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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2021 Last Updated: 11/02/2026   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   In late February 2021 a lady who I shall call “Claire” got in touch via phone to discuss something unusual she had seen earlier in the month close to her house in Castle Bromwich. She informed me that what she had seen had been captured on her security camera. Unfortunately, despite stating that she would do so, she never managed to extract and send me this footage to analyse. Despite this I have captured this information to get it down on record.   Incident Details   Around 5am on the morning of Tuesday 2 nd  February 2021 Claire was awoken from her sleep by a horrendously loud grinding noise that sounded like metal scraping. A moment later the same sound happened a second time.   She got out of bed and peered out of the bedroom window. The view from this window overlooks the car park of Castle Bromwich Men’s Club just to the North. Along the near side of this car park are is a line of wheelie bins and some traffic cones up against the wall of the house.   Aerial map of The Green indicating Claire's house (A) and Castle Bromwich Men's Club (B) Photograph of the entrance of Castle Bromwich Men's Club Claire could see that these bins and cones had been knocked over. This was odd as it had been a very still night with no wind.   She then walked along the landing and peered out of another South facing window overlooking The Green. Near to the lamp post closest to her house she could see various white translucent shapes moving up and down. After watching them for a short while they seemed to fade away and vanish.   Photograph of the lamp post  Claire thought to herself “That’s weird!”  but assumed the shapes must have been light reflecting off the snow. It was still early so she decided to return to bed and go back off to sleep for a number of hours. Photograph showing the proximity of the lamp post to the house Later on after she got up she decided to check the footage recorded by the house’s security cameras. When she checked the South facing camera from about 2am she started to see the white shapes appear. They would congregate and seemingly move through one another near the base of the lamp post, then sometimes drift up and down it almost like they were gathering energy from it.   When she checked the North facing camera at around 5am she saw the bins and cones suddenly fly into the frame. Unfortunately, the camera was not angled sharply enough to see how they had got knocked over. She believes they were knocked over at the same time as the loud sounds she had heard.   Just over a week later on 10 th  February Claire noticed several workmen standing around the lamp post and chatting. They remained there for about 10 minutes before getting in their van and driving away.   Incident Analysis What Claire saw sounds quite intriguing and it is a shame that she did not send me the camera footage to examine. It is tempting to think that the white shapes she saw drifting around the lamp post were nothing more than light reflections bouncing off the snow, but surely if this was the case she would have seen them on previous occasions and they would not cause so much confusion? That said this explanation cannot be entirely ruled out. Another possibility is that they were insects attracted to the street light and glowing as they were caught in it.   The loud noises that she heard are also interesting, especially when paired with the bins and cones that were clearly knocked over around the same time. One possibility is that a vehicle had tried to reverse and maybe crashed into them or into the wall, knocking them over and making the metallic scraping sounds. Even if Claire had managed to send me the camera footage the cameras only record visual not audio, so we only have her word to go on.   It is unlikely that the presence of the workmen a week later around the lamp post had anything to do with what Claire saw previously, it is probable that this was just a coincidence and nothing more.   If Claire gets back in touch and sends the footage to me I will analyse it and add my findings to this report.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2020 Last Updated: 09/02/2026   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   In July 2020 “Steven” got in touch with me via phone to discuss various experiences he has had and his views on them.   Communion   In February 1987 American experiencer Whitley Strieber released the well known book “Communion”. The book went into his contact experiences in depth. At the time Steven was 16 years old.   He vividly remembers walking into a local book shop and seeing a rack covered in the book. On the cover of the book was one of the Grey beings which Whitley had previously encountered on numerous occasions. The rack was like a “wall of faces”.   Communion front cover  When Steven saw the books he immediately froze to the spot. Something immediately felt familiar to him, like a subconscious recognition. There was no memory of anything having actually taken place, but he had a very strong feeling that he knew these beings.   He stood there almost paralyzed for about 20 seconds. Eventually the shock at seeing the books subsided. He felt drawn to read the book to see whether that would shed some light on how he had reacted. This led to a general interest in the contact phenomenon.   It should be noted that Steven’s claims are far from individual. The cover of Communion is famous for triggering memories or general feelings of unease with experiencers.   Malevolent Presence   In 1996 Steven was in his final year at Portsmouth University and staying in a share house. Around this time of his life he suffered from sleep paralysis quite regularly. One night he had a particularly vivid and disturbing experience which felt quite different to usual.   He was in bed when he began became aware that he was asleep. As he became aware of this fact, he then started to feel the sense of an evil presence downstairs. He sensed this presence begin to come up the stairs and move along the landing. He then sensed the door to his bedroom opening and it enter the room. Next he felt the bed sheets over him start to lift. At this moment he jolted out of dream-state and woke completely up.   Immediately the sense of a presence vanished. He got out of bed and searched the house but there was nothing there. Eventually he calmed down and went back off to sleep. Looking back at the incident Steven believes that it may have been caused by a particularly upsetting lucid dream. He says that the previous evening he had been watching a documentary about a choir master who had committed some horrendous crimes. He believes that this documentary was weighing heavily on his mind, which manifested in this vivid dream. I agree that this is the most probable explanation for what happened.   Grey Visitation   By the spring of 1999 Steven had married and moved to Thailand. He shared a secluded wooden house with his wife, about 100 metres away from a main road.   One morning he woke up with an odd feeling that something had gone on in the night. Before he mentioned anything his wife turned to him and asked who the two little men were that had been there during the night.   Immediately a flashback of what had taken place came flooding back to him. He was standing next to the bed with a Grey standing at each of his sides. They looked identical to one another and were about 3.5 – 4 feet tall. He was staring down at his wife thinking to himself “What have you got yourself into being with me?”   He had no idea what happened after this point. It is very possible that he was taken but had the memories of this blanked out.   Turned Around   In late 2002 – early 2003 when he was 31 years old Steven arranged for a holiday to the UK. During this trip he visited his mother at her house in York. In the middle of the night he awoke for no apparent reason. He decided to get out of bed and walk around a while to settle back down. While pacing back and forth he decided to look out of the window.   Suddenly he saw a white light shine directly at him. He then felt like he briefly blacked out. He came around to find himself still standing up but facing the other direction. He had no idea of how long had gone on, at the time it felt near instantaneous.   Looking back at the incident he wonders if what happened was down to a medical issue, or whether he had been abducted before being put back the other way around with the memories removed. He did not think to check a clock at the time so has no way of knowing whether a longer period of time had passed or not.   Hyperconciousness   In 2007 Steven felt like he was having numerous contact experiences. He could not remember any details, but was just aware that something was going on, a feeling he refers to as “hyperconsciousness”. Sometimes he would try his best to recollect things, other times he would push these thoughts to the back of his mind and get on with his daily life.   As he could not remember any details around this time he does wonder if this was just paranoia brought on by things he was reading about the contact phenomenon rather than actual experiences he was having.   Bicycle Shed   The only other occasion Steven recalls anything odd going on was on another visit to his mother’s house in York. He had gone to sleep like normal. However, he then had a vivid memory of waking up to find himself standing in the pouring rain with no idea how he had got there.   He was standing down the end of the long back garden next to the bicycle shed. He did not recall walking back into the house and returning to his bed so is unsure whether this actually took place or was just a dream. All he knows is that in the morning there was no sign that he had been rained on in the night.   Conclusions   Steven’s most compelling incident was the Grey visitation that he remembered and which his wife also made mention of. The fact that she independently recollected seeing the beings next to him in the night means that this cannot have just been a vivid dream. This incident alone confirms that he is a contactee.   His other experiences are harder to verify, especially due to the fact that he has experienced sleep disorders such as sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming, and also the fact that he has looked into the contact phenomenon. While they may be related, some of them could have more mundane explanations.   Steven confirmed that his daughter has also had experiences including UFO sightings and paranormal activity. However, he did not go into details of these incidents.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 29/08/2020 Last Updated: 31/08/2020 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Nathan first got in touch with me in May 2020 via our Facebook community page. He wanted to inform me about a number of unusual experiences which have taken place throughout his life. He now lives in Virginia, USA but earlier in his life lived in Nottingham, England. In speaking with him in depth via Skype he first discussed with me his career as an aircraft maintenance analyst for the military at numerous Air Force bases. We then went over his experiences, which have included contact-related incidents as well as fascinating UFO sightings. It also turned out that Nathan was a witness to the Phoenix Lights back in March 1997, one of the most famous and impressive UFO cases ever reported! Due to the magnitude of this revelation and its importance I have separated it out into a second report, the link for which can be found towards the end of this one. Nathan’s other experiences will be discussed below. White Orbs In his childhood Nathan lived with his parents in a large house at one end of Allington Avenue, Nottingham. At the time his brothers and sister all lived in Jamaica. Aerial map of Allington Avenue with the house Nathan used to live in marked He recalls a number of occasions from about the age of 4 where a glowing white orb approached the house. Initially he would hear a very loud humming noise which would send vibrations through his body. The frequency of the sound would change rather than remain constant. It was very loud but his parents never talked about hearing it themselves. He’d then see a white light approach from an Easterly direction. His bedroom was at the front of the house, which gave him a view along Park Road. The light would always come from this direction and flood the room in brightness. Usually his curtains were partially closed but he’d see a glowing white orb through the gap, and the curtains weren’t thick enough to block out the light coming from it. Photograph of Nathan's childhood home with his bedroom window circled On the ceiling alongside the bed he had a corded light which doubled as a heater. You would have to pull the cord once to switch on the heater, which