Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 13/08/2015 Last Updated: 20/06/2017 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses Back To The Fields In the months following the landing incident David and Ricky talked about what had happened with other people, including their friend Marcus. He was so intrigued by their story that he wanted to go back with them to the location that it happened for a sky watch in the hope of seeing something else. So one evening David and Ricky took him out to the area. They arrived about 8.30pm when the sun was still going down. David and Ricky had come to terms with what had taken place so were not frightened to return there. They found a suitable spot in the same field that I visited as part of the investigation. By 10pm it was fully dark. It was a warm and clear evening with the stars visible in the sky. The men did not have torches with them as they wanted to get the best view of the night sky. Suddenly their attention was drawn to a glowing object in the sky to the North of them. David remembers it looking like an orange glowing disc-shaped UFO. He says it was quite sizeable, at least as big as a helicopter. Astounded they watched as it glided in from the right of their vision. It was only about 500 feet in the air and appeared to be silent. The object moved on a straight path. As it arrived at the adjacent field to them it came to an immediate abrupt halt. Everyone watched in anticipation of what was going to happen next. The UFO hovered motionless for several seconds. Then it retracted its movement heading back the opposite way that it had arrived. Marcus moved around through some overgrowth to get a better look. They watched the object until it had gone out of sight.. Everyone was quite shocked by what had just taken place. For a moment there was absolute silence. This was broken by Marcus, who suddenly started shouting out that there was something inside his jeans. In a panicked state he pulled them down expecting to find a large spider or other animal. What he discovered was a large branch with leaves on! It had been alongside his upper thigh. After Marcus removed the branch they sat down and discussed what they had just witnessed. Later in the night Marcus decided to take some photographs on his camera and get the others to take some with him in. Nothing else took place so they headed for home about 12.30am. The following day Marcus excitedly contacted David. When he had checked the photographs there were orange glowing lights seen in the background behind them! I finally got to speak with Marcus when I visited Bicester in May 2015. He confirmed that David and Ricky had mentioned to him what happened to them and that he had been responsible for initiating the sky watch. While his recollection of what happened there is similar to David’s in some regards, he does not recall seeing an orange disc-shaped object. He remembers just seeing a brilliantly glowing yellow-ish coloured light. He says it caught his attention because it looked too bright and large to be a normal aircraft. When asked about the movement of the UFO, Marcus agrees that it came in, stopped a while, and then moved away from the area. He does not believe that the branch was anything unusual, he just says that when he moved around in the overgrowth it must have accidentally slid up the inside of his leg and broken off. Marcus informed me he would send through the photographs for me to analyse, although he does suspect that the orange lights are merely reflections from the street lights on Charbridge Lane. Below are the photographs taken on Marcus’ camera, which he sent to me soon after my visit: The orange lights are most pronounced in the third photograph of Marcus and David, but can still be seen on the others to a lesser degree. Below is a zoomed image of some of them: However Marcus believes that they are merely street lights from Charbridge Lane, as the photographs were taken in that direction. As they are in a line and also quite low down I too feel this is the most likely explanation for them. Nordic Body Scan About 4-5 months after the landing incident, David was stood in the back garden of his house and chatting with Ricky. It was about 12.30 am, and a clear and dry night. Janet and the children had already gone to bed. Aerial map of Market End Way: Coming from over the rooftops at the left far corner of the garden they suddenly noticed an angular silver coloured saucer-shaped UFO. It had a raised central section with a line of dark rectangular windows along it. There were no lights visible on it, it was only visible due to the reflection of street lights on its surface. It was completely silent. The whole object looked almost old fashioned in its appearance. It was about 20 feet across and no more than 50 feet in the air. David’s drawing of the UFO over the garden: The UFO approached them at walking pace and then came to a halt over the tree line at the base of the garden, hovering motionless in the air roughly 20 feet away from them. The presence of this object felt completely surreal to David, despite his previous experiences. Almost immediately David then got a strong telepathic message in his mind telling him to go inside the house and sit down. He was in a state where he was on the verge of losing control. He turned to Ricky and said “Come on then, let’s go inside”. David says that he did this because he trusted the beings, but says that he doesn’t think it would make any difference if he didn’t. Ricky was in total shock and a place of open awareness, and David says that he would have done anything he was told at that time. They both stopped looking at the craft and went back into the living room, which lead directly off the garden. David closed the door behind them. He did not switch the light on so the room was quite dark. He has no idea why he did not put the light on as normally he would have. David sat down on one of the two sofas, Ricky sat on the other. They both sat cross-legged as if they were preparing to meditate. About 10-20 seconds later three Nordic beings entered the room, actually stepping through the solid back door of the house! The first was the one that looks very similar to David. Accompanying him were two other males, probably two of the ones he had seen during the abduction, although David cannot be certain of this. The one that looked like him appeared to be co-ordinating the other two and David sensed that there was communication going on between them telepathically. The Nordic that looked like David stood between the two sofas. One of the other males got down on one knee close to David. The other went and sat on the other sofa alongside Ricky. Ricky continued to stare straight forward. The being alongside him turned and looked intensely at him. David believes that it was controlling him in some way. A moment later David blacked out and was not aware of what happened next. David’s drawing of himself, Ricky and the beings in the living room: However afterwards Ricky explained what had taken place. He said that David turned and lay down on the sofa, like he was being controlled to do so by the beings. The Nordic who had been kneeling near him then began to run a device which looked like a bar covered in lights up and down under David’s body. This would of course usually have been impossible without lifting him up off the sofa, but Ricky said that this did not happen. The beings arm appeared to be going through the sofa under David and he could see different coloured lights spilling out from under him. The being would move the device to a part of David’s body, stop it over that place for a time, at which point the lights would change colour like it was responding to something in his body. It was some kind of body scan, perhaps healing him in some way. As they did this, the being sitting next to Ricky spoke to him telepathically. He kept ascertaining that everything they were doing was ok and that he didn’t need to panic. Once the activity was complete, the being alongside David lifted him back up into a normal seated position. At this moment David came back around and became aware of what was going on. He looked across at Ricky, who was now looking at the being next to him. At this moment David saw the being wave at Ricky in an almost child-like way. After this the beings got back up to their feet and then all walked out of the room, once again stepping through the closed back door. For about a minute David and Ricky sat in the darkened room in silence. Everything was still and quiet until Ricky exclaimed “That was fucking mad!” David was still in a state of confusion and responded saying “Yeah....what happened?” Ricky said “Mate they were doing shit on you. Don’t you remember?” David answered him saying “I don’t remember that. I remember the guys walking in.” As David thought back, he recalled seeing the craft out in the garden, but he says it felt like remembering something that had happened ages ago in his past rather than something that had only occurred a short while before. They started to talk through the event to make it seem real to them. David felt that if they didn’t do this they would possibly forget about it. He says that his contact experiences always feel like this. He wonders if there are other experiences he has had which have been completely forgotten. In the morning when Janet woke up David told her about what had happened during the night. She accepted it quite well as this was far from the first time that such things had taken place. Both this experience, and the craft landing which occurred earlier in the same year, deeply affected Ricky’s perspective on reality. In a similar way to David his personality dramatically changed as he began to accept what had occurred. Neither of the men had a camera on them at the time, and David believes that even if they did have they were not have been in the right frame of mind to take a photograph of either the craft or the Nordic beings. Below is Ricky's written testimony of what took place: "Me and Dave were meditating at his house one night up Kings End in Bicester reaching a higher level of consciousness, or a greater level of awareness, whichever you like to call it. During the middle of the night we decided to go out in his back garden and look at the stars for a while as it was a clear night. Dave went to the back of the garden looking towards the house and I was standing looking the other way towards where the Highfield Club is near there. I was looking up and a huge black rectangular shaped craft came over head moving really slow and not very high in the sky at all. I could see symbols on the craft and so much intricate detail all over it. I watched it slowly fly over towards the Highfield Club until it got so low I couldn't see over the fence anymore but it looked like it was going to land somewhere close  by. I realized I was so gobsmacked I didn't even get to point to dave to show him so I told him wat I just saw, we decided to go back inside and meditate some more in his living room. About 10 minutes later I had a feeling that someone was in the room with us so I opened my eyes from the meditation and looked around and saw some beings walking straight through Daves back door while it was still closed. They were humanoid and looked like they had glowing shells to them. You could barely notice features of their faces or anything but they were in the room with us. One of them came and sat on the sofa right next to me, another came to the center of the living room and another stayed near the back door. I had a thought in my head to go and sit next to Dave on the other sofa but as soon as I had that thought Dave lay down. The being in the center of the living room walked over to Dave and started running his hand around Dave's body and the beings hand had light coming from it it looked like they were scanning his body for something. This went on for a few minutes then the being turned and walked back towards the back door. The being sat next to me then looked right at me and put a hand up and started waving and waving right in my face. I smiled and watched them walk back through the back door. A few seconds later Dave sat up and looked at me and said "I think we just had contact Rick!" I laughed and said "Yeah, you think!?" While the general details of what took place are very similar, it is clear that there are a few aspects of this testimony which don't match David's version of events. Ricky seems to recall the craft looking like a black rectangle where as David described a more classic saucer shape. However it is clear from both testimonies that there were no lights on the craft and it was only visible because of ground lighting reflecting off its surface. As Ricky was standing at a different position to David perhaps his interpretation of its shape was different as a result. David is adamant that both he and Ricky were under control during the experience, yet Ricky's testimony suggests that they had free will throughout it. Also David is certain that Ricky mentioned that the being which performed the scan was holding an instrument of some kind, yet in his testimony he suggests that the light was coming from the being's own hand. However these are minor points which could well have been down to individual perception. In most multiple witness cases it is common for there to be discrepancies. It is clear that both witnesses lived through the same experience. Orbs Photographs Around this period of his life David was in a heavy metal band called Primeval with Ricky and another friend Luke, who is now the bass guitarist for technical metal band Scream Blue Murder. They decided to get some band photographs taken at Rodney House, a civil servants club on the outskirts of Bicester. When they checked the photos there were lots of orbs on them. On one photograph there was a massive orb right next to David which appeared to have a human male face inside it. Both David and Luke say that this seemed too pronounced to be a simulacrum. Aerial map of Rodney House: Obviously many orbs captured on photos can be explained as dust particles or water droplets captured in the lens, but I have mentioned this because all of the band members have had other experiences. Luke thinks he may still have the photographs and may be able to send them to me in due course. Luke recalls David and Ricky speaking about the experiences they were having at the time. When I interviewed him in May 2015 he stated the following: “I didn’t see much directly with them around that time as I had a girlfriend and stuff so a lot of the time didn’t hang around with them. But they were having experiences at the time, I remember them talking about them with me.” He also confirmed that they spoke to him about the Ghost Fields landing incident: “I remember them telling me about this, just about. I can’t tell you much about the detail, but I can remember it being mentioned.” Close To Death One day in June 2006 David was at his parent’s house in Bridgend, Wales, when he began to experience a very unusual feeling. It felt like a very strong malevolent presence in his proximity. David described this as “the feeling you would get if you were standing in an elevator alongside a murderer who wished you harm but was not able to touch you physically”. This feeling was horrendous, like an invisible entity right there which he felt certain wanted to cause him harm. David decided that the best thing to do would be to try and ignore it and go to sleep. As he dropped off he could still feel the presence there with him. The next thing he became aware of he found himself waking up from a four day long coma in a bed at Princess Of Wales Hospital. There was a pretty Chinese nurse leaning over him and for a brief moment he thought he was dead and had gone to heaven! As he came out of the coma he mentioned something, he cannot remember exactly what as he was feeling extremely dazed. He remembers the nurse responding to a question he had asked, saying “No, you’re in hospital”. She then told him that they were going to put him in a wheelchair and move him to another ward. He was lifted out of the bed as his muscles were not functioning well. As she moved him, the nurse explained that he was being moved through to the psychiatric ward for 28 days observation. When David asked why, the nurse said “You were asking about aliens, you said you’d been with the aliens.” David was soon able to speak with the doctors and find out what had taken place. They informed him that for an unknown reason he had got out of bed at 2 o’clock in the morning, dressed himself and walked downstairs. He then drank both his mother’s bottle of Diazapan followed by an entire bottle of whiskey. After this he left the house, walked half a mile away, and then collapsed at the edge of a farmer’s field. David could well have died there, either from what he had ingested or of exposure due to the cold. However an ambulance was driving past the field. The driver decided he needed a quick cigarette break so pulled up at the edge of the field - right alongside where David was lying! He got out of the ambulance, walked into the field and looked down to see David at his feet. He of course rushed David to hospital, and luckily managed to save his life. During the following month, David’s parents came to visit him regularly. His friends Ricky and Marcus also made the journey to Bridgend to come and see him. While recovering in hospital David actually experienced an ET visitation! One afternoon he was just relaxing on the bed and fully awake. As with most hospitals, the bed was surrounded in tall curtains segregating it off from the rest of the ward. Suddenly his key contact appeared, accompanied by two other male Nordics. As with previous experiences, David was focused on his key contact so did not see the other two in great detail, they were just there in the background. His key contact explained to him that he had undergone a spiritual attack, and that it had been an attempt on his life. They informed him that although they had not been able to protect him from what happened, they had ensured that he survived. David believes that they may have played a part in getting the ambulance to stop at that exact place, and may have also taken him meta-physically aboard a craft while he lay in the hospital and assisted with his healing. The being said that he was still in danger while he was in the hospital, which is why they were watching over him. David was not able to ascertain exactly what had attacked him. His contact informed him that there were other interests which did not want him here. David got the impression that it was complex, and that it likely involved another ET species. The telepathic communication with his key contact seemed to go on for about five minutes. After this the beings departed just as rapidly as they had initially appeared. Nobody else on the ward had any clue as to what had just taken place. During his time in hospital David regularly chatted with the nurses about his contact experiences. Some of them were absolutely fascinated by what he talked about, and even asked him if he would be interested in going out for a drink after he was discharged! Towards the end of the month David had a meeting with twelve doctors to assess his mental health. They called him into a room and asked him to sit down. However it soon became apparent that all they were interested in asking him about was the aliens he had mentioned. David sensed that he should tell these doctors the truth, so he held nothing back. The meeting went on for about four hours, and the individuals present wanted to know every little detail of his contact experiences. One of them seemed to be trying to wind David up, perhaps to see how he would react. At the end of it they told him that he appeared to be mentally stable and that he was free to go home. David later found out that on the same night he was admitted, two UFOs were both observed and photographed hovering motionless right over the hospital by multiple witnesses! According to David, the incident made the national newspapers including The Sun. Police helicopters were actually sent out to engage the UFOs, which looked like glowing white lights. However whenever the helicopters got close to them they would vanish. When the helicopters moved away they would reappear. Unfortunately I have not yet been able to track down any of the articles, but if I do they will be added to this report. Shadow People There have been numerous occasions where David and others around him have seen shadow-like beings either enter him or emerge out from him. One day he was standing in the kitchen on his own doing the washing up. He was in quite a relaxed state of mind at the time. Suddenly he felt the feeling of something rushing up behind him really fast. At this unsettling feeling he turned around to see what was there. He didn’t see anything at first. Then without warning he saw a dark shadowy human-like shape run around the bottom of the stairs. It ran straight at him extremely fast. As it got closer he could see its limbs actually moving back and forth like it was sprinting towards him. It continued to approach and ran straight into him, disappearing as it did. On another occasion when he was 30, David was around Luke’s house. He and Luke were out in the back garden while Luke’s girlfriend was in the kitchen. She could see them out of the window. Suddenly David felt enlightened like something had lifted up out of him. At the same moment Luke’s girlfriend screamed from the kitchen. Luke ran into the house to find out what had happened. A few minutes later he came back outside and asked David to leave. When David asked why, Luke informed him that his girlfriend had seen a black shadowy form rise up out of him and shoot straight upwards into the air. Luke had been right next to him and hadn’t seen anything. However his girlfriend was convinced that it had not just been a trick of the light, and was so disturbed by what she had seen that she didn’t want to see or speak with David! Reluctantly he agreed and headed back home. David says there have been other similar incidents to these, but finds it had to remember the specific details. Driving Lessons Late one evening in 2006 David was out driving in Bicester, enjoying his relatively new car. It was between 11.30pm - midnight and there were hardly any other vehicles on the road. He was driving along Charbridge Lane, a bit further along from the field where he and Ricky had previously witnessed the UFO landing. He looked in the rear view mirror and was surprised to see a male Nordic being sitting on the back seat. This one was familiar to him and was one of the beings he had seen on previous occasions. He had short brown hair, handsome facial features and a pale complexion. It was quite dark at the time so David could not really see what he was wearing. The sudden appearance of this being did not really frighten David, by 2006 he was completely comfortable with his contact experiences. The Nordic began to speak with David telepathically, conveying the message that he wanted to take control of David’s body in order to experience what it was like to drive a car. David was aware that the being did not want to completely take him over, he just wanted to share the experience of driving while giving David enough control over the situation to remain safe. David was quite happy with the Nordic’s request and agreed. A moment later he felt the being inside his mind. He allowed the being some control over his actions so he could experience driving the car. He sensed that the being was thrilled by this and was enjoying the experience. They approached a roundabout, drove around it, returned back along the stretch of road to the next roundabout and then came back round again. This lasted about 10 minutes as they were driving quite slowly. After this the