Octopus Dreaming

Buckfastleigh Update -and more

When I first appealed for information regarding the 1978 Buckfastleigh incident which I wrote in fuller detail about in UFO Contact? I never expected some of the unrelated responses I would get.
https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2018/10/buckfastleigh-devon-1977-witness-appeal.html

The story of the daylight sighting, in May, by three boys, in school at the time, in Paignton was interesting especially since they all still knew each other.  It also hinted at problems with local investigators which had created the whole mess surrounding the Buckfastleigh report.
https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/1978-paighton-school-ufo-sighting.html

What I learnt from never before reported sightings is that Devon, in 1979, saw an incident that might have been sleep paralysis but the woman involved tried to, and then succeeded in getting up to see what was casting the strange glow she had seen -but too late. Nice easy explanation except her husband witnessed the odd light. Both kept quiet but she did tell her friend.  Her friend -who put her in touch with me- was one of two groups who observed a very good CE I in Summer 1979.

Just prior to September, 1978, a man -living and working in Torquay with his fiancee- was woken by her one night and both knelt on the bed to watch an object (described) some 50 metres away from them"I for some reason woke up sitting on a chair in the room. Thinking we were late for work and had overslept we ran to the hotel only to be 2 hours early" -his wife was sleeping in the bed. He continued to tell me about having served in the police (in Scotland) for 30 years and then: "A few years ago before (his wife) passed, out of the blue she asked if I remembered that ufo in Torquay. she said, when they put you to sleep I saw a lot more than you".  I have some details but the percipient wants to take  it no further but having heard I was chasing up UFO reports from that period "just wanted to let you know".

Apart from the main Buckfastleigh event I learnt, quite by accident, of what appears to have been an abduction -object and entities seen- at the same rough date.  It also appears that another abduction might have taken place (same time frame) with the UFO  being sighted over the person in questions house by two others.  In this case it is claimed that there is spinal scarring from a seeming operation but the percipient has never had a spinal operation and I am told his doctor was mystified.

There are other reports that show a peak of UFO activity over a quite local area of Devon in 1978 and 1979. The importance of some of these cases is significant.  If the three involved in the Buckfastleigh event were abducted then that would take a total of 5, possibly 6, abductions over one very short period of time and very localised.

I have to confess that I cannot pursue these reports(and promises of confidentiality mean that I cannot forward personal details to others -I have found ufologists guarantees to take third place to publicity or personal agendas and I will not submit genuine percipients to that.

As my books don't sell and my personal finances are..."low" I cannot afford one or two field trips to interview, etc. and such work is not funded and I have tried ways including Paypal donations.  It is both frustrating and depressing to me personally that what could be significant cases cannot be fully investigated and will remain as they are.

But that is the update and if anyone out there knows the Buckfastleigh threesome PLEASE ask them to get in touch!