had a yellow glow to it. If you pulled it a second time the light would switch on. Whenever the orb appeared outside the light would go out and change back to its heater setting. Then this too would dim and switch off. It appeared that the orb was interfering with the electrics of it in some way. For some reason he knew that if this orb touched you it would control you, so he feared it. He would try to hide from it at the side of the window so it couldn’t see him. He would then run along the landing into his parent’s room and try to wake them up. When he did this the orb would follow and then be outside their bedroom window instead. Map of the upper floor of the house showing the white orb appearing outside the windows Nathan remembers on numerous occasions trying to wake them up by shaking them vigorously and talking to them but they would never wake, it was like they’d been switched off. However he says his dad was a heavy drinker so many on these occasions he was just sleeping really deeply, this cannot be fully put out of the question. When they didn’t wake he would hide alongside them under their blanket. This would be the last thing he would recall, when he next became aware he would always be waking up in his own room. It is of course possible that his parent’s would wake up before him, find him there and take him back to his bedroom without disturbing his sleep. Years later he asked his father about these experiences. He asked him "When I was a kid did you take me back to my room a lot?" His father replied that he recalled this happening on a couple of occasions. He also confirmed that on other occasions they had found him outside the house. The first time it happened his mother brought him back inside. When it happened a second time they locked him in his room at night as they thought he must be sleep walking. On one occasion when he was either 4 or 5 Nathan recalls being outside and running away from the white orb of light. He is unsure of whether this took place before or after his parents started locking the door to his room. He recalls running in a zig-zag motion along Allington Avenue to try and get away from the orb. Map of the ground floor of the house showing the white orb approaching outside Photograph looking up Allington Avenue A few doors up the road from his house there is an alley-way which leads through to the back yards of the houses. Nathan remembers crouching down behind the front garden wall of the house adjacent to this alley to try and hide from the orb. Photograph of the alleyway with the location where Nathan hid from the glowing orb marked However at this point in his recollection his memory suddenly changes. He recalls being in another darkened location. The buzzing sound coming from the orb had now ceased. He was lying down on a raised table of some kind and was paralysed. Nothing appeared to be holding him down but he could not move. He is unsure whether he was unclothed or in his night clothes. There was a glowing white light positioned at a diagonal to him, providing the only light source in this place. Standing around him were a number of Greys, of course at this point in his life he did not recognise them as such. The Greys appeared to not be wearing any clothing apart from dark face masks which covered their mouths and chins. Their skin was very pale coloured, almost white, but with a blue-ish tone. They had large craniums, the one towards his feet particularly. Most of the beings had completely black eyes, however the one with the larger head had eyes with visible irises. These were still very large in size compared to human. Their noses were diminished and barely noticeable. The beings were staring at him, almost like doctors who had found something interesting. They began by staring at his face but then started to look down his body. It felt to him that he was in some kind of trouble and that he’d angered them in some way. It was as if he was being made to get into the position they wanted him to be in. When they checked his back, he felt himself being raised up. When they checked the back of his legs he felt those being lifted by an unseen force. Witness drawing from his perspective looking up at the Greys and bright light The amount of pressure holding him down seemed to fluctuate. At some moments he felt like he was almost entirely paralyzed, at other moments he felt he had more movement. At one point when it decreased in strength he actually got up off the table and started running around the room he was in. He does not recall seeing any furnishings or apparatus and it was very dark except for over by the table with the light over it. When he did this the beings did not give chase, instead he felt them telepathically command him to return to them. This was not like actual spoken words, it was more a feeling in his mind that he had to get back on the table. He remembers a glowing white light moving towards him and then being back on the table lying down again. Nathan has no idea of how long this experience went on for. His memories of it are fragmented. The next clear memory he has is of waking up in the morning in his own bed. After that experience he began to leave the heater off in his room, almost like it was in some way related to what had happened. On another occasion when he was either late 5 or early 6 years old Nathan recalls the orb coming for him while his parents were out at a party till the early hours of the morning. He consciously remembers getting out of bed and running out of his room onto the landing, with the white orb following after him (Nathan has drawn the white orb at the top of the stairs in the upstairs map which relates to this incident). His next memory is of being at the base of the stairs frightened and his mother then putting him back to bed. When he queried her about this incident years later she informed him that they’d come home at around 1am to find him at the base of the stairs screaming that the light was coming to get him. He had then passed out in front of them. Once his mother had brought him round she checked him over (she was a registered nurse) before taking him back upstairs. In total between the age of 4 and 6 Nathan remembers seeing the white orb about 7 times. After this the experiences seemed to stop. UFO Interception By the time he was 8 Nathan lived with his grandmother on Rolleston Drive, one road across from his previous address. He can’t remember exactly when the incident took place but he thinks it was around the spring of 1976, which would have made him 8 or 9 years old. Back then he had a friend named Karl from the local neighbourhood who he would regularly meet and play with. Aerial map of Rolleston Drive It was around 1-2pm on a pleasant by cold day. He and Karl were standing at the crossroads between Rolleston Drive and Galway Road and playing catch ball. Karl threw the ball really high and so he looked upwards to see if he could catch it. The first thing he noticed were some trainers which had been thrown over one of the telephone lines. But then beyond these in the distance through the gaps in the trees he saw a strange object in the sky. Photograph of the sighting location from where Nathan was standing The object was a curved triangular shape on one side but squared off on the other, similar to an iron. It had two distinct sections to it. The upper part of the object was a dark silvery-grey colour, not particularly shiny. However the bottom of it was glowing bright yellow-orange. It appeared to be about 10000 feet up and at least 5 miles away from their location. If it was this far, Nathan estimates it was about 60 feet across. Witness drawing of the UFO Nathan pointed it out to Karl asking “Do you see that?” Karl looked up and asked back “Wow, what is that?” The UFO hovered completely motionless in the sky. It appeared to be silent. They watched it for between 2-3 minutes trying to work out what it could be. Suddenly they noticed two military jets to the North West flying on a straight path directly towards where the object was located. Nathan thinks they may have been F4’s, but did not know this at the time. As they approached the UFO it suddenly accelerated and shot away to the South! In a brief moment it was lost from sight behind the housing. The jets changed course and flew off in the same direction, and were soon lost from sight. The boys were amazed at what they’d just seen. Karl exclaimed “I’m going to tell my mum!” Nathan responded “What are you going to tell her?” to which he replied “I’m going to tell her we saw this!” They both ran back to Karl’s house, where he excitedly told his mother about what they’d just witnessed. However they had recently watched the War Of The Worlds movie on television and she thought they were mistaken about what they’d seen because of this. Both Karl and Nathan were annoyed at her reaction to their sighting. They did not go back outside to see if the object returned as it was quite a cold day. At the time of the incident Nathan went to Cottismore High School (the school has since been demolished). Soon afterwards he was in the school library when he came across a book on the paranormal. When he looked through the book he came across a drawing of a UFO which was extremely similar to what he and Karl had witnessed. He showed it to his school friends but they just laughed at him. Out-Of-Body Experiences In December 1978 Nathan moved to the US with his mother. They settled in a house on East Tulpehocken Street in Philadelphia, New Jersey. Aerial map of East Tulpehocken Street One day he came home from school about 4pm. He wasn’t feeling very well so he told his mother then went to lie down on his bed. He believes he dropped off to sleep. Suddenly he became aware of a humming sound and felt pressure against the side of his face like he was being forced against something. He opened his eyes and was shocked to find himself pushed up against the ceiling of the room. Terrified at this revelation he immediately fell back downwards onto the sofa. Instinctively he jumped up off it but was not yet fully aware of his senses. He lost his balance and fell backwards straight through a glass coffee table which was alongside the bed! This wasn’t the only time this happened. On several other occasions during the same year Nathan began to feel pressure on his face and started hearing the humming noise again. Whenever this began happening he would get up and move around to get it to stop, as he was frightened of lifting up into the air again. The experience where Nathan found himself against the ceiling may not have had anything to do with contact. It is more probable that this was what is commonly referred to as an out-of-body experience, where you can seemingly separate from your physical body and your viewpoint drifts away from it. These experiences are often accompanied by strange sounds or other anomalies just as Nathan reports. On the later experiences it is possible he was sinking into a similar state but managed to pull himself out of it by getting up. Street Lights By 1984 Nathan was in his final year of studying at Temple University. One evening he was walking home with a friend. He started telling her about some of the unusual experiences which had happened previously in his life. They were walking East past the university parking lot on Cecil B. Moore Avenue when suddenly the street light on the path ahead of them went out. They continued walking and the next light then went out. This carried on, with each light going out as they approached it. Photograph of Cecil B Moore Avenue with some of the street lights visible Confused by what was causing the anomaly they reversed their steps and as they did the lights came back on in sequence. They turned back round and started walking again. Once more the lights started going off as they got near to them. This continued even when they turned right and started walking along North 12th Street. She was concerned and started asking him what he was doing to cause the lights to switch off. He simply responded “How to I know it’s not you doing this?” The anomaly continued for a short while after then suddenly stopped and the lights remained constantly on. It was as if for a short period of time he was putting our some kind of energy which interfered with the electrics in his locality, although it was of course impossible to prove that this had actually taken place. I have investigated other contact cases where exactly the same phenomenon has been reported. It is almost like the individual is temporarily surrounded by an energy field which interferes with nearby electrical objects. Glowing Blue Humanoid The following year Nathan joined the military. He was taken on as an Aircraft Maintenance Specialist at KI Sawyer Air Force Base in Upper Michigan (The base is no longer active). He would be required to stay on the base for a week at a time. During nights on the base he would sleep in a dormitory. Initially he slept in a shared