The Somerset Abduction | Britain’s Most Disturbing UFO Encounter [ Eerie's Vault Episode #88]

 

Quick Search Update

 Leihlan Eerie (from the You Tube channel Eerie's Vault) told me the Lochore case camne from the book UFO Scotland so just dug that out. I have messaged Ron Holliday to ask whether any more progress was made in the case. 

Just awaiting the financial damaghes for having Klass archive digitized for me so I can see what he has on the Vodovoz case.

Still looking for any independent UFO investigfator in the Webster County, Eupora, Mississippi area.

The Lights Over Fife (1992)

 

Patrick Gunn. A name I will remember as he owes me money now.

72 pages. Well, 72 pages ONLY because of the AI images used. Glancing through the book quickly I asked "Why is he using the same image obver and over again?

He isn't. It is the same scene with UFOs in various styles and not that different. The images are a washed up mess and only make the book look amateurish.

The same things is repeated and when I got to page 44 I had no doubts what so ever that this was an AI created book which explains the constant re-use of the images and...uh....the actual incident involving Mary and co. is not described. It literally is just repeat...repeat...repeat and if you are looking for any information from this book here it is:

"The Falkland Hill UFO incident of 9992"..."The psychological impact of the Falkland Hill incident on the local community was profound"...

That's it. Repeat ad nauseum adding whatever word makes it different. That front cover is AI and it is the same used within the book with variations. This at £16+ was an outright case of ...I cannot even use the words I want to. You will NOT find any "in depth" look at the case Like I wrote; by page 45 the constant repeating of phrases and offering no actual case summary or information....I gave up.

In, I believe, minutes 02 point texte at the bottom of the last book is a disclaimer that this was written and put together using AI.

Unless you want something to burn -DO NOT BUY

Update on Eupora

 I have sent out 25 messages/emails in under two weeks to local media and so on but zero responses. Out oof desperation I even tried Reddit UFO pages -nothing.

I have now resorted to tracking down paranormal groups.

As it standsbecause of the racist attitude of the original two UFO 'investigators' and reticence of bodies such as MUFON (who I have to say are very hostile in this case) unless there is a miracle what is on record is all there ever will be.

The Falkland Hill UFO Encounter Case -Assessment UPDATE

 

Firstly, the book was not that well written and on several occasions I had t re-read to make sense of something. I will say nothingf of the writing style.

The actual encounter claimed got very confusing in the telling and at one point I had to try to make out if a "third incident" was actaully being written about or referring back to a third incident".

On page 16 it is stated that Mary saw a small dome on top of a huge triangular object. My question is HOW could she see a small domefrom the ground?  We also have her stating she saw things closer toi her, such as the entities, which she stated she should not have been able to and she observed things others did not.

On page 23 I added a note: "Unless the people are lying or joking or they are prone to extreme exaggeration" -I later came to a conclusion.

On page 23 Mary notes how she saw a mist coming toward the group....no one else saw this and the mist resembled a cocoon or soap bubble. That is a pure nonsensical description that is not queried. 

The late Tony Dodd asked the people involved whether they had found any strange marks on their bodies? After that any and every bruise, mark, stiff joint is reported and highl;ighted and the photograph of Susan's "markls" are not clear in the photograph in the book but thanks to it appearing in colour in a press report it can be said to be unimpressive. A female acquaintance told me "I've had that from my bra!" Not wearing abra myself I could not comment. What I did was ask ladies of my acquaintance whyo told me that they had odd bruises and marks from wearing bras or sleeping in them. So vague marks are in this case not proof of much.

We read that Peter, the son of Mary, observed the floating entity from his bedroom window and his friend saw it, too. We have to take Peter's word on that. In fact, going by what was written on Peter and Mary -particularly Peter- alarm bells should have been ringing and I felt as though the investigators would not have seen or heard the lights flashing, siren blaring fire engine coming before it hit them.

