface and about 30-40 feet across. He quickly turned and began to walk East along Claydon Brook in the direction of Verney Junction. He did not want to remain in the area any longer. Looking back at the incident Lester is still adamant that there was something there. He informed me that he used to enjoy shooting, and has a keen eye. He knows what to look for in the air, as well as in water and marshland. Coloured Orbs On a summer’s day in the early 1990s Lester had driven to Dorchester to go shopping. It was a clear and sunny day with only light cloud in the sky. He had parked in the Northern “Top o’ town” car park and was making his way back to the car. He was about to cross Bridport Road which runs alongside the Southern edge of the car park when he looked up into the sky. There he saw about 5-6 orbs. They were a mix of colours including blue, green, red and white, and appeared to be self-illuminated rather than reflecting the sunlight. The orbs were darting around one another very rapidly, performing turning movements in the sky, almost like juggling balls. There seemed to be no restrictions in the way that they moved, as if they were without mass. However they appeared to move with intent rather than how balloons caught in the wind would look. Their colours did not change or dim in brightness. It was hard to judge their precise height and therefore size, but they seemed to be at quite a high altitude, which would have made them quite large. Lester says it really was an astonishing sight which stopped him in his tracks. After a few seconds another young man came walking by. He pointed the orbs out to the man. The man looked up and then just shrugged and went on his way. Lester was perplexed at his apparent disinterest. He continued to watch for about 10-15 seconds but then decided to cross the road as it was quite busy and he didn’t want to get in anyone’s way. Sadly he had no camera on him at the time. After crossing the road, which took no longer than 10 seconds, he looked back up and was surprised to find that the orbs had completely vanished! He could do nothing more but head back to his car. He has mentioned the incident to numerous people since, but not heard of anyone else reporting the same objects. Silver Cigar Around 2004 Lester owned a small Suzuki camper van. He would regularly drive to Wales to camp for the weekend at various locations. It was the August bank holiday and he had decided to drive to camp at Bird Rock, a rocky outcrop near to Llanfihangel-y-Pennant in North West Wales, which rises to a height of 258 metres above sea level. It is named Bird Rock because of the Choughs and other bird species that nest there. It was about 3pm that he arrived at the plateau of the rock and parked up. The plateau was quite open with only a few hawthorn bushes around the edge. There was a stunning view of the surrounding area in all directions. It was a lovely afternoon with a clear blue sky. Lester got out of the van to take a look around. He looked to the North West towards Barmouth Bay. In the distance he noticed an object hovering in the sky over the bay. It appeared to be at an altitude of about 6-7000 feet. The object was metallic silver in colour and was completely motionless. Lester estimates it was about 200 feet in length with squared off ends. There were no windows, portholes or other markings visible. The surface of the UFO appeared to be highly reflective. As he watched he realised the object appeared to be emitting rings of vapour that spread out around it like smoke rings. The vapour was clearly coming from the object. He stared at it, fascinated by what it could be. Lester informed me that during the war he used to have aircraft recognition books, so had a good eye for known aircraft. He had a pair of binoculars in the van door at the time, but says that every time he went to retrieve them to take a closer look at the object something stopped him and he heard a voice in his head say “Don’t do that!” After a short while the vapour seemed to stop being emitted. Then roughly 300 yards behind it Lester noticed what appeared to be a solitary cloud forming from thin air. He watched on as the cloud got bigger and bigger. It then stopped growing and began slowly moving towards the UFO. At the same time the UFO began moving towards it. They appeared to clearly be connected. After about 20 seconds the UFO and the cloud reached one another. The UFO entered the cloud and was lost from view. A moment later the cloud vanished near instantly. Both it and the UFO were gone! In total Lester had watched the UFO for 17 minutes. He informed me that “it was an astonishing sight”. There was nothing else he could do other than relax, so he poured himself a cup of coffee. In the following days he did tell a couple of his friends about the incident. He also informed a UFO group who advertised in Nexus magazine, but never heard back from them. Conclusions Lester has had a number of fascinating UFO sightings throughout his life, and I am happy that he has chosen BUFOG as a way of preserving the details of these experiences through this extensive case report. The incidents he has witnessed have been varied, but have each had stunning aspects which are hard to explain. They have all appeared vastly different to any known aircraft. Some have performed incredibly fast but intelligent manoeuvres. Some have vanished in plain sight or only been invisible to the naked eye but clearly present. These aspects suggest that Lester has witnessed genuine ET craft as opposed to misidentification of mundane objects, a suggestion he is only too happy to take on board because of his background and knowledge. I’ll end this report with Lester’s own thoughts which he passed on to me during one of our discussions… “What it amounts to is this - not so much where these things come from but what are we? There’s something going on with humans that seems to be recognised by whoever these visitors are, maybe they bred us and are farming us. Maybe something else entirely. We have to question ourselves in order to understand what is taking place here.” Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 07/09/2019 Introduction Richard Freeman is a renowned UK-based cryptozoologist. He is the zoological director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) and has published a number of books on the subject. In August 2019 he came to give a talk at BUFOG about a number of well-known cryptids (animals whose existence or survival are disputed or unsubstantiated) from around the world, and his various expeditions to attempt to obtain evidence of their existence. After his talk Richard stopped overnight at my house as his train home was not till the following morning. We got chatting and he informed me of a number of experiences which fitted more closely with Ufology and ET contact than with cryptozoology. He gave me permission to write down these experiences and document them in this report. Knocks on the Wall In the early 80’s Richard lived in a house on Cedar Road, Camp Hill, Nuneaton with his grandparents. His earliest unusual experiences happened in 1983 or 1984 when he was 13-14 years old. They began one night after he had gone to bed around 10-11pm. He was lying down with the light off but had not yet dropped off to sleep. He suddenly heard a tap tap tap-tap sound of knocking on his bedroom wall, coming from the adjacent room. It sounded like someone knocking on the wall with their fist. The room adjacent to his bedroom was just used as storage. It contained a wardrobe and some book shelves. Richard got out of bed and went to check in the room. As expected there was nobody there. He returned to his room and got back into bed. At the time Richard was aware of cases of poltergeist activity and wondered if that was going on. He decided he would attempt to communicate. He knocked twice on the wall. To his astonishment he got two knocks back in response! He then began knocking different numbers of times, and each time got the same number of knocks back. For an unknown reason he wasn’t scared of what was taking place. After several minutes he stopped getting a response to his tapping on the wall and so settled down to sleep (Which you may feel is strange in itself – I certainly wouldn’t be able to sleep after something like this had taken place!) The following night once again he was lying in bed and the tapping started again! Like before he began communicating with whatever it was, and each time it would copy the number of knocks on the wall. Richard informs me that it repeated like this every night for the period of about two weeks. The tapping would always start around the same time and always in the same location. On one of the nights he tried asking it questions out loud. He asked it basic mathematics questions and would get the correct number of taps in response. For example he asked it what two times three was and got back six knocks on the wall! Richard does not know why he did not take this much further, for example getting it to respond with one knock for yes and two for no. If he had done this he may have been able to ask it detailed questions. After this particular time period he never heard the knocks again. He was certain that whenever it occurred the adjacent room was empty and it was not someone playing a prank on him. If the knocks had always started with Richard, it could be suggested that it was just caused by echoes within the wall, but this was not the case, nor does it explain the knocks given in response to questions. Richard is adamant that nobody was playing a practical joke. The fact that it happened night after night for a period of time tends to back this up – if it had occurred only once or twice this would be plausible (not that there was anyone else living there besides his grandparents). Levitating Grey Around the same time as the knocking sounds (Richard cannot remember whether prior to or after) he had what would be described as an alien visitation. He woke up in the early hours of the morning. When he rolled over in bed he saw a being hovering in the air alongside the bed. It was about two feet away from the edge of the bed and in a lying down position at the same height as himself. The being was completely unclothed. It had a slender frame and smooth skin with no wrinkles visible. Its arms were very long and thin, and positioned along its side. There was no genitalia visible. It had the general features of a Grey but with a number of unusual aspects. Firstly its skin colour was bright pink like peppermint rock from the seaside. Its eyes were very large, oval in shape and brown in colour. The being’s chest had human-like nipples. Its feet were rounded and there were no noticeable toes. He stared at the being, frightened by its