being departed and David felt he had regained full control over his actions. He then continued on his journey back home. An Implant Detected? In 2007 when David was 30 years old he worked for a number of months at Bakels bread-manufacturing company on the industrial estate in Bicester. His job was to fill bags with processed grain and pile them up for fork lift trucks to take away. The grain would reach him via a conveyor belt. Just before it reached him it would pass under a metal detector that lay over the conveyor belt. This was designed to ensure that the grain was free of any small metal fragments before it was bagged. One day David got impatient at the speed of the conveyor belt. He put his right hand through the metal detector to grab hold of the grain and push it through faster. To his surprise the metal detector went off! The conveyor belt immediately stopped and the supervisor approached him. He asked what had happened and David explained. He informed David that he should not put his hand through the detector with metal jewelry on. This is where David told him that he wasn’t wearing any jewelry. The supervisor asked him to put his hand through the detector again. Once more it went off. He then tried doing the same with his own hand, to which nothing happened. He informed David that he must have something metal in his hand. David was by now fully aware that he was experiencing contact. He was also aware of alien implants, and wondered if there was one inside his hand. Of course he did not explain all of this to the supervisor; he just shrugged it off and continued with his work. David has not yet looked into this incident any further. He is unaware of what the object could have been or whether it is still there in his hand. It is of course possible that it was some kind of metal splinter; however he could not find any scars which would suggest injury. In the coming months we hope to get hold of a metal detector and verify whether or not the object is still present. If it is then we may attempt to obtain an X-Ray photograph of it. Any updates on this will be added to this report in due course. Ego Loss In the summer of 2007 David, Ricky, Ricky’s brother Shane, Phil, Sam and a couple of other friends all headed down to Wiltshire to visit locations, look for crop formations and do some sky watching. It was really nice weather, clear and sunny. The group took a large tent with them which they set up two fields behind Silbury Hill, a prehistoric artificial chalk mound close to Avebury. Aerial map of Silbury Hill. Note the faded crop formation in the wheat field towards the top: Photograph of Silbury Hill: It was the early hours of the morning and everyone was sitting in a circle inside the tent relaxing and socializing. All of a sudden David got the sense that his Nordic contacts were in the vicinity. He felt that they were right outside the tent. They then started speaking to him telepathically. He sensed that they wished to use his body as a vessel as they had done on previous occasions, and demonstrate some things to the others present in the tent. David was not surprised by this as when they had set off on their excursion to Wiltshire he felt that they may have been travelling down there for a reason. The next thing David knew he had a slight visual sense of them coming into the tent through the entrance. He sat cross-legged and put himself into a meditative state. A moment later he felt one of them become part of him. As on previous occasions it was not a complete takeover of his body, he was still aware of what was taking place, but allowed them to use him however they wished. They were in control of his actions. Under control, David turned to his right and looked directly at Phil who was sitting next to him. He also reached out and held his arms. Phil looked back at him and then immediately began screaming extremely loudly. He fell backwards onto his back still screaming as he went. Everyone else in the tent was understandably shocked and were staring at Phil. Within 5 minutes he had calmed right back down and was acting normally again. By this time David had felt the Nordic leave him and depart. He asked Phil what had just taken place. Phil said that when he looked into David’s eyes it was like staring into infinity, just blackness. He then felt like he was falling into this blackness, almost like falling off a cliff. This is why he had literally fallen backwards. He was understandably quite shaken up by what had taken place but was not frightened. He sensed that something unusual had gone on and was more than likely to do with David’s contacts. Soon afterwards Ricky confirmed that he had seen a figure leaving the tent just as Phil was starting to recover. He initially assumed it was one of the group, but when he looked around he found that everyone was still present. Ricky believes that he was able to see one of the beings physically exiting the tent. David did not fully explain what had happened to everyone in the tent. He felt that some of the people present were not ready to hear such things, so allowed people to make up their own mind about what had happened. At a later date David was informed by the Nordics that what Phil had undergone was something they referred to as “ego loss”. They explained that this can be the most disorientating experience that a human being can have.  David feels that this was done to set Phil off on his spiritual journey and begin to open up to the reality of these beings. This would lead on to a more direct experience in 2012 (see later). Hooded Grey By the time he was 31, David was used to the fact that odd things were occurring in his property and that he was experiencing contact on a regular basis. One night he was lying in bed in the dark. Janet was asleep next to him but he was having difficulty sleeping. He closed his eyes a while to try and settle down. Suddenly he felt a little unusual. Opening his eyes he was greeted with the sight of a Grey standing in the room on the far side of the bed. It looked extremely physical and solid. It was wearing a black hooded shawl. It had pale grey coloured skin and large jet black slanted eyes. Its nose just looked like two small nostrils and it had a horizontal slit for a mouth. It appeared to be about 5.5 feet tall. The clothing it was wearing looked like it was made out of velvet. Witness drawing of the hooded Grey: David stared into the eyes of the being. They reminded him of the eyes of a spider – black and shiny, with no sign of any emotion. Despite the presence of this being he felt completely in control and so didn’t panic. He was more intrigued to see what it would do. The Grey was standing still but had a bit of movement to it indicating that it was very much alive. He decided to attempt to converse with it telepathically. In his mind he asked “Can you hear me?” To this question he got no response back. Lying there he thought to himself “I’m going to reach out and grab a hold of him!” He plucked up enough courage, then suddenly reached out towards the being. It instantly reacted to this movement like it had already anticipated what he was going to do. It moved its arm back away from David’s reach, and then immediately dissipated away to nothing. David still wonders what it was doing there on that particular evening and what its intentions were. Psychic Connection In the summer of 2007 Ricky came to visit David in Bridgend. They were walking through town and were chatting about psychics. They wondered what it would be like to visit a psychic and get a reading done. At that moment they looked up and noticed a sign on the wall of Bridgend Spiritualist Church advertising a medium who would be giving readings that evening! They decided out of interest to go along. Aerial map showing the location of Bridgend Spiritualist Church: Photograph of Bridgend Spiritualist Church: That evening they and over 100 other people sat inside the church hall while the medium took to the stage in front of them. At first she was giving a reading to another lady for about five minutes. But soon she looked directly at David and said “I’ve got someone here to talk to you, but you’ve got to decide for yourself whether you are happy for it to be said out loud or not. I’ll give you a few minutes to decide.” She then continued with the other reading. David was surprised that she had picked him out of such a large audience as he had not spoken to her beforehand. However he decided that it would be ok for her to proceed with his reading. After a few minutes she came back to him and began to talk. She said that she had a man there with her who looked just like him. She said this man had strange powerful energy which she had never experienced before. She then started telling David about himself. She told him he was interested in song-writing and poetry. She said he had been through a hard time recently, but had strong convictions and was here for a purpose. A lot of what she was saying was quite open to interpretation and not particularly specific which annoyed David a little. He was also a little embarrassed at how long she was taking with him considering the number of people there who would also no doubt be after readings of their own. At the end of the night just as he was about to leave, the medium approached David. She appeared overcome with emotion and just said “That was amazing! That was amazing!” She then asked if she could touch his arm, which he allowed. She informed him that she had connected with a being which looked similar to him in facial features, but who had shoulder length white hair and a beard. It was clear to David that she was talking about his key contact. As he left the building he looked back and could see her still staring in his direction. She certainly appeared to have been deeply affected by what had taken place. Stoke Woods Possible Abduction In 2008 David used to live with Ricky on the outskirts of Bicester. He would regularly walk back to Market End Way to visit his daughters. To make this journey he would walk along the B4300 which led past Stoke Woods. One early afternoon he was heading along the usual route, walking along the grass verge at the edge of the road. It was a pleasant and still day. The road was quiet and there were no other pedestrians around. Stoke Woods was ahead of him and off to his right about 500 yards away. He was looking over at the woods as he walked. Suddenly he saw what appeared to be a glowing orange saucer-shaped object. It appeared to be at least the size of a small aircraft. It rose up into the sky from the direction of the woods and moved towards his location at quite a fast speed. Within a few seconds the object was about 150 yards away from him and he was looking up at it at quite a steep angle. Witness drawing of the UFO rising up out of Stoke Woods: Then all of a sudden it had vanished. It was now that he realized he was no longer on the grass verge but was standing in the middle of the road at roughly the same location he had been in just a moment before. He felt slightly dazed. He walked back to the verge, lit up a cigarette then continued his journey to Bicester. Once he arrived he informed Janet about what had happened, and later on told Ricky too. The fact that David instantly switched positions tends to suggest that he may have been abducted by the UFO, put back down near to the location he was picked up at, and had the memories of the experience completely wiped from his memory. This would also explain why the UFO was there one moment then suddenly disappeared. David is unaware if he experienced any missing time. If so, it was clear that this was not extensive. But he did not have a watch or mobile phone, and the walk was so long that there was no way of knowing if any time was lost when he finally did arrive at Market End Way. Imaginary Friend? Later that same year Ellie began to see what she believed was an imaginary friend. She would see her regularly in her proximity, and have discussions with her. Ellie went over this in quite good detail during her recorded testimony: “I never had an imaginary friend before, and I was eight years old. And she was always there, whenever I got in she was there. She had really pale skin. She looked like an angel but not dressed like one. She didn't have wings or nothing. She was my best friend. I don't believe now in imaginary friends, but she was so real. At that point I think I was feeling lonely almost. And I was feeling like I needed someone. I kept trying to have imaginary friends but I couldn't. And then all of a sudden this girl called Amy was there. She told me her name was Amy and that she was ten. I know that she was two years older than me, she was ten. And then all of a sudden she told me that she had to go and that we'd never meet again. She was like a typical angel, she had blue eyes, pale skin, really light blonde hair, she was about as tall as I am now. She just talked to me like a friend would, like she'd known me all my life. I always believed in guardian angels. I thought she was like someone sent down to me sort of thing. She used to just talk to me, comfort me and make me feel better. Like when you talk to people you feel better, that's how it'd be.” David recalls hearing Ellie speak with Amy on numerous occasions. Looking at it from a contact perspective, it is clear that Amy had a similar appearance to a Nordic being. Could Ellie have been in contact with an ET during this period? David certainly feels that this was the case. And eight is quite an old age to see and interact with an imagined individual. On the other hand, Ellie did say that she was lonely and desperately wanted an imaginary friend. We are unlikely to never know for sure, but it is yet another example of possible contact with David’s direct family. Car Wash Ellie has another unusual memory of an event which David is convinced did not actually take place.  She recalls an incident where the neighbours asked her if she wanted to go for a car wash. She agreed to this and they picked her up and took her there. She then recalls being in the back seat and watching the car being washed. Below is an extract from her recorded testimony where she discusses this memory: “We were all out in the garden and they asked me if I wanted to go to the car wash, ‘cause I was talking about how I'd never been in one. So I went over the fence through their house. They lifted me over the wall. And we went to the car wash. And I remember sitting in the back seat. And I'd never seen a car wash before, I remembered what it looked like, the big twizzly things that washed it and all the spray, it was quite fun being in it and not spraying on me. It was lit up. I don't remember them being in the car though. Or coming back. But I remember it like it happened, I remember it like my other childhood memories, not like a dream, I remember some things as a dream and some things as life. I remember it like I remember doing anything.” David assures me that this incident did not take place. His neighbours would simply not have taken Ellie without asking permission and he is certain that they never did. He wonders if Ellie is recalling a screen memory of an abduction experience. As there is evidence that Ellie is experiencing contact this is certainly a possibility worth considering. Mind Reading Just like David, it appears that Ellie too may have psychic abilities, something which has a clear link with contact. When she was younger she was seemingly able to read the minds of her classmates. She also felt like she knew her grandfather and had spoken with him on numerous occasions, even though he died before she was even born. Ellie described these experiences in her recorded testimony: “When I was in year five we'd be on the playground, and my friends would be talking about me, but I wouldn't be anywhere near them, and I would know what they're talking about about me. I used to ask them "Why were you talking about me?" and they'd say "How did you know that?" I also feel I have a connection to granddad. I feel like I know him, but I've never met him before in my life. He died before I was born. I just felt like I knew him and that I met him all the time. I remember I used to talk to him.” It certainly appears that like her father Ellie has experienced incidents of a psychic nature, another sign that she may well be a contactee. Octopus Man In June 2008 David went camping in Avebury, Wiltshire with Ricky, Ellie and Sacha. They went down there to relax, sky watch and look for crop formations. They set up their tents in the field just North of Silbury Hill. On the first night David decided to go to sleep around 11.30pm. Ricky decided to stay up later and go for a wander around the area on his own. In the morning Ricky popped his head into the tent and asked Dave if he had some spare tobacco. David was well aware that Ricky had his own tobacco so asked him what had happened to it. Ricky said that while he was out during the night he had been visited by an ET being who spoke with him for a short while. Ricky referred to this being as an “octopus man”. He said he had tentacles on his face which reminded him of Davy Jones off the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. The being told him that they would meet again in the future. Strangely the being had then asked him for his tobacco. Ricky handed it over to him and then the being vanished, taking it with him. This story was of course bizarre, but David says he had no reason to doubt Ricky, and he appeared to be telling the truth. Ricky then went back outside. David decided to join him for a morning cigarette so got out of the tent. Ellie also got out. Ricky was facing away from them at the time, and standing about 10 feet away. David looked at him, waiting for him to return his tobacco so he could roll a cigarette. Out of the blue the missing tobacco seemed to re-materialise in thin air about 2.5 feet above Ricky’s head! It dropped down and landed on the top of his head, before falling to the floor. Ricky bent down and picked it up saying “Oh cool, that’s nice of him, he sent it back!” David was quite certain that Ricky had not thrown the tobacco up into the air himself, as he was in the middle of rolling a cigarette and his arms did not move. Ellie had also seen what happened and exclaimed “Did you see that?!” The remainder of the Wiltshire visit went by without further incident. However just as Ricky had been told this was not to be the last time he would meet this strange being. Ellie recollects witnessing the re-appearance of the tobacco. In her recorded testimony she states the following: “I remember being stood behind Ricky who was going to the toilet, and then like some baccy sort of fell on his head from the sky. He picked it up, and I remember him telling dad and everything. About the baccy he'd lost the previous night. It was in the morning. ‘Cause I remember we were at Silbiry Hill. He'd gone to the toilet, and I wanted the toilet as well ‘cause I'd gone over with him, and he showed me where to go to the toilet and it was the morning. And it was just after we'd all woken up and were getting up. I remember dad was walking towards us at the time. I was stood behind him, and it just fell.” The following summer David and Ricky went on another camping trip, this time to Dragon Hill in Uffington. There is some castle ruins at the location and they felt it may be a good place to experience something paranormal. Photograph of Dragon Hill: It was after dark and they were sitting on the field where the ruins are situated. Suddenly they noticed a very bright white light moving in their direction. It was at an altitude of about 500 feet. It appeared to be about 20-30 feet across but this was quite hard to discern. As it got near to them at an angle of about 85 degrees in the sky it came to a halt. They both looked up staring at it. David was getting nothing from it, no telepathic messages or feeling that it was his usual contacts. Suddenly Ricky exclaimed “Ahhh are you getting this?” David simply responded “No”. Ricky said “It’s the octopus man who took my baccy last year!” David said “OK” and then remained calm so as not to interrupt Ricky’s communication with this being. After about 20 seconds the light began moving again at quite a fast speed, faster than a helicopter or low altitude plane would fly at. Ricky told David that the being had said “I promised you I’d see you again and here I am. I would have come down but I can’t come down while he’s there, I don’t like those guys.” The being was seemingly aware that David was experiencing contact, and for an unknown reason had an issue with the ETs he was in contact with. The Door Bell On a night in 2011 Derek was woken from his sleep by the doorbell of his current house in Bridgend ringing. When he opened his eyes he realised there was a figure standing in the room near to the bed. It was nothing more than a silhouette due to the darkness in the room. David says that his father used to keep a sword under the bed in case of burglars and that he reached down to grab it. When he looked back up there was nobody there. Derek then got up out of bed and went to the front door. When he opened it there was nobody there either. He stepped outside onto the front garden and had a look around. The garden is quite open and there is nowhere really for anyone to hide. After finding nothing, he went back inside and back up to bed without waking his wife. This incident could certainly be put down to a vivid hypnogogic experience. Perhaps someone rang the doorbell for a joke and then as Derek awoke his brain briefly imagined a figure standing in the room. Or maybe both the sound of the doorbell and the figure were both part of a dream. However we should also look into more paranormal explanations. Perhaps the being seen was a humanoid ET visiting Derek which quickly vanished when it realised he was consciously aware of it. However if so then you would have to assume the door bell was related to this experience. You would have to question exactly why the ETs would physically ring the doorbell of the household, or cause it to ring, if they were trying not to be seen. Perhaps a more fitting explanation would be a haunting of the property. Poltergeist cases often feature activity such as this, with electrical devices functioning by themselves and appearances of ghostly apparitions. We are unlikely to ever know for certain either way. Woodland Nordic Visitation At numerous times through his life David has decided to get away from everything and move away from his house and family for periods of time. For several months in mid-2012 David lived in a tent at the end of a long path through an area of woodland close to Bure Park. He nicknamed this location “Eden”. Aerial map showing the location where David’s tent was pitched: Photograph of the pitch location: While he was living in the tent his friends would come to visit him from time to time. One evening in September Phil came down to see him. They went out for a walk around some open fields close to where his tent was pitched. By the time they came back it was about 12.30am. It was a clear night with the stars visible above them. There was nobody else around at the time. They reached a tree in the middle of the path. David needed to use the loo so continued along the path to find some privacy. Phil remained behind waiting for him. A minute later David returned to where Phil was standing. He immediately became aware that he was no longer alone. Phil was standing alongside the tree. Standing in front of him was the same female Nordic he had seen in his trigger abduction experience. Instead of wearing a blue jumpsuit she appeared to be wearing a suit that was mottled green and brown colours, almost like army camouflage. Across the other side of the path in the background were two male Nordics. David could not see them clearly as it was quite dark, they