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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

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 27/04/2014 Forwarded by UFO Info For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Introduction Since last year BUFOG has been investigating UK-based cases reported via the UFO Info website. Many of the witnesses who write these reports never come back with further information which usually results in an investigative dead end. In March 2014 I received two reports from Dumbarton, Scotland seemingly reporting a UFO with numerous white lights on. Although neither witness has yet come back with additional information, the fact that both individuals have separately reported the UFO is significant, so I have decided to write this report based on what I am currently aware of. 04/03/2014 Sighting It was 8.30pm on 4th March 2014 Grant and two other individuals were driving along the M8 motorway, which runs along the edge of the River Clyde. They caught sight of three bright white lights in a triangular formation moving slowly to the right over the area of Dumbarton on the far side of the water. Photograph of Dumbarton from the M8: Suddenly one of the lights seemed to vanish from sight, perhaps due to the angle they were viewing them. This left two lights side by side. After a few seconds the third light reappeared, and they now appeared to be in a vertical line to each other. They started moving to the left slowly. Then without warning all three lights dropped down together at a fast speed behind a hill near to Dumbarton Rock and were lost from sight. Aerial map showing the M8 (A), Dumbarton (B) and Dumbarton Rock (C): Photograph of Dumbarton Rock: Grant decided to turn the car around and start driving back along the other side of the M8 to see if they could catch sight of the lights again. Unfortunately the lights did not make a reappearance so they soon continued their journey. 09/03/2014 Sighting Five days later at 5.10am Ian was driving East along the M8 motorway towards Glasgow. Just before he reached the town of Langbank he glanced to the left at Dumbarton over on the far side of the river. Near the edge of Dumbarton is a quarry. He noticed a single white light on the top of the quarry. He initially thought it may be light from a vehicle, but he had driven the same route every morning and never noticed it before. Aerial map showing the estimated sighting location (A) and Dumbarton (B): Photograph from the sighting location in the estimated direction of the sighting. The exact location of the quarry is not known at present: As he got nearer the white light began to flash randomly in no particular pattern, almost like an SOS beacon. Suddenly it disappeared, and a large rectangular shaped object with three white lights along it appeared alongside the quarry. The lights on it were spread out along its length and slowly flashing. He could barely believe what he was looking at and his stomach sank in his chest. He only observed it for between 5-10 seconds while he continued along the road before it went out of sight. When he got back home he decided to do an internet search for “UFO Dumbarton” and found the report from the 4th on the UFO Info website. He then decided to post his own sighting. Sightings Analysis I feel that there are enough similarities between the two incidents to suggest that they were observing the same object within the space of 5 days over the same area. Unfortunately there are certain things which cannot be verified due to the fact that neither witness has got back in touch. However from what we do know it seems clear that this was either a large triangular/rectangular object with several white lights along it. Grant stated that the lights he had seen were constant, whereas when Ian observed it they were flashing. This of course does not mean the two sightings were of different objects, it is possible that on one occasion the UFO was flashing its lights and on the other occasion not for whatever reason.Although no main body of the object was spotted by Grant, the way in which the lights were all moving together and keeping the same distance from one another suggests it was a single object rather than three glowing objects moving in formation. As both witnesses pointed out, the lights were in the wrong formation to have been those of a helicopter, and no other coloured lights were observed. It could not have been an aircraft as it was moving too slowly, or in the case of the 2nd sighting completely stationary. Due to the distance the lights were being observed from it must have been quite a sizeable object which makes it very unlikely to have been some kind of remote controlled model. I do hope that one or both of the key witnesses get back in touch with me in due course so further details/drawings can be added to this report. There is also the possibility of other witnesses who are yet to come forward. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 21/04/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Introduction From September 2012 onwards Peter has experienced five very distinct UFO sightings. The majority of these have been of very unusual shaped objects, some of which have displayed highly unusual characteristics or impressive flight manoeuvres. These sightings deeply affected him on an emotional level, and ever since he has avidly looked into the UFO subject. Distraught at the media’s general portrayal of the subject he eventually decided to get in touch with both BUFOG and Richard Hall to report his sightings. This report covers each of his sightings in depth, assessing the evidence and looking into possible explanations for each. 03/09/2012 – U-Shaped UFO At approximately 4.25pm on the afternoon of 3rd September 2012, Peter was out walking in Wokingham on Molly Millars Lane. It was warm and sunny, with a clear sky above. He decided to give his friend a call on his mobile phone. Aerial map of Molly Millars Lane: As he spoke on the phone he walked past an electricity tower, about 50 feet away from him. He happened to look up and spotted a very strange looking object. On approach to the tower at an angle of about 60 degrees was a U-shaped object, no bigger than 6 feet across. It was metallic light grey in colour and had what appeared to be prongs sticking out from both of the front points. The object was turning back and forth, clockwise then anti-clockwise. It was about 20 feet higher up than the top of the pylon. The object was travelling at between 40-50 mph and appeared to be intentionally moving towards the pylon. Photograph of the electricity tower where the sighting took place: Witness drawing of the UFO: As it reached the top of the tower its speed dramatically reduced until it stopped. It also ceased rotating. Peter was now able to get a better look at the object. Its surface texture was very unusual, somewhere been solid metal and reflective glass. The object began to ascend vertically into the sky, rising slowly until it was just a glinting point of light. Peter suddenly noticed two of his work colleagues nearby. He called them over so they too could observe the UFO. By this time the object was at quite high altitude. Here it seemed to be joined by two other flashing points of light. The three points formed a perfect triangular shape, which remained for between 10-15 seconds. All three then went out of sight. In total the sighting lasted for about 15 minutes, so the witness had a clear view of the object for a decent length of time. Sadly his mobile phone was a low tech one without an in-built camera, so he was not able to photograph the UFO. He did not talk about the sighting much afterwards with his colleagues as he was not particularly close to them. At first the witness assumed the object was a novelty balloon. It appeared quite small in size and also seemed light weight in the manner which it was turning back and forth. I would agree that this is the most likely mundane explanation for the object. Although the movement patterns of the object could have seemed to indicate intelligence, it is possible that the object was being carried on an air current which happened to stop over the pylon. At this point the object would have stopped drifting and rotating and would then have naturally ascended due to the helium inside it, much as the witness eludes to. Another possibility is that the object was an unusual radio controlled model of some kind, although you would expect this to have made some kind of sound. Other than the odd appearance of the object, the only other mystery to the sighting was the fact that at high altitude it seemed to be joined by two other separate points of light. However it is possible that these were an optical illusion and all lights seen were caused by sunlight glinting brightly off the one object. I therefore think that the most likely explanation at present is a novelty balloon of some kind. 09/10/2012 – Cylindrical UFO It was about 5.15pm on Saturday 9th October 2012. The weather was very clear and sunny, with barely a cloud in the sky. Peter was walking home from Martin’s Heron train station in Bracknell. He was on New Forest Wide, and walking up the road to the South-South West in the direction of the roundabout. Beyond the roundabout lies Savernake Pond and an area of woodland. Over this woodland he suddenly noticed a strange object appear, at an angle of about 40 degrees in the sky. Aerial map of New Forest Wide showing the location of the witness (A) and estimated position of the UFO (B): At first the only thing which was clear was a pulsating bright light. The rest of the object seemed fuzzy and indistinct, despite the fact it was a clear day.  