When it comes to my looking into the Buckfastleigh Encounter of 1978 I seem to have stirred up a whole can of worms.
If we count the trio in Buckfastleigh who are the main focus then add in the reported abduction that MUFON simply ignored when it was reported to them years later as well as one person who may have scarring along the spine following a supposed abduction then we have five possible abductees.
In a couple other cases, although a light (seen by a secondary witness) was reported and there was "paralysis" there is no conscious recall of anything more. I could dig deeper but that would mean opening up the percipients to trauma and there is nothing in place to help support percipients after main investigation. I will not put people through this just to add more case material.
However, there is a sixth possible abductee from that period. Around September, 1978, Gordon (pseudonym) and his fiancee had moved to Devon, not far from Buckfastleigh, to take up work as chef's while Gordon waited to hear back about his application to join a northern police force.
One morning, Gordon's fiancee shook him awake to look out at a very bright object not far from where they were staying. Things then got odd. Gordon remembers waking, seated on a chair in the living room. This appears -as far as we know- to have been a one off event.
Many years later, having retired from the police service, Gordon's fiancee-then wife of many years- was dying and told him that she had seen much more on the night they had seen a UFO. She told him that at one point she had seen him accompanied by "others" before he "awoke" in the living room.
Gordon just wanted to let me know something had happened but did not want to go into things too deeply as his late wife had seen -or recalled- more. He simply wanted me to know that this took place around the time of the Buckfastleigh event in case it helped. Eventually I wrung out of him that the "others" seen by his wife resembled types known as "Nordics" in Ufology. Something else was related to him by his late wife but he would say no more. He does, however, have my contact details.
Although Gordon was not after publicity I still have to note but give a low credibility rating since I on;y have basic details. That does not mean he was lying. I just have nothing to really dig into and, again, I was not going to push to exploit.
However, since Gordon could not know of the details in one case I was struck by a certain aspect of his report that matched. That is a big "coincidence".
I have stated for many years that 1977 leading into 1978 was a peak period for CE3K/AE reports in the UK and further afield. We may never know what happened in that small area of Devon in 1978 but something obviously was going on.
If we count the trio in Buckfastleigh who are the main focus then add in the reported abduction that MUFON simply ignored when it was reported to them years later as well as one person who may have scarring along the spine following a supposed abduction then we have five possible abductees.
In a couple other cases, although a light (seen by a secondary witness) was reported and there was "paralysis" there is no conscious recall of anything more. I could dig deeper but that would mean opening up the percipients to trauma and there is nothing in place to help support percipients after main investigation. I will not put people through this just to add more case material.
However, there is a sixth possible abductee from that period. Around September, 1978, Gordon (pseudonym) and his fiancee had moved to Devon, not far from Buckfastleigh, to take up work as chef's while Gordon waited to hear back about his application to join a northern police force.
One morning, Gordon's fiancee shook him awake to look out at a very bright object not far from where they were staying. Things then got odd. Gordon remembers waking, seated on a chair in the living room. This appears -as far as we know- to have been a one off event.
Many years later, having retired from the police service, Gordon's fiancee-then wife of many years- was dying and told him that she had seen much more on the night they had seen a UFO. She told him that at one point she had seen him accompanied by "others" before he "awoke" in the living room.
Gordon just wanted to let me know something had happened but did not want to go into things too deeply as his late wife had seen -or recalled- more. He simply wanted me to know that this took place around the time of the Buckfastleigh event in case it helped. Eventually I wrung out of him that the "others" seen by his wife resembled types known as "Nordics" in Ufology. Something else was related to him by his late wife but he would say no more. He does, however, have my contact details.
Although Gordon was not after publicity I still have to note but give a low credibility rating since I on;y have basic details. That does not mean he was lying. I just have nothing to really dig into and, again, I was not going to push to exploit.
However, since Gordon could not know of the details in one case I was struck by a certain aspect of his report that matched. That is a big "coincidence".
I have stated for many years that 1977 leading into 1978 was a peak period for CE3K/AE reports in the UK and further afield. We may never know what happened in that small area of Devon in 1978 but something obviously was going on.