were just silhouettes. He believes they were likely to be two of the male beings he had seen aboard the craft, but was not able to confirm this. Aerial map showing the visitation location: Photograph from David’s perspective: Drawing by David from his viewpoint: Photograph from Phil’s perspective: Phil and the female Nordic were staring at each other. David could not hear any words being spoken, but afterwards Phil confirmed he had been in telepathic communication with her. David just stood still and let it happen. It was clear to him that this was intended for Phil rather than himself. After a couple of minutes the female being lifted her right arm up in the air. Seemingly mirroring this action, Phil also lifted his arm into the air. Then without warning the three beings faded away into thin air over a couple of seconds, almost like smoke. Phil was left standing there on his own again. David approached Phil and asked him what had just taken place. Phil was understandably quite shocked by what had happened. He said that he had felt very controlled and absorbed in the situation, which is why he had not called out. He said that he had been speaking telepathically with the female. He could not really put into words what had been communicated. It had felt like a massive amount of information on many different concepts and themes had been transferred directly to him, rather than actual audible words. David believes that Phil was being “triggered” in a similar way that he himself had been during the abduction experience. During the communication Phil was having a hard time accepting the being’s reality and had asked her if she was real. She had confirmed that she was, and Phil had asked her to move for him to prove this, as she was standing quite still and he was worried that he was going into a psychosis and having a visual hallucination. In response to this the Nordic had said “Look I’m real” and had lifted her arm into the air. Phil did not realise that he had copied her and lifted his own arm almost like a child would do. Phil’s whole perception on reality has changed since this experience. He is now deeply spiritual and also runs a website looking into contact and conspiracy theories. On 31st August 2014 Phil sent me a written testimonial of what took place: “On an evening in September 2012 I was visiting Dave; he was homeless at this time. Dave had setup a camp in a small nature reserve located in Bure Park. We’d decided to go for a walk; at this point it was the early hours of the next morning. As I was walking down the lane toward Eden, I noticed something I’d never observed before; in my peripheral vision. This attracted my attention, so I turned to my right; I was now facing a humanoid being which appeared to be female. I seemed at peace, so I continued to walk the short distance toward her. She was roughly the same height as me (6ft), as we stood eye to eye when facing one another. This being had long dark hair with a pal skin tone. Her eyes were big and black, yet angelic. I noticed that her jaw-line was elongated, which caused both her chin and mouth to be disproportionate to her eyes. This didn’t match the overall facial features of a person. The space around her was colourful but distorted. I’d never seen that before and was what initial attracted my attention. So by now I had some questions forming in my mind about the validity of what I was experiencing. Before I could form a sentence, every question was getting answered. This seemed far beyond the rate of intelligence that I’ve ever observed in myself. I’m sure we were communicating via telepathy.  All I could hear was ambient noise’s, I was never able speak; not one word spoken. I felt compelled to check the solidity of this humanoid figure, so I placed my right hand on her left shoulder. At this point I realised that this was very real, I felt slightly uneasy. Then I looked behind my right shoulder to gain a reference on the scenes unfolding before my eyes, it was still the environment that I knew as Bure Park. Something seemed unusually about the area behind me, I got the impression that I was looking at two other beings; but was unable to see anything. It seemed as if I were observing physic traits, what I would describe as characteristics picked up from telepathic chatter. When I looked back this being was pointing in the direction in which I just looked; I never saw her move her arm. She was trying to direct my attention toward the area behind me, I looked back in the direction that she pointed; I didn’t see anything. After looking around I realised that I couldn’t seen Dave. It was suggested that I go and retrieve him from the bottom of Eden. My next question was “What if you aren’t here when I get back”. Then I could see this mental imagine of this being Dave and I all stood communicating. I felt fine about leaving and continued to walk to the bottom of the lane. Sure enough Dave was at the bottom of Eden, I asked what he was doing but he wasn’t sure. So I asked if he wanted to say hi to this being I’d just met. Dave’s personality didn’t seem any different and agreed. So we continued to walk back down the lane. As we did so Dave had already acknowledged the being as we approached, I didn’t need to point it out. As we got closer he said “Hiya mate”, this action validated my perceptions even further. Once arriving back, we all stood in one another’s company not speaking. At this point I became fearful of the reality I was facing, I raised my hand to the being and then it disappeared. After this Dave and I walked back toward the camp, I stayed all night in the end.” On reading this testimony from Phil it is clear that there are a few discrepancies between his and David’s recollection of events. On all the times that David has met with the female Nordic being she has appeared to have almost human-looking eyes, only slightly larger and more almond-shaped than normal. However Phil remembers her eyes as being large and black in colour, similar to a Grey. Also he recalls seeing shimmering colours around her, whereas David did not see this, either at this time or on any of the other times he has seen her. David believes that she may have projected a different image to Phil than to himself, perhaps due to his direct connection with the beings. Regarding the other two Nordics it is clear from David’s recollection that he was able to see them standing in the shadows. However from Phil’s testimony we can see that he did not physically see them, but did get the impression that there were two other beings standing there. It is possible that on that night David was more attuned to seeing them than Phil, or perhaps they were simply more visible from David's perspective. The most unusual discrepancy is related to what each witness recalls happening towards the end of the experience. David is quite certain that he walked back from the area with the tent of his own free will, and at this moment saw Phil standing in front of the female Nordic, while the other two waited in the background. He watched until the female disappeared after which he approached Phil and discussed what had happened. As you can see from Phil’s testimony, he recalls actually going and getting David and returning with him. He even remembers David speaking directly with the being as they approached. Neither witness believes that they are confused about what happened. David feels that Phil was in an altered state of reality which led to the differences with his recollection of the experience. Both witnesses are completely open about the fact that there are discrepancies within their accounts of what happened, and there is absolutely no indication that either witness is making anything up. Grey at the Window Tracey currently lives in a bungalow in Bridgend, Wales. She sleeps in the front room of the house. The window that looks out to the front garden is right at the head of her bed. At night she draws blinds across this window to block out the light given off from a nearby street lamp. One night in the summer of 2012 David was stopping over at the bungalow. Everyone had settled down and she went to switch off the light in her room. As she did the glow of the street lamp outside of the window lit up the silhouette of a figure standing outside. It looked like a Grey being, short in height with an over-sized head. Tracey was absolutely terrified and could not move. David has no idea of how long she saw it for and whether it moved or not. All he knows is that his sister informed him about it the following morning. She blamed David, and in a way felt that this experience was his fault because of the fact he was staying over. If Tracy provides a written testimony of her experiences at some point this may shed more light on what happened that night. Sports Field UFOs One night in November 2013 David and Adam were out in Caversfield, North Bicester. It was around 7.30pm but due to the time of year it was already dark. David received an unexpected call from their friend “Howard” (Name changed for privacy reasons). Like David and Adam, Howard is a musician who regularly plays at folk rock gigs and festivals, and is also a contactee. He has known Adam for many years after meeting him at one of these gigs. As they live close to one another in Bure Park, Bicester they became good friends. At the time Howard was having trouble coming to terms with the reality of his own contact experiences, and wanted to speak to David about this. David suggested they meet up with him at the local sports field. Aerial map of Caversfield sports field: They arrived their first, and Howard shortly after. No sooner had he arrived that there started to be some UFO activity up in the sky over the field. They saw roughly 7 or 8 white lights moving in different directions across the sky. Both David and Adam are aware of what satellites look like, but there were far too many at once for them to have been this. Also the movement patterns these lights were performing made it clear they were not satellites. They watched as two lights travelled towards one another. As they got to a short distance of one another they stopped moving and then began arcing and tumbling around one another while continuing to move across the sky. Another couple of lights moved towards one another then suddenly both performed a right angle turn and began moving across the sky alongside one another. They then both lit up extremely brightly, before continuing on their way. David’s drawing showing the movement patterns of four of the lights: In addition to all the white lights, a number of orange coloured lights lit up in the distance. They started going on and off hovering motionless in the sky. Despite these unexplained glowing objects, Howard seemed more interested in speaking with David. Adam was bemused, as he was sitting against the fence watching all this activity going on while David and Howard were talking. When I met with Howard he explained to me the reason for this: “I had become aware of the energy source we are all linked to, and for that month or two all I was focusing on was connecting with this. On that day I was in a lot of sorrow because I felt disconnected. I knew that it was my own doing, the only reason I wasn’t at peace was because of the thoughts in my head. So I got out to the field and there were fucking loads of craft above us and I didn’t give a shit.” Although he was largely ignoring it, Howard did still see the UFO activity: "At first we saw a few on the horizon. And then they started to move around. They started disappearing and reappearing, and then they just started moving around. They were moving around the sky, following each other, almost like dancing with each other around the sky. That lasted quite a while really. I remember them being white, but they were mainly orange ones on the horizon.” The UFO activity continued for about 20 minutes. After this time the white star-like objects departed. Some of them shot away at incredible speeds, while others faded away or simply blinked out. The orange lights remained in the distance for the duration. But once the white lights had gone they too seemed to switch off. David feels certain that the orange lights in the distance were not Chinese lanterns as they remained visible for around 20 minutes and were stationary in the sky for this time. Lanterns tend to drift into different patterns or all travel on the same path in more windy conditions. Even though it is in fact theoretically possible for lanterns to burn for this long they usually don’t stay lit for this length of time. Due to the extreme manoeuvres of the white lights seen above the sports field I feel that mundane explanations can be ruled out. They could not have been satellites as these do not change direction or speed. They were moving far too fast and controlled to be white coloured LED balloons, and the speed also rules out the idea of them being distant helicopters. David pointed out that it was a clear night with no cloud, so the lights could not have been caused by laser lights from a show or nearby nightclub bouncing off the cloud layer. He feels sure that the experience was linked directly to Howard, and when he came to the sports field he brought the UFOs with him. Musical Intervention In the early noughties David and Adam wrote and performed musical tracks under the moniker “Unnamed 23-1”. In early 2014 David spent a week working on music tracks at Adam’s recording studio. Each day during this week he would head on round there about 9.30am and stay until the evening. Early in the week they worked on a track called “Major Tom”. This is not a David Bowie cover but is a song about an extra-terrestrial being who gets stranded on Earth and then questioned by the military. They were having difficulties with the mixing of the track. They decided to sleep on it and try again the following morning. During the night Adam awoke with the sense of someone in his vicinity, and the feeling that he should keep calm. He looked across the room and saw a humanoid figure standing at the mixing desk. It was in semi-darkness but the figure was translucent and looked almost “glassy”. Rather than jump out of bed or try to communicate, Adam simply dropped back off to sleep. In the morning he checked the track and found that it was now mixed perfectly! He immediately sent David a text saying “You need to come over and hear this!” When David arrived Adam went over what he recalled taking place before playing the track. If this incident had been the only thing that took place that week, one could argue that Adam had simply had a dream and had completed the track himself in a state of semi-awareness. However there was more to come. Two days later Adam felt a little unwell. He rang David and asked if he could wait until mid-day before coming round. David agreed and then sat down on the sofa, thinking to himself that he had a few hours to kill. The next thing he became aware of he was waking up, still seated on the sofa. He felt he must have been asleep, but this did not make sense to him as he had not felt tired at all. Initially he was worried that he had massively overslept and missed his meet up time with Adam. He quickly confirmed that this was not the case by checking the clock. It was around 10.45 am. David then realised that he could hear the lyrics of a song in his mind. It was as if he already knew how the entire song would go, both the chords for it and the words he would sing. He did not have to think about it at all. He just went into the kitchen, grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down the lyrics. There was no considering the wording, or crossing out and replacing words like he would usually do when coming up with a new track. It was already inside his mind. David says it felt like writing a cover for a song that already existed. Once the lyrics were down, he then grabbed his guitar and started playing. Everything happened near automatically. By 11.30 am he had the song entirely written. He headed across Adam’s house for mid-day as agreed. As soon as he arrived he just exclaimed “Mate I’ve got the tune! You have to hear this!” He played it for Adam who agreed that it was fine and required no changes. By 1pm the song was fully recorded in a single take! Strange as it may seem, David feels certain that this song has come directly from his Nordic contacts. The song, entitled “Love Is Here”, is a profound song about the existence of real love on Earth. David feels that the beings wish for others to hear the message within the song, using David as the vessel for this David also informed me of a third strange incident which took place later in the week. He and Adam were close to a window overlooking the street. All of a sudden both of them felt like they were being watched. In the same moment they both independently glanced at the window. For a split second they thought they saw a man standing in a particular window in the building on the opposite side of the street. The man had appeared to be staring at them. However it soon became clear that there was no-one there. They confirmed with each other about what they had just seen. Living Room Visitation Soon after the recording studio incidents David, Adam and Phil were stood in David’s living room discussing their music. David’s two daughters were also present and listening in to the conversation. Janet was out at the time with friends. It was a dry and clear evening outside. It was about 9.30pm and Adam and Phil were planning to leave as they had been there for at least a couple of hours. Everyone was standing in a semi-circle. They were all talking normally. But suddenly everything seemed to slow right down and the conversation began to fragment. Both Phil and Adam remarked that someone had opened the gate and was coming up the front drive of the house. After this it felt like everything had frozen in time. They remained there for a period of time without saying a word. Then Ellie blurted out “I’m scared!” This seemed to somehow cause everything to return to normal.  David turned to her and asked “Are you alright?” Then Adam exclaimed “I’ll go and close the front door.” It was at this moment that everyone noticed the front door of the house was open and should not be. Nobody knew why the door was open. It was clear to everyone that they had not lost much time at all, only a few minutes, although they did not check the clock to confirm this. They all confirmed that something unusual had taken place. There was nothing more to be done, so Adam and Phil set off on their journey home. David says that for the next 20 minutes or so Ellie was very “clingy” and wanted to remain close to him. Ellie mentioned this incident in her recorded testimony, stating the following: “We were all sat talking and the gate opened, and there was someone coming up, and then all of a sudden I was scared, and then Adam got up and the front door was open, not much but it was open. I was sat down, I remember being sat down. I think mum had gone out for drinks. I don't remember if everyone else was sat down. Everyone was going "Oh there's nothing to be afraid of it's just the wind" and I was really scared so Adam, I think it was Adam, went over to the door and it was open.” That night David had a very vivid dream. In this dream he saw everything which took place earlier in the evening. He saw three Nordic beings walk up the drive, open the front door and come into the living room. One of the trio appeared to be taking the lead on proceedings. This being looked like a normal human male. He had white skin with blond hair. He appeared to be slightly shorter than David. The being began to speak with everyone telepathically. Rather than actual physical words, he conveyed particular thoughts into the heads of those present. The general theme of what was being conveyed was that they needed to stick with the music and not give up on it. After this message the three beings silently left the room and walked back out of the house. The following morning David decided to keep the dream to himself, as he had no way of proving that it was what had actually happened.  However he did note that everyone seemed very enthusiastic about progressing with song recording. It is hard to say if this was a direct result of the incident or not, but this is certainly a possibility. (Continued in Part 3) Copyright Dave Hodrien 2015

On Saturday 18th July 2015, BUFOG once more headed out for an evening of sky watching. This time our chosen location was Kinver Edge, a sandstone area of high elevation to the West of Kinver. It was the first time we had been at that location, but BUFOG members John and Emma assured me it would be the ideal place for a watch. As is tradition with our sky watches, we first all met at a pub for a bit of a social – The Whittington on the Eastern outskirts of Kinver. After some initial difficulties finding the correct location using the Tom Tom, I and two friends I had picked up on route eventually made it to the place. The Whittington is a nice traditional timber pub with plenty of space both inside and out. We found John, Emma and others sunning themselves in the beer garden. Within half an hour there were 13 of us happily discussing the UFO subject under the evening sky. We were also joined by official sky watch dog, Max. Although he clearly couldn’t join in with the banter we soon designated him as official UFO detector of the night. As with the majority of our sky watches (Bonnybridge excluded) the weather was largely on our side. However despite the fact it was dry, still and relatively clear, there was still quite a bit of cloud overhead which I hoped would clear up later on. At about 9.45pm with the remainder of the light quickly fading in the sky we decided it was time to make a move and head out to Kinver Edge. Before setting off John dished out some thin glow sticks for us to fashion bracelets out of, a great way to keep track of each other in the dark! The initial concept of one long convoy quickly fell apart but luckily the sat nav got us to the parking area on Church Lane. After grabbing our torches and camera gear we headed off along the path which led up the slope to the top of Kinver Edge. We were surprised to find that the path consisted entirely of sand. John had set off first and it wasn’t long before we started to come across glow sticks at regular intervals which he had left as “breadcrumbs” back to the car park! Within 5 minutes we had reached the top of the hill and put down all our gear on top of a conveniently placed circular stone monument. John and Emma had not disappointed - the location was absolutely perfect for a sky watch, with a wide open area of grass and a great view of the sky and surrounding area in most directions. Unfortunately the cloud had not cleared meaning the stars were not visible, but at least it wasn’t raining or cold. We settled down on some picnic blankets while Max ran around the area as fast as his four legs would carry him! His owners had attached a green glow stick to his collar which was pretty much all you could see as he raced about in the dark. Our regular sky watch BBQ master Paul was on top form, and immediately got to work setting up some disposable BBQs with burgers and sausages. Some of the sky watchers had some superb equipment with them, including a military grade night vision scope, some extremely powerful binoculars and a laser pointer which cast some stunning green patterns on the ground when set a particular way. It wasn’t long before we began to notice distant lights on the horizon. Some of them were easily identifiable as aircraft with the familiar red and white flashing, whereas others were more anomalous but probably mundane. We then noticed a distant firework display to the North. It was at this point we realised the date we had chosen for the watch coincided with the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr! As the night went on we were greeted by other celebratory sights including some Chinese lanterns which remained present for a very long time due to the lack of wind, and even the flaring glow of a landed hot air balloon, which had us all mystified for a few minutes! Later one several of those present witnessed a bright light crossing the sky which suddenly vanished without trace. Sadly I was deep in discussion with someone else at this point so missed it. As we tucked into some fine BBQ food and snacks many of us formed a circle on the grass to discuss paranormal incidents we had experienced over the years. There was a really friendly atmosphere throughout proceedings and everyone seemed to be having a great time. It seemed the ideal time to break into a bag of Doritos Roulette which were mostly cheese flavoured but with a few ultra hot ones hidden throughout. Shortly after midnight Paul began to set up something else he had brought along with him – fireworks! On previous watches we have sometimes got bonfires going, but this was a first for us, and possibly the first for any UFO sky watch ever. He had brought with him about 6 classic rockets to launch from the top of the hill, which anyone within earshot must have assumed were being launched due to the celebrations. However they did cause a bit more carnage than expected. Max was certainly not a fan of them, and about half of them didn’t launch properly due to the hardened soil and went off at ground level! At about 12.45am we decided to bring the watch to a close due to the lack of stars and drive home that lay ahead. Making our way back down the slope was made all the easier by the trail of glow sticks. After saying our goodbyes we hit the road, this time without the police turning up to find out what we were up to! It was certainly a great evening, and we will likely be back to Kinver Edge in the future for other watches. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2015