Peter standing up and pointing to an area in front of curtains and stating matter of factly that there were three of the beings there in the presence of the investigators was amusing to a point. The investigators DID take photographs of the spot even though they saw nothing. Standing where the aliens were they were told all Peter could then see was a sort of zig-zag pattern.  Peter even matter of factly explained how he woke up one morning and one of the beings was in his bedroom, stood near him while he ate breakfast, was in the taxi with him on the way to school, helped him out in lessons and even took the taxi home with him. Not a word spoken though.

Apparently Mary saw a "shimmering" (like a heat haze in the road) which meant they were there but was uneasy aboput thios so stopped them appearing. On one occasion she allowed a "Grey" to materialise but then stopped it.  Mary had read the Whitley Streiber books and seemed very informed on UFOs and also had a ghost dog -oh, and one of her cats had no problem with one of the beings strokinbg it.

The other witnesses seemed to be almost hysterical if we believe the account with Susan (the daughter of Mary's friend -it gets VERY confusing-  even screaming at one point that "there's one by my (car) window grinning at me".

Firstly, there are various aspects that can be explained away as every day things being miss-identified and assumed to be "alien".  I cannot see how "hundreds of bright spinning lights" or very bright large objects were not seen by anyone else at the time and reported -even based on the area in question it seems unlikely anyone going by would not see them -but not everyone seeing a UFO reports it. 

There is just something very off about these sightings and we are talking three incidents in one night. Mary also calling a Ufologist expecting a team to shoot out there as "something strange is going on" made me laugh. Ufologists from my experience either wait until it's all over and safe or drive off ion the opposite direction. 

The "many" entities walking about normally, bending over and picking up crates and walking off just like people would really made me ask whether these were pea pickers working at night.  These short entities were apparently overseen by a taller, browner entity standing near trees. How tall was he? Half the size of the trees or 15 feet. 

Could there have been an actual UFO sighting at the start as they drove to get a jar of  coffee? Could have been. Could there have been more to that incident rather than a mere sighting? At first I thought it possible but when we get to Mary and her son Peter things fall to pieces quickly. It is possible that this is a case of hysteria when it comes to everyone else but with the mother and son I think there is far more to it.

In UFO Contact? I outlined what I termed Ruth Syndrome. Taken from a case that appeared in a book by a note psychologist (also a TV play on the BBC starring Connie Booth) about his patient who he called "Ruth". Ruth heard foot steps, saw clearly visible and solid forms -actually proven through tests carried out by a university- and much more.  It was later discovered that the father she was estranged from also had similar events in his life. It is quite possible that Mary passed that syndrome down toi her son. Also Mary being into UFOs and having read the Streiber books and seeming quite calm and at ease when her son described the three invisible entities in the room and the one that went to school with him -and also described the "haze"- probably provided an environment where his reality would allow for regular "visitations". These entities never communicated with him I should point out.

Do we have a credible case of UFO abduction or a major UFO incident in the Falkland Hill report? Very low credibility for a sighting.

What I am surprised about is that a Fortean forum which looked at this case never pointed to any of the 3 metre high neon warning signs from the book. In fact, reading the comments on that forum I do not believe anyone there read the book. This is quite typical of Forteans, cryptozoologists and Ufologists who will judge and assess based on newspaper clippings -some Ufologists proudly boasting that IS their investigation.

I had hoped that Malcolm Robinson might have responded to my request for any completed reportor information that might add more weight to the case but he has not.

I am awaiting the second "deep dive" book on this case but to be honest between Mary and Peter and the other information in the book when included in the archive it will be classed as "Low". I had hoped there was more but the witnesses are now all moved on and uncontactable it seems. A pity.

UPDATE

Malcolm Robinson did respond and offered a pdf of his book. I explained that the Archive was for storinf reports so that researchers in future had a record. He said he would get something to me and today he did. A Word copy of his book. There was, apparently, a "standard report form" but either it was given to another Ufologist or is lost. I sat reading his response for 10 minutes not believing my eyes.

What we have on this "major" Scottish encounter is a book.  HOW can you lose or give away a report (form) without making a scabn or copy?

