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You Walk TOWARD The Unexplained NOT Run Away

 Back around 1977 a member of a group -UFO International (less said about that the better)- offered to help me with compiling the CE3K/AE files.  I gave a sigh of relief as there were a lot of books and magazines to go through. After two weeks the volunteer (a manager for a major petroleum company) looked at me and said "I can't do it any more. Sorry" -so I asked why?

It turns out that after spending days going over the reports he had a vivid dream in which he was in some kind of hut or cabin in the countryside and he saw a landed UFO and some entities get out and move about. He felt trapped. Basically, this was his mind, while he slept, sifting through what he had learnt in order to explain or make some sense out of it all.

I had a similar dream when I startedand it was quite vividbut it never scared me off the work! I will give a more mundane example.

One job I had in the 1970s involved backing items into boxes and also rolling large prints and putting them into heavy duty postage cylinders. For two nights I had vivid dreams of the mundane, mind numbing boring chore of boxing up items. Vivid. As I needed to eat, pay rent etc I did not go to my boss and say "I quit. I cannot do this any more -I had vivid dreams of packaging things up!"  I did mention it to a co-workere who laughed and said "You, too?!"

I heard a similar story7 from someone who was working on business accounts for hour after hour and he told me that the vivid dreams of constantly opening up books, checking them was driving him nuts.

So, the fella with the CE3K work simply chickened out because of a dream.

I have read as well as spoken to supposed Ufologists who, seeing an object (large or small) come down behind a hill or trees will turn around and run.drive off. In one case an 'investigator' sent his father to investigate. Thankfully, that Ufologist being thoroughly incompetrent got out of the subject.  I have known others that would not go to speak to UFO repeater witnesses in case "something" happened to them. Those people need to step way back or simply leave Ufology.

I have watched and heard so many supposed "ghost hunters" run away screaming for their mummies when they hear a sound or someone says they thought they sawa shadow move! Again, give up the hobby and find a new one.

Cryptozoology is another field where you find this. Luckily, it's less embarrassing as most "cryptozoologists" never leave the comfort of home.

Around 1977 I was living with my grandparents in Downend on the outskirts of Bristol. Even on a sunny summer day everything stopped at 1700 hrs!  At night it was quiet even on the main Westerleigh Road -a little traffic might have helped as I walked past the large cemetery there! There was one large triangular patch of grass that was just off the Westerleigh Road on the Black Horse Estate. Returning from a UFO meeting on foot it was dark, warm but as I got more onto the country area the fog got thick. I crossed the patch of grass and turned as I heard a sound behind me. Fog too thick to see anything.

I continued walking but then heard foot steps behind me. I stopped andf they stopped. I thought it odd since it was hardly a robbery hot spot!  I started walking again and heard the sound again but now on paving I realised that what I was hearing were hooves. Two hooves clip-clop clip clop. I stopped again but the fog was so bad I could not see two feet (60cms) in front of me. I carried on walking along the concrete slabbed pavement between a brook and play area and the row of houses and I was not that far from home. 

I heard an odd sound as the two cloven hooves walked behind me. I stopped and said "Who is there?" but with a street light to one side all I saw were two very long horns. I turned and walked a bit faster but the clip clop stopped. I stopped. I could not see anything other than my feet on the pavement. I breathed a sigh of relief, Whatever it was was gone. Something warm then breathed on my neck. I ran to my grandparents house and there was a 6 feet high wooden gateway blocking the entrance to the back garden and from there I could get to the back door and into the house. I have still got no idea how but I vaulted over that gate. I stood with my back to the gate and listened as something was pushing the gate.

At bthat point what I call my "Gemini mind" was at work. One side panicked at what was going on while the other took over: I was "all mouth" about looking into the strange or unexplained when talking at meetings and here I was sweating like a coward. My more forceful Gemini side took over and I turned slowly and decided that what ever was on the other side of that gate I had -no options- to face it or I would simply be a useless coward. I slowly, and as quietly as I could, pulled bacck the gate bolt and lifted the latch. Calml;y I pulled open the gate.

What I confronted that night made sure that whatever I faced whether strange lights, odd sounds or mysterious figures I did not turn and run. I headed straight for it or observed and noted details because of distance. The "Devil of Downend" made sure I was always prepared.

