Note: If Robin Cole or anyone who knows him could ask him to contact me I would appreciate it.
The full report and images will be published in AOP Journal no. 5 as well as Beyond UFO Contact in January 2021
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In 1996 I was in
touch with Robin Cole who headed the Circular Forum group based in
Gloucestershire and that in turn led to my involvement in the Gotherington
Gargoyle case (The Case of the
Gotherington Gargoyle, in Some Things Strange & Sinister).
Knowing of my interest in CE3K reports, Cole asked whether I would be
interested in looking at an abduction report they had on file. Obviously, my
answer was “yes.”
What I received was
slightly shocking because, despite my reputation, I would not have expected to
find the address, telephone number and percipient’s name unredacted. As it happens it may just be that I am the
only person who now has the full report.
In-keeping with the
report in the group magazine I identify the
percipient as “Mr. X”.
At around 21:40 hrs
on the 15th February, 1995, Mr. X was driving along the M50 and
heading home from work when he noticed a bright object travelling at speed over
the countryside. The object was heading in his direction but he lost sight of
it as the road cuts through a hill at that point in his journey and a bridge
blocked his view. Once he had driven under the bridge he was confronted by the
object which was approximately 80 feet above the road but then descended to
around 50 feet as he continued 250 yards from the bridge.
As Mr. X strained
to see just what the object was he describes himself as suddenly becoming
“docile”. Then “a voice from within” told him to pull over to get a better look
and he did so. His next recollection was
being in the middle lane in third gear and travelling at around 50 mph and a
voice was telling him to “Keep going, there is no traffic, keep going.” Not
much further along was the junction he would normally take but he pulled off of
the road and got out of the car. He was unsure whether he had been involved in
an accident of some kind but on checking his car was undamaged.
On checking, he
found that some 40 minutes had passed and he had no recollection of anything
during that period. His journey home normally took twenty minutes but on this
night it had taken just over an hour and on getting home told his son about the
experience. That was the end of an odd
event until he started having vivid flashbacks and odd things upset him. While
treating his wooden fence two slanted black knots in the timber frightened him
and yet he could not understand why. He
was equally shaken by the motif of two black, slanted wings on his son’s
motorbike.
By 1996, Mr. X
decided that he needed to contact someone which is when he contacted Cole.
According to Cole; “We now have over forty pages relating to this case” yet the
“full report” I was sent has only 15 pages which is 25 pages short of what Cole
claimed. He did state that the late Tony Dodd had seen the report and a copy
had been sent to Professor John Mack for his analysis and, at the time of the Circular
Forum article a copy was in the hands of Nick Pope. However, as only 15
pages are available we are lucky that this includes Mr. X’s original account
which adds much more to the report and I have left the spelling etc. intact:
“…I left work at
exactly 9.30 p.m. in the evening to go home…the journey
which I take
home is about 9.25 miles. I have been travelling this road for 7
years. The same
route every day. This journey should
take no more than 15
minutes
maximum. It consists of 1.8 mile bypass
to M50 at Ross-on-Wye,
3.75 miles
motorway M50 and 4 miles on the Newent/Gorsley B4221. I
arrived at the
roundabout at the M50 Travellers Rest end at approximately 9.40
p.m. It was dark but clear. I looked across the
valley through a gap in the hedge
towards Ponts
Hill. On the far horizon about 10-12 miles, low down was a large
bright light in
an otherwise star less night sky.”
The account now
gets a little confusing as the continuation of Mr. X’s account refers to a
previous sighting but then jumps slightly. I assume that the next part takes up
the narrative from after Mr. X had lost sight of the object due to the bridge
and then saw it above the road:
“I don’t know
whether this was a hole in the underside of the craft. There was
no noise (not
helicopter or plane). The light as bin the first sighting completely
enveloped the
craft. It appeared flurescent a bit like
aqn aura around the outside
of the
craft. But it shimmered when you looked
at5 it. I only had a few seconds
to see this and estimated that it was about 80
ft. above me and about 2 bus
lengths wide
(diameter). I am now fidgeting about in the car as the light is
bothering
me. All of a sudden I hear a voice in my
head saying “Pull over and
you can get a
better look!”
“I went from
worrying about the light and being agitated to totally docile
looking straight
ahead not at all concerned about the encroaching light that
was descending
on me. I looked along the hard shoulder
for a safe place to
stop as I had
been told. At this point the hard
shoulder4 disappears and a small
road runs
underneath the motorway. A barrier with warning posts appears in
front of me. A
voice warns “Unsafe! Unsafe!” as I start to pull over. I straighten
up the car
taking notice of the voice. I am sure
these voices are some sort of
telepathy. It’s as if they can see through my eyes
everything that is going on,
and are guiding
me. I am under some form of hypnotic
control. I can see
everything that
is going on but I have to obey the voice.
“From the bridge
to this point it takes about 20-25 seconds everything is
happening very
quickly. The craft has to descend
between two rock faces
and position
itself above my car as well as fitting between the four lanes
carriagway. It is large but has fantastic control. It is at this point I think I
was abducted. It
was as if I blinked my eyes and I was back again. The only
thing I can
compare this with is if you are watching a very good film and it
jumps a frame.
You notice something but because you are engrossed in the
story it
appeares continues.”
I believe in that
last line Mr. X meant “continuous” and I should also note here that a bus
length is around 30-35 feet depending on the model so the object seen by Mr. X
was approximately 60-70 feet in diameter. In the 1994 Silbury Hill case Paul and Sonya
also believed that entities were “using” their eyes to see things. Mr. X continues:
“I am now
looking straight ahead on the same bit of road. The car is in gear
now (5th)
I am doing about 50 m.p.h. I am still not bothered about the light.