Report wiull be given the lowest rating.

It Sums Up The Situation

 Here is the reason why Ufology failed and why we havve lost so much eye witness testimony -even if only considered anecdotal. 

In the last fortnight I have sent out 30 emails or messages. I received one rude response (MUFON) one with no info and...that's it.

We no longer have to wait a week or so for a letter to get somewhere and then another week for a response. We are in an era of instand communication and yet when it comes to cooperation, communication or any other form of interaction nothing happens. And in the United States (the "Home of Ufology") it appears there are no independent investigators or researchers any more -they all want the MUFON crumbs and MUFON just wants the publicity and cash.

We got technology at our finger tips and it created more problems and lack of communication than before the internet.

The Falkland Hill Encounter -Preliminary Notes

 While I am waiting for the book and booklet I thought I would look at the press report on the incident in The Courier  January 14 2023

 https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/4024528/falkland-hill-ufo-incident-it-sounds-fanciful-but-did-aliens-land-in-north-east-fife-in-1996/

As noted the case was investigated by Malcolm Robinson and I have asked him whether there is a full report we can get.  There is a Fortean forum I was given a link to so I will keep that handy for any later assessment.

 Scottish UFO and paranormal researcher Malcolm Robinson has experienced many unexplained encounters during his 40-year career.

They include being “slapped” by a ghost, seeing a pair of levitating shoes fly up into the air and crash through a window, and being shouted at by a ghost to get out of ‘her’ house.

But whether real, imagined or misinterpreted, the man who started off as a self-confessed sceptic remains particularly intrigued by Scotland’s most controversial UFO incident.

What happened?

On September 23, 1996, two adults, a teenager and a 10-year-old driving near Newton of Falkland in Fife claimed they saw not only a large black triangular-shaped ‘craft’ but numerous small grey ‘beings’ in front of woods

The so-called ‘Falkland Hill UFO Incident’ made international headlines and after being investigated by several of the UK’s leading UFO experts, UFologists say it remains one of the world’s biggest ‘unsolved’ UFO mysteries.

(TH: I think that is an exaggeration)

One down-to-earth theory – reported by The Courier on the 20th anniversary in 2016 – is that what witnesses actually saw was simply several pea harvesters and farm workers operating in the field with their lights shining skyward.

Another suggestion is that the witnesses who apparently left the area decades ago, and can’t be traced by the author, simply “made it up”.

However, having extensively researched the case, and while admitting it sounds “fanciful”, Mr Robinson remains convinced the witnesses were “sincere” in their descriptions – even if the mystery remains.

Speaking to The Courier about the launch of his new book ‘The Falkland Hill UFO Incident’, Mr Robinson said he felt there was a need for a stand-alone book that told the story “as it is”.

Strange bruises on Susan’s arm. Image: Malcolm Robinson

While Fife has seen many UFO reports over the years, this particular one “stood head and shoulders above many others” because of its controversies.

Self-confessed sceptic

Mr Robinson, now a 65-year-old grandfather and former newspaper advertising executive, became interested in the strange world of UFOs and the paranormal as a boy.

Growing up in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, he read extensively and watched films and TV shows.

But as he grew older he felt there was no validity to the claims of ghosts and poltergeists.

The aims of SPI are to collect, research, and publish, accounts relating to most aspects of strange phenomena, and to purposely endeavour to try and come up with some answers.

In 1992, he became one of the main investigators for the so-called ‘Bonnybridge Triangle’ multiple UFO sightings.

Working with local councillor Billy Buchanan, he concluded 95% of the sightings reported over the Stirlingshire town had identifiable solutions.

The others, however, were less clear-cut, and they petitioned Downing Street for answers.

 Their call for a government inquiry was turned down because the “objects did not pose a threat to the security of the UK”.

It was against this backdrop that he became involved in the Falkland investigation.

Always looking for alternative explanations, they’ll check with the likes of police, the air force, the Met Office and the Ministry of Defence.