room, but after several years had a high enough rank to be given his own room. Aerial map of KI Sawyer Air Force Base In the spring of 1988 Nathan started dating a girl named Sarah. As a sign of her affection for him she gave him her gold coloured High School graduation ring. Nathan put it on the dog tags around his neck for safe keeping. Photograph of a ring reminiscent of the one received One night Sarah came to the base to stay overnight at the dormitory. Nathan’s room was about 12 foot wide with a low ceiling of about 7 feet. The room came with a bunk bed, but he had taken off the top bunk. Aerial map of part of the base indicating the dormitory building Nathan slept in Photograph of the dormitory with the window of Nathan’s room indicated In the middle of the night Nathan suddenly heard Sarah exclaim “Nathan what’s that?” He opened his eyes and immediately saw what she was referring to. Floating across the room from them there was what appeared to be a blue coloured glowing humanoid figure. He could see it fully, but the lower half was less clearly defined than the upper half. The entity appeared to be unclothed. It had a slender build and was about 5 feet in height. It had normal looking human eyes, but no nose, mouth or ears were visible. It did not appear to have genitalia. Nathan did not notice any fingers, but in its left hand it was holding an object of some kind. Sarah was shaking in fear and repeated the question, “What is that?” For an unknown reason Nathan replied “Shut up and go back to sleep!” He does not know why he reacted to the situation in this way, it was completely out of character for him. It was like he was unconcerned about the strange figure hovering in the air across the room from them. He settled back down and tried getting back to sleep, but then felt Sarah get out of bed. He opened his eyes again and watched her approach the figure. Suddenly there was a bright electrical flash and she got thrown backwards back onto the bed next to him. Nathan asked her “What are you doing?” Quite clearly disturbed by what was taking place she said “Take me home now!” But again Nathan just told her to go back off to sleep. He dropped back off leaving her awake and terrified next to him. He is unsure about what happened to the figure. In the morning when he awoke she was still there. She had sat up awake all night because of what had taken place. The first thing she asked him was “Are you into some kind of voodoo or craziness?” She clearly assumed that Nathan was something to do with what had occurred. He simply responded “No.” She responded saying “Take me home, we’re through, I don’t want to see you anymore.” Nathan asked “What are you talking about?” to which she replied “You know what happened last night.” She was obviously waiting for Nathan to explain what had occurred, but of course he could not. Nathan agreed to drive her back home. When they arrived at her house she again repeated “If you’re not going to tell me what happened last night we’re through.” Nathan just said “I don’t know.” She said “We’re done, give me my ring back.” When Nathan went to get the ring back off the dog tags around his neck he found it was missing. He explained to Sarah that he didn’t know where it was. She thought he wanted to keep it to remember her by and began to get angry with him saying “I know you love me but I can’t deal with this. I want my ring back!” Nathan thought he might be able to go to the High School website and order a replacement ring without her knowing, so simply agreed that he would get it back for her. However when he got in contact with the High School she had attended they said that they could not sell him another replacement ring as he had not attended the High School himself. About a year went by during which Nathan and Sarah did not speak. Then one day he got a phone call from her. It soon became apparent that she had not forgotten the night at the base. She said “I miss you. I want you back. But before you take me back I want to know what happened that night.” Nathan informed her that he did not have an answer for what took place. She then changed topic, informing him that he had still not given her back her ring. Nathan once again agreed to get it back for her. Soon after the chat Nathan decided that he would contact KI Sawyer Air Force Base just to see if someone there had found it and handed it in to lost property. He thought this chance was remote but it was about the only chance he had left of finding the ring. Someone picked up the phone and Nathan explained the situation and described what the ring looked like. Immediately the person on the phone exclaimed “You’re bullshitting me right?” Nathan responded saying “No, I lost it a year ago.” He was then put in touch with the Sergeant who simply said “I need you to come here right now!” Nathan honoured the Sergeant’s request and drove out to the base. On arrival the Sergeant said “So you’re telling us you lost a ring about a year ago?” Nathan again explained that it was his girlfriend’s ring and he lost it. The Sergeant then held up something asking “Does it look like this?” There in his hand was the missing ring! “Yes, that’s it!” exclaimed Nathan, “Where did you find it?” There was an airman present who then spoke up. He explained that about 30 minutes before Nathan had called the base he had been walking outside in the snow when he stepped on something which felt like a solid lump. He checked where he was standing and found the ring! The Sergeant then asked “You’re trying to tell us you lost this ring a year ago and we just found it half an hour ago?” Nathan simply responded saying that he said it like it was. They then handed the ring back to him. Soon afterwards he was able to re-unite the ring with its rightful owner. She thought Nathan had hidden it from her on purpose in order to see her again and suggested that he should take her back. But he refused saying it was over. Many years later in 2009 Sarah contacted Nathan via phone after finding out his number. She informed him that she had been having repeated strange dreams about the blue man they had witnessed on the base. However she said she would only tell him what she had found out he would have to travel out and visit her. Nathan was not interested in getting back with her so left things. He never found out what Sarah may have known, and the incident at the military base remains a fascinating mystery. It is clear that there was something present in the room as it was witnessed by both Nathan and Sarah. Could the blue humanoid have been an ET being of some kind, perhaps linked with Nathan’s previous contact experiences? It had some similarities with a Grey, such as the slender build and lack of facial features and genitalia. However other aspects of it such as its general body shape and eyes were more human-like. I have investigated a number of other cases where blue-skinned humanoid beings have been seen. Another possibility is that the military base was haunted, and this was a supernatural manifestation. Nathan says its legs were less distinct than the torso, suggesting an apparition of some kind. We may never know for sure. The being which Nathan and Sarah witnessed sounds somewhat reminiscent of Dr Manhattan from the super hero graphic novel Watchmen, released in 1986. Below is a still of the character from the movie adaptation which came out in 2009. The similarities are plain to see, however I do not believe that Nathan has fabricated the story based on this character. The manner in which the ring was found is very interesting. Due to the odds involved, some may feel that there was a paranormal element to this, but it could just be an extra-ordinary coincidence that the ring was found on the base shortly before Nathan rang them back up. An Apology From 1993 Nathan was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By now he had married his second wife Gemma, and was living with her in her apartment. Aerial map of Kirtland AFB One day in the spring of 1995 he and Gemma had an argument. After it was over and they had calmed down Nathan suggested that they should just sit down and watch TV together. However Gemma was still upset and told him she was going to go lie down in bed a while. About 90 minutes later she came back into the living room, kissed Nathan and said “Thank you for that.” Confused by this Nathan asked “For what?” “Well, you know.” Gemma said. “No I don’t know", he responded. Gemma then told him that after she went and lay down she felt Nathan lie down on the bed behind her, begin stroking her hair and tell her that everything was going to be ok. Nathan insisted that he had remained in the living room the whole time. It is possible that Gemma had dropped off and this was nothing more than a vivid dream, but Nathan wonders whether there was more to it than that due to his other experiences. Premonition In 1996 one of his friends on the base who he had informed of his experiences suggested they should both go and visit a psychic out of interest. Nathan didn’t know what to expect from this but agreed to go along. The psychic told him several things. She first said that he needed to go to Australia, as there was something there which he needed to see. She then told Nathan that he had the same gift as her, and asked him how many out-of-body experiences he had had. Thinking his friend had informed the psychic beforehand he turned and looked at him, but his friend denied having done so. The psychic then told Nathan he needed to go and visit his grandmother, who still lived in Nottingham. Heeding the psychic’s advice, Nathan decided he would visit the UK to catch up with his grandmother and other family members. A short time before he was set to travel he was exiting the shower when he suddenly got hit by what felt like a bolt of electricity. Nathan immediately knew that his mother had passed away. He just looked at Gemma and exclaimed “My mother, she’s dead.” She asked him “How do you know that?” to which he responded “I know, I feel it. I’m telling you she’s dead.” Nathan tried calling his mother over in England but she did not pick up. He spoke with his sisters but they did not initially believe him. However he soon found out that he was correct – his mother had experienced a seizure and hit her head in the fall. Several days later Nathan was across in the UK. Everyone questioned him, wondering how he had known that she had died. To this day Nathan has no clear answer for this. However it is very common for contactees to have one or more psychic abilities, and premonitions are regularly reported when I investigate cases. Phoenix Lights As mentioned at the start of this report, Nathan unwittingly became one of hundreds of witnesses of the Phoenix Lights in March 1997 while stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near to Phoenix, Arizona. Due to the significance of this incident and for ease of searching this has been split out into a separate report which you can access here Conclusion Nathan has had some truly fascinating and varied experiences, some of which have close links with contact, while others may be encounters of a paranormal nature. He has personally shared with me evidence of his military background. This cannot be shared here to preserve anonymity, but I have no suspicions relating to his authenticity as a witness. The white orb which he saw numerous times in his childhood was clearly contact related, as it lead to his abduction recollection as well as numerous periods of missing time. It is unknown if his other UFO sightings were a result of these experiences or not. It seems that in some cases, including the Phoenix Lights, he just happened to be at the right place at the right time. These incidents have lead Nathan to have a true fascination with the subject. He seeks answers to what has happened to him, and is also interested in working on software which will help collaborate sightings and monitor them in an organised way. I wish him the best of luck with these endeavours and thank him for sharing the details of his experiences. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2020

Unfortunately due to personal reasons Andy Russell is no longer going to be able to join us tomorrow night for his talk. Instead we will now be specially streaming the new UFO documentary The Age Of Disclosure. Featuring over thirty senior members of the government and military, the documentary provides some of the most compelling testimonial evidence ever for the reality of alien visitation. Free snacks will also be provided for all attendees. The rest of the evening will proceed as originally planned. There will be a disclosure themed raffle, and our Chairman provide the usual UFO news and investigation updates.