presence. It slowly turned its head to look at him. It then stretched out one of its arms and put it round his shoulders. Suddenly he jolted up in bed. He was fully awake and the being had completely vanished. It took him a while to settle back down. Richard feels that this incident was probably a hallucination brought on by hypnagogia rather than ET contact. While some of the aspects of the experience such as the odd colour and features of the being and the unusual position it was in, it is still interesting that it had the general appearance of a Grey. In addition to this, as you will see later in this report, this is not the only time that Richard has had encounters of this kind. Red Orbs Sighting Richard’s first UFO sighting took place in the autumn of the same year as the poltergeist activity. It was a clear and still evening with only light cloud in the sky. Richard was walking along Cedar Road from his grandparents’ house to his mother’s house. It was quiet and there were no cars on the road at the time. He happened to glance up at the stars and noticed two glowing red orbs of light in the sky. They were situated slightly to the left of his location at an angle of about 75 degrees. The orbs were positioned diagonally from one another. It was hard to accurately judge how high they were, but Richard believes they were about 2000 feet up. Due to their apparent height this would have made them quite sizeable. The orbs were cherry red in the centre with a red glowing haze around their edge. The brightness was constant, there was no flickering which you would tend to see with a flame. They were completely stationary. Richard stared at them in fascination for about 10 seconds wondering what they could be. Unfortunately he did not have a camera on him. Suddenly an arc of blue electricity passed from the higher orb to the lower one. A couple of seconds went by and then another arc came down from the lower orb, seemingly down to the ground, although this was lost from view behind the local housing. Within a second of this both the orbs instantly vanished from sight! Mystified by what he had seen, he continued walking to his mother’s house. He does not recall whether he mentioned the incident when he arrived there. He did mention it to a number of his friends at school. Another Visitation Several years went by without any further unusual events. But in 1987 Richard would once again experience a night-time visitation. For an unknown reason he woke up in the early hours. Looking across his bedroom past his pet snake’s vivarium he noticed that the bedroom door was open. He immediately thought to himself “That’s strange, I thought I closed that.” He then noticed a shape which should not have been there. Peeping around the door was a Grey very similar to the one he had seen before. The only difference was that this one was a tan brown colour rather than bright pink. The being was partially hidden by the door, he could just see the side of its face with a single eye, and one long arm which the being had positioned up in the air stretched out above it. A moment after he looked at it the being made a shocked noise and then quickly retreated from view behind the door with a waddling motion. It appeared that it had noticed Richard looking at it and it did not wish to be seen. Immediately just like before Richard jumped wide awake. He felt dazed and the Grey was nowhere in sight. However the bedroom door was still open. Richard once again puts the incident down to a hypnagogic hallucination. This could the case, once again the being was in an unusual position with its arm up in the air. But it is interesting to note that the door was clearly ajar even after the experience ended. While it could have drifted open of its own accord, or perhaps been opened by Richard getting up in the night, this may instead point to the experience physically taking place. Pixie Led By the late 90s Richard was fully involved in the world of cryptozoology. He also had an interest in the mystical, including ancient monuments of the UK. It was late autumn in either 1999 or 2000 and he had gone to Dartmoor with two friends Phil and Alison, and another friend of Phil’s. They were there to check out Grey Wethers - one of the most well-known stone circles. It was dusk by the time they arrived, so due to the time of year must have been mid-evening. The weather was not great, it was a little drizzly and windy, with cloud cover overhead. Grey Wethers is not alongside any public roads, in order to reach it you have to park and walk by foot. They parked at the side of the B3212, the closest main road to the stone circle. They then began walking North West towards its location. Between them and their destination was a number of grass covered fields edged by low stone walls. As they entered one of these fields something unusual started to take place. Richard and his friends somehow all became confused and lost. They began wandering about in all directions looking for the gate to the next field. This seemed to go on for quite some time, at least half an hour, as Richard noticed it was becoming dark. The situation felt strange, almost dream-like. He thought to himself “Why are we all wandering around and can’t find the way out?” As they walked around they occasionally spoke to one another about the situation but were relatively quiet. Suddenly across by one of the walls