The Sinister, Frightening and Strange Case Of JS

"Terry -have you seen this one?" My friend asked.  I followed the link to a Scottish UFO forum where it seemed anything but actual cases was the subject matter.  There was "JS" (I have his real name on record) and his account and he was asking for help or advice.

Apparently, no one even bothered responding. Were these Ufologists or "on the band wagon" fan boys.  The latter it seems.  So I tracked down JSs email and contacted him.

Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:02:39 +0000
From: aopbureau@yahoo.co.uk

"Hello. My name is Terry Hooper and for 40+ years I have specialized in alien-entity/creature reports -associated/not associated with UFOs. I read about your encounter earlier this year on the UFO Casebook forum and wondered whether you could give me any further details and,possibly,a rough sketch of what you saw that I can work on [I'm also an artist] and a photo of the site in question? What I would like to do is draw an illo of what you saw set at the location where seen.  Any indication of any colour to the head/body?  Any additional information you can give I can then form into a report.  A copy would, obviously, be sent to you. I'm sure you probably have some questions to ask me first so please do. Obviously, I would like a real name -BUT THIS WOULD NOT BE REVEALED TO ANYONE ELSE AND CERTAINLY NOT INCLUDED IN ANY REPORT.  In 40+ years I have never broken a confidence which probably makes me a better bet than the Ministry of Defence! I want to emphasise that I am a serious investigator/researcher. So,please,consider my request. In case you get any problems with this mail address please try earpol@yahoo.com or even blacktowercg@hotmail.com My Thanks in advance. Regards Terry" This is the reply I received: "hi ,sorry about the delay but some unknown person keeps deleting certain photos from my computer, the photo marked A is where my wife first noticed them, he was bending up and down checking something very slowly, he knew we where there but it did not bother him, the bad drawing is what we saw when we walked up the hill close to him , i saw only one but my wife is adamant that there was two. he was about two yards behind the flag , the flag is six feet from the grass. hope this helps you, when we took the photos a black helicopter arrived and circled us, it took photos of us as it hovered above very close then flew off in the direction it arrived from, i have tried complaining about it to the aviation authorities but to no avail , it had no markings with rear tinted windows ,the pilot was visible". Then my response: "Hi,____. Thanks for the photographs, they make a good reference. I wondered whether you could make a more detailed sketch or give a fuller description so that I could put a sketch together then see if its like the entity you saw? Was this the earlier sighting because I cannot find a link on UFO Forum? The one where you were walking the dogs was just you by yourself? It would be interesting to get as much detail on both the sightings and see if,once the sketch has been added,what you saw matches up with other cases. Sadly,any complaint about black helicopters tends to go unanswered! Regards Terry" The response came quickly -with the above email there was a Diary of Events that I shall come to further on: "if you take richard obrien put him in a long leather look coat that steaches to his ankles, then make him a shadow with a lighter greyish area for a face, then streach him out to about 9 feet and you have the alien". The whole point of any investigation is that you remain "in neutral" while trying to sympathize with the percipient in such a case.  Some might look at the emails and think "That guy is a weirdo", however, his Diary of Events explains why he wrote in this way. When I came across JSs account I asked some Scottish Ufologists and groups whether they could contact him as there were things in his account that I felt pointed to something serious, particularly the physiological symptoms. Not one single person or group was interested.  I have tried to contact JS but with no success, and it may well be that he passed away. This could, yes, be psychological -a condition leading up to his stroke- however if his wife and brother confirmed details and we could get confirmation of the physiological effects, perhaps doctors notes or opinions this would give it a whole new perspective. Note that I do not believe in chopping up or re-phrasing a witness/percipient statement. This is from JSs computer diary and the only thing that I have done is to break up a couple of very long paragraphs to make its reading easier. "This is my diary of events and what I have found so far. Our abduction. The date was 01/08/07 on the A70 "we left to go and collect samples of sand from a quarry sixteen miles from our work ,it was a nice sunny day and we where both relaxed and very normal, we left at one fifteen pm and arrived at the quarry at twenty five to two, it is a straight road with very little traffic and no traffic lights ect as it is in the country, we left at quarter to two but did not arrive back at the work until four fifteen, there is a small section of road that I cannot remember driving about four hundred meters, before reaching this section I was behind a blue corsa and a red transit van ,for some reason I cannot remember where the car and van went as they where not in front of me at the end of the four hundred meters there is no turn off so they should have been in front of me all the way along the road, after this section my brother was acting weird singing let it be over and over and also in-between the repetitive song saying things like I cant feel my hand or I need to go home or get me home or I cant feel my legs all the time getting more panic stricken then started screaming for me to stop the truck as he had to get out ,this I did at the first space I reached, he got out and started walking around in a circle still repeating the song and saying I need to get home he was very grey ,what I thought of him at the time reminded me of Dustin Hoffman when he played the part in the rain man he was talking very fast in-between singing the two words of the song over and over, I got him back into the truck and speeded back to work thinking he was having a fit I was doing eighty and was back in no time, it was then that I found out it was four fifteen and we had taken three hours to do a trip that at the most should have been one hour ,we did not stop except at the quarry have repeated the trip several times and it has taken forty five minutes, I got my brother into our car did not waste time telling anyone as I had to get him home. "we got the doctor in and he told us he has had a panic attack and would be ok in a