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 02/10/2020 Last Updated: 04/02/2026   In September 2020 I was contacted by a lady from Kings Heath named Marian. She was interested in learning more about BUFOG, but when asked if she had ever seen anything herself she informed me of a stunning experience she had witnessed back in the early 1970s while living in Warminster, Wiltshire.   Warminster has for many years been known as a UFO hot spot after a wave of sightings from the 1970s and 80s, and it’s where I had my own UFO sighting back in 2009 while at Cradle Hill on a sky watch. However Marian’s experience involves something else entirely – a daylight sighting of a landed craft and beings!   Incident Details   In her early 20s Marian used to live on Princecroft Lane with her mother on the Western side of Warminster. At the time there were a number of grass-covered fields to the South West between Princecroft Lane and Masefield Road. These fields no longer exist and have since been built over.   Aerial map of Princecroft Lane indicating Marian's house and the area where the fields used to be: Marian cannot recall the exact year when the experience took place but believes it was between 1972 and 1974. She does however remember that it occurred on a Friday evening in early summer time. It was just before 6pm and she and her fiancé were preparing to go out for the evening. Marian went upstairs to get ready. She entered the bedroom and walked over to the window to draw the curtains.   Due to the time of year it was still light outside, and a pleasant clear evening. She glanced out over the fields which lay beyond the end of the back garden of the property. It was now that she noticed a grey coloured object down on the ground in the nearest field. It was about 150 feet away from her location. It looked like a flattened disc with a raised dome in the centre, and appeared to be about 15 feet across. As she was upstairs she was looking down on the object at an angle.   Marian had an interest in the UFO subject at the time and was aware that Warminster was known as a hot spot. She immediately realised that the object was a landed craft. Her fiancé had some binoculars, and Marian kept them in the room just in case they ever observed anything. The binoculars happened to be on the bed at the time, so she quickly grabbed them to take a closer look at the craft. Marian informed me that even though there was a camera in the house at the time, there was unfortunately no film in it.   She stared through the binoculars at the craft for about 2 minutes. There were no visible markings, lights or windows. Suddenly she watched a ladder appear from the near side of it. Then one by one three beings descended to the ground. They looked identical to one another and were about 3 feet in height. They appeared to be unclothed. Unusually, their skin was a fluorescent green colour and they appeared to be semi-translucent. It was possible to partially see bones and internal structure through them. They did not appear to be emitting any light.   Through the binoculars they were close enough to make out facial features. They had elongated black slit-like eyes, very flat noses and ears which seemed to go into the sides of the head rather than protrude.   The beings started to walk around on the grass close to the craft. They had a strange bobbing motion as they moved. There was seemingly no pattern to this movement. Marian watched them for a further two minutes. She was a little startled and frightened by what was taking place, as of course she had never seen anything like this before.   As she was beginning to get scared, she decided to look away for a few seconds and call out to her mother and fiancé to come and see. When she looked back the craft and its occupants had completely vanished! Her mother and fiancé entered the room and asked what was going on. Marian said to them “I’ve just seen something near to the garden!” She then proceeded to tell them what she had witnessed. Her mother believed her as she too knew about Warminster’s connection with the subject, but her fiancé felt that she must have imagined it.   Due to his reaction to her experience Marian did not immediately head out to the location in the field where she had seen the craft and beings, and instead went out for the evening as planned. However the next day she walked over to the field on her own. There was no sign there had ever been anything there, no depressions in the grass or burn markings. She did not contact anyone else at the time about what had happened, but it made a lasting impression on her.   Incident Analysis   If the experience happened as Marian describes then this appears to be a genuine landing of an ET craft. Obviously there is no physical evidence to back up her claims, as with most cases we only have the testimonial evidence to go on. However the primary reason Marian got in touch with me was to learn more about our group meetings and membership. She came across as trustworthy and was not interested in making any money from her story. She had not gone to any newspapers and was not aware I would write this case report until I mentioned it. It is very unlikely that she mis-identified something mundane as a landed craft and entities. She observed them through binoculars for a number of minutes. And surely if it was something else in the field it would not have vanished when she briefly looked away, but would still have been present.   The beings which Marian observed have some aspects which fit with them being Greys – including the short height, the shape and colour of their eyes. However the translucent fluorescent green skin is very unusual indeed. There may be other cases on record which match this description, but I have never directly investigated any other incidents which involved beings of this type.   The fact that both the object and beings did disappear so suddenly is a mystery in itself. There are plenty of cases where UFOs observed in the air have vanished extremely rapidly, and this often appears to occur when the witness happens to look away. This suggests that in some cases they may be aware they are being observed and use the opportunity to leave the area. However in this case the craft was on the ground and the beings were outside of it walking around. It would have been very difficult for them to re-enter the craft and leave the area in the short amount of time that Marian looked away. There is of course the possibility that they cloaked themselves to be hidden from sight.   Due to the significance of the location and the fact that many other sightings had gone on there around that time (and continue to do so) this could well have been a witnessed craft and its occupants on the ground. As with many experiences, this really comes down to whether you feel the testimonial details and my thoughts on the witness are enough evidence to support its reality.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Year: 2020 Last Updated: 02/02/2026   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used   In early July 2020 while browsing a UFO-themed channel I came across a message on Facebook from a lady who I shall name “Kelly”. She mentioned a sighting she had back in 2007 over Huddersfield. I reached out to her via Facebook Messenger to learn about what took place in more depth.   Sighting Details In the summer of 2007 Kelly was staying over at her mother’s house on Manor Rise, Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire for a few days.   Aerial map of Manor Rise The front of the house faces North North West in the direction of Emley Moor. In the distance the Emley Moor Transmitting Station communication mast is clearly visible from the front room window of the property. Kelly’s mother “Dorothy” suffers from Neuralgia and so used to sleep in the front room. She would often wake up during the night in pain.   Photograph of Manor Rise with the communication mast visible in the distance  On this particular night Kelly was sleeping upstairs. Dorothy woke her up at around 2am saying that there was a strange ball moving around in the sky and she had come and see it. Kelly got out of bed and went downstairs with her. Dorothy pointed out of the patio doors in the direction of the communication mast.   Looking through the glass she immediately saw what her mother was referring to. In the distance around the area of the mast she could see a fast moving orb of light. It was white with a hint of blue around the edges. It was hard to judge how large it was.   The orb was initially moving back and forth across the sky on a level flight path. It was a dry, still and mostly clear night. There was some light cloud, but even when the object moved behind this the white glow from it was still visible. Kelly says that they had to turn their heads left and right to keep of it “like people watching a game of tennis.”   After a couple of minutes it seemed to move a little closer and started moving in a triangular shape at a very fast speed, making instantaneous changes in direction.   Photograph of Emsley Moor communications mast Kelly and Dorothy both stood there in amazement discussing what it could be. They knew it was moving far too rapidly to be a plane or helicopter. Due to how rural the location is they felt that it was extremely unlikely to be a laser light, and it was visible in clear patches of sky where there was seemingly no cloud for it to bounce off.   Several minutes later Dorothy suggested they should go and grab a torch, then go outside and try to signal to it. However, Kelly was concerned due to not knowing what it was, so asked her mother not to proceed.   They continued to watch the orb dart across the sky for a further 15-20 minutes. Sadly, neither of them had a camera with film in it, and Kelly says that her mobile phone was only a basic model with no camera. After this time, they then noticed an aeroplane in the distance. The plane started moving in the direction of the object. It then seemed to start to descend in the sky until it was flying much lower than planes would usually be seen at.   Dorothy said “Planes never go that low.”  Kelly pointed out that if they could see it then the pilots of the plane must surely be able to also see it.   A moment later the orb suddenly shot towards their location an incredible speed. Over the neighbouring houses it performed another instantaneous turn and shot away to the North East in the direction of Wakefield. It was gone in a brief moment, leaving them bewildered at what they had just witnessed.   Aerial map showing the estimated flight path of the UFO The plane continued on the same course it had been travelling on, passing through the area of sky where the orb had previously been. As it got closer they could hear the familiar sound of its engines.   Due to the fascinating aspects of the sighting neither of them could go back to sleep and they stayed up for the remainder of the night. Kelly recalls seeing the sunrise at around 5am.   Later in the day Dorothy told her husband “Michael” about it, but Kelly feels that he did not believe them. They listened on the radio, and bought the local newspaper but there were no other reports of the object, possibly due to the time of night that the incident occurred at.   Thinking back to what happened Kelly has often wondered whether the object knew that the plane was approaching it and that’s why it suddenly moved away. She also wonders if the pilots had seen the orb or even reported it.   Sighting Analysis   Due to the manoeuvres the object performed this is a very impressive sighting. It was clearly performing controlled movements so a lit inflatable like a white LED balloon can immediately be discounted. The instant turns put an aeroplane out of the picture. As the witnesses themselves observed, the object was moving far too rapidly to have been a distant helicopter.   As they also stated, a laser light or narrow search light coming up from the ground is very unlikely. There was no visible beam of any kind, and if it was a laser it would have needed to reflect off the base of the cloud layer, yet there were clear patches of sky where it could still be seen. There are establishments up on Emsley Moor which would have such a light.   Drones are capable of performing fast and sudden changes in direction. However, the incident occurred in 2007, a number of years before they were commercially available. Also the speed at which the object finally left the vicinity was much too fast for a drone or other remote controlled model. Despite the appearance of the object not giving us any clue to its actual structure, I feel there is definitely the possibility that this was an advanced craft of some kind, possibly of non-human origin.   Unfortunately due to her ill health I am unable to speak with Dorothy about this incident, however I would like to thank Kelly for allowing me to publish the details of what happened, and have no reason to doubt her story.