Birmingham UFO Group Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 17/03/2015 Sighting Details It was shortly after midnight on a quiet night in 1985. Stephen Downing and his girlfriend (now wife) Sue were on their way home from Sue’s parents’ house. It was a clear night with no wind. As Sue drove onto North Park Road on the Brookvale Estate in Erdington they noticed something very unusual up in the sky ahead of them. Aerial map of North Park Road: Over one of the three story houses about 120-130 metres ahead of them was a disc-shaped object. It was positioned about 15-20 metres above the roof of the house and was motionless. The object quite large and appeared to be between 50-60 metres across. The main body of the object was quite shadowed but around the edge was a ring of glowing white rectangular windows/lights. On the underside of the object was a number of multi-coloured lights, each one seemingly housed in a unit of some kind. Stephen’s and Sue’s drawing of the UFO (drawn independently of one another): Sue was frightened of the object but Stephen was more excited by its presence. He wanted to get out of the car to get a better look at it, but Sue did not want to stop. In the end Stephen opened the passenger side door which persuaded Sue to stop the car. David stepped out and began to slowly walk closer to the house the UFO was hovering above. He immediately became aware of several things. Firstly the object itself appeared to be completely silent. However he could also hear a crackling sound coming from the M6 motorway which runs adjacent to the road. There was also a blue coloured light. Photograph from North Park Road in the direction the UFO and blue light were seen. Note that the row of housing in the distance was only built in the 1990s, back in 1985 there was a grass covered slope which allowed for an easier view of the motorway: Stephen stopped a short distance ahead of the car and stared up at the UFO for between 2-3 minutes. Unfortunately he had no camera on him at the time. Sue was still very concerned by both it and the unidentified blue light so called out for Stephen to come back to the car. He turned to look at her a moment. As he did so the object accelerated at an incredible speed and flew away to the South East. Stephen turned back round just in time to see it moving away extremely fast. It flew out of sight in less than a second. Intrigued by the blue light and crackling noise coming from the motorway, Stephen crossed the road to get a better look. It was now that he realised that a gantry for motorway signs was being constructed using arc welding torches. He returned to the car and they drove the rest of the journey home. After the incident Stephen and Sue kept the sighting to themselves. However six years later they mentioned it to a friend. They asked them to both write up the sighting and then mentioned they would pass them on to someone who would be interested. However they never heard back from anyone regarding this. Sighting Analysis This is a very impressive multiple witness sighting which is hard to explain away as anything mundane. The object hovered motionless at first for a number of minutes so could not have been a plane. Both its appearance and lighting were nothing like a helicopter, and also at the distance it was observed at the rotor blades would have easily been heard. A large lit balloon or other inflatable is also out of the question because of the sudden manoeuvre the object performed. This combined with the size of the object also means it cannot have been a remote controlled model. Even though Stephen did not see the moment that the object began moving, the fact that he did still observe it leaving the area means it cannot have been an optical illusion or light reflection on a cloud. It certainly appears to have had solid structure to it, and the movement it performed suggests that it was under intelligent control. With all these explanations put out of the question I feel that there is a high likelihood this was a genuine sighting of an advanced craft, possibly of extra-terrestrial origin. It is interesting to note that the UFO left the area as soon as Stephen glanced away from it. Did this happen on purpose, or was it merely coincidence that it began moving at this precise moment after being observed for a number of minutes? It is unlikely we will ever know for sure. This sighting highlights the fact that UFOs can be seen by anyone when least expected, it’s just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2015

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 18/01/2015 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used In early January 2015 I was contacted by Kelly who wanted to inform me about an incident involving her son Paul which took place in 1997 when he was 3 years old at their home in Selly Oak, Birmingham. She awoke one early morning around 3am to hear Paul screaming out loudly from his bedroom. She ran into his room and found him shouting out the words “Spaceman! Spaceman!” He was quite hysterical but after a while she managed to calm him down and brought him back to her room to sleep for the remainder of the night. Several days later Paul was drawing in a colouring book. Kelly noticed there was a picture of an astronaut in the book. She pointed at the picture and asked Paul if that was what he had seen in his room. He replied “No!” In the following days Kelly couldn't stop thinking about what happened. She began to wonder if Paul had seen something else in his room. She went to the local library and rented out a book on aliens. In the book was a picture of a Grey. Kelly was not particularly interested in Ufology at the time so was not familiar with it. Example drawing of a Grey’s face: Back home she opened the book with the picture of the Grey on it and called her son over.  Without saying anything she just pointed at the picture. Her son immediately began crying and saying “Spaceman! Spaceman!” Kelly says that there was nothing about UFOs or aliens in their house, so was quite alarmed when her son reacted to the picture in this manner. From this point on Kelly took more of an interest in the UFO subject and is now quite well versed in it. Recently she asked her son about the incident but he has no recollection of it. The fact that Paul reacted in such a manner to the picture of the Grey does suggest that he may have experienced a childhood visitation. There is no indication that he has had any other contact-related experiences or that he had been abducted at the time, but it is still a very interesting incident. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2015

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 07/01/2015 Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for most witnesses Introduction Brian first got in touch with me in July 2014. In his initial E-Mail he shared with me details of several incredible sounding UFO related incidents. Over the following months I discussed these and other incidents with him in detail. It became clear that Brian has not only had numerous close encounters with UFOs and beings throughout his life, but may also be a contactee. In late 2014 and early 2015 I was able to speak with other family members via both phone and E-Mail who have provided their own testimonies of these events. Invisible UFO Landing Back when Brian was 18 he and his younger brother Peter were in the Royal Marines. Brian had provided me with a great amount of information about his military service, however it has been omitted on request for confidentiality reasons. It was 4th January 1959 and Brian and Peter’s two week period of leave happened to overlap by a week (Peter’s leave commencing one week prior to Brian’s). Brian’s younger brother Steve travelled to Portsmouth by motorbike to take Peter back to his barracks. Brian took Peter’s railway warrant and travelled to Southsea Railway Station to meet with both of his brothers. It was his intention to say goodbye to Peter before returning home with Steve. Brian arrived at the station but found that his brothers were not there. It was quite a while before Steve finally turned up alone on the bike. He informed Brian that the bike had incurred a front tyre puncture. Unfortunately because of the delay to the journey Peter had continued on his way to the barracks as it was already very late, so Brian never got to say goodbye to him. By the time Steve and Brian set off for home it was past midnight. They left Portsmouth riding along the A3. It was a bitter cold night and Brian clung to the back of Steve to shield himself from the blast of freezing cold air. At the time he was only wearing a lightweight summer jacket because other than his uniform he possessed few civilian clothes. He sat in silence thinking about his own return to his barracks due to take place a week later. Steve would not have been able to hear him anyway because of the speed they were going. The whole route was clear of other road traffic. Eventually they rode around the perimeter of “The Devil’s Punchbowl”. This is a rounded valley on the outskirts of Hindhead. The old A3 used to circle one side of it, but has since been replaced with a tunnel. As they began to drive around the edge of the “Devil’s Punchbowl”, a valley on the outskirts of Hindhead, Steve brought the bike to a halt on the grass verge. Brian asked him “Problem?” his brother responded saying that “it was a good place to take a breather and spend a penny!” They stood there overlooking the deep bowl-shaped valley stretching away below them. It was a welcome respite from the cold of travelling on the motorbike. Modern photograph of the Devil’s Punchbowl: It was at this time that they noticed a strange sound emanating from down in the Punchbowl itself. It was almost musical to the ears. The sound rose and fell in a strange manner and was like nothing they had heard before. It sounded a bit like the sonar of a submarine, but at the same time very different. Both puzzled and curious as to where the sound was coming from they decided to make their way down into the Punchbowl to discover the source of the mysterious noise. There was an initial steep slope of about 30 feet that they had to descend sitting down. Then with Steve leading the way they were able to continue down the barely discernible track. They headed quite far away from the road, all the time the sound becoming louder and louder. As they drew closer to it they both developed a growing sense of unease. Modern aerial map of the Devil’s Punchbowl indicating the approximate location where the witnesses descended the slope. This stretch of the A3 now passes through a tunnel, but the old road is still visible: Abruptly Steve stopped. He turned to Brian and said that he had a bad feeling and that they should turn back. Looking back up the slope they found that they were now uncomfortably far from the road. In hushed tones Brian agreed with his brother. At that exact moment even before they had turned around the sound abruptly stopped and there came a sudden momentary silence. This was replaced with another sound almost like “displaced air”. This new sound rose vertically into the air very close to where they stood. They both instinctively dropped to the ground in an effort to see whatever it was silhouetted against the backdrop of stars. But there was nothing, even though they were able to follow the path of travel by the sound it was emitting. It seemed to travel away to their right before swooping back around and heading towards them. Then without warning there was a deafening crash as whatever it was struck the ground. It was so loud that Brian was sure it must have been heard in the surrounding area, perhaps even 11 miles away in Guildford. This loud noise was followed by the sound of scrub being flattened as it slid along and then finally came to a stop possibly 20-30 feet in front of their location. They stood staring at the bushes from where the sound had come. The volume of the noise indicated that whatever it was, visible or not, was very large. Almost immediately Brian’s attention was drawn to something approaching them from the direction the sound had emanated from. At first it was just movement of the vegetation in front of them. But then it emerged into clear sight. A towering figure between 8-12 feet in height. It appeared to be floating about two feet off the ground. The body seemed composed of a black material with lengthwise concertina-like folds in it similar to a skirt. The head was encased in an elongated glass-like helmet and around where the eyes should be there was a single round green coloured light, similar to a large LED. No other facial features were visible through the visor. The figure glided towards them until it was only a few feet in front of them. As it approached Brian noticed a sickly odour coming from it. His mind struggled to comprehend what was happening. He was paralysed with fear and adrenalin. He stood there transfixed, unable to move. Then a second figure, identical to the first, approached from the same direction and stood to the left of the first one. Brian was overwhelmed with sheer terror. A particular thought came to him “Those in government would not believe what is happening to me right now, they are fast asleep in their beds and not here with me, seeing what I am seeing!” Brain also recalls smelling a sickly odour which he assumed was coming from the beings. His next thought was that he wanted to look at another human being. In slow motion he managed to turn his head to the left. However he was well aware that Steve was not on his left but on his right. Brian has no idea why he turned his head to the left initially. Utilising all his concentration he slowly managed to turn his head back to the right. He was now shocked to discover that his brother was no longer there next to him. The shock of this realisation seemed to spur him into action. He turned and ran, not daring to look behind him. He felt if he did look back he would not escape. The next moments were terrifying as he kept on feeling that he was going to be suddenly grabbed from behind. He had no sense of direction; he just wanted to get away as fast as possible. As he ran he heard high pitched screaming noises. These seemed to be away from him, but he cannot be certain that they were not coming from him. All he remembers was panicking and running. He somehow managed to find his way back to the base of the steep slope where they had descended into the Punchbowl. There ahead of him scrambling up the slope was his brother. In later years Steve informed him that he had ran away and reached the higher ridge. He had looked back expecting to see his brother there with him, but instead was horrified to see him standing still with the two strange beings in front of him. By the time he had scaled the incline Brian had somehow managed to catch him up. The brothers clambered up the steep incline, their feet continuously slipping as they climbed. Eventually they reached the summit. Steve jumped onto his motorbike and started the engine. Brian leapt on the back, and they rode away from the location at great haste. Even as they headed away Brian expected to be seized off the bike by the strange beings he had witnessed. Eleven miles on as they reached the edge of Guildford, Steve finally pulled over and stopped the bike. Alongside the road was a long and tall ash fence. They stepped off the bike and leant against this fence, both extremely shocked at what had taken place. All Brian recalls thinking was “What in God’s name was it?” as he squatted down next to the fence. This is his last memory of what took place. Thinking back to the incident he cannot remember arriving home, or even the rest of his remaining leave, his return to the barracks and the intense training which followed. Brian has never fully forgiven his brother for deserting him down in the punchbowl. For three years after the incident he had no contact with him at all. However one day in 1963 he learnt that Steve was in an isolation hospital at Feltham where he lived and that he was in a “serious condition”. He had caught Hepatitis C and had almost died. When Brian went to visit him he was shocked by the state of his brother, and this greatly reduced his anger towards him. Years later Steve explained to Brian that he had thought he had been alongside him when he ran away. It was only on reaching higher ground that he turned to look back and realised he was not with him. His only thought at the time was to escape and to report what had happened. However this was not all Brian learnt from his brother. While talking about what had taken place Steve stated “It was those small creatures with red eyes that had almost formed a circle around you. I never thought I would see you again!” Brian assumes that the reason he did not see these other shorter beings at the time was because they were behind him and he was transfixed staring at the two tall beings in front of him. However when he turned and ran he still did not see them, so perhaps they chose to keep themselves hidden from him at that time. Sadly I am unable to speak to Steve regarding this incident due to poor health. This means that for this experience at least we only have Brian’s testimony to go on. However he has been very forthcoming in answering my questions regarding the incident, and I have no reason to suspect him of fabricating it. Regarding the authenticity of the story, Brian says the following: “Whether you believe my true narrative or otherwise, I leave with you. I can but sincerely express that it happened as I have recorded it.  As a reluctant ufologist I have written of this 'alien encounter' quite some time ago. I wrote it out of sincere interest and possibly in the hope of eliciting a similar experience from others who maybe experienced an extra-terrestrial identical to the horrors my brother and I saw. They were definitely not Greys.” Brian has returned to the location where the incident took place numerous times since. On one of these occasions in 1970 he went to the location with his brother Raymond. He took with him a tape recorder just in case he had another encounter with the invisible UFO he had heard 11 years before. They parked the car at a car park half a mile further along the A3. Intially Brian suggested that they go for a walk around the area on the other side of the road, where a lone memorial known as the “Sailors Stone” is situated. Recent photograph of Brian’s son Andrew next to the Sailors Stone. The old A3 can be seen in the background. The slope at the far left is where Brian and Steve descended the slope: While standing by the stone, they suddenly heard the same eerie sound that had been heard back in 1959! It seemed to pass over their heads at about 20 feet above them. Brian dropped to his knees in shock. He had his shotgun with him inside a case in several separate components, and with trembling hands he began to connect it to use in self defence. Upon hearing the sound Raymond exclaimed “Brian I have never doubted your story, but hearing that sound for myself, well it is certainly not of this world!” Unfortunately as the tape recorder had been left back in the car Brian suggested that they return, have a coffee to steady their nerves and then head back to the Punch Bowl with the tape recorder to attempt to capture the sound. Raymond agreed, so they made their way back to the car. They arrived at the car park. Brian put the shotgun in the boot of the car and then and they then sat in the car to drink their coffee. A minute later bright lights lit up the car from behind. Then a police officer knocked on the window. Brian wound down the window. The police officer asked “What are you doing here?” Brian was a little irritated by the policeman’s suspicion and told him it was a free country and to go away. The policeman asked them to pop the boot of the car. Unfortunately he then discovered the shotgun. Despite Brian’s insistence that it was for rabbit hunting, this did not go down too well. The officer called a second police car and they were both handcuffed and taken to Godalming Police Station! Brian did not tell the police what they had really been doing at the location as he was sure they would not believe him anyway. They were released the following morning without charge. Aerial map showing the Devil’s Punchbowl (A) and Godalming (B): Could the fact that Brian and Raymond heard the noise again mean that the same invisible object as before was back there? If so does this mean that it is present in the area on a permanent/semi-permanent basis? Or had it returned there on purpose at that time as it was aware Brian was in the area? An alternative possibility is that the noise was unrelated to the rest of the 1959 incident and was caused by air currents passing through the Punchbowl in a certain manner. Unfortunately Brian does not have Raymond’s direct number as he is quite a private individual. However when he is next contacted by him he says he will pass on my details. If I manage to speak with Raymond about the 1970 incident further details will be added to this section of the report as necessary. Brian’s son Andrew has confirmed to me that his father has informed him this and other incidents, and discussed them with him from about 5 years old. He says he has accepted these events really took place both while growing up and as an adult. He has a keen interest in UFOs and the paranormal, which he says is more than likely because of what his father has told him over the years. Below is a general written statement from Andrew regarding this incident: “My father has told me many times over the years about what happened to him (and my uncle) at the Punchbowl. About the weird ‘musical’ sound they both heard after getting off of the motorbike for a few minutes rest. My father has said to me that they both made their way down the steep slope to get closer to the sound. That whatever was making the sound (which was louder by then) was invisible to them. The two beings that emerged from the bushes, towering above them. My father explained to me that ‘they’ wore some kind of helmets. A sickly odour could be smelled.” Footsteps A couple of months after the experience with the invisible UFO and beings at the Punchbowl, Brian was in Kent on battle training. He was stationed at a Royal Marines training site named Freedown. Brian cannot remember the exact location of this site. He says that the IRA were known to raid the site for rifles, so it was not shown on any maps. One night he and another marine were patrolling in trenches dug into the ground called “bevvies”. Unfortunately for him, he had been paired up with someone who he had punched during a previous argument, so neither he nor the other marine were particularly happy with the situation. The patrol area was a short distance from the training site. It was a lengthy track with the latrines at one end, and petrol and water waggons at the other. The other marine set off to patrol the path to the waggons, leaving Brian with the path to the latrines. Their guard duty ran from midnight to 2am. It was a dry and clear night. At around 1am Brian was walking slowly along the track. Alongside him were dense 7 foot high bushes. Suddenly he heard what sounded like very heavy footfalls on the other side of the bushes. They were quite slow, almost like an elephant walking on two legs. Whatever it was, it sounded very large in size. Brian hesitated, concerned by the noises. But he told himself “You’re a Royal Marine, you have to do your duty!” He began to quietly follow the sound of the foot falls, knowing that 100 yards on there was a large gap in the bushes where he would be in plain sight of whatever it was. As he got closer to the gap he became more and more nervous with anticipation. He reached it and leapt round to the other side of the bushes hoping to catch whatever it was by surprise. He shouted out “Halt, who goes there?” But he was met with the sight of an open moonlit field. There was nothing there. The sounds had stopped at that exact moment! He felt the hairs on his neck standing up as he crept along the other side of the bushes. But after about 100 yards he realised he was not going to find anything.  