Monday, 28 December 2020
Robin Cole, Circular Forum and the 1995 Bridge Abduction Case
Note: If Robin Cole or anyone who knows him could ask him to contact me I would appreciate it.
The full report and images will be published in AOP Journal no. 5 as well as Beyond UFO Contact in January 2021
In 1996 I was in touch with Robin Cole who headed the Circular Forum group based in Gloucestershire and that in turn led to my involvement in the Gotherington Gargoyle case (The Case of the Gotherington Gargoyle, in Some Things Strange & Sinister). Knowing of my interest in CE3K reports, Cole asked whether I would be interested in looking at an abduction report they had on file. Obviously, my answer was “yes.”
What I received was slightly shocking because, despite my reputation, I would not have expected to find the address, telephone number and percipient’s name unredacted. As it happens it may just be that I am the only person who now has the full report.
In-keeping with the report in the group magazine I identify the percipient as “Mr. X”.
At around 21:40 hrs on the 15th February, 1995, Mr. X was driving along the M50 and heading home from work when he noticed a bright object travelling at speed over the countryside. The object was heading in his direction but he lost sight of it as the road cuts through a hill at that point in his journey and a bridge blocked his view. Once he had driven under the bridge he was confronted by the object which was approximately 80 feet above the road but then descended to around 50 feet as he continued 250 yards from the bridge.
As Mr. X strained to see just what the object was he describes himself as suddenly becoming “docile”. Then “a voice from within” told him to pull over to get a better look and he did so. His next recollection was being in the middle lane in third gear and travelling at around 50 mph and a voice was telling him to “Keep going, there is no traffic, keep going.” Not much further along was the junction he would normally take but he pulled off of the road and got out of the car. He was unsure whether he had been involved in an accident of some kind but on checking his car was undamaged.
On checking, he found that some 40 minutes had passed and he had no recollection of anything during that period. His journey home normally took twenty minutes but on this night it had taken just over an hour and on getting home told his son about the experience. That was the end of an odd event until he started having vivid flashbacks and odd things upset him. While treating his wooden fence two slanted black knots in the timber frightened him and yet he could not understand why. He was equally shaken by the motif of two black, slanted wings on his son’s motorbike.
By 1996, Mr. X decided that he needed to contact someone which is when he contacted Cole. According to Cole; “We now have over forty pages relating to this case” yet the “full report” I was sent has only 15 pages which is 25 pages short of what Cole claimed. He did state that the late Tony Dodd had seen the report and a copy had been sent to Professor John Mack for his analysis and, at the time of the Circular Forum article a copy was in the hands of Nick Pope. However, as only 15 pages are available we are lucky that this includes Mr. X’s original account which adds much more to the report and I have left the spelling etc. intact:
“…I left work at exactly 9.30 p.m. in the evening to go home…the journey
which I take home is about 9.25 miles. I have been travelling this road for 7
years. The same route every day. This journey should take no more than 15
minutes maximum. It consists of 1.8 mile bypass to M50 at Ross-on-Wye,
3.75 miles motorway M50 and 4 miles on the Newent/Gorsley B4221. I
arrived at the roundabout at the M50 Travellers Rest end at approximately 9.40
p.m. It was dark but clear. I looked across the valley through a gap in the hedge
towards Ponts Hill. On the far horizon about 10-12 miles, low down was a large
bright light in an otherwise star less night sky.”
The account now gets a little confusing as the continuation of Mr. X’s account refers to a previous sighting but then jumps slightly. I assume that the next part takes up the narrative from after Mr. X had lost sight of the object due to the bridge and then saw it above the road:
“I don’t know whether this was a hole in the underside of the craft. There was
no noise (not helicopter or plane). The light as bin the first sighting completely
enveloped the craft. It appeared flurescent a bit like aqn aura around the outside
of the craft. But it shimmered when you looked at5 it. I only had a few seconds
to see this and estimated that it was about 80 ft. above me and about 2 bus
lengths wide (diameter). I am now fidgeting about in the car as the light is
bothering me. All of a sudden I hear a voice in my head saying “Pull over and
you can get a better look!”
