Back when I was attending Greenway Boys Secondary Modern School in Southmead, Bristol (I left in 1973) my daily routine after school was to walk along to the Southmead Library in Greystoke Avenue, often with a friend or two, and we would read the daily newspapers (we were that rebellious 😂).
My next point of call was the tall bookshelf containing all of the paranormal books. These were supposed to be restricted to people with adult issue tickets, however, I obviously impressed the librarians enough that I was allowed to take out these books. Harry Ludlam, Harry Price and, naturally, Elliott O'Donnell were my standard reading. Certain events in my then young life led me into this area but I had totally ignored the flying saucer stuff.
One evening I had to grab some books and get home quickly and so I left the library and then realised my mistake -I had picked up a copy of The Flying Saucer Story by Brinsley Le Poer trench (later Lord Clancarty). I went back into the library but books could not be returned on the same day. I was stuck with it.
I never ever turned away reading material and so decided to read the flying saucer book and return it next day. By the time I had gotten to the end of the book that evening I was asking "Who is flying these things?" Then IU saw reference to George Adamski and got a couple of his books and within a couple of months had read every UFO book the library had. I was unconvinced by Adamski and his claims but all of these really important sounding people were supporting him so I must be wrong...right?
Above: c. 1978 RAF Manston
In 1974 I joined the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) and was soon, at a too tender an age, am investigator and by 1975 was a Regional Investigations Coordinator and by 1978 was covering much of SW England and a part of Wales as I was the only investigator BUFORA had in the region.
I then heard that the British Flying Saucer Bureau (f. 1953) was still going so I attended a meeting and met Graham Knewstub and future colleague in endeavors, Franklyn Davin-Wilson. I was still digging into entity cases and found a lot of opposition to anything that was not George Adamski related. In one talk I gave on these reports I was twice interrupted (embarrassingly) by Committee members who objected to certain reports as "We all know what our friends look like -Mr. Adamski talked and wrote about them". This was to be the attitude I met with for a very long time.
Starting with the books I had and then issues of Flying Saucer Review and BUFORA Journal I set about recording CE3K/AE reports in what was called the Close Encounters of the Third Kind Project. One thing I learnt from this was that you should never become immersed in one aspect of Ufology such as these reports unless you are prepared. After a week or two of writing out or typing these reports I had a dream (twice) that I was in some isolated building in the countryside observing a UFO landing and entities were moving closer. Another fella that wanted in with the work as no one else was working on the subject so he probably hoped to get a name for himself, lasted a week. I met up with him and he told me "Stuff these reports. I've had this dream where I'm in a building, isolated countryside and a UFO lands and these short, big headed creatures move from it towards where I am!" A standard CE3K experience brought on by reading dozens of CE3K reports! Mentally, he was not prepared for the concept of alien entities and so he left.
Fifty years on I am still compiling the data base in the archives. Unfortunately, some UFO researchers have been mentally unprepared for the world changing concepts involved and add 1+2 to then =5 and they are UFO abductees.
After a talk at a 1978 Trowbridge UFO Conference I met a woman who had what appeared to be a case of Time Loss (before the term "missing time" was splashed everywhere). Her story seemed intriguing and (with a chaperone present) I was invited to check the skin on the left side of her face and body (within reason!) that was a distinct red, rather like a sunburn while the right hand side was very pale.
+Above: in a caravan supposedly relaxing after the 1977/1978 Bristol UFO flap. This was on the outskirts of Ramsgate, Kent and far from being relaxing I became embroiled in the mystery of a very large mystery bird that flew over me at night. Similarly, after another hectic year I was on holiday in Germany and on the first day observed a magnesium bright object ascend from forestry and shopot up into the air.
Above: photograph from last year of the CE3K/AE archive which has now all been expanded and there are around 35 folders packed full of reports.
I then was contacted by a woman who had an unusual sighting while a youngster in Bristol and had seen a number of UFOs as well as one entity incident while sat in the car next to her husband. The two cases helped me to understand some things that had mystified me before and so I began to develop theories not just based on reports but also first hand observations.
This led me to also start looking at human observation, pareidolia and psychology and along the way I managed to see up close how psychosomatic symptoms appeared in people and some of these were staggering to me. One thing I keep hearing from frustrated acquaintances is "You're like a bloody psychologist -stop psychoanalysing things!" I try.
I also studied things such as body language/facial expressions and all of this proved very useful when dealing with CE3K/AE reports.
Above: while at a weekend event in London I took some time to meet up with a regular American contact to exchange material on UFOs.
I was in contact with UFO researchers around the world, most sadly no longer with us, and exchanged case information with them as well as sent articles for publication. The UK was not a good place with a lot of inter-group rivalry and no cooperation but they all knew I was fair and not taking sides which is why some of their publications also featured articles by me on CE3K reports. A number of groups even consulted me when such reports cropped up in their areas as they had no experience with anything other than lights in the sky.
Around this point (1979/1980) I also found that my opinion as a naturalist was asked on several occasions and so I did research on food sources and habitat for the Kentucky UFO Investigators League as they looked into Fouke Monster claims (a famous Bigfoot type). My knowledge as a naturalist and running the Exotic Animals Register as a consultant for UK police forces came in handy -the "Gotherington Gargoyle" case I outlined in one of my books and was far from extra terrestrial!
No publisher being interested in my manuscripts I self published Some Things Strange and Sinister as well as Some More Things Strange and Sinister which were general mystery books with some UFO content. Then after even less success in getting books on CE3K/AE published I went ahead and published four with original research -UFO Contact? , Contact! ,Unidentified-Identified and Beyond UFO Contact.