It almost looked like it had just materialised in the sky. It seemed grey in colour and was roughly circular. It appeared to be about 100 feet above the tops of the trees and several hundred metres away from his location. It was completely motionless in the air. Peter continued to walk along the road. As he reached the island to cut through Woodford Green he now got a better look at the object. It now looked quite different to how it had before. It appeared to be a dark grey/black vertical cylinder hanging in the sky. Positioned to one side of it was a smaller pale grey coloured triangular shaped object, the corners of which were intermittently pulsing a bright white colour with no discernable pattern. This seemed to be much brighter than sunlight would relect at, almost like burning magnesium. Photograph of the sighting location in the direction the UFO was seen: The cylindrical object seemed to have a haze around it, perhaps distortion due to heat or energy. He describes this distortion as “almost like someone had taken an image sourced from the American NTSC video format and placed it within a high definition background”. The top of the cylinder appeared to distort and change shape almost like it was morphing. Peter was quite concerned by it and felt that it was aware of his presence. Witness drawing of the UFO with notes: He continued to walk home, glancing back at the UFO as he walked. Sometimes it would be obscured from view behind houses or trees but he would then catch sight of it again. As he got close to his home, the distortion around the top of the cylindrical object seemed to be more pronounced, almost like lumps were appearing out of it. Peter even wondered if it was going to explode. As he got to within 50 metres of his flat, Peter decided to run inside and grab his Nikon camera, as the object was still visible in the sky. He threw down his shopping and returned outside to the spot where he had last seen it. This only took about 20 seconds. But during this period of time the object had shifted position in the sky and was now much further away! It was only visible as a dot in the distance. Peter felt that it somehow knew he was going to photograph it and this is why it had changed position. View of the sighting location from witness’s flat: Not giving up, he then ran all the way back to New Forest Wide looking in the direction of the woodland over which the object had been situated. But unfortunately it could no longer be seen. On route to the location Peter thinks he noticed a white streak of light move off in a Westerly direction, but he cannot be certain and says this may have been down to the fact he was running as fast as possible. Disappointed that the object had gone he returned home. Numerous aspects of this sighting are very unusual indeed. The appearance of the object is far from common. Most mundane explanations can immediately be discounted. It was clearly not any normal aircraft or helicopter, was too unusual a shape to be some kind of military drone and is also unlikely to have been a radio controlled model. It was the wrong colour and appearance to be a daylight Chinese lantern. I initially wondered if what Peter had seen was a vertical floating solar airship. These are launched on hot sunny days and can sometimes tip up until they are completely vertical in the sky. However after seeing the drawing Peter sent me, this too can be discounted. Although they are cylindrical in shape, solar airships are quite long in length, where as the object he has drawn is a much shorter and wider cylinder. Also this would not explain the triangular object seen hovering alongside it. The only explanation which could possibly explain the incident is a novelty balloon or kite of some kind. If it was a kite then it would have been tethered, but perhaps this tether could not be seen due to the distance. Perhaps the triangular shape was some kind of separate attachment to the main object, and the brightly glowing points of light on it were its corners catching the sunlight. The morphing and lumping seen towards the top of the object could have been caused by it being very light weight and being buffeted by an air current. However the object appeared to be completely stationary in the air for a number of minutes. Surely if it was a kite then its owner would have had to move it around by tugging on the tether to keep it afloat? Similarly if it was a novelty balloon surely it would have drifted during this time? Another interesting aspect is the way in which the object appeared distorted around the edges suggesting heat or energy. I find it unlikely that this would have just been an optical illusion caused by the distance of the object. Perhaps the sunlight was heating up the surface of the object causing a mirage-like effect around it, but this would just be speculation. It is also odd that the object seemed to move much further away in the short space of time that the witness entered his flat to get a camera. Surely if it was a kite then it would have remained in the area or have been taken down and not there at all? And if it was a novelty balloon it would have only gradually drifted so should still have been close by. July & August 2013 – Segmented Disc Sightings On the first or second weekend of July 2013 Peter was staying over at the house of some friends on Ennersdale Road, close to Hither Green train station, London. It was a warm sunny day and they were having a BBQ in the back garden at around 4pm. Peter was relaxing in a deck chair, with some small binoculars to hand. Aerial map of Ennersdale Road: Without the aid of the binoculars he noticed a black circular object moving in an Easterly direction at a slow speed. It was very high up and at an angle of 70 degrees. The object was reflecting the sunlight brightly causing it to glow a variety of colours. Earlier in the day he had seen balloons drifting on by, and it was obvious this is what they were due to the way they were drifting and rotating in the wind. However this object seemed much more solid and on a definite flight path. Through the binoculars the object looked like a black metallic milk top. There were ridges all around the edge and each panel would catch the sun as the object rotated. Peter got the attention of his friend to also observe the object. They watched it for about a minute, neither witness able to identify it. Witness drawing of the UFO: Peter continued to observe the object as it changed course and headed away to the North. At one moment a bright flash of light appeared a few feet to the right of the object, the origin of which was unknown. Peter does not think this flash was due to a reflection on the object itself or in the lens of the binoculars. At a distance the object began to glow a sunset orange, possibly due to the sun reflecting on its surface. Just before it went out of sight it appeared to begin to ascend in the sky. In total he had watched it for about 10 minutes. At the time he did not think too much about the sighting, it was at high altitude and could have been a novelty balloon or other inflatable. However this was not the last time he would see the object. Several weeks later on a Sunday he was back round his friends and sitting in the same garden. It was another hot, clear and sunny day. Peter was watching the skies and observing aircraft on their flight paths. As he was watching one jet airliner through his binoculars all of a sudden the same UFO he had seen previously seemingly appeared from nowhere and hovered in front of the view he had of the plane! It looked bigger this time (probably closer) and the ridges were more clearly defined. Peter could barely believe he was seeing the same unusual object a second time and that it had appeared so close to a passing plane. The object hovered for several seconds. Then without warning it suddenly shot upward vertically at an incredibly fast speed. He was unable to track it with the binoculars, so quickly lowered them and observed a black blurred streak for a couple of seconds before it had left the area. The high strangeness of the sighting and the fact he had again witnessed it from the same location as before caused Peter to laugh. Also the astounding acceleration and flight speed he had seen the object perform confirmed to him that it was something highly unusual and not just a balloon or other mundane object. 07/09/2013 – Glowing Orb On 7th September 2013 Peter was at Bestival music festival at Robin Hill on the Isle Of Wight. It was about 9pm and he and three friends were sitting outside their teepee in the camping area. At an angle of 30-40 degrees in the sky, Peter saw a bright white glowing orb of light suddenly appear. It travelled horizontally at a leisurely speed, Peter estimates roughly 30 mph. Aerial photograph of Bestival, the camping area visible in the background: As he watched the orb got even brighter making it look like it had grown in size. He shouted “Look!” and pointed the light out to his friends. As they turned around to look, the orb started to get dimmer before vanishing. One of the other witnesses suggested that it had been a satellite. However Peter believes the object was at too low an angle in the sky and had appeared to be within the atmosphere. He also felt it was too bright to have been the International Space Station. While a satellite briefly catching the sun’s rays cannot be entirely ruled out there are other mundane explanations which may have explained the orb. Perhaps it was a light on a helicopter or aircraft, or a white LED balloon which then flew into cloud causing it to appear to vanish. It is unlikely that the object was ball lighting as it was a pleasant evening, ball lightning only appears in stormy weather conditions. Conclusion It is clear from the details which Peter has provided that many of the objects he has seen have been extremely unusual. While some of them could possibly be explained away as novelty inflatables, others displayed movement patterns which makes this explanation extremely unlikely. I hope that Peter decides to keep in touch, if so this report may be updated with any further sightings he has going forward. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 18/04/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Jason used to be an avid runner and regularly go out on evening runs with his dog. Late in the summer of 2005 he was out running at Gaucet Luce Golf Club on the outskirts of Droitwich Spa. He would always run the same route and was trying to beat his previous time. He reached the bottom of the valley and was running back up the fairway. Suddenly he noticed a light in the sky. It appeared to be behind a bank of cloud and was quite bright. He initially assumed it was light from the moon but quickly dismissed this notion. Aerial map of Gaucet Luce Golf Club: He stopped running and called for his dog to come nearer. He then looked up into the sky to have a better look at the light. He was astounded to see that the light seemed extremely large in scale, and that the edge of it formed a massive arc. It appeared that he was looking at the edge of a massive disc approximately a mile in diameter. The part he could see he estimated to be about ¼ mile in length. His instinct led him to question this immediately. He felt maybe the moonlight was falling on the cloud and being amplified to appear much brighter than it was in reality. Or perhaps light from the nearby M5 motorway was reflecting off the cloud layer. The next thing Jason became aware of, he was looking down to the ground. As he came around he realised he had “zoned out”. He felt dizzy like he had been drunk. His dog was still alongside him wagging its tail. He felt like he had lost a small amount of time, perhaps 10 minutes. This really bothered him, as did the fact that his dog had remained by his side rather than running off like it would usually do. When he looked up he saw that the massive arc of light in the sky was no longer visible. All that he could do was walk back home and settle down to sleep. A couple of weeks later Jason unfortunately suffered from a major stroke. He wonders if the light he had seen in the sky that night was a hallucination caused by his brain rather than something more unusual. This could have also attributed for the way in which he temporarily zoned out, as there was no real signs that he had been abducted. If the incident wasn’t down to his own perception, there are a number of other explanations. Perhaps the shape of the light really was down to moonlight coming through the cloud layer as he suspected. The theory that the light was from the M5 motorway has merit, however this would usually be a more orange-coloured glow from street lights rather than white light. Another theory is that it was caused by lights from a nearby nightclub hitting the base of the cloud. However searchlight displays such as this tend to be made up of specific shapes such as a ring of circles, and also tend to rotate/move rather than just remain static. The sighting remains unexplained, but I feel it is more likely to be one of the explanations discussed above rather than a giant disc-shaped craft observed in the sky. Something of such magnitude would more than certainly have been seen by other individuals in the area and reported, yet as far as Jason is aware no other sightings of the same thing have ever been released. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 17/04/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Introduction Jack now lives down in London, but grew up living at various properties at Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. Since his childhood he has had a number of interesting sightings of unidentified objects in the sky. This report covers each of his sightings before drawing final conclusions. Fiery Black Sphere One evening in 1975 when Jack was 6 years old he was in the back of his mother’s car. It was about 7pm and they were driving in the centre of Rio De Janeiro. Jack was looking out of the rear right window. It was a clear evening with very little cloud in the sky. They were in front of Rio Sul shop when he suddenly saw a black spherical object covered in fire, with a fiery trail behind it. He estimates it was about 1500m high, definitely within the atmosphere. It was at a far distance and flew across the sky horizontally at a very fast speed in the direction of the ocean. Due to the speed he only observed it for a fraction of a second. He immediately told his mother, saying “Look mum, I just saw a meteor or a UFO.” His mother responded “Jack I’m driving. Besides those things do not exist!” Looking back at the incident Jack believes the object may well have been an optical illusion in the car window, but he has informed me of it anyway for interest.  I would agree that the UFO could have been down to a reflection, but find it more likely that it was a meteorite crossing the sky. This may have looked more impressive to Jack than it actually was due to his young age. Three Distant UFOs The following year Jack was lying on his bed round his grandparent’s house in Botafogo, in front of Baia Do Flamengo. It was night time and he was still awake, looking out of the window. It was between 1-2am, and  a warm, clear night with the stars visible. Jack noticed several distant objects in the sky. They were on the far side of Guanabara Bay. The objects were moving then stopping for periods of time. They would move independently and were going up and down as well as left and right in the sky. Sometimes they would vanish from view off the edge of the window, and then come back into view after a short while. They continued to perform these manoeuvres for half an hour. Aerial map of Botafogo (A) and Guanabara Bay (B): At first Jack thought they may be helicopters. However they seemed too high altitude for this, and there did not seem to be any purpose for them to perform these flight patterns for such a long period of time. They also seemed to move faster than helicopters would fly at. Jack says that the Brazilian military did not have many helicopters back then, and he does not believe they would have spared this many for so long to perform a nocturnal exercise. While I would agree that the manoeuvres seemed unusual I do not feel that helicopters can be completely ruled out. Due to his age he did not have a camera at the time, and did not want to wake his grandparents in case they were angry with him. After watching for about half an hour he thinks he must have fallen off to sleep. The following morning he told his family but they did not listen so he soon forgot about the incident. Glowing Orb A year later in 1977 Jack had another UFO sighting. At the time he was living in a house in Barra Da Tijuca, close to a hill known as Pedra Da Gavea. Aerial map showing Barra Da Tijuca (A) and Pedra Da Gavea (B): Photograph of Pedra Da Gavea from ground level: During one night he woke up for no apparent reason at around 3am. He doesn’t know why but he pulled back the curtains, opened his bedroom window and looked outside. Up in the sky in the direction of Itanhanga to the North East alongside the hill was a glowing white orb. It was much brighter than the stars in the background and was moving slightly in the air, floating back and forth gradually. It was quite high up, Jack estimates about 800 metres, and was at an angle of about 39 degrees from his location. Jack observed the object for about half an hour. He feels that it was much too bright to be a distant helicopter. He did not call his parents as they would have just dismissed it as a balloon or something similar. He did wonder if it could have been some kind of atmospheric phenomenon. However earth lights do not last for long periods of time and do not usually appear over urban areas, so I feel this can be discounted. The “Ghost Aeroplane” By 1993 Jack was living in a house on the top of a mountain near Cruzerio, Sau Paulo, which he informs me is known as a UFO hot spot. This location afforded him a fantastic view of the sky and surrounding land. Around 9pm one evening he was standing outside admiring the view. It was a clear evening with only high level cloud. He suddenly noticed an object moving in his direction. It had a red light and a flashing white light characteristic with an aircraft, but it seemed to be much too low down in the sky, only 75 metres above the top of the mountain. It was also completely silent as far as he could tell. Jack was surprised to see it, as it was not a normal flight path for aircraft to take. The object was moving in his direction. It got to about 500 metres from his location when suddenly without warning it turned 180 degrees in a very tight arc and began moving away from him. The whole scenario was quite eerie to Jack so he did not keep watch too much longer. He just told himself it was a plane and went back indoors. But looking back at the incident he feels there was a lot that was wrong with it. Return Of The White Orb The following year after the incident with the “ghost aeroplane”, Jack had another sighting of an unidentified glowing white orb. He thinks it took place in March but cannot be certain. It was about 9.30pm when he happened to look to the North. Roughly 2km away in the direction of Varginha he saw a brightly glowing white light hanging in the sky, much too bright to be a star. It looked very similar to the one he had seen back in 1977. Jack watched the object for about 30 minutes. It appeared to be hovering motionless. After this time he actively chose to stop looking at it. He did not have a camera