He hastily retreated back to the track and made his way to the latrines where he stood for the remaining hour of his patrol duty. Brian is convinced that the sounds he heard that night were not echoes coming from elsewhere. They were quite pronounced and certainly appeared to be coming from the other side of the hedge. Red Eyes A number of years later while Brian was still in his 20’s he was out driving on Dartmoor in Devonshire one summer evening in his Ford Consul with his brother Larry, and Larry’s teenage son Timothy and daughter Ruth. Like Brian, Larry had also had many paranormal experiences over the years. They were out on the moors specifically to look for UFOs or ghostly activity. It was between 9-10pm, quite dark but a clear evening. They were travelling along a narrow service road utilised by the Royal Marines which led across the northern moor South from Okehampton. The suddenly noticed a strange arc of brilliant white light coming from behind East Mill Tor to the South West of their location. At first Brian thought it was a military exercise of some kind. However it looked too bright to be caused by flood lights, and both he and Larry were extremely puzzled by it. They decided that they would go and take a closer look, and continued to drive South along the service road. Aerial map of Dartmoor showing the estimated location of the witnesses when they first spotted the white light (A) and East Mill Tor (B): The road which led to that area of the moor was very narrow and had upward slopes on either side, making it extremely difficult to turn around. However Brian was aware of a small roundabout several miles on which they could utilise. As they got closer to the tor they realised there were no other side roads which would lead directly to it. Brian began to feel very apprehensive, he felt like they were in danger. Larry soon suggested turning around, it was clear that he too was feeling concerned. Photograph of East Mill Tor: It was now that Brian spotted something extremely unusual. Spilling out around both sides of the tor appeared to be what looked like hundreds of pairs of red eyes. They were down low to the ground, about 2 to 2.5 feet, which Brian perceived to be a sizeable group of short creatures. They appeared to be moving rapidly in their direction, far too fast for the eyes to belong to livestock. They disappeared and reappeared as they were partially covered by ground vegetation and the slopes of the land. Brian was amazed at how fast they were able to cover the boulder-strewn terrain in near total darkness. He instinctively felt that these eyes belonged to the same beings that Steve had described seeing encircle him back in 1959. He felt sick with fright and confusion. It appeared that Larry, Timothy and Ruth had not noticed the approaching eyes as they did not react to them at all. To avoid causing panic Brian did not mention what was taking place ahead of them. Again Larry expressed his concerns about continuing down the road. It was much too dark to reverse all the way back along the road. They were trapped, and had no choice but to continue in the direction they were heading until they reached the roundabout. However this would mean driving past the tor -and whatever those red eyes belonged to! With rising panic and frustration Brian angrily shouted out “Where can I bloody hell turn off the road without dropping the car on its chassis?” Larry calmly responded saying “Stop the car, I’ll get out and take a look!” Brian stopped the car and Larry got out and began walking slowly along the verge looking for somewhere to turn around. Brian slowly kept pace behind the wheel. Larry soon called out “Here Bri, you can back off here!” Brian looked at where Larry was pointing. The verge at the edge of the road dropped away. Brian expressed his doubts and said “You sure Larry?” Larry assured Brian that it was ok. By this time the swarm of eyes had seemingly split into two groups. One group passed across the road while the other remained on the right side. Both groups then turned and began moving in their direction almost as if to surround them. Larry got back into the car. Trusting Larry’s observation, Brian reverse turned off the side of the road at the spot which he had indicated. There was a sudden loud thud as the back wheels dropped down off the edge of the road. The slope had been more significant than Larry had thought. When Brian tried the accelerator the back wheels just span in mid-air. The car was going nowhere. Larry got back out of the car and tried to lift the car back onto the road, but did not have much success. Brian was terrified as he sat there in the front of the car watching the pairs of eyes draw ever nearer. He thought for a moment about abandoning the car and running all the way back to Okehampton. However he was sure that the creatures would out-run him if he tried. Also it would be wrong of him to leave his brother, nephew and niece behind. Aerial map indicating East Mill Tor (A) and Okehampton (B): The eyes were very close indeed. Even now it was impossible to make out any shapes against the darkness. It was now that Ruth finally spotted them. She screamed out loudly “What are those? What are those?” Brian is not certain, but he believes that it was this scream which alerted Larry to what was taking place. Suddenly Brian felt the rear of the car being lifted upward. It was clear that Larry had spotted the approaching creatures and had used all his adrenalin-fuelled strength to lift the car back onto the road. He slung it round so the wheels once more touched solid ground. A moment later Larry leapt into the passenger seat. Brian stepped on the accelerator and they drove away from the location as fast as possible, barely looking back behind them. They could barely believe their lucky escape from whatever those red eyes belonged to. Upon reaching the top of a hill about a mile further along the road Brian stopped the car with the engine still running. Both he and Larry got out of the car and stared back down the road into the darkness. They were both astounded by what had happened. At first there was nothing visible. But after a minute or so the vast swarms of eyes came once more into view. They appeared to be pursuing them! The men hurried back into the car and continued their journey. Every time they reached the top of a hill they would stop and look back to see if the eyes were still visible. Each time they would wait a short while and then would once more see them emerging from the darkness. Eventually they reached the top of a hill where the lights of Okehampton were visible in the distance. This time when they looked back into the distance the eyes did not appear. It was clear that the creatures had finally ceased their pursuit of the car. They got back in and drove the remainder of their journey. Everyone was understandably shocked by what had taken place. The witnesses did not report what had taken place to anyone in Okehampton. The road they had been on was a little used service road so they were not particularly concerned that other drivers would travel out onto the moor that night. And Brian felt it was unlikely anyone would actually believe them anyway even if they did try to warn them. They did not return to the location the following morning or indeed at any point later on, so we have no way of knowing if the eyes belonged to short creatures as Brian believes they did, and if so whether they had left any footprints or other signs of being there. Brian says that due to the time of year the ground was not particularly muddy so he feels they would have left noticeable tracks anyway. Brian does not feel that the beings were there for him that night. He believes that they were out on the moor for a specific reason and it was just sheer chance that they were witnessed by himself and his relatives. It seems clear that the beings wanted to interact with them in some way, but we will never truly know whether or not they had hostile intentions. There were seemingly no other witnesses to this bizarre and somewhat unsettling incident, at least none which have come forward yet. Dartmoor is an extremely remote area and the road which the witnesses were on at the time is rarely used by the general public, especially after dark. While the moor is used by the military for exercises this only takes place occasionally rather than regularly. As there were no other reports, we can assume that these creatures, whatever they were, did not remain in the area for an extensive period of time. Brian was able to put me in touch with Ruth, and I discussed the incident with her in depth on 31st December 2014 over the phone. While a lot of the details of the experience do match, there are some specific aspects which Ruth remembers differently. Ruth remembers the incident taking place at Cranmore Pool on Dartmoor. This is much further South on the moor to where East Mill Tor is, where Brian says the incident occurred. However Brian says that she must be confused as they were planning to travel to Cranmore Pool but never reached it because of what happened. Ruth recalls that initially when they saw the light in the distance they had got out of the car, but then retreated to it when they became un-nerved. However Brian says that they would not have got out of the car at that time as the terrain would have been dangerous to walk on after dark. One of the main differences between Ruth’s testimony and Brian’s is that she recalls there being swirling white and blue-ish lights up in the sky, and other lights down near the ground which included red but also other colours. She does not recall seeing the lights near the ground as pairs of red eyes, but does admit that there was definitely something unusual going on down near the ground as well as up in the sky. She says that as the lights on the ground got nearer the swirling lights in the sky were also getting closer. Brian cannot recall seeing these lights up in the sky at all, although this may be because he was focused on the eyes getting nearer and nearer. He is adamant that they were pairs of glowing red eyes rather than indiscriminate glowing points of coloured light. Ruth’s recollection also suggests that she saw the lights while they were still quite a way off, instead of just when they had almost reached the car. Brian wonders whether she has blocked out some of the experience because of how frightening it was. It is very common for multiple witnesses to remember events slightly differently to one another. The incident happened many years ago, and we should also consider the fact that Ruth was only 12 at the time. However it is clear that something highly unusual took place on Dartmoor that evening. Unfortunately Larry has since passed away. Brian got in touch with Timothy via E-Mail to ask whether he would speak with me regarding the incident, below is the response he received: “Hi Bri, thanks for your message. Got to be honest though, not sure I'd be comfortable recounting something to anyone outside the family.  Especially as my memory of it is very brief and not clear. Still sure I'm recalling two separate times mixed up. Was an awful long time ago. Ruth seems to have a better recollection of it than me Bri.  Hope you're not too disappointed!” Below is a written statement from Andrew, who, although was not a direct witness, has often heard his father speak of this incident: “The red eyes that my uncle saw that were swarming round my father in a horseshoe type formation.  Over the years, my father has told me this and the details remain the same. I believe this encounter to be true.” Apparition & Abduction In the summer of 1966 Brian and his brothers Steve and Peter, Peter’s wife, his girlfriend Paula and her friend Kerry all headed to Brighton on a diving holiday. They stayed at the Sheepcote Valley Camp Site near to Black Rock. They chose this location due to the visibility of the water caused by the chalk cliffs which extend into the sea. Aerial map showing the current location of Sheepcote Valley Campsite just East of Brighton (it has moved numerous times since the 1960s): 1960s photograph of Sheepcote Valley Campsite: Unfortunately on the first day at the camp site an argument developed which resulted in Peter and his wife leaving. Despite this set back Brian was determined not to leave so remained at the campsite with Steve, Paula and Kerry. That night around midnight Brian decided to go for a walk to clear his head. He was quickly joined by the others. They walked along the cliff tops for a distance, then descended some steep steps down to the beach. Brian, Paula and Kerry sat down on a bench, while Steve wandered off to explore the sea wall. After a while he returned to them and asked Brian to come and have a look at something by the sea wall. Brian was talking with Paula at the time but Steve insisted several times. Photograph of the stretch of cliffs which the witnesses walked along: In the end Brian walked over to Steve to see what he wanted. He said to Brian “Look along the sea wall.” Brian couldn't see anything so just responded “Huh?” Steve said “Look up a bit higher.” Brian looked up, and then saw what Steve was talking about. He almost choked with fright. There at the end of the sea wall suspended in the air was what appeared to be a huge apparition. It appeared to be about 30 feet in height and looked like a man draped in a black robe. The eyes of the figure glared right at him and an immediate chill of terror swept through his body. They were now joined by the two girls who also spotted the apparition. They screamed in fright and then all the witnesses fled the beach. As they ran Brian looked back and realised that the apparition appeared to be maintaining the same distance from them, as if attached to them. They kept running until they nearly bumped into two other couples walking along the cliff tops. The other people stared at them, no doubt wondering what they were fleeing from. They looked round and found that the apparition had now vanished without trace. They sat a while on a nearby lit seat, too afraid to wander off into the darkness. In the end they had no choice but to walk back to the camp site. Exhausted and frightened, they got into the one remaining 4 berth tent hoping that the apparition would not make reappearance. They had no blankets as Peter had taken them with him, so they slept fully clothed. Brian awoke at around 5am to what he thought was a violent earthquake. He could feel the ground beneath him violently shaking. He had his arms outstretched with his hands down to steady himself. After a short while he realised it was him who was shaking not the ground under him. He looked round at Steve, Paula and Kerry and saw that they were still fast asleep. Confused he sat up and unzipped the tent entrance. Looking out at the Sussex Downs something stirred within him. Suddenly he felt like he had just arrived at the tent and that he had come by way of those hills. He got up, grabbed his wash bag, slipped quietly outside and made his way to the camp site shower block. At around 6am he returned to the tent. Everyone was still asleep. He lay back down between them and closed his eyes. As he began to drop off, he was suddenly hit by a vivid memory of something awful. He was immediately shocked back into full waking consciousness. He tried his best to return to a state in which he could remember whatever had bothered him so much, but he could not. It was five years before he was finally able to recollect what had taken place. It came to him as an extremely vivid dream. In this dream, he found himself back at the camp site. He was outside the tent but was in a lying down position and hovering about 3 feet off the ground as if he was on an invisible stretcher. Behind him he could sense the presence of two short beings, although he did not see them directly. He could not move his head round to look at them. He was being propelled feet first by these beings, which were standing at each of his shoulders. They appeared to be in an extreme hurry and were moving him along very fast. They crashed through shrubbery as they swiftly moved across the Sussex Downs. Finally they arrived at a clearing. There hovering a few feet off the ground was a massive UFO. He then found himself on board this craft. He was no longer lying down or floating but was standing in a corridor. He had just vacated from a room in which he was certain something traumatic had just taken place. He was in a severe state of shock, but had a vague recollection of fearful looking beings. He wandered in a daze along the corridor and entered a circular room which reminded him of a cockpit. He saw in this room a long panel about three feet high covered in buttons and lights. Above this was a convex window split into two sections, almost like looking out of the cockpit window of an airliner. He wandered over to the right side of the window and peered out. Through it he could see only darkness. At looking through the window, he heard a voice inside his head tell him that “Home is that direction!” At this he was overcome with a feeling of utter despair and loneliness. In the middle of this despair he opened his eyes and found himself back in his bed. He was extremely relieved to be awake. He clearly remembered everything he had just dreamt and knew inside that it had been more than a dream. He felt that his subconscious had finally revealed to him at least part of what he had gone through that night at the camp site. Many years later Brian and Steve both took up hypnotherapy. This was partially based on Brian’s interest in trying to find out more about what happened to him. He intended for his brother to hypnotise him and record the sessions on tape. However in the end he was too frightened by what may be uncovered. He has toyed with the idea for many years, but so far has not taken the plunge. However Brian says that he is considering visiting his brother in Hastings for the regression sessions in 2015. If he proceeds with this and sends me the details of these sessions then they will be added to this report. While some may argue that the shaking that Brian experienced in the tent was related to sleep paralysis or hypnogogia, and the recollection he had five years later was nothing more than a dream, Brian believes otherwise. He is convinced that the dream was a recollection of what took place during the early hours of the morning and that when he woke up shaking in the tent he had literally just been returned. We will never know if the huge apparition which Brian, Steve, Paula and Kerry saw that night was related in some way to what later happened to Brian. If they were not related then this does seem a remarkable coincidence. Could the apparition have been an extra-terrestrial presence which was making itself known prior to an abduction experience? Numerous other contact cases I have investigated have involved encounters with tall shadow-like beings, although they are generally much shorter than the height reported by here. Unfortunately Brian left Paula many years ago and has not stayed in touch with either her or Kerry. As previously mentioned Steve is in poor health, so sadly I am not able to speak to any of the other witnesses. Red Orb In the summer of 1967 Brian and Paula drove to Brighton for a day out. Around 10pm they were at the seafront at Black Rock close to where the cliffs began. The area has now been converted into a marina. It was a warm and dry evening. Aerial map of Black Rock: They were just planning to set off for home when they noticed a red pulsating orb of light in the sky to the East of their location at several hundred feet in the air. They were initially looking at it at an angle of about 70 degrees. The orb was moving in a circular arc. Suddenly it shifted and moved to a different part of the sky extremely fast before instantly coming to a halt and beginning another circling motion. They were amazed as it had moved much too rapidly and controlled to have been a helicopter or lit drifting object. They continued to watch the object, and noted that other people nearby were also looking at it. The object continued to make circular patterns and darting manoeuvres. Brian says it looked like it was searching for something or mapping the area. After watching the UFO for about 15 minutes. Brian cannot remember whether the object then vanished or whether they just decided to stop watching it, but they went and got into their car without speaking to the other witnesses and headed for home. They were travelling along the A23 North out of Brighton. It was quite quiet at the time, and certainly there were no other vehicles following along behind them on the road. Several miles into the countryside they suddenly noticed the orb for a second time. It was up in the sky to the West of them off to the left of the car. It appeared to be following them. It maintained the same distance and positioning to the car as they drove along the road! Aerial map showing the approximate stretch of the A23 where Brian and Paula first noticed the UFO following their car: Photograph of the stretch of the A23: To Brian’s recollection the UFO followed them for about 25 miles along the A23. He did not try slowing down or stopping the car during this time as they were quite unnerved by the presence of the object. Eventually they came to a sharp bend in the road. When they made the turn Brian expected the red orb to also turn with them and continue to give chase, but thankfully it did not. Both Brian and Paula were quite relieved that it was no longer following them. The rest of the journey went by without incident. Neither I nor Brian have managed to locate the sharp bend in the road where they finally lost sight of the object. However the road has changed somewhat since the 1960’s and sections have been re-built. This is a fascinating sighting for a number of reasons. The movements the object was performing while over Brighton sound very impressive and certainly suggest something highly unusual. The darting manoeuvres observed were much too rapid to have been a normal aircraft, remote controlled model or lit balloon. Nor could it have been a laser light off a nearby nightclub as these did not exist back in the 1960s. The movements suggested the object was under controlled flight, as did the fact that it appeared to follow Brian’s car for quite a distance. Brian feels sure that the red light seen from the car was the same object and not a reflection in the window. There was nothing with red lights on inside the car itself, and it could not have been a reflection of another vehicles brake light as the road was clear of traffic at the time. I have dealt with a number of cases where UFOs have been seen to follow vehicles. Sometimes this has led to close encounters or even abduction experiences. On other occasions such as this one the UFO will simply stop following after a period of time. UFOs Out To Sea In July 1969 for his 30th birthday Brian received a fishing rod. He was living in Kingston at the time, but soon afterwards decided to travel 50 miles South to go sea fishing at Brighton. He headed down to the pebble beach at Black Rock to fish through the night (as this was the best time to catch fish).  