Who's A Fibber Then?

 

Charles Hoy Fort

 "I can't give you the name but I can tell you---"

"I strongly protect the witnesses so I am not prepared to give a name"

"I re-write hand written statements from witnesses to hide their identity"

"I have dealt with thousands of UFO abductees every year. Their identities are hidden"

"people may say the reports are just made up. Let them. I protect witness anonymity"

Phrases used by frauds in Ufology, Forteana, Cryptozoology, "ghost hunting" etc.  Yes, protect the anonymity as requested but you need to show more trusted people in your field who the witnesses are even if you mask their addresses.

Certain cases I have asked people with no connection to the subject to just look at the necessary part that shows a percipient/witness is named and that what I have written is truthful to t6he account I was given. These people have no interest in my "crazy stuff" BUT if anyone questions something I can call on them to state that they have seen the report and names of those involved. The important thing is that I can prove who said or wrote what.

People have come out over the years to give their stories, however, I still will not identify them as I gave them a promise of confidentiality BUT if they ask someone to check with me I will confirm details.

In the last couple of years report after report after report has fallen by the wayside  for reasons such as "There was never a full report" (??) or "there was just a standard UFO report form-no idea where it is now" and, an actual standard response: "No idea where the witness(es) are now. Lost contact with them years ago" and... no proof that in certain major cases the percipient even existed. And I am talking well known CE3K cases. Many just have a Low rating because those investigators associated with them have been outed as faking reports for unknown reasons since the 1970s but will not say which of their reports these were. In other words out of 100 reports we cannot accept and verify which are genuine.

Someone has "thousands of UFO abduction reports a ytear" I am calling out as a liar as absolutely no proof of this exists. These people are telling those reporting a UFO sighting that they were likely abducted and push them into regression hypnosis on the first investigator visit.  we use our "hypnotherapist and psychic" ... you just lost credibility.

There are NOT millions of abductions each year around the world. There are not "Hundreds of thousands" either. Likely not even "many hundreds". I believe they are rare but every case of sleep paralysis, altered state etc is taken as a genuine UFO abduction. 

Evidence?  Check out the various US haunting TV shows and TWICE I watched someone say: "I looked at my bedside clock and it was 1.00am. I  turned over. When I turned back it was 3.30  -I loist two-and-a-half hours!!"  It's called sleep.

A 'UFO abductee': "I recall that it was 1 am and I was having trouble sleeping  but closed my eyes and then I looked at the clock and it was 5 am!!"  Again: it is called sleep (that fella got more sleep than I get!).

You need to record all details. Always maintain contact with a percipient if only to see if anything has happened to them since the first encounter.  You make a full report of what is known -NOT jump straight in with hypnosis. Alkways make sure that you can prove you have a genuine report and, never ever do what five different ufologists have tried with me "Oh, the full report is in my book...you can buy a copy?"  

Charles Fort, incidentally, was on abvious fibber or very bad archivist because reports he dates to certain newspapers do not exist. Details of events do not exist as he reported them.  I know because for 50 years I have searched the archives, scrolled through books and historical records and... well, Fort was the Poster Child for Cryptozoology, Forteana and Ufology not to mention ghost hunters. I do suspect, however, that Fort's insistence that there should NOT be a Fortean Society was because he made a lot up and probably was a jokester.  All the evidencer is in my archives.

It's all 90% Fake

  John Keel stated at a convention that "I think Ufology has probably had more hoaxes than any other Fortean filed"

Seee approx 40minutes in

Ufologists do not read history or pay attention to Forteans. Forteans tend to think Ufologists are stupid or silly and only read history they are told to as "it's Fortean".  Cryptozoologists tend to ignore Forteans and Ufologists as believing in silly stories. We  can throw "Ghost hunters" into that mix.  There is one thing they are united in, however:

Lying, bending the truth to fit their own theory, hoaxing and in 99% of cases they can be proved to be doing this. Butno one speaks out (unless it is to attack each others fantasies)

 20^th July, 1966 Isle of Wight

 

   The next report came from Fred Smith and his Ufolog, published by the Isle of Wight UFO Society and was followed up in more recent years by John Hanson for his Haunted Skies UFO history (Haunted Skies vol. 3 pp: 65-66 series. 2010).