on him at the time so did not take any photographs. As noted by Jack, the village of Varginha over which the object seemed to be hovering is where a very impressive incident involving a UFO crash and retrieval of live ETs is said to have taken place in 1996. While it may be very easy to dismiss Jack’s sighting as simply a star, he lived at that location for a number of years, so surely he would be used to how the stars looked at that altitude and would be aware of the locations in the sky of the brightest stars. Yet he is certain that this was something else within the atmosphere. Moving Light Just as with his initial 3 sightings, Jack had 3 further sightings on consecutive years in the early 90s. This is likely just down to coincidence. In April 1995 he had arguably his most impressive sighting yet. He was on his way back home one evening and walking up the road that led to his house. He looked to the North and noticed what he first assumed was a star in the sky. It was a little brighter than how stars would normally appear. He estimates it was about 6km away and around 1500 metres high. However he then noticed that the star appeared to be slightly oscillating in the sky. A voice inside his mind told him “Look, this is important.” Suddenly without warning the light shot right across the sky, abruptly stopped for 1 second, then returned to the position it had been at! It moved extremely fast, much faster than a plane would be able to fly at. Jack estimates it had travelled about 50km. He was immediately convinced that this was something highly unusual. The object then seemed to produce a fog of some kind around itself before vanishing, either disappearing from the location it was at, or flying away extremely fast, it was hard to tell which. In total the sighting had lasted for about 20 seconds. Looking back at the incident Jack feels certain that the object was showing itself to him on purpose, perhaps indicating that he was being observed. At the time he attributed the voice in his head to himself, but now thinks that some kind of telepathic communication took place. Conclusion Jack has had some interesting sightings over the years. Although some of them could certainly be down to misidentification of mundane objects, others such as his 1995 sighting have more impressive aspects to them which suggest a more unusual explanation. Due to the number of sightings he has had, Jack suspected he may be a contactee. I put him in touch with a regressive hypnotherapist in London who regressed him on two occasions to try and find out further details about his experiences. Although he did come back with some interesting memories and feelings, there was nothing definite enough to suggest he had been abducted or contacted by ETs. If Jack has any further sightings and decides to stay in touch they may be added to this report. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 09/04/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Since beginning looking into contact I have dealt with cases from all around the globe. However its great to sometimes receive details of a case which has happened more locally. This report covers the experiences of a lady from Birmingham who has had experienced an incident involving a Grey being, and possible other related experiences. She got in touch after watching one of my lectures on Youtube. Grey Visitation It was a night back in 2012. Emma was sleeping soundly alongside her partner. She remembers waking up with the feeling of a presence coming into the room. She found that she was unable to move, but felt fully awake. She was certain she wasn’t dreaming, and kept telling herself “You’re awake. You’re awake.” She was extremely frightened by what was taking place. She then became aware of a being alongside her bed, and turned her eyes to look at it. Next to the bed was a slender looking figure. It was about 4-5 foot in height and had pale skin, an oversized head and large black eyes. The figure was a Grey, although at the time she did not know this as she had no interest in the UFO/contact subject. It was as if this being sensed she was frightened, as the next moment she heard a message inside her mind that told her that “everything would be ok”. When she heard this her emotions completely changed. She immediately relaxed and felt a strong sense of love which she finds hard to put into words. After this she was conscious of being in some kind of lift descending downwards, with the being standing next to her. A moment before she had been lying down in her bed, it was like she had jumped forward in time and was now somewhere different. This was her final memory of the night. The next thing she became aware of it was morning time and her partner was waking her up. She felt extremely groggy. Her partner asked her what she had done during the night. When she asked him what he meant by this he informed her that the electrics were all on around the house. At the time she did not ask him to expand on this, but believes that he meant that the lights were all turned on. When she finally told him what she remembered he seemed quite frightened by her experience. Although it felt strange going back to bed the following evening, Emma was able to do so because of how positive the later part of her experience had felt. A few days after the incident, Emma did a drawing of the Grey she had seen and some notes on how the experience had made her feel in her notebook: Psychic Abilities Emma has informed me that recently she has joined a psychic group as she feels she has been picking up on things. Her group leader apparently feels that she is developing at a quickened pace and that she has an interesting future within the field. Emma does not know if these abilities are in any way linked with her contact experience, but many contactees seem to possess one or more psychic abilities, so this would not be surprising. Conclusion Although Emmas visitation experience has some similarities with sleep paralysis, I feel the fact she saw a Grey being without having a background interest in the UFO subject is very significant. Also the way in which it calmed her down by speaking to her telepathically is something which has been reported many times before in other contact cases. Her suspected psychic abilities are another indicator that she may have experienced contact. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Last Updated: 10/02/2014 In late December 2013 I was contacted by a gentleman named Kerry Devine. He had been looking through the cases listed on the BUFOG website and realised that his own fascinating sighting was not present, so decided to forward me the details of what he and others witnessed back in 1997. Sighting Details It was dusk on an evening in June 1997. Kerry was on his work shift at the Automobile Association Headquarters on Dogkennel Lane, Halesowen. He was in the West wing of the building which faces in the direction of Brierley Hill. He noticed that 5 of his work colleagues were gazing out of one of the large windows, pointing and chatting to one another excitedly. Kerry was intrigued and walked over to see what all the commotion was about. They pointed up into the sky through the window. The clouds were quite low in the sky and were catching the orange glow of the setting sun. Below the clouds there were what appeared to be a couple of spherical objects moving slowly to the West. The objects were white or silver in colour and were reflecting the setting sunlight, so were definitely solid. They appeared to be at an altitude of about 3-4000 feet. Judging by the distance and estimated height, Kerry feels that they must have each been about the size of a large car. Kerry was informed by his colleagues that there had been about 20 of the objects, but most had already moved out of sight. Aerial map of the sighting location with the location and directional movement of the UFOs added by the wintess: The remaining objects began to perform a series of very unusual manoeuvres. They appeared to be taking it in turns to move vertically up through the cloud layer at incredible speed then descend back down while zig-zagging through the air. This continued for about 10-15 minutes in front of everyone. These manoeuvres would have been impossible for an aircraft to perform. The witnesses could barely believe what they were seeing. However as they were supposed to be working at the time some of them dispersed and returned to their desks. Kerry continued to observe the objects for as long as he felt he could get away with. After a while the objects which had remained behind the main formation seemed to finish their display and fly off rapidly to catch up with the rest of the UFOs. As it happened, to his work colleagues amusement, Kerry was reading a book on UFO sightings at the time. Within the book there was a contact number for the MOD at Whitehall. At around 2am after thinking about whether he would be believed or not, Kerry rang them to report the incident. They took down the details of the sighting. They also denied that there had been any air traffic in the area at that time. Kerry didn’t see his work colleagues again until a couple of days later. When he went back in for another shift he was informed that the Express and Star newspaper and numerous UFO societies had been trying to get hold of him. Kerry wondered how they had found out about the sighting or why they particularly wanted to speak with him. The other witnesses did not seem to want to talk about the incident as they felt it may damage their reputation if they were named. As Kerry is the kind of person who does not deny what he has witnessed, he decided to speak to the Express and Star about what took place. He asked them where they had got their information