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date:  24/01/2026 Last Updated: 01/02/2026   Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses   In November 2025 I was contacted by a 62-year-old lady named Kelly from Maryland who provided some brief details on a number of previous contact-related experiences she has had. Through further E-Mail correspondence I was able to delve into these experiences in more depth and gain a complete picture of what took place.   Out Of The Crib   In the early 1970s Kelly lived with her parents “Steven” and “Margaret”, older brother “Paul” and younger sister “Beverley” in a house on Seanor Road (known as Route 601 at the time) which lies between Windber and Seanor, Western Pennsylvania.   Aerial map of Seanor Road Back then Kelly shared a bedroom with Beverley. One day when Beverley was only 2 years old Margaret put her in the crib for a nap. Later on she went to check up on her. When she entered the bedroom she found that it was in disarray. The crib had been pulled out from the wall on an angle and the heavy carpet next to it was bulged up, like it had gathered up as the crib was moved. When Margaret checked the crib she found that it was empty.   Panicking, she started to look around the room. She then found Beverley under the bulge in the carpet fast asleep. It was a complete mystery as to how she had managed to get out of the crib.   In recent years Kelly has looked into contact experiences and wonders if her sister had been taken and then put back down at floor level instead of back where she had previously been.   While this cannot be ruled out, it is of course possible that her sister somehow managed to clamber out, push the crib around trying to get back in, before crawling under the gathered up carpet and dropping back off to sleep.   When I asked Kelly about this possibility she said “The carpet was a large piece of stiff carpet. It was not a traditional rug. It seems unlikely that it would have bulged easily. My sister was a hearty child and it is possible that she was able to escape the crib and push it away from the wall, but what a strange thing to then crawl under the stiff carpet and fall asleep. The way it bunched it formed a tunnel so maybe she crawled into it.”   Ouija Board Conversation   In March of 1972, when she was 9 years old, Kelly’s grandmother sadly passed away. Several months later her grandfather was planning to move in. He began bringing his wife’s old belongings over to the house in boxes. On a particularly rainy day Kelly and Paul were bored. Margaret suggested they take a look through their grandmother’s old things to see if they found anything interesting.   They decided to take her up on this. Looking through the boxes they came across a Ouija Board. Asking Margaret about it, she informed them that it would answer questions when they touched the planchette, and that it operated through an energy circuit made by their bodies. Viewing it as nothing more than a board game, Kelly and Paul decided to try it out in the living room.   Initially nothing happened, but soon the planchette started moving around and seemingly answering questions, beginning with yes or no, but then spelling out words. Kelly asked it who she was going to marry. It spelt out a couple of unfamiliar first names.   They then asked whether their mother would have more children. Over numerous questions posed to the board they were told that she would have triplets, one would die at birth, but their mother would name the remaining children Neil and Prudence. It then went into various details of things they would do in their lives.   It was nearly dinner time so they decided to stop. But just before they did they asked for the surname of a family friend who they only knew the first name of. The name it gave sounded incorrect. They knew that the lady was German-Irish, yet the surname it gave sounded Italian.   Later on they informed their parents of what had taken place. Margaret was surprised when she was told what the board had stated, as in her childhood she had apparently picked out those names as potential names for her future children.   When they asked Steven about the surname they had been given he confirmed it was correct, as the lady had married an Italian and changed her maiden name. Steven was concerned by what had taken place, and soon afterwards hid the board away so they could not use it again. Kelly says that years later after he had died they found it stashed in the back of a wardrobe.   Your thoughts on what took place here depends on your personal views regarding Ouija Boards. It has been proven that it is possible to subconsciously make boards spell out words without realising that the planchette is being directly pushed. The board appeared to be incorrect regarding some of the information it provided. Kelly has never gotten married (though later on did know two people with the same names as the board had spelled out). Nor did Margaret have any more children.   However, the surname of the family friend was apparently accurate even though she was certain her or her brother did not previously possess this knowledge. There is of course no way to prove that they had not heard it somewhere before, but it is certainly intriguing.   Greys Visitation   Several weeks after playing with the Ouija Board Kelly woke up during the night for an unknown reason. She immediately realised it was quiet which means her parents and brother must have gone up to bed. She opened her eyes and looked around. It was quite dark in the room but light enough to still make out furnishings. She realised that her eyesight was fuzzy, something which would not normally happen. She reached up and rubbed her eyes but the blurriness remained. The whole room seemed enveloped in a golden brown haze of light particles.   She tried to focus her eyes on the dresser three feet away from the foot of the bed. As she was focusing she began to notice movement in the space between the dresser and the bed. She saw what appeared to be long skinny arms making gestures.   She then realised these arms were attached to a number of beings standing near the base of the bed. There was a group of them on the left, and an individual one on the right. They had large oval-shaped heads with what she initially assumed was huge dark and hollow eye sockets. They appeared to be unclothed. The beings looked alike but were various sizes, with one noticeably larger than the others, and the individual one on the right particularly short.   The beings reminded her of very large ants. She did not know it at the time but they were what we now call Greys. She only made this association many years later when she looked into the contact phenomenon. They did not appear to be fully solid, but instead seemed to be almost ethereal like they were made up of TV static.   Witness drawing of two of the translucent Greys Kelly thought to herself “What is this?”  She closed her eyes, expecting them to be gone when she re-opened them, but when she did she found that they were still present. She tried this a number of times to no effect. Disturbed by the continued presence of the beings she called out to her parents, but they did not come to her aid.   Witness drawing of the Greys at the foot of the bed  Kelly had a religious upbringing. When she was younger a man at her church said to her that if she was ever afraid she could call on Jesus for help. She recalled this advice so said in her mind “Ok Jesus! I have no idea what is going on but I am afraid! So, whatever you are going to do, please do it!”  However, the beings still remained present. She temporarily pulled the blanket up over her head but this also had no effect.   At this point the short being on its own walked around the right side of the bed and approached her. It then leaned towards her as if making the gesture of kissing her. At this point she realised it’s eyes were not hollow sockets, but were extremely black in colour.   The being then began moving its arms like it was tucking in the blankets of her bed (It was not physically doing this, it just appeared to be imitating these movements). She associated this with her dead grandmother. She wondered if this being was in fact her grandmother, and this is how people looked after they had died.   The short being stepped away and returned to the group near the foot of the bed. Then they all faded away, leaving nothing but the darkness of the room. After a short while Kelly felt safe again and dropped back off to sleep.   The following evening when she was helping to set the dinner table she remembered the incident. She said to her parents “I had a strange thing happen last night, I think grandma visited me.”   Margaret responded saying “Oh! Is that why you called us? We heard you but we had just gone to bed and were hoping that you were just having a bad dream and would go back to bed. I would not put it past your grandmother if she did visit.”  This meant that the incident must have happened around 11.30pm, as this is the time her parents would generally go to bed.   Kelly was a bit bewildered by her response so asked “What do you mean?” Margaret said that her grandmother was into some ‘strange things’. She mentioned numerous books that she had found with her belongings. Kelly inquired further about the books. Her mother said she could read them when she was older. But Kelly was intrigued and wanted to find out more, which sparked a new found interest.   After this incident Kelly says that she found it hard to sleep for a good while. She would regularly get up and go to the doorway of her parent’s room for comfort, something her mother still recollects. Unbeknown to her parents she would also walk to the doors of the property and ensure that they were locked.   In summer, the next time she visited the local library with her family, she found a section covering topics such as the paranormal and cryptozoology. However, when approached the librarian to take them out, she told her they were unsuitable for her and steered her towards the children’s section instead.   Looking back at the incident, Kelly associated the visit by the beings with the fact she had done the Ouija board a number of weeks previously. However, other than their timing proximity there is nothing inherently linking these two events.   Recognisable Odours   A number of years later Kelly’s grandfather “William” passed away. From that point onwards both her and Margaret would occasionally smell an odour, not always at the same place in the house. Kelly says that one time she even smelt it when she was away from the house and visiting New York City.   The smell was earthy, though not unpleasant. It reminded them of William after he had been working outside all day.   On numerous occasions Margaret informed her about smelling the odour, but Kelly never told her that she had smelt it too at other times. She does not really know why.   Kelly says that on other occasions she would also smell moth balls and lilac, a smell she associated with her grandparent’s linen closet. She would usually smell this in the spare bedroom of the house, but occasionally elsewhere too.   Another Visitation?   Recently while talking with her mother about unusual things that went on at the house during her childhood, her mother informed her of another experience which may be contact related.   She said that one night she woke up to the sound of movement coming from the living room. She heard footsteps walking towards her bedroom. Then a group of what looked like elderly Amish people came into the room. Some of them were fully visible, others she could only make out their heads. They stood there silently staring at her. Despite this un-nerving situation, she was not afraid of them.   While it may be easy to interpret this as ghostly apparitions, there is also the possibility that this was what is known as a screen memory, and that these were in fact ETs masking their true appearance and visiting her in this form for an unknown reason.   Oval of Light   In the late 1980s Kelly was a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.   Aerial map of Indiana University campus One night between late spring-early summer 1986 she was walking back to the student Halls of Residence from Cogswell Hall at 2am (Kelly is sure of the time of year because she remembers not wearing a coat at the time).   Aerial map of Cogswell Hall Photograph of Cogswell Hall  She began walking with her ex-boyfriend “Martin”, who she had only recently separated from. The Halls of Residence are situated South East of Cogswell Hall. Aerial map indicating Cogswell Hall (A) and the student Halls Of Residence (B) with walk route It was a slightly hazy night, but relatively clear. However, because of the number of streetlights in the area it was hard to see the stars. They began walking South along South 11 th  Street. As they reached the brow of the hill overlooking the Halls Of Residence, Kelly suddenly noticed that Martin was looking up at something in the sky as they walked.   