 

   At around 21:30 hrs on the 20^th July, 1966, Angela L. Cotton and her then boyfriend, John, were seated in a car on the Blackgang sing of The Landslip car park. Angela reported that she had sensed “something or someone” was close to them and both looked out of the window and observed a yellow glow over hills that blocked their view of the sea. Curious, the couple wound down the car windows and were almost immediately aware of a vibrating sound which seemed to be coming from the direction of the light. John then decided that they should head back home and they drove along the country lane before turning out onto the main road.

 

   Angela told John Hanson:

 

   “Suddenly, John doubled over the steering wheel, clutching his stomach. He

   gripped his right arm on the inside of the elbow joint and his foot began to

   slip off the accelerator.  His face went white, almost blue.

 

   “I told him to put his foot back and I would steer the car to the main road,

   which I did. After arriving home, John told me he felt as if his stomach

   had been gripped in a vice, and rolled up his right sleeve. On the inside

   of the elbow joint, there was a mark, like a bruise, about the size of a penny,

   showing numerous holes, like the punctures made by a test vaccine. The

   next day, he told me he had similar marks on his stomach. By the weekend,

   these marks had gone.”

 

   On the 21^st the couple had driven back to the site and noticed what looked like a furrow on the side of a hill –almost like earth had been scooped out. They set out to the site and noted that it looked as though something had been rubbing against the earth to make this effect; “like a large wheel some six feet in partial radius.” Angela continued:

     “The earth around the edges of this furrow was very dry and the grass around the edges was not charred, but brown, as if heat had been applied. I don’t know what the ‘glow’ was. It certainly wasn’t the beam of St. Catharine’s Lighthouse, or the sunset. I can’t explain what happened.”

 

   It was in 2007 that Hanson tracked Angela down to the United States where she was then living. She told him:

 

      “I have never forgotten the incident you mentioned, as it is one of the few

      moments in my life for which I could ‘kick myself’ for not having the

      courage to walk to the edge of Sugar Lump Hill (the area name back then),

      and look down at the source of the light seen.  If I had seen what was causing

      the light, I would have perhaps known what caused the scuff marks on the

      side of the hill that we viewed….”

 

   Hanson then asked her about the strange marks found on John. Angela told him:

 

      “They looked like weal marks. I have no idea what caused them, although

      I do wonder if some form of hysteria could have induced them to occur,

      rather than through physical assault.”

 

 

Above: Angela Cotton in a photo supplied to John Hanson©A. Cotton

 

   That last line of “rather than through physical assault” is interesting and I asked John and he assured me that he had not suggested any type of “assault” connected with the light. Again, and I know this gets boring but it is a vital matter in any such case –whether a CE1K, CE2K or CE3K; there is no chronology so that we have a time of 21:30 hrs (I am guessing they looked at a car clock or watch) when the light was first seen and that’s it.

 

   The fact that Angela has kept a strong memory of the light is interesting because a light is a light so 40 years on it should be “just one of those things”.  The big puzzle is John; we know that after the light and vibration sound he had decided that they needed to leave and up to that point nothing seems to have happened that inspired any “Oh, I wonder if--?” moment in Angela.  For him to suddenly double up in pain for no seeming reason is odd. It is possible that something he ate earlier might have suddenly caused stomach cramps but that does not tend to produce weal-like markings and then we have the elbow mark which looked as though it had a number of puncture marks in it like old vaccination scars. If the weal-like markings had similar then “something” must have happened.

 

   That Angela noted that they both felt someone or something was watching them added to the other report aspects and her rationalisation that “some form of hysteria” may have caused psychosomatic symptoms is fascinating. Firstly, psychosomatic disorders resulting from stress may include hypertension, respiratory ailments, gastrointestinal disturbances (“upset tummy”), migraine and tension headaches, pelvic pain, impotence, frigidity, dermatitis, and ulcers but not weal-like marks with puncture marks in them. Just what did she feel might have caused John to suffer some form of hysteria –they only saw a light.