Paula was with him at the time and slept in the car. The stretch of beach he was on was close to where he and Paula had seen the red orb in 1967. The rod was actually designed for boat fishing so was not ideal. By dawn break at 5am Brian had had just a single bite which he had lost. He was feeling cold, hungry and annoyed. It was a rather grey morning and a heavy sea mist had formed above the water just off the coast. The mist covered two distinct areas, one to the West and one to the East, with a gap of about 50-100 feet providing a clear view between them. Suddenly a huge domed-disc shaped object emerged from the right edge of the mist to the West. It was a gun metal colour and had a row of windows around the main disc-shaped section. It looked absolutely massive in size, Brian estimates about the size of an aircraft carrier. It appeared to be floating at least 10 feet off the surface of the water, with no visible disturbance below it. The UFO hovered silently across the gap between the banks of mist. It began to disappear into the bank of mist to the East. But before it was fully hidden from sight, a second identical object began to emerge from the West bank of mist. There was clearly not one object but two! Brian could barely believe what he was witnessing. The second object followed the first in the same speed and direction as the first. Within a number of seconds both objects had vanished from sight into the Eastern mist. After watching for a number of minutes more to ensure the objects did not reappear, Brian made his way back to the car. He woke up Paula and blurted out what he had just seen. She listened attentively. Once he was back home Brian also informed his family of the experience. In later years he returned to the area on a number of occasions for sea fishing, but the UFOs he had seen never made a re-occurrence. One explanation for this experience which should be considered is that the UFOs seen were actually two large boats sailing in the fog which Brian mistook for craft. He had after all been awake all night and was quite tired. Perhaps this state and the misty morning conditions could have caused him to interpret something mundane as something more unusual. However the gap between the banks of mist was wide enough for him to see the majority of the objects. Also Brian's description of the objects is quite detailed, so he seems to have got a good look at them. He is convinced that they were saucer-shaped and were hovering above the water’s surface rather than floating. Light Beams In winter 1973 while on a hunting trip in Australia, Brian and his nephew Lee (who was 15 at the time) experienced what they believe was a UFO. They were camped in YouYangs Regional Park about 40 miles out of Melbourne. Despite the time of year it was warm and dry. Aerial map of You Yangs Regional Park: At about 6pm they set out rabbit hunting, rifles in hand. So as not to lose their way back to the camping spot they followed a nearby dried up river bed. After following the river bed for about three hours darkness had fallen and they contemplated returning to camp. Suddenly Lee quietly asked “Hey Bri, did you see those lights?” Brian responded saying he had seen nothing. Then without warning two brilliant beams of white light appeared from an un-seen object ahead of them in the sky. The beams appeared to be coming from about 100 feet high in the air, about 50-75 metres ahead of them. Many wild birds in the area began to call out, agitated by the presence of the lights. The twin beams began to turn in a circular motion around one another, as if scanning the ground for something. Then after a few seconds they moved together into a single beam. Instinctively Brian felt that it was about to focus on them. This is precisely what took place! The beam sped across the intervening ground towards them. Panicking, Brian and Lee both ran for the cover of the bushes on their right. They continued running, trying to make a U-turn as they did so they would not lose the way back to the path which had led them to the location. Suddenly the ground gave way beneath Brian and he plunged down the edge of a large crater. The fall knocked the wind out him, and he had a pain in his chest. He lay in agony as he listened to Lee’s concerned voice calling out for him. Soon Lee had found him and helped him to his feet. They continued moving in an arc until they found their way back to the path alongside the dry river bed. Luckily whatever had made the beams of light had not followed them. Brian was convinced that it had been something highly unusual. The fact that it was both silent and possessed twin beams of light which span around one another means it could not have been a helicopter. Brian felt sure that if they had been caught in those beams they would have not got away. Glad to have escaped from whatever it was, Brian and Lee made their way back to the tent. Needless to say they did not sleep too well that night for fear of the object reappearing. In the morning Brian discovered that due to his fall his rifle had sand inside it and was broken beyond repair. Brian is going to try to get in touch with Lee and ask him if I can speak with him about this incident to hear about what he remembers. He has not spoken with him in many years but occasionally speaks with his wife so may be able to contact him in due course. The Footsteps Return The beams of light were not the only unusual experience which Brian and Lee would have while on their hunting trip in Australia. It was a warm and still evening and the stars were visible in the sky. They settled down to sleep in their tent about 10.30pm. During the night Brian recalls suddenly waking up on full alert. Something didn't feel right. He checked his watch and found that it was 1.30am. He then turned to look at Lee and realised that he too was wide awake staring at him. Then some distance away from the tent they heard the unmistakeable sound of footsteps moving in their direction. They were heavy and ponderous, exactly like the ones he had heard all those years before in Kent. They sounded like an elephant walking on two legs. The footsteps grew louder and louder as they approached the front of the tent. Brian grabbed his .22 rifle in one hand and his sheath-knife in the other. Both he and Lee lay there barely daring to breathe. Three times the footsteps walked around the outside of the tent. And then they began to move away in the direction they had come from. They listened until they could no longer be heard, and eventually dropped back off to sleep. Steve arrived the following morning to take them back to Williamstown where Lee and his family lived and where Brian was staying. Brian is convinced that the footsteps were not those of a large animal such as a mountain lion, or an intruder sneaking around outside of the tent. He says they were far too heavy and ponderous. The only thing he could liken them to was the footsteps he had heard in Kent back in 1959. He wonders if the footsteps were those of a “Yowie”, a Bigfoot-like creature rumoured to live in the Australian wilderness. Unidentified Men On another occasion in 1992/93 Brian and Andrew were re-visiting the Punchbowl for a night sky watch. They were close to the car park on the far side of the Punchbowl. There were some steep steps down from the car park which led to an area with an uninterrupted view. When they walked down these steps they noticed another man there of slender build wearing a dark coloured suit. He was openly staring at them both. After this had gone on a short while, Brian got annoyed and approached the man to ask what he was looking at. As he got near he realised that the man’s face looked horribly disfigured like he had been in some kind of accident. His anger turned to pity and he walked past the man without confronting him. He stopped and stared at the view. Soon Andrew walked over to join him. Next a woman walked on by pushing a pram. She passed extremely close to the man in the suit and paid him absolutely no attention. Nor did she look at either Brian or Andrew It felt like she hadn't even seen any of them. A short while later a second man turned up. He looked like a construction worker and appeared quite strong. He walked right up to the man in the suit, who was about 15-20 feet away from them. Then both men suddenly began “conversing”. But they weren't talking normally, they began screaming at each other almost like two animals. Both Brian and Andrew were stunned by what was taking place. The men continued to scream at one another and gesticulate with their hands. Then abruptly they stopped. The man in the suit walked towards the steps, while the other man headed towards some tall bushes. Brian was intrigued by these two men, so he asked Andrew to follow the man in the suit up the steps, while he followed after the other man who had disappeared into the bushes. The bushes were extremely thick, seemingly too overgrown to even walk through. It was like the man had completely vanished! He ran around the edge of the bushes to see if the man was walking up onto the A3 but there was no sign of him. It was a complete mystery. He returned to Andrew to tell him about what had happened. Andrew informed him that exactly the same thing had happened to him. He had only been a short distance behind the man on the steps but when he reached the top he was nowhere in sight, despite the wide open car park. It was absolutely bizarre. Later on after dark Brian and Andrew were sitting in their car when they suddenly began to feel extremely uneasy. They decided to get out of there before the strange men made an unwelcome reappearance! Below is Andrew’s written statement regarding this incident: “Though I can’t remember the exact date, the year would have been 1993/4. My father and I drove to the Devils Punchbowl (Hindhead). It was a nice day. We parked at the large car park, with the intention of going to the smaller car park that was accessible from the A3 via a small track/dirt road, later in the evening. We got out the car and walked over to the edge of the Bowl. It was quite busy round the car park area, with people, families, children. To get to the edge, you had to walk down some steps that were nothing more than small planks of wood, driven into the earth. I have included a photo that shows where my father and I were standing when we were approached by the two men: Though I only saw one of them up close (the other remained a little way away) I noticed just how out of place they were. One was smartly dressed in dark black trousers and shirt and looked like he worked in an office and was of a slim build; while the other one (the one that came very close to us) was stocky in build, unshaven and had dirty looking work mans clothes, like he had just come from a building site. At one point, my father walked up to the smartly dressed office worker to see ‘what his problem was’. This must have been before the other scruffy one turned up. My father explained to me that the office worker looked like he had been in some kind of accident, as his face was disfigured; that the skin had been stretched on one side of his face. When the scruffy one approached us (my father was standing with me, to my left) both my father and I felt uneasy. This may seem weird, but a young woman pushing a push chair, walked by, but somehow it was like she couldn’t see what was going on? It was almost like my father and I and these two men were somehow out of phase with the rest of the world. Does that make sense? The scruffy man walked right up behind us and my father spun round to confront him. The man seemed surprised and walked away, over to the office worker. The two of them started talking and it was this that really was the icing on the cake. They didn’t sound like they were talking a human language. Swedish, German, French are human languages, this however was more like animalistic. It sounded like a couple of Hyenas! Weird noises. Then they walked away from each other. The smart office worker slowly walked up the steps towards the car park and I followed him. I was only 10 seconds or so behind him, yet when I got to the top of the steps, there was no sign of him. Like he had just vanished into thin air. I met up with my father and he told me the same thing. The scruffy man walked towards some bushes and seemed to ‘melt’ (for want of a better word) into the bush. Later that evening, we went to the other car park (something we often did for some star gazing/UFO watching). Though nothing happened, we both felt very uneasy.” As you can see Andrew’s recollection of events is near identical to Brian’s. It is certainly an odd experience. There is of course the possibility that they were nothing but other visitors to the Punchbowl. None of them looked inhuman in any way. Perhaps the two men knew each other and had fallen out, or the second man was specifically searching for the first. Maybe the animal-like noises were just the men shouting angrily at each other in an unusual foreign language. The woman pushing the pram could possibly have just wanted to keep to herself so didn't glance at anyone else present. And perhaps the men had moved off quickly after temporarily disappearing from view, giving the appearance that they had both vanished. However it is interesting that so many odd things all took place at once. It certainly sounds like the men were not shouting in a normal manner, and that there was nowhere they could have been hidden from sight in such a short space of time. If the men really did vanish then what were they? Could they have been two ghostly apparitions? This may explain why the lady with the pram did not seem to react to the man in the suit. Or perhaps they were even ETs in human form. These explanations cannot be fully put out of the question, especially considering what had happened at the location on previous occasions. Conclusions The incidents mentioned in this report are very impressive indeed and clearly seem to involve advanced craft and highly unusual beings. Some of the things which Brian has reported here are so dramatic that they may be hard to accept. However Brian has been extremely forthcoming in providing me whatever information I have asked for. Where he is unsure of certain facts, such as the exact locations where certain incidents took place, he has always provided me with an adequate explanation for why this is the case. He has written about his experiences in extremely good detail and certainly appears to be recollecting real incidents. The majority of the incidents have multiple witnesses, and although I am not able to speak directly with everyone, the testimonies of those I have spoken with back up everything Brian has mentioned. If Brian’s abduction experience took place as he recalled, then this means he is not only an observer but is also a contactee. Many contactees experience a great number of paranormal events throughout their life, so it is possible that this contact is what has led to some of the other incidents taking place. I find the incident with the invisible UFO and beings at the Punchbowl especially interesting. The beings which Brian experienced at close proximity are as far as I am aware completely unique. I have not come across any other contact cases involving entities of this description, although that is not to say that there aren't any. I would like to thank both Brian and his family for coming forward with details of these astounding incidents, and allowing me to share them with the public via this report. If you have any further information regarding any of these incidents please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2015

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date:  04/01/2015 Introduction I was initially contacted by Tony, a British soldier based in Germany, in late 2014. He was interested in speaking with one of the lecturers we had planned to come and give a talk at the group. After inquiring further I found out that Anthony had a visitation experience back in 2011. Over numerous following E-Mails we went over the details in full, which has led to the writing of this report. Incident Details Tony joined the military when he was 20 in 2008, and is part of 3 Close Support Battalion REME. He is currently stationed at Barker Barracks, Paderborn, Germany. Back in January 2011 he slept on the 2nd floor of Block 2. There were two other soldiers sleeping in the same room. Aerial map of Barker Barracks military base: Photograph of the entrance to Barker Barracks: One Saturday morning Tony awoke alone in the room. One of his room-mates had been out drinking all night and had not returned to the room, the other had spent the night with his girlfriend. He thinks the time must have been around 9am but didn’t check the clock. He was facing the window and the morning sun was in his eyes so he rolled over. When he did, he immediately became aware of a 6 foot tall lizard-like being standing about 1.5 metres away from the edge of the bed. It was slightly transparent, standing on two legs, and slightly hunched over him. The skin of its arms and legs was covered in green scales, although the chest area was smoother. It had a lizard-like protruding nose and mouth, and eyes with vertical slits in them. The being was largely unclothed other than a belt around its waist. Around the belt were what looked like silver-coloured cylinders. Tony estimates there were about 12 of these. Each was 2.5cm wide by 5cm long. This being is what we refer to as a Reptilian, although back in 2011 Tony was not aware of this. Witness drawing of the Reptilian being: Tony froze not knowing what to do. He was both shocked and puzzled by the presence of this strange being. He did not shout out for help as he was trying to process what was taking place. The Reptilian stood still also, although Tony could see it breathing. It felt to him that it was surprised he had woken up. They stared at each other for about a minute. Then he suddenly felt drowsy and dropped off to sleep. It was as though the being had implanted the thought to go to sleep into his mind. A short while later (Tony estimates about 10-15 minutes) he awoke again. The being was no longer present in the room. He lay still in bed for around 10 minutes trying to process what had taken place. In the end he worked up the courage to get up. He picked up a small blunt object to use as a weapon (He cannot remember exactly what it was). He then began searching all around the room, half expecting the being to still be present. After a while of searching and discovering it had definitely gone, Tony went over to his laptop. He had the word “Reptoid” in his mind, but did not know why. He searched for the word on the internet and up came some pictures of Reptilians. Upon seeing the similarity of the drawings to what he had witnessed he briskly closed the laptop, quite un-nerved. The reality that others were reporting the same type of being that he had seen was quite shocking and frightening to him. Not long afterwards he left the room and went about his normal morning routine. He did not speak about the incident with any of the other soldiers as he felt they would not believe him. For the next two years Tony did not mention the incident to anyone. However on a phone call in 2013 his father mentioned to him a book he had been reading by David Icke called “The Biggest Secret”. In the book David talks about his theories regarding the Reptilians. When his father mentioned this to him, Tony decided to tell his father about what happened. In May 2014 Tony decided to inform his superiors about the incident. He told two lieutenants and his sergeant. One lieutenant put it down to a dream. The other suggested he should speak with a doctor. His sergeant claimed to believe his story but could offer no further advice. Incident Analysis This is a very impressive report of a visitation by a Reptilian being. The way in which it took place in daylight hours on a military base highlights how contact experiences can occur anywhere at any time. The fact that Tony had no interest in UFOs or ET contact prior to his experience, and the length of time that he observed the being for means it was unlikely to have just been a vivid dream. To all intents and purposes he felt awake when he rolled over in his bed and found it standing there in the room. The way in which it stood there staring does tend to suggest that Tony surprised it and it was not expecting him to have woken up at that time. It then seemed to telepathically force Tony back off to sleep, something which has been reported many times by contactees. Obviously in such a situation most people would normally run out of the room or start shouting out, yet he did not. When he awoke for the second time he acted in a more rational manner, assessing what had happened before getting up and searching the room for the being. One interesting aspect of the experience is the way in which Tony could slightly see through the being. This could suggest that it wasn’t fully physical, and was coming through from, or perhaps about to return into, another dimension. Tony had the distinct impression that it was the belt around the being which was causing this effect although he was not told this directly (at least to his knowledge). There is a possibility that Tony had been abducted and the being was in the process of returning him to the room, although if this did occur he has no recollection of it. I would like to thank Tony for providing such a detailed overview of his experience and for allowing me to share it via this report. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2015