Photograph from the brow of the hill on Grant Street She looked up and saw what looked like a stationary oval-shaped glowing light. She thought to herself that a broken beam of light could possibly explain this shape, so looked down to see if there were a new business opening below them that may have been shining a search light up into the sky. There was no sign of this being the cause of the light.   Witness drawing of the oval-shaped light After staring at it for a number of seconds she had a strong feeling that the light was a glowing object which was aware that she could see it. At this moment it appeared to flip over 180 degrees and then instantly vanished!   Drawing of the two witnesses observing the oval light in the sky Martin asked “Did you see that?” She confirmed that she had. Then he asked “Did it feel like it knew you saw it?” Kelly confirmed that she had too had felt this way about it. Thinking about what had just taken place they walked the rest of the route to the Halls of Residence in silence.   Looking back at the experience, Kelly is still fascinated by what occurred. She says that while a search light cannot be entirely ruled out there are numerous aspects pointing away from that explanation. The light was quite bright and clear, yet there was no visible beam. She believes it was a clear night, so there would have been no clouds for it to bounce off. It was 2am in a small college town, and there were no night clubs or other lively venues in the vicinity which would have been shining search lights.   Kelly has remained friends with Martin and says that he has always insisted there was a mundane explanation for it. She also says that he would not be interested in speaking with me about it, as he does not believe in UFOs or the paranormal.   Vanishing Board   Kelly had another incident involving Ouija Boards in the summer of 1987. She and another friend “Simon” were on their way to a party. As they walked Kelly talked about her experiences. Simon was interested and wanted to see something with his own eyes. He suggested “Maybe if we buy a Ouija Board and it works it would help me understand these things that happen to you?”  Despite feeling a little concerned that Ouija Boards were evil and not to be messed with she agreed to this idea.   When they arrived at the party Simon suddenly exclaimed “Look! A Ouija Board! We do not have to buy one!”  Kelly looked to where he was staring. She was amazed to see a Ouija Board leaning up against the wall of the hallway outside of the apartment where the party was taking place! They picked it up and took it in with them.   After socialising at the party for a while Simon suggested trying out the board. They set it up and tried asking the board some questions, but unlike what had happened with her brother nothing took place. Kelly wonders if it was because of her feelings towards using Ouija Boards, feelings that had only developed in more recent years.   When it was time to leave the party, Simon asked the host of the party “Hey! Where do you want us to put the Ouija Board?”  They responded saying “That’s not mine. You brought it!” Simon explained  “It was leaning up against the wall in the hallway when we got here!” The host said “You should probably put it back where you found it!”   Following this proposal, they exited the apartment, placed the board back against the hallway wall, then briefly headed back inside to say goodbye. When they stepped back out into the hallway a moment later the Ouija Board had vanished! It was quiet and there was nobody else around outside. They were both confused as to how it could have disappeared in such a short space of time.   While this disappearance may have seemed bizarre at the time, it cannot be entirely ruled out that someone had quickly walked along the hallway (maybe the owner of the board), noticed it and taken it with them, but due to its links with previous experiences I have decided to still include it in the report.   Smoke Detectors Kelly's sister Beverley owns a house on S Main Street, Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland. In the early noughties Kelly visited her sister at the property.    Aerial map of S Main Street Beverley owned a number of smoke detectors but had not had a chance to install them, and they were lined up on a desk at the top of the stairs. Kelly was walking by the desk when suddenly they made a chirp sound one at a time in order.   Her brother-in-law came home for lunch and asked her things were going. She informed him about what had happened. He was confused by this and said to her “Kelly, there are no batteries in the smoke detectors! We took them all out! We have all new batteries, and three of the detectors are new." Later on Kelly went and checked the desk and sure enough found that the batteries were lying separately to them. Experiencers of contact often report electrical disturbances in their proximity. However there should have been no way for the detectors to have made any sound at all if they were not powered, suggesting that something more supernatural in nature occurred here. Haunted Apartment   By 2019 Kelly had moved to an apartment block on Overlook Terrace, Inwood, New York.   Aerial map of Overlook Terrace She believes this apartment block is haunted. She would sometimes hear unusual sounds through the walls coming from elsewhere in the block.   Photograph of the apartment block When she spoke with her neighbours about these sounds they informed her that they were consistent with people who had previously died there rather than current residents. However, they were never specific regarding what they meant by this.   A Grey Returns   One night she settled down in bed to drop off to sleep. She closed her eyes, but then something in her mind told her to re-open them. When she did she saw a Grey leaning over her. It looked the same as those she had seen in her bedroom as a child, but this time it was opaque and appeared to be solid. It had smooth white coloured skin.     It appeared to be silently conversing with something else out of sight behind her at the head of the bed. From its gestures Kelly felt that this unseen presence was enticing the Grey to touch her on her forehead, a request it seemed to follow up on. It reached its skinny arm out towards her. As its fingers reached her forehead it immediately exploded into particles and disappeared, leaving her alone in darkness.   Annotated drawing of the being   Kelly has no idea why this Grey returned to her on that night, and she has not encountered it since, at least to her knowledge.   A Familiar Sound   In early 2025 Kelly decided that her apartment in New York was not working out so well and she wanted to move to a new place. In the interim Beverley offered her the chance to move in with her and her eight-month old daughter at their house in Maryland. The move took place in February.   Because of what happened there previously with the smoke alarms Kelly wondered if anything else unusual would take place. Sure enough, several nights after she moved in, something did. Kelly noticed a sound coming either from either the attic or a closet just as I she closed her eyes to go to sleep. It sounded like chirps from a smoke detector. She could not determine the precise location it was coming from so did not go to investigate. The following nights she again heard similar sounds. Then about a week into her stay she sometimes started to notice it only when she entered the bedroom before she even lay down. The sound would take place roughly every 50-60 seconds but not at entirely regular intermissions. She would never hear it during the day time. Kelly asked her sister about the sound. Her sister said that she did have smoke detectors set up, but they had relatively fresh batteries in them so should not be making any low battery warning sounds. Kelly wondered whether the house was haunted and the same entity that had activated the alarms many years before remembered her and was playing games with her. It is odd that the sounds seemed to be localised, only heard by Kelly and only at particular times of day. If the sound was coming from one of the smoke alarms surely it would have continued into the day time and been heard by Beverley as well as Kelly? They should also be able to have located which one was making the noises. There is a possibility that it was echoing from somewhere outside of the property, maybe on the side of the house where Kelly's bedroom was positioned.   The Tall Man   One night she had gone to bed but the door of the adjoining bathroom was open and some light was coming in through the window.   Suddenly a tall thin man appeared over by the doorway near the foot of the bed. He had dark dishevelled hair, a receding hairline, beard and moustache. He had pale white skin and appeared to be in his mid-30s. He was wearing a dark blue T-shirt and even darker blue coloured trousers. The man was almost opaque but a little transparent. The man began walking across the bedroom. He did not look towards her or make any indication that he was aware of her presence. After several seconds he faded away completely.   Although Kelly cannot entirely dismiss the idea that she imagined it, this does not seem likely due to the amount of time she observed the man for, and the fact she had experienced similar things before.   Machine-Like Being   On another night in June/July she was lying on her back in bed. It was about 10:30pm and she had not yet dropped off to sleep. She lay there praying and contemplating her future.   Suddenly off to her left she noticed something crawl up onto the bed. This was just visual, there was no sense of anything of any weight physically pushing down on the mattress. Whatever it was then crouched over her.   The being had a machine-like appearance, almost like its face and body had been put together out of joined pieces of metal. It reminded her of artwork by the famous Swiss artist H.R. Giger. Example art piece by H.R. Giger: It was about the same size as an adult human, and appeared to have a muscular body frame. The entity looked down at her. Kelly felt that it expected her to be frightened, but she was not. Witness drawing of the unusual being As with previous occasions she called on Jesus for help and immediately the being vanished, leaving her lying in the darkness.   Woodsboro is believed by many of its residents to be haunted. Kelly’s neighbours have asked her how the ghost materialises in her house. This has got her wondering whether this strange being she observed was actually a spirit manifesting in an unusual way.   Feline Spirit   Kelly still lives at the property, but Beverley has since moved out and only uses it during the day to run her business from the front room. Kelly shares the house with her sister’s three pet cats. One has bushy tan-coloured fur. The other two are its siblings - a female calico and a male grey tiger.   One day in 2025 Kelly was in one of the upstairs rooms with the tan-coloured cat. Kelly decided to head downstairs. As she did she suddenly heard movement coming from the room she had just left. The staircase descends through a rectangular opening with a railing. Photograph of the staircase railing Looking back up through the gaps in the railing she saw the tan-coloured cat dart very quickly along the landing. She then saw the hind legs and tail of another cat backing away and hissing! This cat appeared to have short black-and-white fur. She was confused as it looked different to the other two cats, and she also thought they were downstairs at the time.   Despite this she dismissed it, assuming that she must be mistaken. She looked away and continued walking downstairs. When she entered the living room she found other two cats sitting there staring at her with wide eyes! There was no way they could have somehow ran past without her seeing.   Soon afterwards Kelly informed Beverley about the other cat she had seen. Her sister confirmed that she used to own a black-and-white cat, but it had since passed away. Kelly was convinced that what she had seen was an apparition of this previous pet.   Since this incident there have been numerous times when the cats have run past her as if being chased by something unseen. While this could just be down to animal behaviour, Kelly wonders if they are observing the black-and-white cat. On two occasions the cats have looked like they have been staring at something invisible walk to the foot of the staircase. She has then heard the stairs creaking like something walking up them.   At night Kelly closes her bedroom door to keep the cats out as otherwise they all climb up onto the bed and keep her awake. However, there have been a number of times when she has felt pressure similar to a cat sitting on her, or felt the pillow/mattress get depressed like there is a cat in the room. On one occasion she felt something jump onto her pillow from the window sill, and then jump down onto the floor. She even heard a thump when it hit the floor, but she was certain there were no cats in the room.   