from and they informed him that the MOD had contacted Brierley Hill police directly with his report. The police had subsequently got in touch with the papers. The article that the Express and Star released made front page news, possibly due to the involvement of the AA. Kerry later found out that there had been other witnesses elsewhere in Halesowen who had also seen the formation. A gentleman who was out walking on the Clent Hills did see the UFOs and also reported it to Halesowen News, but unlike the Express and Star they did not release an article. Kerry continues to have an active interest in the UFO subject. He believes that what he and his work colleagues observed was one of the largest formations of UFOs to have ever been seen over the UK and feels very lucky to have been a part of it. He has also pointed out the similarities between what he saw and the fleet sightings that have been observed and videotaped in Mexico. Newspaper Article Below is the Express and Star article on the incident, which was published on 17th June 1997. Sighting Analysis This is a very interesting sighting indeed and certainly one worth looking into. A possible mundane explanation for such an incident would be a cluster of silver-coloured balloons released into the sky either on purpose or accidentally, and drifting on air currents. Another possibility would be a flock of birds caught in bright sunlight, as they can sometimes appear like small reflective orbs during these conditions. I have actually witnessed this directly on more than one occasion. If the formation had merely floated away into the distance then I would have certainly suggested balloons or birds as an explanation. However the manoeuvres performed by the 2 objects which split away from the main group sound far too controlled to have been caused by gusts of wind. Let’s imagine for a minute that the UFOs seen in this incident were indeed silver balloons or birds. Firstly it is unlikely that just a few would break away from the main group without the others being affected in any way. Then it is highly improbable that one at a time these balloons would be caught in gusts of wind which would cause them to ascend vertically before descending while twisting and turning while the other remained stationary in the sky. Then it is even more unlikely that after doing this for about 10 minutes they would then suddenly stop and move away in the direction that the formation had travelled away at increased speed. Due to these manoeuvres I feel that balloons or birds are an inadequate explanation for what was observed. And the witnesses involved certainly seemed convinced that they had seen something unusual. If the objects were a formation of ET craft, why did the two remain behind and perform this strange series of movements? Kerry feels that they were doing this on purpose as a display for the witnesses. There are many other reported UFO sightings where similar things have been reported, including the fleet sightings in Mexico as Kerry himself highlighted. It is unknown were the UFOs moved off to or how far they continued across the UK. I find it very probable that there were other witnesses who for one reason or another have not shared the details of what they saw. If you have any further information on this incident or saw it for yourself but have never spoken about it please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 12/01/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used Sighting Details At around 8.15 am on the morning of 13th November 2013, Jane was travelling on the 256 bus in Haroldwood, Essex. It was a clear and dry but cold morning. It was very busy, with many other pedestrians and drivers around. The bus was full of passengers, and was on Goodshays Drive travelling South South East towards Harold Wood station. Jane was sitting on the right hand side, which gave her a view through the window to the West. Aerial map of Goodshays Drive: Suddenly she noticed a bright object up in the sky. It appeared to be oblong in shape, similar to a horizontally facing door, and was either brightly reflecting sunlight or glowing a brilliant white colour. No other details were visible on the object. It was hard to tell how far away it was, possibly a mile. It was at an angle of 50 degrees in the sky and seemed to be at high altitude. It appeared to be quite large in size, perhaps similar in size to a large commercial aircraft. Photograph of the sighting location in the direction the UFO was seen: The UFO was moving in a Southern direction. It seemed to be flying extremely fast, much faster than a plane would normally be seen to travel. Jane watched it for about 5 seconds as it moved in parallel to the bus across the sky. Then suddenly it dipped and then vanished from sight. There were no clouds in the area of the sky it had disappeared, it was just gone. Jane was shocked by what she had just seen and looked around the bus, but nobody else appeared to have noticed it. She wondered if others in the local area had also seen it, but has not heard of anyone else speaking of it or reporting on the incident. Due to the appearance and speed of the object she was convinced that she had witnessed something out of the ordinary. Sighting Analysis This is a brief yet unusual sighting. It was unlikely to have been a balloon or other inflatable drifting in the sky and reflecting sunlight due to the high speed of movement observed. It was clear that the object was not a normal aircraft due to its shape, and the witness feels that it was moving too quickly for it to have been a plane. Also the object appeared to vanish in plain sight with nothing to hide it from view, which does not fit with either of these explanations. It was daylight so it is unlikely that the object was a meteorite, and it’s shape does not fit with this either. It is possible that the UFO was actually a reflection of something briefly caught in the window rather than a physical object up in the sky. However this explanation does not really fit the scenario. It was daylight so it is unlikely anyone would have had something with a brightly glowing white rectangular light on it. Also if the light was a reflection from something electronic behind the witness then surely they would have seen this when they looked round to check if anyone else on the bus had seen the UFO? Therefore at present the sighting remains a mystery, although the idea that it was an advanced craft of some kind cannot be ruled out. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 06/01/2014 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used I always appreciate it when witnesses get in touch very soon after witnessing something unusual in the sky. In this particular case the gentleman contacted me on speaker phone while still driving, within minutes of his experience. Sighting Details At approximately 11pm Gary was on his way to Cannock from Reddich and driving West along the M42 motorway. It was a very clear and calm evening with the stars fully visible. He was about a mile from the junction to the A38 close to the town of Blackwell, when he suddenly noticed something bright off to the left of the motorway in his peripheral vision. He looked round and saw what appeared to be a very bright luminous green light with a long green trail behind it. Gary likened this trail to the afterburner of a jet but much longer. Aerial map of the sighting location on the M42: The object appeared to be about 200 feet in altitude and within a couple of miles of his location. He was travelling quite fast along the motorway, but the object was moving much faster, in excess of 150-200 mph. Gary watched it for about 5-10 seconds as it travelled further and further ahead of him. It did not descend or ascend, but remained on a completely horizontal path. Then suddenly without warning it made a right angle turn to the South, continued for a brief moment and then vanished without trace. Photograph of the sighting location: Gary was absolutely fascinated by what he had just witnessed. He wondered if any of the other drivers on the road had also seen the object. He was left with nothing else to do but continue his journey to Cannock. Sighting Analysis I would like to start by saying that I have no reason at all to not trust the witness. It was obvious when he contacted me from his car that he had just observed something unusual. Also Gary wanted to make it clear that he held a professional management position, had been at work during the day and had not been drinking at all beforehand. The most obvious mundane explanation which could be suggested for this sighting would be a meteorite (shooting star). These are often seen to have a long trail behind them. While green coloured meteorites are unusual, they are indeed possible. The colour of the flame is determined by the composition of whatever is burning up. However there are some aspects of what was seen which do not really fit this explanation. Meteorites tend to move extremely fast across the sky and are usually only observed for a couple of seconds at most unless they are quite large in size. But if we suggest that this object was a large meteorite then it is extremely likely that it would have been reported on the news and observed by many people. This does not appear to have been the case, I can find no mention of this object anywhere online. Also meteorites tend to descend towards the ground as they travel across the sky. The object observed by Gary was moving on a completely horizontal course and did not appear to be reducing in altitude. Lastly there is the fact that Gary saw the object perform a 90 degree turn shortly before it disappeared from sight. Meteorites do not change course as they burn up so this again points away from this