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 29/12/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Darren is a contactee who has had a number of experiences over the years involving UFOs and beings. On the evening of Friday 5th December 2014 he and his wife Emma witnessed a large triangular-shaped UFO which they attempted to capture on video. Sighting Overview The witnesses were at their home on Rushbury Road, Wellington, Telford. At approx 7.35pm Emma went out into the back garden for a cigarette while Darren remained in the living room. It was a cold night with low lying hazy cloud covering most of the sky, although a few stars and the moon could be seen through this. Looking down the garden to the South-West-West, she noticed several white lights in the distance in the sky behind the copse of trees on Admaston Road, about half a mile from their location. There were two lights at the top and one between them lower down making a triangular formation. She at first assumed these were planes following one another. However she soon realised that the lights were holding position with one another and that there was no discernible sound coming from them. They seemed to rotate slowly in formation with one another, and at this point she noticed that the area of sky between them was a solid black colour, darker than the hazy cloud cover. It became clear that what she was looking at was a massive black triangular-shaped object which had a white flashing light at each of its corners. Aerial map showing the sighting location (A) and the estimated location of the UFO (B): Photograph near to the sighting location taken in the direction of the object: After watching for about 20 seconds she called Darren shouting “Darren come here quick!” Darren joined her in the back garden and she pointed out the object to him. At first it was completely motionless but then after about 6 seconds it began to slowly turn. The object was absolutely huge in size. Darren estimates it was between 150-200 feet across. Soon after realising what he was looking at Darren took out Emma’s smartphone which he happened to have on him. He tried to begin videoing but instead accidentally took a still photograph in the direction of the object. He then managed to start the video recording off. Drawing by Darren showing how the UFO appeared to his naked eye: The object hovered motionless for a further 40 seconds before slowly descending until it was lost from sight behind the tree line. At this Darren ran inside the house and went upstairs to see if he could still observe the UFO. However he soon realised it was no longer visible. He stopped filming and went down to join Emma. They continued to watch a number of minutes to see if it would reappear. When it did not Darren decided to immediately call me to inform me about what they had both witnessed. They did not drive over to where the object had been situated as Emma was nervous about doing so. While speaking with them on the phone, they were able to upload and send me both the video and still photograph. Please see below for a full analysis. Photograph Analysis Prior to videotaping the UFO, Darren accidentally took a single still image on the smartphone he was using. Although it is far from clear due to the darkness at the time, both the witnesses believe that this photograph has managed to capture the presence of the object in the sky. Below is the original photograph which Darren took: Here is the photograph after being ran through some saturation filters on the computer, and with annotations added by Darren: After speaking with the witnesses in great depth minutes after the sighting took place, I have absolutely no doubt that this is a real photograph taken at the time of the sighting. Although a definite triangular shape cannot be made out, it is clear to see that there is something there which is causing colour differences in the image. As this is at the location that the witnesses observed the object, we can therefore assume that it has been picked up. Video Analysis Unfortunately, just like the photograph, it was too dark for the camera to pick up most of the object. Here is the video footage which was taken: After asking the witnesses additional questions and thoroughly checking the footage, below is an overview of what is seen and heard: 0.01 - Very small dim light very briefly appears then vanishes again. Darren believes that this is one of the corner lights of the UFO. He says that most of the time the flashing corner lights have not been picked up but very occasionally they were. 0.02 - Darren exclaims “There’s no light.” He is referring to the fact that although he can see the UFO with his naked eyes, it is too dark to be picked up on the video screen. 0.03 - Dim light appears to mid right. This is light from the upstairs window of a nearby house and is visible for much of the footage. 0.04 – Darren says “Can’t see anything.” 0.09 – Darren asks “Where is it? Is it still there?” The reason he asks this is that he is looking at the video screen trying to locate the UFO. Emma responds saying “It’s still there darling”. 0.11 – One of the corner lights of the UFO again very briefly appears in a similar location to before. 0.13 – Darren replies “Oh yeah.” At this point he had looked away from the phone and could see the shape of the object and all three flashing white lights. 0.16 – A row of white Christmas lights enters frame at left edge. 0.21 – Darren says “It’s just hovering isn’t it?” to which Emma responds “Mmm.” 0.25 – Emma says “The thing is, what’s that that’s following it?” Emma was standing on the back door step a little higher than Darren at this point. She confirms that she saw what appeared to be lights following in sync of one another seemingly following/approaching the UFO. This suggests that there was another aircraft in the area, perhaps on intercept of the object, perhaps just passing. Either way they may well have been aware of the UFO given its apparent size. 0.30 – Orange street light enters frame at left close to Christmas lights. 0.31 – Emma exclaims “It’s getting brighter”, referring to one of the corner lights of the UFO. However nothing is picked up on camera at this point. 0.33 – Darren says “I can’t see it anymore, ‘cause it’s going over there.” At this point Darren says the object had started to descend and was harder to observe. 0.41 – Emma exclaims “Whoa! See that bright light?” Darren replies “Yeah.” At this time a small light can be seen flickering on and off rapidly near the middle of the frame. The witnesses confirm that this is one of the corner lights shortly before the object vanished from sight behind the tree-line. 0.44 – The nearby bedroom light visible on the right of the frame is switched off. 0.47 – Darren says “I need to go out and look out of the bedroom window.” Emma replies “Go on then. Just don’t let the cats in.” At this point he could no longer see the UFO with his naked eye so wanted to move to a higher vantage point to see if he could spot it again. 0.50 – Darren enters the kitchen and runs through house to continue filming from upstairs. As he moves he says to Emma “You've seen your first UFO!” then “That was seen before weren't it?” (Referring to the previous police sighting) 1.12 – Street light and row of Christmas lights clearly visible from bedroom window. Another orange light and clump of 3 smaller lights also visible in the middle of the picture. These are other local street lighting which were not visible before due to the lower filming height. 1.33 – As the object is no longer in sight Darren switches off the camera. Sighting Analysis I have absolutely no doubt that Darren and Emma witnessed what they said they did. It is clear from the phone call from Darren and talking on the video that they had both just witnessed something highly unusual. I feel quite sure that what was observed was a large triangular-shaped object with flashing white light at each corner, rather than three individual flashing objects such as helicopters with strobes on. The witnesses say that they could see the main body of the object, and that it was darker than the background sky. Also whenever the lights moved they would all move together in the same manner, suggesting they were all part of a single object. The UFO was within half a mile of their position, yet there was no detectable sound coming from it. While neither the photograph or the video footage are conclusive evidence of a large triangular-shaped object, the flashing light which suddenly appears at 41 seconds into the video footage goes on and off far more quickly than the flashing lights seen on aircraft and helicopters, tending to suggest it was something else entirely. Considering the large size of the object and the fact that it appeared to be in close proximity to a main road, it is certainly possible that there are other witnesses who are yet to come forward. However it was very dark so may not have been noticed by some, and once it had descended below the treeline it would only have been visible from certain locations. Looking at all the evidence available I feel it is likely that the witnesses observed a Flying Triangle, one of the more commonly reported types of craft, which may well have been extra-terrestrial in origin. It is unknown whether its presence was anything to do with Darren’s previous contact experiences or not. There is the possibility it was in the area to monitor him in some way, however he did not notice direct interaction of any kind. Darren’s contact experiences have been written up in a separate case report which you can read in the contact cases section of this blog (West Bromwich Contact Case). Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 28/12/2014 Last Updated: 29/07/2019 Introduction I have known about this incident for a number of years. Both my ex-wife and her family are well aware of my interest in UFOs and chairing of Birmingham UFO Group. On numerous occasions my ex-stepfather Geoff Walker spoke about the fact that when he was young he and a number of children had witnessed what they believed to be a landed craft while living at Smallbridge, Rochdale. While visiting them for Boxing Day in 2014 I figured it was about time that the incident was officially put down on the record. For the first time I asked Geoff to go over everything he could remember in detail. Incident Details It was the summer of either 1967 or 1968. Geoff was 6 or 7 years old at the time and living with his parents in a house on Ashbrook Hey Lane. Near to his home on Hollowspell lived his school friends Michael (also 6/7), John (7/8) and Debra (4/5). Aerial map of Ashbook Hey Lane and Hollowspell, with Geoff’s old house marked: Photograph of the house Geoff used to live in: Just along the road from where Geoff lived is an area of park land which he and his friends used to call “The Rec”. The lower part of the area is a gradual hill covered in bushes. The upper part is a grass field that used to have football fields and a playground at the Eastern edge. Geoff and his friends would often head to The Rec to hang out together. It was late in the afternoon of a clear and sunny day in the school holidays when Geoff, Michael, John and Debra decided to go to the playground at The Rec. They met up at the corner of Hollowspell and headed to their destination. Despite the fact that it was pleasant weather there was no-one else up there at the time. While playing on the swings they suddenly became aware of a strange whirring sound. Geoff also remembers seeing a light out of the corner of his eye to the West of them on one of the football pitches. They all looked around not knowing what to expect. The football pitch had a slight dip in it to the middle, and it was here that they could now see a strange object. Geoff cannot remember the exact shape of it, only that it was quite large in size, he estimates about 20-25 feet across. He thinks it may have been a disc but cannot be certain. What he recalls more clearly is a doorway opening in the side of it. The door was triangular in shape and opened downwards from the top. Pink-ish purple coloured light spilled out from inside of the door. There were also other lights above it, probably attached to the body of the object. Aerial map of The Rec showing the position of the witnesses where the remnants of the playground can still be seen (A) and the position of the object (B): Sketch by Geoff of the triangular doorway with light above it: Geoff and his friends were all extremely frightened of the object and just turned and ran in unison. He does not remember whether anyone shouted out. They ran down the hill, through the trees at the base of The Rec, and along Ashbrook Hey Lane. His friends ran back to their house on Hollowspell. Geoff continued onward to his own house. It was only now that he felt safe again. Aerial map showing the route back home that the witnesses took: He recalls telling his parents about what he had witnessed and believes that his friends did the same. However they brushed off the incident and didn’t really take him seriously. He remembers that after the incident he did talk about it with his friends on numerous occasions, and that for a good while they did not return to The Rec to play. Also when they went back to school after the holidays they told their teacher about the incident and he got them to all draw what they had seen. Unfortunately Geoff has no idea about what happened to these drawings. The incident weighed heavily on Geoff’s mind for a long time and he has never forgotten about what he witnessed all those years ago. There were times when he wondered whether it had just been a dream, but later on he realised that it was just as vivid an experience as anything else which had happened to him back then. He is absolutely certain that the incident took place and that whatever they saw that day was highly unusual. Incident Analysis This certainly appears to be a multiple witness encounter with a large landed object. While neither Geoff nor his friends actually witnessed the object approach The Rec or descend to the ground we can assume that this is what occurred, as otherwise they would have seen it when they initially arrived at the field. The fact that they all saw the object and the strange whirring sound they heard which drew their attention to it suggests it was physically present rather than a hallucination of some kind. It sounds much too large to have been a remote controlled model. And the fact that the lit triangular doorway opened in the side of it means it cannot have been a large inflatable that had floated to the ground. Unfortunately I am not able to speak with the other witnesses as several years after the incident Geoff moved away from the area and did not keep in touch with them. But from what he has told me I have no doubt that the incident took place and that it more than likely involved a landed craft at close proximity. The doorway that opened could suggest that they were being invited aboard. Or possibly if they had remained in the area they would have met with the occupants. This is of course something we will never know for sure. However it remains a very interesting event and I am grateful to Geoff for sharing it with me and allowing this report to be released. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2019

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: George Gregg Release Date: 18/10/2014 Sighting Report In mid June 2014 a man and his wife, facing south east,  out of their kitchen window saw an object following a commercial airliner or cargo plane (witnesses description)  at speed over Hagley Road, Quinton (B32 postcode). It was around 55 degrees from the horizontal. There was nothing obscuring the view of the airplane and anomalous object. They had a clear sight of the object which was thought to be white / metallic. No noise was heard from either plane or object. There was a straight flight path, both plane and object were very fast. The UFO quickly closed up to the left side of plane. The anomalous object left no trail unlike the plane. There were no psychic elements or contact reported by the witnesses. Map and photograph of sighting location: Sighting Analysis An intriguing report from two members of the public however insufficient detail to reach any formal conclusion. Nevertheless it is highly unusual for traffic control to allow two aircraft to fly so close together. There is a long history of aircraft and UFO encounters. We would be grateful if any pilot involved in this case or other witnesses could contact either David Hodrien or George Gregg to upgrade this report. Copyright George Gregg 2014

The area of Cannock Chase is one spooky location. For many years people have reported all manner of paranormal goings on, including UFO sightings, abductions, ghosts, werewolves, giant snakes and even mutant man-pig hybrids! Add this to the fact that it is extremely open with a great view of the sky and it’s no wonder that it has become BUFOG’s sky watch location of choice! On Saturday 13th September we headed back out to the Chase for the 3rd time. This time I was armed with a new piece of kit, a night vision IR camera scope, which I was very much looking forward to trying out! I also brought along a book of weird tales from Cannock Chase written by Lee Brickley, which my brother had purchased for my birthday the previous month. I figured we could use it as a kind of guide book of the unexplained. The initial meet up location for the watch was, as with previous sky watches, the bar of The Barns on Cock Sparrow Lane. I (and a car load of friends) arrived slightly later than planned at around 8.15pm. I was pleasantly surprised to find many enthusiastic sky watchers waiting for me in the bar. It was immediately clear that this was the biggest turn out we have had so far for one of our sky watches, with about 25 people in attendance. There were familiar faces from the group, some I had not seen since the last sky watch and others along for the first time. We spent the next hour having a friendly chat about the plans for the evening and the UFO subject in general. I also had my driver’s pint for the night which went down extremely well indeed! At 9.30pm we decided it was time to make a move and head for the chase. Heading out to the car park we were pleased to see that the weather had remained pleasant. There was some light cloud but the stars and moon were clearly visible and it was relatively still as well. Once again it seemed to be on our side. However one thing that was not on our side was internet access. We soon discovered that there was no signal at all, which wasn’t good considering many of us, myself included, were using mobile phone sat nav. Luckily some still knew the route to the location so we headed off in two convoys of cars. To my credit, I only took a wrong turn once... When we got to the lay-by at the base of the slope leading up to the sky watch location it dawned on me that there was absolutely no space left. On previous years this had not been an issue but there were more of us this time than ever before! Luckily just up the road we found a second lay-by with enough space for the remainder of the vehicles. By the time we’d walked back to the first lay-by the others had already set off along the path. It was pitch black but I’d brought along an extremely powerful torch to light our way. As we headed along the path we were amazed to see an extremely bright glowing object shoot up into the sky from out of the trees ahead. It was pale yellow in colour, not the normal amber orange associated with Chinese lanterns. It got to about 100 feet up, slowed and then began to drift back down until it went out of sight. Had aliens shown their presence only a minute after our arrival, perhaps greeting us to the chase? Or had one of my mates or someone else along for the watch secretly split off from the group and launched a flare up into the sky for a laugh? I’m going to go with the second explanation. I had my suspicions that it was my friend Richard who is a big fan of fireworks. However he would neither confirm or deny that he was the culprit, and nobody else owned up to it either. As we headed further up the slope it became clear that the area was more overgrown than it had been on previous watches. There were row upon row of short pine trees alongside the left side of the path. Luckily these did not really block our view of the sky, and away from the light pollution of Cannock we had a great view of the stars. Once we reached the decided location for the sky watch BBQ master Paul immediately got to work setting up his kitchen of culinary delights, which this time included sausages, burgers, kebabs and cans of drink. Got to give him credit, he knows how to make a good sky watch even better! Others headed off into the nearby area of forest to find some firewood and get a small bonfire going. One of the attendees of the sky watch named Richard was in the process of putting together a paranormal documentary for his university course. He had previously come on down to a couple of our group meetings, and it was nice to see him back for the sky watch. He set up his camera at the edge of the location to capture some atmospheric footage for his production. Numerous others had brought along night vision scopes and laser pointers, and we soon got to work watching the skies. It was relatively quiet other than the occasional aeroplane, but everyone kept their eyes peeled for something more unusual. And speaking of things more unusual, I decided it was time to fill everyone in with some tales of the “Cannock Chase Pig Man”. The story goes that secret experiments performed in the area had led to the creation of a half man-half pig creature which roams Cannock Chase to this very day! Lee Brickley’s book “UFOs, Werewolves & The Pig Man” covers several chilling sightings of this hideous beast, the most recent of which took place in 2011. So lit by the firelight I proceeded to read out these spooky tales to the delight/horror of those present! As the evening progressed a few people reported hearing strange sounds coming from the undergrowth including growling and something which sounded like a cow. I had a go on an electronic device used to detect high frequency noise such as the sound that bats make. However it just sounded like white noise, there were clearly no bats in the area at the time (Perhaps they were scared away by the firelight). At one point we got a little excited when we spotted what initially appeared to be two star-like white lights moving away from one another. However it soon became clear that one of these was a satellite, and the other light was a star which it had happened to just be passing when it was first spotted. By about half midnight we had pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact that were not going to witness anything out of the ordinary. However we were soon to be proved entirely wrong. One of the people at the edge closest to the forest reported hearing some rustling coming out of the bushes alongside the path. I and several others armed with our night vision cameras crept closer to where the sounds had been heard. Suddenly a figure loomed forward out of the darkness. I can barely find the words to tell you what we all clearly saw. After losing sight of the mysterious figure, we then caught a glimpse of movement coming from the trees at the edge of the forest. Heading further along the path to try and chase down whatever it was, a strange sense of foreboding overcame us. We knew that it was close. We gingerly crept forward through the bracken. A sudden breeze carried the unmistakeable smell of smoky bacon. And then there it was, peering out from behind a tree. What did we see out there on Cannock Chase? After extensively analysing both the night vision footage and the photographs I snapped on my mobile phone I can only conclude that we had a close encounter with the legendary Pig Man, who I might add was definitely not BUFOG member Adam wearing a cheap pig mask purchased for £2.99 off E-Bay. Our terrifying encounter brought the sky watch to a close and we decided to head back to the cars after ensuring that the flames were out and not going to start a forest fire. Everyone seemed to have had a superb time despite the lack of UFOs in the sky. After taking a final group photograph we headed back down the slope to the road, said our goodbyes and headed for home. I’ve no doubt we will be back to the Chase again in the future, so if you missed out this time keep an eye on the website. The truth is out there. And it smells of bacon. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 09/05/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Introduction Steven first got in touch with me in mid-April 2014. He informed me that over recent weeks he had experienced a number of incidents which were deeply troubling him, and which he felt may be related to ET contact. These incidents started with vivid memories of waking up during the night and both sensing and seeing things. Following these he had experienced two detailed visions which appeared to be related to abduction. This report covers Steven’s experiences in depth, and features numerous drawings and rendered reconstructions which he has kindly provided me with. Daylight Discs One day in the summer of 2003 when Steven was 11 his mother called him to the door of their house in Stocksbridge, asking him to come and look at something. When he reached the door she pointed up into the sky to the West in the direction of some nearby farmland. It was a bright, clear and sunny day outside. About a mile away visible over the nearby tree tops were three metallic grey oval-shaped objects. They were at an angle of about 30-40 degrees and were positioned in a triangular formation in the sky, with the middle object slightly lower than the other two. There were no markings or lights on the objects. Witness drawing of the sighting location showing where he and his mother were standing and the direction the UFOs were seen: The discs hovering in the sky beyond a nearby tree: The objects seemed to be hovering motionless in the air. After watching them for several minutes Steven lost interest and went back inside. His mother continued to watch the objects. She informed him later that the objects had begun to seemingly phase out and shift to different locations in the sky. Finally the objects disappeared but did not come back. Unfortunately despite the length of the sighting Steven’s mother did not capture any photographs or video of the objects. Steven says that although they had a camera in the house, they did not have any film for it at the time, but it did not really occur to them anyway, they were too busy watching the objects. Steven does not recall reading anything about the UFOs in the local newspaper. He feels that if there had been something either he or his mother would have spotted it. He was surprised as the sighting occurred in broad daylight. Contact Begins On a night in March 2014 Steven awoke to find himself standing in his room in his night clothes. He does not know what time it occurred as he did not check the clock. The landing light was on outside and his bedroom door was ajar so it was not pitch black in the room. He felt fully awake, but could sense an oppressive presence all around him, focused behind and around his sides. It felt extremely dark and a little frightening. Panicking because of the situation, Steven felt that he needed to wake his mother up. He only remained in his  room for a few seconds before walking out onto the landing. The sense of a presence seemed to follow with him. He walked on through into his mother’s room. On the far side of the bed he immediately became aware of a pale grey coloured figure standing in the darkness. However he remained focused on waking her up so didn’t look directly at it. Steven says that strangely at the time he was more concerned by the sense of presence. He knew the figure was there but it was like it didn’t register normally. He called out “Mum!” quite loudly. But his mother did not awake. He continued to shout at her to try and wake her up but she did not stir, it was as if she had been knocked out. His mother is a light sleeper so certainly should have heard him shouting. Overview showing the upper floor of the house and locations of Steven, his mother and the figure: This was where his memory of what took place ends. The next thing he knew he was waking up in the morning. He immediately recalled what had happened. Although he felt rested physically his mind was still active, almost as if it had been on pause and then continued when he woke up. He initially put down what had happened to an unusual and vivid dream. Because of this he did not inform his mother or sister about it. Although Steven did not see the figure standing in his mother’s room clearly it is likely that this was a Grey, which suggests that she too may be a contactee. He tried to wake up his mother by shouting at her but she appeared to be shut down. This is commonly reported by contactees. It appears that the ETs have a way of shutting down individuals at will. This is possibly done to prevent them from fighting back or even witnessing what is taking place. Watch The Sky It wasn’t long before another similar incident occurred. Again Steven awoke during the night to find himself standing in his room in the same position as before. Once more the sense of a dark presence was there too. However this time it immediately felt like it was lifting and going away. For an unknown reason Steven also felt angry – at what he did not know. Almost on “auto pilot” he ran downstairs in his night clothes. He flung open the front door, ran outside into the garden and stared up into the sky. It was a clear night and the stars were visible overhead. The only light source was from the nearby street lamp on the footpath at the front of the house. It was quite cool but not very cold. As he looked up Steven noticed his vision was slightly blurred, and at this point he realised that he had forgotten to grab his glasses. He continued to stare up at the stars, not really knowing what he was looking for. He was surprised that neither his mother or sister had heard the noise of him opening the door and also come downstairs. After a few minutes he decided to go back inside. He turned and started walking back towards the front door. This was the last thing he remembered, he did not recollect going back upstairs and getting back into bed. When he woke up in the morning he remembered what had happened. When he checked his feet he could see they were a little redder than usual, but there was no other telling signs that he had been outside. During this second incident Steven felt angry but did not know why. The fact that he ran downstairs, went out into the garden and looked up at the night sky suggests that he was aware deep down that something had come from the sky/space and interacted with him. The Black Cylinder The two incidents which Steven had experienced were of course quite un-settling. However what happened next was even more disturbing. Again Steven found himself standing up during the night but this time he was out on the landing alongside his mother. Unlike the previous occasions his head felt a little dizzy and numb. Again he could feel the dark presence behind him. He was facing his mother who like him was in her night clothes. She looked a little concerned and dazed similar to how he felt. They did not speak. Instead their attention was drawn to his sister’s room. Steven felt an urgent need to leave the property at once. He does not know why he felt this way, it was as if he knew something was going to take place and wanted to get both him and his family away from it. He ran into his sister’s room, leaving his mother standing on the landing. When he entered the room he realised his sister was awake and staring up at the ceiling. She looked shocked and frightened. She was wearing night clothes and only her legs were under the bed covers, her upper half was exposed. Steven looked up at the ceiling to where his sister was staring. Coming through the ceiling of the room was what appeared to be a black cylindrical object giving off a violet coloured light. It was between 1.5-2 feet in diameter and was positioned vertically. It was descending very slowly, passing through the ceiling and coming down into the room. There was no apparent source for the glow coming from the object, but it was bright enough to dimly light up the surroundings. It was completely silent. The whole look and feel of the object was very “alien”. Steven says that “it was very hard to describe but you could feel that it wasn’t our work. It felt very opposite or inverted in some sense”. Overview showing the upper floor of the house and positions of Steven, his mother, sister and the black cylinder: Drawing of Steven’s sisters room showing the position the black cylinder was coming through the ceiling: Rendered drawing showing the black cylinder from Steven’s perspective: As soon as Steven registered what was taking place he shouted out to his sister. This appeared to bring her round, and she immediately got up off the bed and ran towards him. Exiting the room, they ran out onto the landing, then they and Steven’s mother all ran downstairs. This is where his recollection of the event ended. In the morning neither Steven’s mother or sister mentioned what had happened at all. Because Steven could not be certain that what he remembered was nothing more than a vivid dream he decided not to tell them or ask them about it. He did not want to cause any un-necessary stress, especially to his sister. Steven felt that there was the possibility his experiences were ET-related, so at this point he began to look into the contact subject. Although there were clearly some similarities, they were not clear enough for him to say for certain what was taking place. This incident included not only his mother but also his sister. Could it be possible that the entire family is experiencing contact? If so then Steven’s mother and sister have made no indication that they are aware of this contact. Perhaps their memories have been completely blocked out, yet for some reason Steven is able to partially recollect what has taken place. The way in which the black cylinder was passing through the solid ceiling into the room is another aspect that fits with contact. The ETs seem to possess the ability to move matter through matter, and will often take people through the wall, window or ceiling when abducting them. I have not looked into any other cases where a black cylinder has been seen before, and we have no idea what the purpose of this object could have been. Perhaps it was a monitoring device of some kind. Abduction Recollections Steven had his first abduction memories a number of weeks after the black cylinder incident. On the evening before he felt a little on edge. Understandably he was concerned that his experiences may be real and may happen again. He was feeling particularly tired so went to bed around 9pm. His mother and sister remained awake. He got into bed, lay down and closed his eyes. Immediately an extremely vivid vision popped into his mind. In this vision he was in another darkened location. The air in the room was hazy as if filled with fog which seemed to be glowing a violet colour. It was too dark and hazy to properly see the size of the room, but it did not look small. He appeared to be in a lying down position at about 2-3 feet off the floor. Of to his left a couple of feet away was a metallic silver coloured table. He could make out a pair of bare human feet hanging off the end of the table. They were broad and looked male. Because of the angle Steven was viewing the table from he could not make out any more of the individual lying on it. Above where the individual’s head would be was a strange device. It was spherical and split into hexagon shapes which glowed. Blue electricity appeared to be flowing from the object down into the head of the individual. Steven stared for a short while puzzled by What was taking place. His vision was cut off by a white blurred object moved past him. It moved so fast that he was startled by it. Immediately be found himself back in his room. He remained awake a long while thinking about what he had seen and the reasons for the vision. Overview of the surroundings, showing the position of Steven, and the table with the other man on: Rendered drawing showing the table and other man from Steven’s perspective. The angle in this picture is not as sharp as it actually was, in reality Steven could only see the feet of the man and the device over him: Drawing of the electrical device seen above the man’s head: Rendered drawing showing the position of the electrical device over the man: The man that Steven saw on the table in this vision was likely to be another abductee who had been taken around the same time as himself. Like Steven, I have not come across any cases where the electrical device he observed has been reported. However the ETs use a wide variety of different instruments and devices during abduction experiences so this is not really a concern. We can only speculate at present what its purpose could have been. The white blur which moved past him and ended the first vision was more than likely a Grey walking close by to whatever he was lying on. Examination Procedures Steven’s further abduction memories came back to him a number of days later. This time he was just waking up in the morning around 8am. He had come round but still had his eyes closed. Suddenly he began to see another detailed vision. This time he was lying down on a flat metallic table, perhaps the one he had previously seen the other individual on. He was unclothed and looking down could see his knees and legs. He knows he was able to move his head but is not sure if his body was paralyzed or not. Strangely he did not feel the need to get up or try and escape. Steven says “I didn’t feel the need to move really. Under normal circumstances I’d be running like my life depended on it. But I didn’t feel like I needed to move.” Standing around his lower half were five Grey beings, two on each side and one more at the base of the table. They appeared to be between 4-5 feet in height. This was hard to judge because he could not see the floor. But the table was at the height of their waists, and their upper halves appeared about 2 feet in height. They seemed to be unclothed and had a very pale grey coloured skin, almost chalk white. He did not pay too much attention to their bodies, it was their faces that held his attention the most. The beings had bulbous heads and thin necks. Their eyes were large and almond-shaped. They were either black or very dark brown. Their noses were visible but not very pronounced, and they had slits for mouths. No ears were visible. Their fingers were long and thin, but Steven cannot remember how many fingers they had. The beings all had their arms up in the air. They were grabbing hold of the edges of a strange curved device which was being lowered down over his legs. Steven felt indifferent to the experience, almost like he did not care about what was happening to him. The device appeared to be about 6-7 feet in length. The inner surface of the device appeared to be semi-translucent. It was smooth and had rows of violet-coloured lights running along it which seemed to be embedded in the surface. Steven looked to his left past the nearest being. To the left of him was a wall only a few feet away. On this wall were rows and rows of coloured glowing lights. There was no such wall off to his right, only darkness. He realised he must be alongside one edge of the room. He never found out the purpose of the lights on the wall, or of the device being lowered onto him. This is where the vision ended. He opened his eyes, feeling unsettled by what he had just seen. He could not understand why his mind would come up with such a detailed and specific vision if there was nothing to it. Rendered drawing showing Steven on the table with the Greys around him, device over his legs and wall covered in lights: Rendered drawing showing a perspective view: In this second vision it is clear that Steven was being interacted with more directly. He was now lying on the metallic table and his night clothes had been removed. The device which the Greys were lowering down over his legs is very intriguing. Although I have not investigated any other cases where an identical device has been mentioned, I have looked into one where a curved structure of the same shape was lowered down over the individual. In this case the structure appeared to be made out of glowing yellow bars, almost like a cage. Steven does not suffer from any medical issues relating to his legs, so it does not seem that the device was employed to heal him in any way. Its purpose at present remains unknown. Other Signs Steven has informed me that his mother is a spiritual medium, and that he believes he has inherited her abilities. He also says that his sister has a high spiritual awareness. At present he has not decided to develop his own abilities, but it is something he may decide to do in the future. Although Steven feels that this has nothing to do with his contact experiences, it is very common for contactees to feel that they are in some way gifted with psychic or sixth sense abilities. He does suffer from social anxiety and hates to be out with other people he is not familiar with. This seemed to come on very suddenly back in 2012 for no apparent reason. It is possible this is linked with his contact experiences though this cannot be confirmed. On a few occasions Steven has woken up with bruises, scratches or small red dots on his arms which look suspiciously like puncture markings. However none of these have been directly linked with any of his experiences, so again may have natural causes. But it is still possible that some of them may have been markings left from abductions which have been blocked from his memory at present. Conclusion Due to the details Steven has recollected from his experiences it is likely that he is a contactee. His initial experiences where he found himself awake during the night are very interesting indeed. While it is possible to sense a dark presence during sleep paralysis, he could not have been paralysed recollects walking around his house and even running outside. Could the incidents have been down to vivid dreams? This cannot be entirely ruled out as seemingly only Steven recollected them taking place despite both his sister and mother being involved . However all of the experiences have elements pointing towards ET contact. I feel that the two visions which Steven has so far experienced are indications that he may have been abducted on one or more occasions. This is often the way that memories of contact will often come back to the individual after initially being blocked out. Unfortunately by the time he experienced these he had been looking into the contact subject, so there is the possibility that things he had read about played a part in what he remembered, although I find it unlikely to be the cause of the visions. Steven informed me that he had not seen the electrical device hanging over the head of the man before, or the device that was lowered down over his own legs during the second flashback. We have no way of knowing if the discs sighting from 2003 was in any way related to his experiences, but at face value does not appear to be. The discs were not sighted over his own house but were at least half a mile away, and there was no sign of any direct interaction or observation. It seems unlikely that Steven’s experiences have come to an end, and I have assured him of on-going support if he requires it. He has informed me that going forward he plans to document any further experiences. If he decides to keep in touch this report may be updated with additional information. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 14/05/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used On the evening of 12th May I was contacted by a man named John who lives in the Rotunda flats complex in the centre of Birmingham. He got in touch only 15 minutes after sighting two unusual objects from the window of his flat. Sighting Details Around 6.50pm John was relaxing in his flat in the Rotunda when two glinting objects in the sky caught his attention through the East-facing window. He walked over to the window to take a closer look. It was a clear still and sunny evening with very little cloud. Aerial map showing the sighting location: Photograph of the Rotunda from ground level: At an angle of about 45 degrees at a height of at least 500 feet were two silver-coloured objects. They were identical in appearance and appeared to be at least the size of a small aircraft. The objects were a fattened boomerang shape. They were highly reflective and catching the sunlight brightly. At the end of the left side of each object was a metallic red coloured triangle-shaped marking. The two UFOs were initially flying South but were on an arc and turning to the West gradually. They were positioned diagonally from one another and maintained this formation throughout the sighting. They did not rotate at all and appeared to be flying with the central point facing forward. They were seemingly flying very fast, at least as fast as a plane would typically fly at. After watching for several seconds John saw an even more distant aeroplane fly through the sky visible between the two objects with a contrail behind it. At this moment he decided to go and grab his binoculars. He was soon back at the window and observing the objects under magnification, but was none the wiser to what they could be. Witness drawing of the UFOs and passing aeroplane, showing movement paths: He continued to watch the objects for a further 20 seconds or so, by which time they had flown out of sight into the distance. He continued to watch the sky while phoning his family to tell them what he had just seen. He then decided to check online for a local UFO group to call, which resulted in him giving me a call to report the sighting. Sighing Analysis This is a very unusual sighting, made all the more impressive by the fact it occurred in broad daylight over a highly populated area. The objects were clearly not conventional aircraft of any kind. They were moving too fast to be microlites, hand gliders or hot air balloons, and the fact that they flew away on a designated level course into the distance means they could not have been parachutes. They sound too large to have been two remote controlled models. When looking at possible mundane explanations, the most obvious one to consider is whether the objects could have been a pair of novelty inflatables. If they were much closer and smaller than the witness assumed they were (due to a lack of point of reference in the sky) then this would have given the impression of a very fast speed. However there are numerous aspects which do not point to this explanation. The objects did not rotate at all throughout the sighting, and were flying point-forwards, how you would expect a controlled aerodynamic object to fly. They also moved in an arc gradually, if they were inflatables drifting on an air current this would generally cause them to move on a roughly straight course, perhaps ascending or descending as they went. The movement pattern observed sounds far more like the objects were under directed control. If the objects were not inflatables or any of the other mundane explanations given above then what could they have been? They had a very distinctive and unusual appearance, one I have not heard described before, although I have investigated numerous cases of silver-coloured boomerang shaped craft, some of which have been from the Birmingham area. Perhaps these were similar objects, though this would be mere speculation. I have asked John for a drawing of the objects, which he should hopefully be sending through soon to add to this report. However I have decided to upload this as soon as possible to increase the chances of other witnesses coming forward. John feels certain that other people would have seen the objects, perhaps even people on the passing aircraft. If you have any information about this sighting please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014