On 18 th  January 2026 she was taking a light nap. On this occasion one of the other cats was also curled up on the bed. Suddenly she felt a second cat climb up onto the side of the bed. She opened her eyes expecting to see one of the other two cats but there was nothing there. She then sensed what felt like a cat walk across the bed and jump off the other side.   Conclusions   Kelly has had an impressive amount of varied experiences. The visitations by Grey beings which Kelly has encountered on numerous occasions, including at a point in her life where she had not looked into the subject, confirm that she is has experienced contact. If the sighting of the glowing light which she observed with her ex-boyfriend was indeed a craft, it does not appear to have interacted directly with her in any way.   It is unknown whether the many paranormal incidents she has also witnessed at various locations are in some ways related or not, however the majority of experiencers do also report incidents of a paranormal nature.   It is interesting seeing how Kelly’s religious upbringing has reflected on her views about what has taken place throughout her life. While you may not personally agree that contact has any links at all with religion or the afterlife, there are still so many unanswered questions, so this remains a possibility.   I would like to thank Kelly for sharing the details and drawings of what has taken place. It is good to get her experiences down on official record, and I hope that she keeps in touch moving forward from this point.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Ian Jones Release Date: 06/11/2025 The Sighting: Occurred on Sunday, 17th September 2023 Reporter: Paul Michael Tongs-Richardson Time of Day: Approximately 9pm The Place: Greenfields Road, Kingswinford, Birmingham, DY6 8EW Experience Details “It was about 9.00pm on a Sunday evening. I had just let my two dogs out and while I was waiting for them I noticed a pulsing light in the sky. At first I thought it was a drone or helicopter. I realised after about a minute it wasn't moving. There was no noise that I could hear coming from it but it was quite a distance away. As you look from my viewpoint in Kingswinford the light was in a north east direction. There is a lot of air traffic from Birmingham airport that go over our house and also light planes and helicopters from nearby Bobbington (Wolverhampton) airport. After watching it for a couple of minutes I thought 'I need to film this', grabbed my phone and managed to film 3 x 30 second videos. The light didn't move or fly off in any direction it just seemed to vanish in a few seconds. I would say the whole event was about ten minutes but its hard to say. I am sure that there is a reasonable explanation to the light. I do have an interest in UFO's and the paranormal, that's why its taken me a couple of years to come forward as I have always thought that people would think I am desperate for a sighting and would claim anything is a contact experience. I won't be upset if you have a rational explanation but it would be good to hear your view on the footage.” I asked Paul for some more details about what he had seen and he responded: Q1: When you saw it with your own eyes, did it look the same as in the video? Were there any differences at all in how it looked? "No difference at all as I remember. It was very odd, no noise at all. It was a really quiet Sunday evening. Like I stated I am familiar with the Birmingham airport traffic and it definitely wasn't a plane. At first I thought a drone but it seemed to high." Q2: If you extended your arm out in front of you was it as big as your thumbnail, for example, or a 5p coin, etc? "A 5p coin." Q3: What was it's approximate elevation in the sky - if vertically above you is 90 degrees, where was it? "From my standing if vertically above is 90 degrees I estimate it to be 70 degrees." The Video Footage Below are the three videos which Paul managed to film: Below is a cropped still of the orb: The videos show a distant, pulsating white blob. It is not possible to make out a shape behind the light. It is impossible to work out how far away it is and therefore also how big it might be. Location Information Kingswinford is a town of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley on the edge of the West Midlands. It is 21 miles (34km) north-west of Birmingham and 5 miles (8 km) west-southwest of central Dudley. It’s also about 8 miles(13km) south-south-east of Wolverhampton. Paul’s house is indicated by the large X-shape in the bottom left of the map below: He reports that he saw the light in the north-east direction, which would be looking roughly towards where the WHITE SUN symbol is positioned. Further on in that direction there is a large green open area. It includes Kingswinford Community Centre, the 2488 Kingswinford Squadron ATC (Air Training Corps) and a football pitch, surrounded by trees. The community centre is about 400m (about a quarter of a mile) away. It closes at 17.00 each day, so it is unlikely there would have been any activity at around 21.00 on that Sunday. I checked when the ATC has it’s meetings, which are only on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 19.30 to 21.30, which rules anything they might have been doing. Beyond that area, in the same direction but on the other side of the High Street (A4101), is King George VI Park, about 800m (about half a mile) away, which is also a large green open area. Himley Hall and Park is about 3miles (5km) away. In the far distance is Beacon Hill, which is 237m (780ft) high. There is a helicopter pad on Russell’s Hall Hospital roof, but that’s more to the east of where Paul reported seeing the light. Observation conditions for Sunday 17th September 2023, from about 20.30 to 21.30. Sunset was at 19.11 that day and the moon had dipped below the horizon before 20.00. Therefore, it was dark at the time of Paul’s sighting. There were no other particular astronomical events that night. The nearest weather stations, with historic weather data records available for Kingswinford, are Wolverhampton and Birmingham. Timeanddate, for Wolverhampton, has the following data about when Paul saw this light: The temperature at about 21.00 was 16*C. There had been light rain before about 19.00, which had ceased. At around 21.00 there was passing cloud, but not at low levels. Wind speed was 10-11 kph (6-7mph) from the south-east Weatherspark has more data for Birmingham about cloud conditions: Around 21.00 cloud cover up to 488m (1,600ft) was mostly clear, at 671m (2,200ft) it was partly cloudy and at 823m (2,700ft) it was mostly cloudy. Wind speed at 10m (32ft) was 4kph (2.5mph) and at 100m (330ft) was 6-7kph (4mph). Visibility was about 8-9km (over 5miles). Together, these readings agree that there was hardly any cloud cover at lower levels in the area and it was a calm night, with no strong winds and good visibility. Experience Analysis Aircraft have red and green and white pulsing lights and do not stay stationary in the sky. The closest large civilian airports are Birmingham Airport 18 miles (29km) to the east, East Midlands Airport is 42 miles (67km) to the north-east and Nottingham Airport 54 miles (86km) to the north-east. Each of these major airports is too far away to be linked to this sighting. The much smaller and nearer civilian airport is Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport, which is in Bobbington, near Stourbridge, West Midlands. This is about 5 miles (8km) to the north-west of where Paul’s house is in Kingswinford, which it is in the wrong direction from where his sighting was. There are 4 flying schools, a helicopter operator/school, a microlight school and resident aircraft located there. In September, Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport operates under summer hours: 0900 to 1800 GMT. Any flights outside these hours require Prior Permission (PPR) from Air Traffic Service (ATS), and that must be arranged during those normal hours. There is little activity outside the times when the airport is open – known as after-hours flying – and requires a special permit. So, these activities were not happening. The one possible exception is that the Police Helicopter may still operate at any time to the airfield. The closest military airports are RAF Cosford 12 miles to the north-west, RAF Shawbury 40 miles to the north-west, RAF Brize Norton 57 miles to the south-east and RAF Syerston 80 miles to the north-east. Each of these airports is too far away, and/or in the wrong direction, to be linked to this sighting. There are no other air defence radar sights, etc, nearby. Helicopters are noisy, even at a distance, especially in calm air conditions, so Paul would have expected to hear one. Also, they have green and red pulsing lights. Gliders don’t fly at night, have no lights and it wasn’t windy enough to keep one stationary for nearly 10 minutes. Balloons are not self-illuminating, with pulsing lights. It is difficult to see what type of event would include the sort of individual light described here. It didn’t look like a laser light. Inevitably, the possibility that it was a drone needs to be considered, because these are used a lot, for all sorts of reasons, legally by commercial organisations and hobbyists and illegally by some hobbyists and “bad/foreign actors”. Drones must not be flown within restricted airspace, such as near airports, military bases, prisons, royal palaces or nuclear facilities, without permission. For example, Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport has a permanent Flight Restriction Zone (FRZ) around it as shown below: This zone applies primarily to drones and other small, unmanned vehicles (SUVs), but it reflects broader airspace protections around the airport. The FRZ around Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport is defined as follows: Circular Zone: A 2 nautical mile (3.7 km) radius centred on the airfield, extending up to 2000 feet above ground level (AGL). Runway Protection Zone: A 5 km (2.7 nautical miles) long by 1 km (0.5 nautical miles) wide corridor along the extended centreline of each runway, also extending up to 2000 feet AGL. The FRZ is always active, regardless of time or day. Drone Operations within the FRZ, as noted by Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport: You must obtain permission from the airport’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) or Flight Information Service Officer (FISO) to fly any drone within the FRZ. This includes all drones, regardless of weight, size, or purpose. Flying within the FRZ without permission is illegal under UK aviation law (CAP393) and may result in prosecution. Kingswinford is well-outside of the FRZ for it’s local airport. Given all the above information, it is not likely that a drone was associated with the nearest airport to Paul’s viewing point. However, outside of the FRZ could someone have been operating a drone? The weather conditions were good for someone flying drones that night. The basic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulations for flying drones include: Night drone flights are permitted in the UK with no specific time-based prohibitions Visual line of sight must be maintained and no flying above 400ft. Drones must be equipped with lights visible from at least 3 miles (5km). It is mandatory to have a steady GREEN light. Avoid flying over people, or congested areas Commercial operators need explicit CAA authorization for night operations All standard drone restrictions and no-fly zones still apply during drone night flights In addition to these regulations, some drones use red or white flashing lights to help pilots distinguish front from back, particularly at night and during complex manoeuvres. White flashing lights are also commonly used to increase visibility to other airspace users, especially in low-light or congested environments, and both of those factors apply here. Visual Line of Sight is actually somewhere between 500m and 2km at night. Many night-time drone flights are suspected covert surveillance near sensitive sites like RAF bases and US airbases. That does not seem to apply here, because there are none locally. Some drones may be used by foreign actors for espionage or intelligence gathering over military and critical civil infrastructure. Not sure how likely that might be in this area – what critical civil infrastructure is there? Probably a lot! Civilian hobbyists and legal operators also contribute to night-time drone activity, sometimes causing misidentification and public alarm. This cannot be ruled out completely in this case. Drones can be fitted with cameras and it is a popular reason for flying them. I have not found any other local reports on that day, or for a few days before/after it. If it had been a larger object, seen by Paul from a long way off, it might have been seen by more people. If it was a smaller object, seen close up to Paul, there is less likelihood of anyone else seeing it, because it