as an explanation. If the object wasn’t a meteorite then what could it have been? It appeared to be moving extremely fast and was the wrong colour and appearance to have been an aircraft of some kind. It is very unlikely that it was an out of control missile/rocket due to the location. There are no military bases in the area and again this would surely have been mentioned on the news. We are left with a compelling mystery, one which I cannot at present answer. If you have any further information on this incident or think that you too observed it, please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 01/12/2013 For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used for some witnesses Introduction As an investigator with a particular interest in the contact phenomenon, I regularly work on cases involving ET beings. However in the majority of these cases the beings are seen during abduction experiences. In October 2013 I spoke with a man named Shaun who discussed several incidents with me, one of which involved the observation of both UFOs and some very unusual beings. This report covers each of his experiences in depth and discusses the various possibilities for what has happened. Glowing Beings Encounter Back in 1997 Shaun used to live in the North East of England. On the 19th June 1997 (which happened to be the day that William Hague was elected leader of the Conservative party), he and his friend Simon (real name withheld) decided to go camping overnight in the Lake District. They did not have much money at the time so rather than pay to stay on an official caravan site they decided to camp on an open area of National Trust owned land.  Unfortunately Shaun cannot remember the exact location where they set up their tents, he only remembers that it was a couple of miles away from a village. They drove to an ideal camping spot in Shaun’s Ford Escort. By the time they had set up the tents it was about 11.30pm and fully dark. The weather was clear and the stars were visible in the sky. As it was getting a little cold they decided that they would sit in the front seats of the car to drink a beer and have a chat. The field they were on gently sloped up, and in the distance was a hillside about half a mile away. As Shaun looked out into the dark through the front window he suddenly noticed two orbs of light, one blue and one white, bobbing around near the base of the field. They appeared to be about 200 feet in the air. Shaun asked if Simon could see the two lights and he confirmed he could see them too. The men discussed what they could be. Without warning the two glowing lights disappeared. Then they noticed what appeared to be two glowing white figures on the hillside. The figures looked thin almost like matchstick men. They seemed to be stooping down towards the ground like they were looking for something or digging. The figures began to walk back and forth crossing one another continuously, covering a short patch of ground, perhaps 5 metres in distance. It was like they were pacing in a constant pattern. They would occasionally stop a moment before continuing to move. Shauns first thought was that they were people trying to steal cattle. However the figures did not look human. They appeared to be self luminescent rather than people holding torches, and were glowing a bright neon white. Also the speed they were moving at seemed odd. It was like they were scuttling back and forth much faster than normal walking speed. After watching the figures for a short while, Shaun said to Simon that he was going to get out and go and have a closer look. But Simon said “Don’t be stupid!” and persuaded Shaun that this was not a good idea. They continued to watch the figures for about 5 minutes, during which they did not alter their movement pattern. It felt like a recording playing over and over again. Shaun then tried turning on the main headlights of the car to see if that made any difference. Simon was not happy about this and said “That’s a bit stupid ‘cause now they know where we are!” The figures were too far away and were not lit up any more by the headlights anyway, so Shaun switched them back off. He asked Simon if he would like to just ditch the tents and get out of there. Simon thought this was a good idea so Shaun tried starting the car. At first it didn’t start up but on a second attempt it worked. However he was too curious about what was taking place so changed his mind. He switched the engine back off and told Simon that he wanted to continue watching. Things then got even more strange. The men suddenly became aware of a pickup truck filled with people in the rear view mirror. They reminded Shaun of hillbillies. The truck appeared to be on the grass, in the same field that they were camped in. It drove around the car in an arc and headed off in the direction of the glowing figures. The next thing Shaun and Simon became aware of they were waking up still in the car seats. It was morning time, around 9am. Confused, Shaun asked Simon “Which one of us fell asleep first?” Neither of them could remember going off to sleep. Shaun says that he would have found it extremely difficult to drop off in the car seat, and it is not something he would have normally done. And it seemed even more implausible because of what had been happening. They had both been completely transfixed by what was taking place. They were extremely puzzled by what had happened and neither of them could rationally explain it. It was like they had both been instantly switched off. This is a truly fascinating incident with numerous unusual aspects to consider. It began with the lights up in the sky. Shaun confirmed that the lights were too high in the air to have been torches higher up on the hillside or lights from vehicles or other machinery. Their movements were too erratic to have been a helicopter. It is extremely unlikely that they would have been two LED balloons due to the remote location, and the fact that both lights vanished at the same time. LED balloons remain lit indefinitely so would have been visible until they drifted out of sight due to the distance. It’s possible that they were hidden from view by a cloud, but I still feel this explanation is improbable. The glowing beings were extremely strange and not something which is commonly reported. They looked about the height of normal adults but appeared to be entirely luminescent. If they were people holding torches looking for something on the ground then it is unlikely they would have looked like this at a distance. Usually just the light from the torch would be visible until quite close, or at most the person holding the torch would be slightly lit by the glow. Another thing which does not fit with this explanation is the fast movement speed of the figures. There would be no reason for two people holding torches to race back and forth extremely rapidly for an extended period of time. Interestingly I have both investigated and heard of other cases involving Greys where the beings have been seen to make rapid scuttling movements. Lastly the pickup truck seemed completely out of place. What was it doing there in the middle of the night in the same open field that the witnesses were camped in? Why did it drive off in the direction of the glowing figures? Why did both witnesses black out at this moment and have no further recollection of what took place? In many UFO and contact cases the ETs have been seen to use screen memories to mask their true appearance. They appear to be able to do this for both themselves and sometimes their craft, so that the witness remembers seeing something completely different. For example in one case I investigated the individual recalled that when she was at school a helicopter landed in the playground and the pilot took her for a ride in it. This scenario was of course illogical. Under regression she recalled that the “helicopter” was in fact a silver coloured saucer-shaped craft, and the “pilot” was a Grey. It is not inconceivable that something similar happened here. The instant black out of the witnesses is another commonly reported feature of close encounters, especially those involving contact. It is possible that the pickup truck was in fact a craft, and that the witnesses had the memories of what happened next blocked out from their minds. Unless Shaun decides to go for a regression we may never know for certain if anything else took place, however there are far too many unusual elements to this incident which point towards an ET explanation. Shaun has come across some photographs online taken by Andrew Hennessey which appear to show glowing ET beings on the roof of a house. He says that these photos are very reminiscent of what he saw: Red UFO Sighting By 2009 Shaun had moved to Newport in Shropshire. At the time he worked in Stafford, and would drive there and back every day. One evening in autumn around 5.45pm he was on his way home from work. It was a pleasant evening with scattered cloud in the sky. The light was just starting to fade. Shaun was just turning onto the street where he lived when he noticed a large object up in the sky. It appeared to be dark red in colour and was the shape of an upside down Fez hat or light shade. It did not appear to be glowing. There were no markings or windows visible. The object was at quite a high altitude and moving around the same speed as a plane, perhaps 300 mph.  