(Here the inanity of reporters shows through. I have been interviewed many times over the decades, mainly regardin g my wildlife work. Apart from one occasion I have never given my age or personal details despite all the reasons reporters give for 'needing' to know. We see far more about Robinson than case details -but this is a press story)

In Newton Falkland, the pea harvester scenario was one of those considered.

However, having recorded interviews with two of the witnesses in person, Mr Robinson remains confident that what they experienced that night was “completely different”.

A ‘fanciful’ Fife story?

“The story started off that night in September 1996 when they had run out of coffee,” he said.

“They left the farm house and they travelled to the wee village of Freuchie to buy some.

“On the way to Freuchie, which is bordered by fields on either side, they saw this large black triangular craft hovering motionless above a part of the farmer’s field and part of the road.

“Coming down from beneath this triangular object were two columns of circular light which was twisting and turning and moving and twisting.

“The witnesses who were a combination of Mary, her son Peter and Jane – Mary’s friend  (all pseudonyms) – they knew this wasn’t an aircraft and being in the sky it wasn’t a pea harvester either!

“Then the object extinguished its lights and flew away. 

The shop in Freuchie where the witnesses bought coffee in 1996. Image: Malcolm Robinson

“They went to Freuchie, got their jar of coffee, and on the way back to the farm house, the same or similar object flew very very fast above the car.

“In the car was Peter, 10 years of age. He screamed and screamed. He thought this thing was going to crash into the car.

“Arriving back at Jane’s house, Jane said to her daughter Susan who was 16 ‘oh Christ almighty you’ll never believe what we’ve just seen on the road there!’

“Susan refused to believe her mother, but to pacify her, she said ‘right ok, let’s go back out’.

“The four of them jumped into the car, and cutting a long story short here, as they drove between Falkland and Newton of Falkland, they saw to the left hand side coloured rays of light – red, blue and green coming up from the forest floor.

“In the sky, there were hundreds and thousands of tiny pinpricks of white light like stars – only these were about 1000 feet up from their heads.

“Above Falkland Hill, there was a large orange ball that was sitting there above the hill. It was like sparkly, emitting electrical stuff.”

Acknowledging that it “sounds bizarre”, Mr Robinson said the story, as he was told it, then got even more controversial.

The witnesses stopped the car, and in front of the forest there was a “long column of blue light”.

In front of the blue light, there were “hundreds of small grey creatures bending down and picking up boxes of cylinders and taking them towards a larger structured object which was nestling in a wee alcove in the woods”.

To the right were “taller grey beings” and there was a “ball of immense white light” sitting in the farmer’s field.

“At this point,” said Mr Robinson, “they claim that there were these small creatures roughly 3.5 to four feet tall with small childlike bodies, large pear-shaped heads, black almond-shaped eyes, encased in these bubbles beings being blown across the farmer’s field towards the car.

“At this point, Susan who was Jane’s daughter screamed.

 “She said: ‘Mum there’s one standing outside the car!’

“At that point, they put the car into gear and screamed away from the area. As they did so a tremendous burst of blue light pervaded the whole area – a massive big blue flash.”

Overcome by curiosity

Mr Robinson said he was told how rather than hiding away in the farmhouse, curiosity got the better of them and they went out again.

More or less the same scenario unfolded, he was told – only this time, Jane controversially claimed that while looking at some of the creatures in the woods, she  felt her head being “pushed down towards the front of the car”

She claimed she was being ‘taken’ and that she ‘saw this strange land’.

Mr Robinson admits this all sounds “fanciful”.

However, things got even more peculiar when, while interviewing the witnesses with his colleague Billy Devlin some months later, the boy Peter claimed there were three creatures standing outside the window while the mother Mary said she could see a “shimmering”.

Needless to say, Mr Robinson and his colleague could see nothing, but they took photos anyway.

They were also told of other sightings by other witnesses in the area over the course of several weeks – including a “big triangular craft that floated across Mary’s roof"

Witnesses claim they saw a triangular craft near Newton of Falkland. Image: Malcolm Robinson

Peter’s son also claimed a small creature “materialised in front of him” while having a bath.