 

Remember that this was originally reported back in 1966 so it is not tainted by later UFO accounts that report these aspects.

Kelly Cahill Alien Encounter Plus John Auchettl Archives of UFORQ 1996

 

Meetings with UFOs discussed by experiencers of the phenomenon (1991)

 Tor Erikson's account is interesting. It shows James Harder who did work with Hynek was planting abduction ideas into peoples' minds/

Let's Be Honest

 In the last few months I have tried to update report files.I have worked solidly to make sure that all the details are saved for posterity.  

With British Ufology I have found that one "majhor case" after another simply crumbled away. One particular Ufologist was involved in three of these and NOW, after being asked for any extra information, his fellow investigator has cast major doubt on the authenticity of what was reported. Checking one case the location is dubious but the name of the percipient does not appear in any registery for that county...ever.

Another tells a good story but this is how it went down:

Me: "Is it possible to please get a copy of the investigation report?"

Inv:"The details are in my book"

Me: "Well, I cannot put a whole book into a folder and the report itself would stand as better evidence"

after a delay:

Inv: "I can send you a word doc but if used it will need to be credited to me"

Me: "No problem  there. Thanks for your effort"

The email arrived. It was the chapter from his book. I contacted him again and explained that I would very much like to include an actual investigation report  in the files:

Inv: "There was only a standard UFO report form on the UFO"

Me: "Okay, can I get a copy of that please?"

Inv: "I don't know where it is. I think I ghave it to a Ufologist."

This was a case that Ufologist has pushed as major and involving "UFO abduction" and much, much more. All he had was his notes from his book and not even the report form which he gave away (ever hear of a photo copier?). The evidence for the case is ZERO. It canbnot be used as anything other than a file filler.

So how about another one of his "Major UFO incident and abduction" cases that he has written and spoken of extensively?  No report.  A third case.... well, he is not getting back to me on that one (it has been a couple weeks).

This is not a fluke. Two other authors recently told me they havce no idea where their notes are on "significant" cases and I suspect that there are no reports and that means those cases have to be classed as LOW evidence (opne even admits to ignoring a letter from teenage witnesses BECAUSE they were "kids".

Out of ten 'Ufologists' who wrote books on abductionshow many do you think know how to get in touch with the percipients or have stayed in touch with them?  Not a single one. They got what they wanted -info for a bvook or chapter in a book and that was it.

Mona Stafford is the last surviving member of the trio said to have been abducted in Liberty, Kentucky in 1975. That was a major case with all the extra anecdotal evidence and look what happened. The trio were milked dry for everything to go into magazines and books and then dumped. Even the 'stellar' MUFON had no idea about the case until I reminded them and they had no contact details. They did not know that two of the women had passed away. Mona Stafford appeared on a news (TV) item back in the mid 2000s and I have tried newspapers and even the reporter/TV station that interviewed her -no contact details. I try and try and try but a failure every time.

Here is another: Kelly Cahill involved in one of the most spectacular UFO abduction cases (1993 Australia). Multiple on board percipients and physiological evidence and independent corroboration and the Paranormal Research Australia report would have all the tech and scienbtific analyses to make it as close to absolute evidence as you can get.  Kelly did the UFO conference circle pointing this out and it was bviously wearing her down based on the body language at times. Then....someone in PRA gave out the names of the witnesses who had come forward based on their anonimity being preserved. A court case against PRA and the report has never appeared (likely due to legal reasons).

Yes, Ufologists ****** up everything.

The PRA would not respond to me -and I have tried a few times. So I tried to contact Cahill: dead end. I contacted any Australian UFO group I could find. Two had never (?!) heard of the case and the others "no idea".  Yes, a truly major UFO event screwed up by the investigators (and I have always been open to hearing their side of things) and the known main witness.... no one knows where she is.  I suspect that after all the work Cahill put into making facts known the betrayal of witness confidentiality (as in the case of the three Liberty percipients) and what ensued she simply walked away and got on with her lifr.

We lost the Kathy Reeves family encounter from 1965 BECAUSE of a lazy Ufologist. We lost all the details from Eupora, 1973 BECAUSE of racist Ufologists and there is a catalogue of such histories. 