would be less noticeable. Other Sightings There was only one other UFO sighting I have discovered that was reported on the same date and around the same time - 17 September 2023 at around 8.45pm – a long way away in Birtley, Tyne and Wear. The report doesn’t include that it was a flashing white light, or how big it was. Conditions: Overcast night Description: A bright light was observed moving very fast beneath the cloud layer. The object was visible for about 20 seconds. It made no sound, and the witness stated it could not have been a fast jet. The light was lost behind tree cover, appearing slightly lower than 3-meter-high trees from the observer’s perspective. The witness noted this was the second time they had seen a similar object, with the first sighting occurring about a month earlier. Summary It was a small, flashing, white light at an indeterminate distance, but probably less than 2km (1.25miles) These are the most difficult to analyse, because there is no way to extract more details from the images on the videos. One point against it being a drone is that it should have had a steady, green light visible. The white, pulsing, light could have been located on the front of the drone, so that the pilot could see the front of the drone and control it’s direction of flight better. If that was the case and the drone was pointing towards Paul, perhaps the flashing white light was obscuring the green one? It hovered for around 10 minutes. Many drones have cameras fitted and are used to take pictures, or videos, of the ground below. This could need some slow manoeuvres, including hovering, to be carried out. Also, from Paul’s perspective the light could have been moving, slowly, in a straight line towards, or away from him, and it would have been hard to see that. There are plenty of open spaces in the direction Paul saw this light for someone to be flying a drone. It disappeared suddenly. Battery life in drones varies, but could be a factor here, especially as it was using a bright strobe light. It may have drained power and had to descend suddenly, or it was obscured by going behind a tree, or building, etc. Conclusion If it wasn’t a drone, then I don’t see how any other, rational explanation, could apply. So, it was most likely a drone, but it’s impossible to rule it out as an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP). That’s the conclusion I have come to, based on the information available. If anyone has information about this sighting, please do contact BUFOG, because I’d be happy to revisit the case and update it. Copyright Ian Jones 2025

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 01/02/2026   In early January 2026 a lady named Pauline got in touch with BUFOG via our experience report form to inform us about a UFO she had both observed and recorded in March 2025. After examining the photographs and videos which she sent to me I got in touch via phone to go over the details of what took place.   Sighting Details   On the evening of 28 th  March 2025 Pauline had her sisters round to visit at her house on Main Road (B4084), Cropthorne, Worcestershire. It was a clear, still but cold evening. Due to the time of year the sun had already set.     At 8:08pm her sister Elaine stepped outside the back door of the house for a cigarette. She suddenly called out “Come and see this Pauline!”   Pauline went outside to join her. Elaine pointed up into the sky. In the distance high up in the sky was a stationary white glowing orb of light. They watched it for a short while before she called out her other sisters Jackie and Sue to come and see also.   Suddenly the orb moved a short distance across the sky before coming to a halt again! They continued to watch and it carried on in this fashion – hovering motionless a while before moving in a direction before stopping, while remaining roughly in the same area of the sky. Over time it seemed to get brighter and larger, potentially moving closer.   The witnesses headed over to the outside garden bar and grabbed a drink while continuing to watch the orb. After a short while Pauline decided to take some photographs and short pieces of video of it.   According to Pauline the object remained for about half an hour. After this time, it moved in the usual way but then seemed to vanish. It did not make a re-appearance.   Photographic & Video Analysis   Below is the first photograph Pauline took of the orb visible in the sky over the roof of the garden shed:   Here is the second photograph where she attempted to zoom in on the object:   Below are the two short videos Pauline took:     I have no reason to doubt that the photos and videos are real, but it is important to verify this, especially given how easy it now is to create fake photographs and video footage using CGI or AI. I asked Pauline to send me the photos and videos directly from her mobile phone to E-Mail. then utilised an online Exif metadata viewer in order to see the hidden metadata behind them. Below is the metadata extracted from the first photograph as an example: When images or videos are modified using editing software the metadata changes in lots of different ways. If an image/video is created using build software it's metadata will also be wildly different. While it is possible to modify metadata this is quite challenging to do accurately and most people are not even aware it exists. So it is possible to analyse the metadata to aid in confirming authenticity. In the above screen grabs I have highlighted certain metadata values. Picasa is the standard image storage software utilised by iPhones. Various values mention Apple Computer Inc, again pointing towards the image being genuinely shot on an iPhone. Similar metadata can also be seen in the other image and videos, and I am satisfied that they are real and un-tampered. As you can see the object just looks like a bright white point of light, most likely due to the distance. The different shades seen within it in the second zoomed photograph are an image artefact caused by the brightness of the light against the dark background. Sadly in the two short videos she took Pauline did not manage to capture any movement of the object, so we only have her testimony to go on regarding what it was doing throughout the sighting.   Sighting Analysis   There are numerous possible explanations for white orbs of light seen in the sky after dark. It could not have been a satellite as these move on a continuous straight path across the sky.   Pauline informed me that the object was situated to the South South East. Looking on the Stellarium application for the location, date and time in that direction and at the elevation on the video it can be seen that there are no bright stars/planets at that position:   Also, while the movements it performed were unfortunately not captured, Pauline testified to the fact that the object was occasionally moving, which rules out a star/planet as the explanation.   As the sighting lasted for an extensive period of time it is very unlikely to have been a white coloured LED balloon. Over that amount of time even in still conditions there would likely be noticeable drift, not the sudden darting movements observed.   Examining the video footage I do not believe it was a distant hovering helicopter. Even when far away it is usually possible to see the regular beat of the white strobe light, and this is not apparent from the video footage.   However, one explanation which cannot be fully ruled out is that the object was a distant drone with white lights on it. At distance these lights can bleed into one making it look like a singular glowing orb. The sudden manoeuvres described by Pauline certainly sound like movements a drone would be able to perform. That said, when I suggested this as a possibility, she did mention that her husband owns a drone and she has seen how this looks after dark at a distance, and says it does not look the same.   Without me being able to confirm the drone theory at present (unless the pilot actually gets in touch) the sighting will likely remain a mystery. I would like to thank Pauline for getting in touch and sending BUFOG the footage to include in this report.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 24/04/2025 In March 2025 I was contacted by a man named Gary Freeman via the BUFOG website to inform us about a historical UFO/UAP sighting he and his wife at the time Suzanne had. This report covers what took place.   Sighting Details   On the evening of 10th October 1990 Gary and Suzanne drove to the NEC for a Billy Joel concert. After the show they walked back to their car and got back on the road to head for home, with Gary driving and Suzanne in the passenger seat. It was a mild and dry night. Gary cannot recall whether it was cloudy or not.   They began heading North West along the M6 motorway. At approximately 11.30pm they were between Junctions 8 and 9 close to the RAC rescue centre, RAC Bescot. Due to the time of night there was only very light traffic on the road.   Aerial map of the M6 indicating the position the witnesses were at Photograph of the M6 Gary was checking the left side mirror when suddenly through the passenger window he saw a brightly glowing white cigar-shaped object appear in the sky to the South West at an elevation of approximately 45 degrees. It reminded him of a fluorescent light tube. He pointed it out to Suzanne.   The object was stationary and positioned at a sharp angle, at roughly 10 o’clock position. It was hard to judge how far away it was, but it looked quite large in size, about 50% of the width of the window. They both stared at it while continuing to drive along the motorway.   Photograph of the sighting location in the direction the UFO was situated After about 10 seconds it suddenly began shrinking down to the size of a star, then disappeared. Neither of them could explain what they had just witnessed. They discussed what it could have been as they continued their drive home.   The following morning Gary mentioned the sighting to his work colleagues. However they did not seem to be surprised. Some girls in the office informed him that the BBC had reported on the morning radio multiple UFO sightings around the Birmingham area on the previous night. Gary is unsure whether the other objects reported by people looked the same as what he and Suzanne had seen.   Sighting Analysis   Due to the shape and apparent size of the object seen this is certainly an intriguing sighting. Due to the proximity of the sighting location to Birmingham International Airport (roughly 5 miles away) I asked Gary whether he felt it may have been an aircraft with its landing lights on. He does not believe this was the case because he has previously lived close to Manchester and Liverpool airports so is familiar with how planes look at a distance after dark. Aerial map showing the sighting location (A) and Birmingham International Airport (B) In addition to Gary’s familiarity with aircraft, there are other reasons for why it was unlikely to be a plane. If it was a plane, the sharp angle of the object in the sky means that it would have had to have been performing a turn. However it appeared stationary for the entire duration of the sighting. If it was turning in the sky, some movement would surely have been noticeable within the ten seconds it was observed for?   Also even though the bright landing lights of a plane can obscure other navigation lights at a distance, if it was plane it would have had to have been quite close to have taken up half the width of the passenger window in the sky. If it was close, other red and green lights or white strobe lights would have been visible to the witnesses.   Drawing indicating normal navigation lights of a passenger jet If it was not an aeroplane, what else could it have been? It was the wrong shape for a stationary helicopter, and once again other navigation lights would have been noticeable.   Even though it appeared to be within the atmosphere, we must consider objects out in orbit. Gary cannot recall whether it was a clear night or not. However it was too large and the wrong shape for a satellite moving towards them and catching the sun’s rays temporarily. Meteorites are only visible for a few seconds at most so cannot be the explanation. Nor could it have been the International Space Station as this was not in orbit until 1998.   A large lit inflatable would have remained visible in the sky. The sighting obviously occurred decades before drones were commercially available so this possibility can also be discounted.   With alternative explanations addressed, there remains the possibility that the object was a genuine advanced craft of possible non-human origin. I have investigated many cases of glowing cigar-shaped objects before. We will likely never know whether the other sightings reported by the BBC were of the same/similar objects, but this cannot be ruled out.   Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025