On another occasion, Peter and a boy were playing in the bedroom when the visitor looked out of the window and saw a “little white creature free floating”.

“They also had poltergeist effects in the farm house,” added Mr Robinson.

“They had a cat in the house. They were all having breakfast one morning and they heard lapping of the water from the cat’s bowl thinking ‘it’s just the cat’.

“They looked down and all they could see was the bowl – no cat – and the water being displaced by an imaginary or invisible creature.

“So there’s more to this story than the UFO.”

Unable to track down witnesses today

Mr Robinson said they’d tried but failed to track down the witnesses over the years to “back-up the validity and honesty” of their statements.

He understands Mary and her family moved to Wales about a year after.

The move, he understands, was planned before this incident.

Researchers like him “don’t want to have the wool pulled over their eyes” because sadly, he says, people do make things up.

But what is clear is that unexplained activity has been recorded worldwide since early times.

“The Fife UFO incident is very very controversial,” he added.

“It’s probably one of Scotland’s most bizarre if not craziest stories that I’ve encountered. It stands the test of time though. We still don’t know what truly went on.”

A few points: it has been suggested that the colour lights over the forest was the aurora borealis: In September 1996, auroral activity in Scotland was generally low. Because the sun was near the minimum of its 11-year solar cycle, geomagnetic storms and visible Northern Lights were rare and limited to occasional faint arcs over northern Scotland and the Shetland/Orkney islands rather than widespread, vibrant displays.

The object might be pea harvesters?  These are and were not exactly quiet so the people here should have heard something.

According to accounts the son observed an entity on a roof top that went up in the air. Then he saw the same entity when he WALKED into the bathroom when it vanished. If this is a genuine event then it could well be that this was psychological -a mental flash back to something that happed which was traumatic.

The family moved away from the area "decades ago" which makes no sense the event took place in 1996 which was 27 years before the press item but Robinson had interviewed the family in Fife after the event so this needs clarification.

I wiull await the bopoks and whatever else comes to hand for a later assessmenbt.

Falkland Hills Case -source found

 Just bought Lights Over Fife and The Falkland Hills deep dive books so Falkland Hills will be covered..

This research is costing me a fortune -because Ufologists will nopt cooperate -"Buy my book" says itr all

Any Information on these welcome!

Here's an appeal for information if anyone can help -THANKS!

anyone have any details on the

1973 Lochore Meadows Country Park CE3k involving two women? Percipients Margaret and Christine.

Also:

23 Sept 1996 Fal;kland Hills, Scotland CE3K UFO events

1976 Meigle, Scotland -possible abduction case of a 10 year old girl (Anne?)

Any sources or help welcome.

There are other cases I have asked about in the past on the blog but so far nothing back so...I live in hope!

hoopert1957@gmail.com

Ufologists: "Science will NOT take us seriousl;y!!" Well, I wonder why?

 I have been looking at the Vodovoz alleged abduction case and have found that all Ufologists have on it is a video interview. Online Ufologists and idiots with blogs cite the case but get the first name wrong -is it Cindy or Cynthia? Surname-is is Valadez or Vodov or Vodozov?

All quote the same source but here is the thing: not one of them has read that source. At the moment I am trying to access said source and then we'll see exactly what is what.

Then (when it comes to Eupora, 1973) we have the comical situation of MUFON not wanting to investigate an old case because "it's would just be a story" and yet MUFON has built up its finanaces on...stories, fake events and much more.

I have tried every Ufologist in the US I can and even "paranormal" investigators. None interested in what could turn into a major historical case.  News media and radio as well as podcasters -absolutely no interest.

I have appealed online -my blogs and even (this is how desperate it gets) Reddit. Nothing. If this was in the UK I would be taking a train to the location and asking questions and doing online searches for the witnesses -the current U.S. administration has made it more difficult for those outside the States to access online data.

I would say that when screaming out "Science won't take us seriously!" a Ufologist should be looking in a mirror.