It was visible in the sky over his house, but was further away over the town. As he drove down the road he realised several other people also appeared to be looking up at the object. After reaching his driveway Shaun parked the car and ran into the house to grab his camera. He returned outside but the UFO was sadly no longer visible. He at first thought it must have gone behind a cloud but after waiting a while realised this was not the case. Soon afterwards an article appeared in the Shropshire Star detailing another sighting of the same object. Shaun informed me I should be able to find this online but after an extensive search I have not yet been able to track down the article. This is an interesting sighting, and the fact that there were multiple witnesses to it from different locations makes it all the more impressive. I do wonder if the object was some kind of novelty shaped hot air balloon. This may be a possible mundane explanation for what was seen, although Shaun does believe that it was moving fast like a plane. It was clearly not a normal aircraft of any kind. Flying Triangle Sighting Shaun currently lives in Telford. In July 2013 Shaun was driving home along the A519 with his wife and baby between Eccleshaw and Newport. It was about 11.30pm and a clear and still night. About a mile South of Eccleshaw there are a number of farm buildings alongside open fields. As they drove past one of these farms Shaun noticed a dark triangular shaped object hovering directly over one of the buildings, about 50 metres from the edge of the road. The UFO appeared to be at an altitude of around 50 feet. It seemed to have a light at each corner, although only two of these were visible to the witnesses due to the angle they were viewing it. One was white while the other was green. The main body of the object just looked black, no markings were visible. Aerial map of the A519 showing the approximate location of the sighting: Photograph of the A519: At first Shaun assumed it was a helicopter, but as he drove past it he realised it was completely silent. He did not stop to observe the object for longer as the car was almost out of petrol and he was worried it was going to run out before they reached Telford. He had observed it for about 10 seconds. As he continued along the road he asked his wife “Did you see that over there?” She confirmed she had seen it too, saying “Yes I saw it. It looked like a triangle.” Neither of the witnesses felt that the object had been a normal aircraft. It is a shame that Shaun did not stop the car or even attempt to get closer to the object to take a proper look at it. The fact that it was hovering at low altitude does tend to suggest that it was not an aeroplane. Both witnesses were convinced that it was triangular in shape, which means it was unlikely to be a helicopter. The idea that the object was some kind of lit inflatable drifting in the air is quite improbable, but cannot be entirely ruled out in this situation. There have been many sightings of dark triangular shaped UFOs, commonly referred to as Flying Triangles. These are often reported as having a light at each corner, although these lights are usually all the same colour. The object seen in this incident could well have been one of these craft, although due to the short observation time we cannot say this with certainty. Conclusion Shaun has had several very interesting experiences involving both UFO sightings and beings. The incident with the glowing figures is absolutely bizarre and has some aspects to it which are very hard to explain. I certainly feel that it is possible that the beings were extra-terrestrial in origin and that more may have happened with this incident than either witness can currently recollect. Shaun’s other UFO sightings have both been quite impressive and of clearly structured objects, and in both cases there have been other witnesses who have backed up what he has observed. It is likely that Shaun will keep in touch with me going forward, so if he has any further experiences they will likely be added to this report. If you have any additional information relating to any of these incidents please get in touch. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2013

On the evening of 30th October 2013 an event with a difference took place at Birmingham UFO Group. Earlier in the year I found out about a fascinating device known as the Lucid Light Device, nicknamed Lucia No 3. The device has been created by two Austrians – clinical psychologist Englebert Winkler and neurology specialist Dirk Proeckl. It is a machine which uses stroboscopic lights to induce altered states of consciousness, which can include visual hallucinations, feelings of weightlessness or even out-of-body-experiences. It is possible for companies to purchase one of these devices and then provide sessions for anyone interested to explore what it is capable of. I learned that Englebert and Dirk had previously arranged special workshop events at locations in the UK where many people got the chance to try out the device for a short period of time. With the assistance of consciousness expert Anthony Peake I was able to arrange for Englebert and Dirk to bring two Lucia devices to Birmingham! And so for our October 2013 meeting instead of the usual UFO-themed lecture/documentary we were proudly able to hold a Lucid Light Device workshop at our usual venue in Oldbury. My wife, father, brother and I arrived at the venue early in order to prepare and to greet the Lucia crew on their arrival. In addition to Englebert and Dirk there were two guys named Alex and Daniel who were from Light Eye Mind, a permanent Lucia salon down in London. Over the next half hour they proceeded to set up two devices inside enclosed tents at the far corner of the function room. While this was going on I set up the usual BUFOG tech in order to show some documentaries and music videos throughout the evening. Once everything was ready it was time for me and my brother to be the first to have a session on the devices. Inside each tented enclosure the crew had set up a device with a comfortable chair positioned alongside it. I sat down and stared at the metallic contraption in front of me, anticipating what may or may not happen when the light began. Dirk gave me some headphones to put on which served to block out the noise from the outside world as well as to play some music of my choosing. Not knowing what was on offer I went with Dirk’s suggestion of mellow trance. I was then asked to relax, sit back and close my eyes. It is the flashes of light seen through closed eyelids which produces the observed effects. Everyone’s experience on the device is individual. But here is what I experienced. At first I just saw a reddish-orange glow. But as the flashes of light began to flicker there was a sudden colour shift to hues of blues and greens which had a mottled effect. A moment later and it changed again to black and white, and seemed to be rotating slowly. These intense colour and pattern changes continued throughout the experience, it was extremely psychedelic. The device was programmed to give a 2 minute warm up session, then a longer more intense session. It was during this second session that the more extreme effects began to emerge. At one point the colours went magenta and yellow, and a star-like geometric shape split into hexagons began to appear in the centre of my vision. At another point I began to feel like I was flying forward through the light extremely rapidly. This only happened for a brief time before I seemed to abruptly stop moving. Towards the end of the experience my eyes started to water because of the intensity of the light, but it was overall a pleasurable and interesting time. For me it was solely visual, there was no sensation of anything spiritual nor did I feel at any point that I was beginning to leave my physical body. However the intensity of the experience is variable from person to person, and can also depend on the amount of time spent using the device. It was only a short taster of what it was like, and perhaps if I went for a longer session more profound elements may begin to occur. Below is a video montage of short interviews with attendees regarding their experiences on the device throughout the evening: It seemed that most people experienced extreme colour changes and geometric shapes/patterns. Several, my ex-wife included, experienced the feeling of spinning around. My ex-wife found this sensation very amusing and was actually laughing to herself when her session on the device ended! Others had the sensation of flying down a tunnel similar to what I had felt. But for a few the experience went further than this. They described the feeling of coming up out of their body, or of witnessing actual visions of other locations. But however intense the experience, there was an almost unanimous agreement that it was extremely positive and enjoyable. During the evening, which officially kicked off at 6pm, Englebert and Dirk spoke on microphone numerous times about the construction of Lucia and what they were learning from its observed effects. This included a detailed Q&A. Alex also informed everyone about Light Eye Mind, and my brother Andrew spoke about his investigative work into out-of-body experiences. With the remainder of the time, we showed the fascinating documentary DMT The Spirit Molecule, a short documentary on Lucia and many psychedelic music videos. It was an extremely social event, with conversations sparking up all around the room for the duration. Many people turned up for the workshop, both regular attendees of BUFOG and many other people who had found out about it via various sources. It was certainly one of the busiest evenings in a long time. Most attendees put their names down to have a session on one of the devices and we were extremely worried that some would not get to experience it. However we somehow just about managed to reach the end of the waiting list before the venue had to close for the night. Both I and the Lucia crew were so happy that most had got to try out the device, it worked out perfectly! I would like to use this opportunity to thank Englebert, Dirk, Alex and Daniel for coming to Birmingham to hold the workshop. It was an absolutely amazing evening which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. I wish them all the best with their on-going research with the device. This will certainly not be the last time that I try Lucia. Next year I hope to arrange a group excursion down to London to visit Light Eye Mind for the day. This will hopefully give us the chance to try out Lucia for a longer period of time. Who knows what profound experiences await us? Only time will tell… Lucia Website: http://www.gesund-im-licht.at Light Eye Mind Website: http://www.lighteyemind.com/ Copyright Dave Hodrien 2020