Richard saw a circle of small pale blue-white lights appear, roughly 25-30 feet from his position! It appeared to be about 5 feet across and just above ground level. His friends were further away at the time, and he drew their attention to it by exclaiming “Look at that!” They stood there wondering what it could be. They were not frightened, just puzzled by its appearance. After about 30 seconds all of the lights suddenly blinked out. Then several seconds later they all reappeared, but this time they were in the shape of a figure with arms and legs by its side and a dome shaped head! After a few more seconds the lights disappeared again. At this point Richard knew something really unusual was taking place. He thought back to Dartmoor folklore stories he had read about pixies (piskies) and how they were known to lead travellers astray. He recalled in these stories that one of the ways to break the curse was to turn your jacket inside out. Without really thinking this would actually have any effect at all he took off his coat and turned it inside out, asking his friends to do the same. For an unknown reason none of them questioned what he was asking them to do, which later on felt odd. As soon as they did this the dream-like state seemed to dissipate and they immediately noticed the gate to the next field in the stone wall. They walked over to and through the gate, and could then see the circle of stones in the distance, lit up a bonfire some other people had lit. At the same time they noticed the sound of guitars and drums being played. It felt strange that they had not heard these while in the previous field as according to Richard they should have been able to. They soon arrived at the stone circle and stayed there a while. They did not mention the bizarre incident in the field to the other visitors, just simply smiled at them on their arrival. After a while it started to rain so they decided to return to their car. They took a different route back to it rather than re-trace their steps through the fields. Richard never really discussed the incident with his friends again after that evening to any great extent. They have now moved elsewhere and he has lost contact with them, but he often thinks back to the strange series of events that occurred that night. Was there really something to the stories of people being pixie-led? In these stories people would often find themselves mysteriously dis-oriented and would lose track of time and direction, just as Richard reported. Here is a link to a page on the Legendary Dartmoor website about the Pixie Led phenomenon: http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/piskie_led.htm What occurred in the field made no sense, as obviously in this situation the logical thing to do would be to walk to the wall and then walk along until the gate is found? But for some reason nobody present thought of this, they just started walking back and forth aimlessly. Richard confirmed that they had not drank any alcohol or taken any drugs. The orbs of light which were seen are a fascinating mystery. They were off-road and there was no farming machinery around which could have been responsible for what they saw. No machinery would make that pattern of lights in the first place, nor would the lights have changed shape in the way that they did. The bizarre shape the lights formed after vanishing for the first time is very interesting indeed. Was it, as Richard interpreted, a humanoid figure? Or was it merely reminiscent of one? If it was a figure this certainly suggests that the lights possessed intelligence, maybe this display was done on purpose to show the witnesses that they were sentient. And what of the way in which things seemed to go back to normal after Richard got everyone to put their coats on inside out? Surely this could not have actually had an effect on what was taking place, and it was just coincidental? There are so many unanswered questions to what happened here, but for those who believe in pixies I presume the answers are already clear… Glowing Orbs In January 2015 Richard went on an expedition to Tasmania for a number of weeks in an effort to track down the Tasmanian wolf (Thylacine), a carnivorous presumed by mainstream science to have become extinct in 1936. In modern times there have been many reported sightings of this elusive creature, and Richard travelled to Tasmania with his Australian friend Mike in order to try and capture evidence of the species’ continued existence. It was the final evening of their trip before their flight back to England. They had been un-successful in capturing footage of a Tasmanian Wolf, but Mike had arranged for them to spend the night at a farmhouse on the edge of Bronte Lagoon, Bronte Park. The daughter of the family who lived there had apparently had an encounter with the wolf. Mike also claimed to have seen unidentified glowing orbs of light in the woodland south from the house on numerous previous occasions when the weather was clear, and was aware that the family had also seen them. After arriving and settling in they discussed the sighting of the Tasmanian Wolf with the daughter. After this the conversation then turned to the lights. The farm owner said that the lights would appear most nights and they had seen them on many occasions. He said that on one occasion one of them had come in close to the house and hovered outside