I also edited and published the CE3K/AE orientated AOP Journal.
Now 50 years have gone by along with a lot of strangeness and very complicatcd life just because I grabbed the wrong book.
Be warned!
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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth. Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.
In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.
But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?
Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?
Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?
And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?
Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?
Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".
James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers. An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved. Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.
2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.
Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.
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A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:
The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ andBerwyn Mountains
StrangePennsylvania
UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
The UFO That Landed OnA US Highway
My Encounters With The Men In Black
A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type
Early 20th CenturyUK
Close Encounter with a Boggart
Some Odd and Unusual Cases
Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities
The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians
What Happened on theIsle of Wight and at Felixstowe?
The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case
Strange Aliens from Outer Space?
Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO
Preliminary UK
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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth. Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.
In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.
But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?
Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?
Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?
And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?
Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?
Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".
James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers. An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved. Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.
2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.
Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.
Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.
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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters
A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:
The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and
Strange
UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
The UFO That Landed On
My Encounters With The Men In Black
A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type
Early 20th Century
Close Encounter with a Boggart
Some Odd and Unusual Cases
Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities
The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians
What Happened on the
The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case
Strange Aliens from Outer Space?
Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO
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Profusely illustrated with photos and maps
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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.
The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.
Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.
Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.
Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?
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Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon.
contents list:
Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality
1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig
2. Aliens -What Can We Expect?
3. The Moreland Incident
4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed
5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports
6. Have Things Changed Since 1977?
7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre
8. The Pwca
9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien
10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity
11. The Crystal Lake Encounter
12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter
13. Harrison Bailey
14. Sonny DesVerger
15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers
16. Some Interesting Reports to Note
17. Dead Aliens in Photographs
18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure
19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into
20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report?
21. Eighteenth Century Aliens?
22. Clearview Ranch
23. The Pat McGuire Case
24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta
25. The Silbury Hill Encounter
26. The Bridge Abduction
27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident
28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest
29. What If YOU See Aliens Land?
30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?
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1973 –The “Year of the Humanoids”
1973 –The year of the Pascagoula alien abduction claim
1973 –Several witnesses observed two Unidentified Flying Objects: one temporarily landed on a US Interstate road while the other hovered close-by. An entity appeared from the landed object. A car driver approaching from the opposite direction stops, turns his/her car and races off. This is classed as a Major Incident in Ufology.
1973 –a driver observes a landed UFO and entities and opens fire with his gun when he felt threatened. A High Strangeness account.
Neither of these cases was investigated despite requests for local investigators to do so. Even in 2020 the idea of opening up either as a cold case was flatly Rejected by America’s ‘top UFO investigation’ group.
Reports now probably lost to history.
1973 –a year in which UFO reports from African-Americans were frowned upon and ignored. Nothing has changed.
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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.
PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack! Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.
Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!
ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction de occultis non judicat ecclesia The Bristol Rocking Horse The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn The Coonian Ghost The Ghosts Of All Saints Church His Luminous Chamber The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg And More Ghost Stories The Thomas B. Cumpston Case The Chupacabra The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes? Mystery Beasts Of Ireland The Creature Of The Dump The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack The Black Beast Of Darmstadt The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs Aerial Encounters Over Austria A Crashed UFO In 1790? Angel Hair Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell” Strange Aliens From Space The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations? The Venezuelan HorrorA Final Word.
Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.
A4 Format
B&W
Paperback
358 pages
Heavily illustrated
£20.00
After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.
PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack! Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.
Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!
Introduction
de occultis non judicat ecclesia
The Bristol Rocking Horse
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn
The Coonian Ghost
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church
His Luminous Chamber
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg
And More Ghost Stories
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case
The Chupacabra
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland
The Creature Of The Dump
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs
Aerial Encounters Over Austria
A Crashed UFO In 1790?
Angel Hair
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”
Strange Aliens From Space
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?
The Venezuelan Horror
A Final Word.
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Follow-up to Some Things Strange & Sinister. For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general.
The secret history of gorillas -before they were officially 'discovered' along with exclusive lost photographs.
Wild men of Europe, the UK and US; from the bizarre to blood chilling. Hominology.
Giant snakes.
Amazons.
The Giant serpent of Carthage .
Girt Dog of Ennerdale.
The Beast of Gevaudan.
Crocodiles in the UK .
And much more. Updated with extra pages and photographs.
240 pp
A4
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Profusely Illustrated with photographs and illustrations
£20.00
UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans. This is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.
Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered.
The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja. Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.
Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle.
Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird
A4
324pp
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Strange & Mysterious Beasts is the smaller format book while Mysterious & Strange Beasts is the standard larger A4 format.
some of the contents:
The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere
The Beast of Lyonnais
The Beast of Cevennes , Gard and Vivarais
The Beast of Sarlat
The Beast of Gevaudan
British Man Beasts
Bigfoot and Werewolves in the West Midlands
The Strange Creature in Repton Woods
Bigfoot Returns – To Kent !
Werewolf!
The Curious and Frightening Case of the Hull Werewolf
The Gnome of Girona
The Caponi Close Encounters and Photographs
Return of the Shark Killing Thing –a Possible Identification
The Dingellchough Mystery Creature
The Unidentified Corfu Sea
Strange Sea Creature Found In Persian Gulf
The Devil of Gatagon
The Supernatural Invasion: Slender-man and Black Eyed Kids
The Sheep Killer of Niali
Mystery Creature of the Bay of Flamanville
Things Caught on Camera –Fact and Fiction
The Bat Creatures
The Owl-man
The British Pig-man and Snake-man
The Pictish Beast
Shunka Warak'in –A Hyena Too Far?
The Chupacabra
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