Everything
appears normal and another voice says; ‘Don’t stop now! Keep
going. There is
no traffic either side of the motorway. Keep going.’
“I estimate it
was between 5-10 seconds after this that I came out of the
hypnotic state
and the craft had gone. They had
released my mind. I
exclaimed aloud
‘Where’s the light. Where’s the light.’ Not realising it was
all over. They had gone. I continued driving as I was told but I was
now
completely conscious and in control. I noted
there was no traffic what so ever
as I had been
told and I kept going. When I reached
the slip road at the
Gorsley turn off
(B4221) I stopped before turning on to the B4221 for Newent.
I put the
hazard lights on and got out of my car
looked across the motorway
at a small wood
opposite. I saw lights going down beyond
the wood but could
not swear that
they were the same lights that had plagued me earlier. Still no
traffic. I got back into my car. Put the hazard lights
off put my seat belt on and
then noticed my
digital clock was reading 10-22 p.m. that meant that a 3.5 mile
journey
which would normally take 3-4 minutes took 40 minutes. I remember
feeling pleased
when I saw the lights of a car coming from the Gorsley Golf
Club. The first
car I had seen since entering M50. As
the car passed I pulled
out behind it
but it turned right onto the motorway to Ross-on-Wye.
“I continued home
arriving at about 10-35 p.m. still wondering what had
happened. The
light still haunting me. Which it does
to this day. I checked
the car over and
myself to see if I had been involved in any form of accident.
No damage to the
car and no marks on my body.
“The only
explanation to the lack of traffic on the motorway and loss of
Time would be if
I had been taken when there was a lull in the traffic and put
back there was a
lull in the traffic 40 minutes being lost inside the craft for
what purpose I
do not know. My conclusion is I was taken by a F.F.O. similar
or the same as
described in my earlier sightings with its outer lights on. This
light acting as
a type of strobe giving it a shimmering or pulsing effect, thus
hypnotizing me,
while taking the car and myself up into
its hull and then up
into the sky and
out of sight for 40 minutes to do whatever they had to do to
me and then
bringing me back to exactly the same spot on the motorway to
continue my
journey.
“I think that
U.F.O.’s are using motorways as easy access for abductions and
now that the
American Air-Force has gone its left the gate wide open for them
to do what they want. Up until 1993 my first
sighting where I saw two craft, I
had never seen
anything in 47 years of my life.
“When I arrived
home at about 10-35 p.m. my wife was in bed asleep so was
my youngest son
Stephen in his bed asleep. Andrew my eldest son was out
with friends,
Richard my mid son was laying on the settee watching T.V.
(football) after
the news had finished at 10-30 p.m. he was wearing his blue
towling dressing
gown. I hung my jacket up put my work bag down and went
into the T.V.
room to tell him about my incident with the light. He was
watching an
action replay shot and asked me to be quite until he had seen it.
I then told him
about this bright light and was bewildered at this time as to
what it was. He
can verify the time I got home about 10-35 p.m..
“At no time do I
remember stopping the car during the incident it
appeared
continues. Apart from the problem with the light (U.F.O.).”
The interesting
aspects of this account are what Ufologists tend to leave out because we read
here what Mr. X was thinking at the time but also it shows that he was not
“vague” afterwards. He notes that his wife and one son were asleep and that
another was out with friends –he obviously checked this so he was “thinking
straight”. He noted that Richard was watching a football replay on TV following
the 22:00 hrs news and that he was wearing a blue dressing gown. He had also
checked the car and himself for any damage or injuries. Mr. X even managed to write out a sequence of
events for the evening of 15th February:
1) Clock
out 9.30 p.m.
2) Walk
to car park (2 mins)
3) Drive
to M.50 using by-pass (5 min 30 secs)
4) Entre
M. 50 9.40 p.m. approximately
5) First
gap in hedge light on far horizon
6) Second
gap light streaking across valley
7) I
go under first motorway bridge
8) Craft
descends on me
9) Open
window of car and look up at craft
10) Voice tells
me to “Pull over and you can get a better look’
11) Voice
warning “Unsafe. Unsafe” as I go to pull over. Barrier in way
12) Voice again
“Don’t stop now. Keep going. There’s no traffic either side of the motorway
keep going”
13) Drive to
slip road and junction B4221 at Gorsley 10.22 p.m.
14) Drive home
to Newent arrive 10.35 p.m.
One morning at
04:00 hrs in 1993, Mr. X had looked across the yard (from where he worked?) and
seen the Moon as well as two “flying saucers” although this appears to0 have
been just a sighting with no missing time. With regards to the flash-backs of
the 1995 incident Mr. X recalled being observed by entities but also of being in a laying down position in
a white room –oddly enough, for no known reason he eventually repainted the
interior of the house white.
The remark about
the US Air Force no longer present refers to local bases used by them closing
down or being used as “stop over” airfields. As I found out in the 1980s in
conversations with USAF personnel there their presence had never seemingly been
of any concern to “UFOs” locally.
It would be nice to
know what the “40 pages” contained especially since it was stated that; “At one
point we became very concerned for the “abductees” health and safety, as it
seemed he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder directly as a
result of his experience.”
Without the
necessary details it is difficult to gauge whether this was incident was a
psychological or physical event.
Circular Forum suddenly became defunct and it was impossible to track
Cole down though I did come across him on a ghost forum in which the “ghost
hunter” Elliott O’Donnell was discussed. I was told Nick Pope had the full
report but when I contacted him he was unsure -“I get sent so many things”
which sort of ended my attempts to find out more.
Mr X was 50 years
of age in 1996 and would now (in 2020) be 74 years of age if still alive. Unless
someone has a copy of the full report Cole indicates went to Tony Dodd
(deceased), John Mack (deceased) or Nick Pope this is another case we have
lost.