short while ,he was wrong as my brother ended up in hospital the only thing they could find was he had very low oxygen levels in his blood and a very fast heart beat, I at this time was fine every thing seemed normal ,when I got home I started feeling funny the next thing I know its sixteen hours later my wife just thought I was tired and left me sleeping ,I normally only sleep about three to four hours so this was very abnormal for me ,it was not until the next day it dawned on me we had lost two hours time on that four hundred meter stretch of road my brother cant remember anything before he started singing except the car and van we where behind but cannot remember where they went we both have a total blank about the two hours. "seen blue orbs of light and white orbs being chased by the RAF and have seen above the A70 what I called a sausage link it was two orange tube shaped objects that looked joined loosely together very height up well above the flight paths and very large. "we are suffering problems ,my brother told me tonight he is having problems with his left and right and is getting things all mixed up ,he also has a bad headache that wont shift and seems very jumpy ,the only problem I am having is my teeth, I have an abscess at the wisdom tooth and two front teeth have gone grey to black from white and very painful but not toothache this happened in the last 12 hours this may not have anything to do with the missing two hours, I have found a needle mark on my right arm but nothing else ,I also keep wanting to return to the A70 its getting compulsive but maybe that’s me searching for what happened this I do not know but we both are finding it very scary and very annoying to the point of anger .you don’t expect such things at my age 50 but now I need to find an answer for the missing 2 hours some sort of proof as to what happened enough to put our minds at rest. "One other thing, my brother has not slept since it happened and complains of being sore across his back and sholders, this may be due to lack of sleep but he seems to have had the rough end of the stick I don’t know if this has any connection but near my work there is an old airbase that I have nosed about in ,it is well spread along the A70 with deep bunkers in the woods ect and I took to gathering info about it as a hobby, I found one that seems to be still in use but did not go into that one ,it belongs to the USAF 6910th also known as shadow warriors and as far as I have found out was disbanded after the cold war, the airbase was known as RAF Kirk Newton but was solely American and very top secret. " the area around the A70 belongs mostly to the MOD and is still used on a regular basis I have also come across three abductions on the A70 one a forestry worker who seems to have died from illness by his abduction the other two went public and suffered ridicule but from what I have read is that theirs was very similar to ours and they where also driving before and after their experience "Health update, I have lost most of my teeth and have had to take my third course of antibiotics, I did not have this problem before whatever it was happened to us but in such a short space of time I have had teeth totally die ,I only have gums at either side of my mouth and have become prone to abscesses ,all my joints are sore constantly and my brother is finding it hard to get about because of joint pain and always being lethargic, we have not spoken about this to each other for a while but yesterday he was telling me he is getting flash backs and weird dreams "Update, still no closer to knowing what happened or why. my health has improved and I feel great but the same cannot be said about my brother, he keeps getting weird dreams and is positive someone is entering his home at night when all are asleep when he feels someone has visited he states that the next day the whole family find it hard to awaken and feel sluggish all day and very lethargic, the dreams are always the same theme ,he meets up with someone in the dark who takes him to a cliff edge or wall of a cavern they descend on a lift that has large steel girders around it ,it goes very deep into the earth, he is then taken (not by any force) to a doorway that he is told is part of a crashed space ship he is told that he has to open the door with his mind this he does and enters with his companion ,inside is massive with lots of people in white suits and also lots of armed military ,he then enters another lift that seems to go down into the ship, here he is met by someone else who walks him around to the back of the lift to a door again is opened by thought ,when the door opens there is a white tunnel that the military charge into firing their weapons ,he can see the end of the tunnel witch is quite short and sees aliens firing back at the military ,he feels although this is all underground the doorway leads to another world not on earth he is then returned back to the cliff and awakens feeling ill. This dream has repeated over and over never seems to change "The area we have been working at is a small farm my sister has just bought and we are only sorting it out for her, this I now find is the scean of the a70 abduction of two men, we also have found an area of trees that have been severely damaged, there is no access rout into the damaged area, it is dense forest all around this area. "Entered area of damage only managed to get to the outer edge took some photos. "Have entered the damaged area, filmed it but both cameras have stopped working, managed to get something, the area is covered with a white dust like substance and the broken wood looks bleached like you would find on a beach. "Just had a filling fall out of the last tooth on the side, has three different colored wires attached to it, did not have a filling on that tooth? Tried filming the filling it wont go into focus, the wires seem to be plastic coated with a carbon core, both been feeling very ill nausea and sickness. "When we where filming the damaged area the forestry department watched us and the following day cleared the area, striped clean also quite a few military trucks in the area . "Followed a trail of info that has led me to an area the other side of Livingston, found two well secured areas, and filmed it. Have been getting followed by black range rovers with tinted windows they turned up at this location as well. No company name or logo on both areas but have found the old sign that belonged to the construction company. "The construction company is deep underground mining specialists. "Not much happened in the following months until just recently and this is my notes on that incident. met my first ET last night really weird experience, my wife and I took the dogs for a walk at midnight on the braid hills golf course now after following a path to the summit of one of the hills the path then flows downhill into a valley , this is when I noticed what I call the cellophane ufo’s as you do not see it all you see is a large sheet of cellophane paper rippling in the wind above you, now normally when I come across them they are small or look small about four square yards but in this case it seemed at least fifty square yards then it was gone .  "We continued our walk along the valley then across the green to the return path that is at the other side off the hill , at this time I was looking up trying to see any other UFO and my wife had wandered about thirty yards in front of me when I saw her watching something on a green half way up the hill, when I arrived beside her she told me someone was watching us and pointed to the area and at first I never saw anything then a man came into view then seemed to bend over to do something now he was about fifty to one hundred yards from us so I assumed he was doing the same as us walking a dog so we continued our walk still watching his movements as it was midnight in the middle of nowhere so better safe than sorry.  "As we followed the return path it took us up towards the green where we could still see what we took to be a man moving around on the green so even though it was quite light I switched on my torch and highlighted my dogs one is a longhaired German shepherd and the other is a cross ridgeback come great Dane both big dogs then turned my torch off again and continued up the hill to the return downhill path to the car park this took us to about fifteen yards from the man who at this time had turned and moved about two yards in our direction then stopped .  "I now could see him very clearly his height was the first thing we noticed as he must have been over seven feet tall very thin dressed all in black now it was then that I noticed my wife kept referring to him as them but as I could only see one I did not mention this at the time anyway we continued walking up to the green then we reached the downhill stretch of the path we must have been about ten yards from him so we stopped and looked at him and he just continued to stand still and look at us this is when we could see he was a lot taller than seven feet he was big but very thin he then moved over about two yards then stopped and we just continued our walk down to the car and it was not until I started it and put on my lights ready to leave that the whole episode became clear and we started discussing the event, my wife was adamant that their was two people both very tall even though I only remember seeing one both dressed in black , the other strange fact is we cannot remember seeing a face only a tall black human shape arms legs ect I noticed a belt with what looked like silver buttons on it apart from that we cannot remember any other detail on the person .  the other strange fact is that the dogs did not seem to notice him and where very calm and just wandering about as usual and that is very unusual for them as they normally stick close when nearing someone and get defensive, my wife and myself felt no threat at all or any fear and that is very unusual for my wife as she spooks very easily. even though I had my camera with me I had no inclination to take a photo yet this would have been the first move I would make I also noticed we had no missing time and if we did it would only be about fifteen minutes . The whole thing was really very weird. "Went back last night hoping to see ET took the same route with my camera in my hand ready but nothing happened so headed for the green where we saw the figure and had a midnight picnic lol. Measured the flag pole that was in front of the figure it was six foot exactly and as we could see it was only reaching chest height on the figure would give an estimated height of eight foot .watched a ufo come in ,it started like a star moving across the sky then stopped and seemed to fall into our atmosphere getting really bright and trebled in size then stopped ,it was there about two minutes then the light moved across the sky and disappeared from sight , waited until dawn then left for home going back tonight . "My wife is adamant that there was more than one .She referred to them as two from the moment she first noticed him and brought him to my attention and all the way up the path she again used the term them at least three times, now she is very articulate in her speech as most lawyers are so she must have been seeing two persons and according to her both looked the same all in black but on the other hand I am adamant I only saw one. "I received an email from someone named Terry Hooper asking for photos of the area this happened at and full details but because of illness I only managed to deal with it today, so I had my daughter drive me up to the area and I showed her where it all happened so she could take photos for me as I am the worlds worst with a camera, anyway it took only five minutes to take the photos I needed then I returned to the small car park and we put the camera away in the boot , that’s when a large grey black colored helicopter flew over the hill to the car park , it circled us very slowly traveling at about fifty yard diameter and about forty feet high, it did this twice then hovered side on to us as we got into the car to drive off then it flew off fast in the direction it came from , then as we left the car park a black range rover with heavy black tinted windows followed us home even though I took detours away from the main roads , it seems I have attracted someone’s attention lol. The helicopter had no markings or numbers on it and I could see it very clearly, the rear window seemed tinted but I could see the pilot who was not in any uniform also I could see the door handles as it was that close. Have made complaints to the aviation authority but nothing is being done about it strange? "That is it for now, I have excluded a few parts such as my involvement with a Mr. Mankins who was head of research and development for NASA or so I was told lol seems he is the top man, and I blame them for my sudden fall from good health as I turned them down at my meeting with him at nasa he Washington dc and opted to work with a Swiss banker that they asked us not to do lol nasty people lol had my first stroke a week later." Again, Ufologists refused to consider a case for investigation but continued with their inter-group/personality arguing and focussing only on the fantasy of UFO crashes.  Was/is this fear of actually dealing with the Unknown but feeling safe dealing with the fantasy side of UFOs? We may well have lost a significant case. the following are the photographs JS sent me.

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.