We have lost cases that may have been historically significant and no one is interested in 2026 because there is no money ot great publicity for them.

THAT is Ufology.

Confessions of an Alien Abductee

 I leave this with NO COMMENT

The Runcorn UFO Encounter ....which story is correct?

 

I have counted five (5) different versions of this account. Eerie's Vault adds another. This is from Spooky Valley https://spookyvalley.com/events/1979-frodsham-encounter/

Three young men night-fishing on the marshes near Frodsham reported a bell-shaped craft and tall figures who they said paralysed them with a beam of light before departing across the Mersey estuary.

 

January 27, 1979

Frodsham, Cheshire, England

3+ witnesses

Bell-shaped craft hovering above wetland trees with a vertical beam of light

Bell-shaped craft hovering above wetland trees with a vertical beam of light · Artistic depiction; AI-generated imagery, not a photograph of the event

The Frodsham encounter is one of the more frequently cited British close encounters of the late 1970s, partly because the witnesses were young, articulate, and willing to speak openly, and partly because the case was investigated by the Manchester UFO Research Association at a time when British civilian research was unusually well organised.

 

Background

The Cheshire marshes, where the River Weaver opens into the Mersey, are a stretch of low, reedy land that can feel almost theatrical at night. Patches of mist drift across the flats, the sounds of the nearby chemical works drift in from the north, and visibility shifts unpredictably. The area was, and remains, popular with night anglers, who fish for eels and pike in the still channels.

 

Through the 1970s the wider Merseyside region produced a steady stream of unusual aerial reports, and the Frodsham marshes featured in several of them. The Manchester UFO Research Association maintained close contact with local press and was often on the scene within days of any reported encounter.

 

The Sighting

In the early hours of 27 January 1979 three friends, all in their early twenties, were night-fishing at one of the quieter channels on the marsh. The night was cold, with patchy mist over the water. Shortly after midnight they noticed a soft glow rising over the reedbeds to the south.

 

By their account the glow resolved within a minute or two into a bell-shaped object roughly the size of a small van. It descended slowly to a position perhaps fifty metres from their fishing spot and emitted a vertical column of pale light onto the marsh. The men reported that they could not move for the duration of the encounter, that the air felt thick, and that their voices, when they tried to speak, came out muffled.

 

Two figures, taller than a man and dressed in what the witnesses described as glistening pale suits, descended from the craft and moved across the marsh in their direction. The figures stopped some distance away, appeared to lift one of the men’s fishing rods briefly, and returned to the craft. The object then lifted, the column of light withdrew, and the men were able to move again. The craft drifted north toward the Mersey and disappeared from view within a minute or two.

 

Investigation

The Manchester UFO Research Association, through investigator Harry Hesketh, took up the case within a week. The three men were interviewed both together and separately, and their accounts were broadly consistent on the shape of the craft, the column of light, and the figures. They were less consistent on small details such as the precise duration of the encounter, which is not unusual under the circumstances.

 

No physical traces were found at the marsh, although the investigators noted that the saturated ground would have made trace evidence difficult to read at the best of times. None of the men sought publicity and one of them was visibly reluctant to speak to investigators, agreeing to do so only because his friends had insisted.

 

The encounter has structural parallels with the Robert Taylor incident the same year and with the broader category of British marshland and woodland encounters that includes the Rendlesham case the following winter.

 

Aftermath

A short account of the case appeared in the regional press in February 1979 and was picked up by national tabloids in a sensationalised form. The witnesses, none of whom had wanted that level of attention, declined further interviews. The case has been reviewed by Jenny Randles and others over the years and remains one of the more curious British encounters of the period.

 

Skeptical Analysis

Sceptical commentary has focused on the men’s lack of independent corroboration and on the possibility of shared misperception in conditions of cold, fatigue, and patchy mist. The reported paralysis has been compared with sleep-paralysis episodes, although the men insisted they were fully awake and actively fishing immediately before the encounter. No conventional explanation has been advanced that accounts for the bell-shaped object, the figures, and the column of light as a single coherent event.

 

Harry Hesketh, MUFORA case files, 1979. Liverpool Echo, regional coverage, February 1979. Jenny Randles, The Pennine UFO Mystery (1983).