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report Author: Dave Hodrien Release Date: 28/10/2013 Introduction With many UFO sightings the witnesses will get a clear view of the shape of the object they are observing, and will be able to refer to this when describing it later on. However sometimes in sightings which occur after dark, the main body of the object will not be discernible, only the lighting configuration on it. I know this all too well after my own sighting down in Warminster in the summer of 2009. This report covers a sighting of this type. Although the actual shape of the object could not be accurately determined, the incident has a number of very interesting aspects to it. Early on the evening of Friday 18th October I met with the witness Ian at the sighting location to discuss what took place. My photographs of the location can be seen below. Sighting Details It was the evening of 8th October 2013. The time was approximately 7.20pm. Due to the time of year it was already dark. There was quite a bit of cloud cover, with not many stars visible, but it was a dry and still evening. Ian was driving through the area of Tile Hill in South West Coventry. He was travelling along Herald Way and approaching Sainsbury's on his left. There was lots of other traffic around. Before reaching the entrance to the store’s car park he came to a roundabout. As he began to drive around the island he glanced to his left to the South along Renown Avenue. There in the sky, less than a mile from his position was an object with numerous coloured lights. There was a white light at what he assumed was the front, an orange flashing light on each side, and a red light at the rear. It appeared to be about the size of a helicopter, which is what he initially assumed it must be, although the exact shape of the object could not be determined, all he could see was that the lights on it were arranged in a diamond shaped configuration. Aerial map showing position of witness (A) and estimated initial position of UFO (B): Photograph of the initial sighting location in the direction the UFO was observed: The object appeared to be near stationary in the sky. It was quite low down, possibly around 80 feet off the ground. Ian had only looked at the object for a couple of seconds when suddenly it made an abrupt and very fast movement to the West and was lost from sight behind some nearby trees! At this moment Ian realised it could not be a helicopter as its acceleration had been far too sudden and extreme. He continued to drive along Herald Way alongside the edge of Sainsbury's trying to spot the object in the sky again. As he arrived alongside a footpath which leads into the corner of the car park he once again spotted the object in the sky to the South West of his position. However he was now amazed to see that the object looked almost 4 times as big as it had done previously! It was still not possible to see the shape of the object but the distance between the white light and the red light seemed to be at least 80 feet, and the distance between the two orange flashing lights appeared to be around 30 feet. This was extremely puzzling, as it had not looked like it had flown towards his location, when he initially saw the object move it had appeared to move on a straight and level path. It was almost as if it had physically grown in size, although there is no way that this can be verified of course. There was now some additional lighting visible on the object. On the underside of the object closer to the red light at the rear was a line of three white coloured lozenge-shaped lights. Ian assumes these had not been visible before due to the angle he was viewing the object at. Photograph from Herald Way in the direction the UFO was spotted again: The UFO was still moving to the West, but nothing like as fast as it had done previously. Ian glanced around at the other cars. He was amazed that nobody else seemed to be looking at the object. They were all seemingly too pre-occupied to notice it, despite its apparently large size. Ian was now entirely focused on the object and didn’t want to let it out of his sight. He drove along until he reached the Coventry Road. Here he was forced to turn right onto it, but was soon able to turn left onto Tile Hill Lane. The object was luckily still visible off to the South West. Ian continued to give chase, travelling along Tile Hill Lane. He continued past various roads trying to get closer to the object, but it seemed to be moving a little faster than he was. At various points along the road he lost sight of it behind buildings. As he approached Banner Lane on his right he realised the UFO had now changed course and was heading in a North North Easterly direction. By this time it was at least a couple of miles away from him. He turned into Banner Lane and pulled up in a lay by. The object was now once again out of sight. Ian got out of the car and started to look for it in the distance. There were a couple of women nearby. Ian asked them if they had heard or seen anything, but they told him they had been too pre-occupied with talking to each other. Aerial map showing the route which the witness took: Photograph taken from Banner Lane in the direction the UFO could still be seen: Ian decided to get out his phone and contact a couple of friends to tell them what he had witnessed. While he was on the phone to one of them he managed to sight the UFO again. However by the time he had switched to camera mode and raised it back up the object had sadly vanished from view behind some trees and buildings. Ian feels that the photo would probably not have come out even if he did manage to take it due to the distance of the object by that point and the fact it was after dark. However while he was standing on the street he did spot a couple of planes coming in to land at Birmingham International. He compared these to what he had just witnessed. Both of them appeared to be at a higher altitude to the UFO and he could hear the noise from their engines, where as he had heard no sound coming from the object at any point. Sighting Analysis This is a very interesting sighting which occurred in a busy location at a time where many people would have been around. After meeting with the witness I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that he saw what is described above. He was friendly, open and more than happy to take me through the sighting in very specific detail. As it turned out, Ian himself has an interest in another aspect of the paranormal - big cat sightings! He is one of the admins of the British Big Cat Research organization. Their website is at http://bbcrg.org.uk/ So what could the object have been? Due to the multiple coloured lights at different positions on the object the most obvious possibility to look into would be that it was some kind of aircraft. However the lighting configuration observed does not match any known civilian or military aircraft that I am aware of. And the witness himself has been in the armed forces and is aware of many types of aircraft, and how they appear after dark. He says that he had never seen anything like it before. Also the movement pattern of the object does not fit in with an aeroplane or helicopter. When the witness first noticed the object it appeared near stationary, so this could potentially rule out an aeroplane to begin with. However he did only see this for a brief moment, maybe not long enough to gauge whether it really was hovering motionless. But the extreme acceleration which the object was then seen to perform does not fit in with it being either an aeroplane or helicopter. It vanished from sight within a couple of seconds. The acceleration from a normal aircraft would have been far more gradual. A very puzzling aspect of the sighting is the way in which the object appeared to quadruple in size. I find it quite improbable that it physically changed size in the short time that it was out of sight of the witness, although this does of course remain a possibility. Perhaps the object had moved closer to his location as well as moved forwards. The witness seemed quite adamant that it had flown on a straight course parallel to the road he was on, but perhaps this was merely an illusion. Another possibility was that it had flown forwards, but then made a second manoeuvre while out of sight. It is possible for atmospheric conditions to magnify objects at a distance, but only in very specific conditions, and not really to the extent reported by the witness. Other explanations such as a lit inflatable or radio controlled model can also be ruled out. The manoeuvres the object performed clearly indicated it was under controlled flight, not just a randomly drifting object. And it was much too large to be a model of some kind. I am suitably convinced that the object was a craft of a highly unusual nature. As with most cases we have no way of telling its true origin, but the idea that it was extra-terrestrial is certainly worth considering. Copyright Dave Hodrien 2013