The intriguing case involving Alan Godfrey, a respected retired British police officer, occurred in 1980 as he patrolled the village of Todmorden, a town in the county of West Yorkshire in northwest England. According to Alan, he was answering a call involving the disappearance of a small herd of cattle in the early hours of the rainy morning of November 28.

Then, while searching for the animals, the policeman spotted a large vehicle on the road coming toward him. At first Alan thought it was a bus carrying workers to the village. As he got closer to the vehicle, however, he realized that it was something very, very strange.

Sinister Encounter

According to Alan, the vehicle he thought was a bus was actually an object that floated about five feet above the ground. Startled, the policeman tried to call for reinforcements on the radio, but found that the device was completely mute. It was then that he decided to take notes of what he was witnessing and draw a picture of the object. Following is the scheme made by the officer:

Drawing by Alan

As described in his notebook, the ship was just over 4 meters high and about 6 meters wide. In addition, as reported, it was oval in shape and appeared to be spinning counterclockwise at high speeds, causing the road vegetation to shake with movement.

Then, while taking notes of what happened, Alan said that he noticed a bright flash, and after that, the next thing he remembers is to “come back to himself” several miles away from the sighting site - and to have suffered a 15 minute time lapse. The policeman even returned to the area where he had seen the object, but found only a huge dry circle on the pavement while the rest of the road was wet.

Stylized version of the object described by Alan

Seeing no more traces of the alleged ship, Alan returned to the police base - and decided not to tell anyone about his experience for fear of being ridiculed by his colleagues. However, the officer later discovered that other witnesses, including other base officers patrolling a nearby region, had also reported seeing an unidentified flying object in the area.

Bizarre Official Report

After discovering that he was not the only witness to the sighting, Alan took courage and decided to present an official report on the incident. The problem is that the document eventually leaked and the story was published by a local newspaper, gaining great repercussion at the time.

Alan posing by his car

With the exhibition, an investigation began and new details began to emerge, such as the fact that the officer had no memory of what had happened and his boots had damaged the soles, indicating that he could have been dragged on the asphalt. road. Alan underwent hypnosis sessions to find out what had happened during the 15-minute memory lapse, and it was then that he released even stranger information.

According to him, the car battery, the radio and the headset "died" just before the flash. Then Alan remembered being in a room in the presence of a huge dog and a bearded man who communicated with him through telepathy. According to the policeman, this guy was named Yosef, was accompanied by a host of robotic creatures with lamp-like heads, and the group tried to lead him to a sort of stretcher.

Illustration created from police reports

The officer apparently could not recall all the details of his experience, but did not describe the incident as traumatic - nor did he describe having had unpleasant medical experiments, as is commonly heard in abduction reports. For Alan, what he witnessed was real, and a psychological investigation conducted by the police department concluded that he did not suffer from mental problems. Meantime...

Previous experiences

During the investigations, Alan revealed that he had had quite strange experiences in the past. According to the policeman, he remembered seeing a sphere of light in his bedroom as a child, and years later as a teenager, seeing a ghostly figure while taking a girlfriend home. On this occasion Alan also suffered a lapse of time estimated at two hours.

Alan currently

Because of these revelations, some believe that Alan's experience was caused by tiredness and lack of sleep - and that he "dreamed" of his encounter with the aliens. In any case, it is noteworthy that the region in which the officer claims to have been abducted was famous for numerous reports of sightings, and police apparently investigated several occurrences in the area.

Alan, in turn, regardless of whether he had a real experience or was the victim of a trick of his own mind, became the protagonist of one of the earliest recorded cases of alien abduction in the UK.

* Posted on 06/06/2016