over a window box. In the morning when they checked the window box they found that the plants had shrivelled up and died. Richard hoped that he too would get to see the lights. Around 10pm once the sun had fully set everyone went outside to look for the lights. It was a clear night, with only partial cloud cover. Suddenly about 60 feet South of their location directly over the chicken coop one of the orbs appeared! It looked like a glowing white fairy light. It was hovering about a foot above the coop, which meant it was about 4 feet off the ground. It was completely stationary and the brightness It was only present a short while. Before they began moving towards it to get a closer look it went out. But then further away at the edge of the woodland several other lights came on amongst the trees. As they continued to watch the lights go out and others appear. They would sometimes appear next to the tree branches, other times they would be in mid-air. Richard had seen both glow worms and fireflies on numerous occasions before and was convinced that these were something else entirely. Richard had his camera equipment with him. Unfortunately the normal cameras he had did not have a good enough zoom on them, and it was not dark enough to use the night vision camera he had with him. He attempted to capture footage of the lights in the woodland but because it was not pitch black the footage came out over-exposed and un-watchable. They decided to approach the lights in the wood. As they began to get closer the orbs would always vanish, but then others would appear further into the trees. It felt almost as if the lights were leading them South through the woodland. Eventually they came out from the trees at the Northern edge of the lagoon. Across the far side they could see a small lighthouse. They wondered if the light from this was somehow reflecting off the trees and causing the phenomenon. They felt that this probably wasn’t the explanation, but wanted to be sure, so walked back to the farmhouse. They then set off in their car to drive round to the other side of the lagoon. When they arrived at the lighthouse it immediately became clear that the orbs of light could not be caused by it. The beam was not far too localised and was not shining in the right direction to catch the woodland on the North side of the lagoon. However while they stared back across it they then saw a much larger orange orb of glowing light appear in the woodland! It looked at least as big as a beach ball and was hovering in the air. Richard and Mike jumped back in their vehicle and quickly drove back to the farmhouse. On route they lost sight of the orange orb because of the layout of the road. As they arrived they realised the orb was no longer present, and the smaller white orbs were now nowhere to be seen. When they spoke with the family, they confirmed that they too had seen it through the trees, however they described it as red in colour not orange. Everyone stayed up a while longer hoping to see more lights but no more appeared that night. Richard purposely woke very early before the morning light in an effort to see them again but they did not make an appearance. Once everyone else had woken up he and Mike said goodbye and set off for the airport. Looking back at the incident Richard feels certain that there was some kind of intelligence behind the lights rather than them being a natural phenomenon such as earth lights. He feels that it was a display of some kind put on for them because they were watching. Conclusions Richard has had an impressive number of varied fascinating experiences, especially when you consider that these are in addition to his experiences involving cryptids. Clearly some of these experiences have links with ufology, from his sightings of unexplained aerial objects to his encounters with Grey-like entities, although I’m sure Richard would not consider himself to be an alien contactee. If you would like to learn more about Richard’s cryptozoological work, the website for the Centre of Fortean Zoology can be found at http://www.cfz.org.uk/ Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Craig Lowe Release Date: 14/02/2008 I am part of a paranormal forum and after seeing something I couldn't explain other members suggested emailing you with the details: I was in Birmingham town centre today and at 11:30 am this morning I was on the bus on the way home. I was at the back of the bus and facing backwards as they were the only seats available. I looked out the window and above a tall building there were four white objects. At first I thought they were seagulls soaring, then I realised they had no wings so I thought of balloons. The objects were in a kite formation and perfectly motionless which made me wonder about them. There was a slight breeze so if they were balloons they should have moved. The bus moved on and I lost sight of them. As it moved on, I caught sight of them again and watched as one object at the top of kite formation moved slowly and smoothly under the left side object. Then I lost sight of them completely as the bus moved on. The objects were slightly ovoid in shape, no idea of size as I don't know how far away they were. If anyone was in Birmingham town centre this morning around this time, if you saw what these objects were and could let me know I'd be grateful as I am baffled. Copyright Craig Lowe 2008