“I went from worrying about the light and being agitated to totally docile
looking straight ahead not at all concerned about the encroaching light that
was descending on me. I looked along the hard shoulder for a safe place to
stop as I had been told. At this point the hard shoulder4 disappears and a small
road runs underneath the motorway. A barrier with warning posts appears in
front of me. A voice warns “Unsafe! Unsafe!” as I start to pull over. I straighten
up the car taking notice of the voice. I am sure these voices are some sort of
telepathy. It’s as if they can see through my eyes everything that is going on,
and are guiding me. I am under some form of hypnotic control. I can see
everything that is going on but I have to obey the voice.
“From the bridge to this point it takes about 20-25 seconds everything is
happening very quickly. The craft has to descend between two rock faces
and position itself above my car as well as fitting between the four lanes
carriagway. It is large but has fantastic control. It is at this point I think I
was abducted. It was as if I blinked my eyes and I was back again. The only
thing I can compare this with is if you are watching a very good film and it
jumps a frame. You notice something but because you are engrossed in the
story it appeares continues.”
I believe in that last line Mr. X meant “continuous” and I should also note here that a bus length is around 30-35 feet depending on the model so the object seen by Mr. X was approximately 60-70 feet in diameter. In the 1994 Silbury Hill case Paul and Sonya also believed that entities were “using” their eyes to see things. Mr. X continues:
“I am now looking straight ahead on the same bit of road. The car is in gear
now (5th) I am doing about 50 m.p.h. I am still not bothered about the light.
Everything appears normal and another voice says; ‘Don’t stop now! Keep
going. There is no traffic either side of the motorway. Keep going.’
“I estimate it was between 5-10 seconds after this that I came out of the
hypnotic state and the craft had gone. They had released my mind. I
exclaimed aloud ‘Where’s the light. Where’s the light.’ Not realising it was
all over. They had gone. I continued driving as I was told but I was now
completely conscious and in control. I noted there was no traffic what so ever
as I had been told and I kept going. When I reached the slip road at the
Gorsley turn off (B4221) I stopped before turning on to the B4221 for Newent.
I put the hazard lights on and got out of my car looked across the motorway
at a small wood opposite. I saw lights going down beyond the wood but could
not swear that they were the same lights that had plagued me earlier. Still no
traffic. I got back into my car. Put the hazard lights off put my seat belt on and
then noticed my digital clock was reading 10-22 p.m. that meant that a 3.5 mile
journey which would normally take 3-4 minutes took 40 minutes. I remember
feeling pleased when I saw the lights of a car coming from the Gorsley Golf
Club. The first car I had seen since entering M50. As the car passed I pulled
out behind it but it turned right onto the motorway to Ross-on-Wye.
“I continued home arriving at about 10-35 p.m. still wondering what had
happened. The light still haunting me. Which it does to this day. I checked
the car over and myself to see if I had been involved in any form of accident.
No damage to the car and no marks on my body.
“The only explanation to the lack of traffic on the motorway and loss of
Time would be if I had been taken when there was a lull in the traffic and put
back there was a lull in the traffic 40 minutes being lost inside the craft for
what purpose I do not know. My conclusion is I was taken by a F.F.O. similar
or the same as described in my earlier sightings with its outer lights on. This
light acting as a type of strobe giving it a shimmering or pulsing effect, thus
hypnotizing me, while taking the car and myself up into its hull and then up
into the sky and out of sight for 40 minutes to do whatever they had to do to
me and then bringing me back to exactly the same spot on the motorway to
continue my journey.
“I think that U.F.O.’s are using motorways as easy access for abductions and
now that the American Air-Force has gone its left the gate wide open for them
to do what they want. Up until 1993 my first sighting where I saw two craft, I
had never seen anything in 47 years of my life.
“When I arrived home at about 10-35 p.m. my wife was in bed asleep so was
my youngest son Stephen in his bed asleep. Andrew my eldest son was out
with friends, Richard my mid son was laying on the settee watching T.V.
(football) after the news had finished at 10-30 p.m. he was wearing his blue
towling dressing gown. I hung my jacket up put my work bag down and went
into the T.V. room to tell him about my incident with the light. He was
watching an action replay shot and asked me to be quite until he had seen it.
I then told him about this bright light and was bewildered at this time as to
what it was. He can verify the time I got home about 10-35 p.m..
“At no time do I remember stopping the car during the incident it
appeared continues. Apart from the problem with the light (U.F.O.).”
The interesting aspects of this account are what Ufologists tend to leave out because we read here what Mr. X was thinking at the time but also it shows that he was not “vague” afterwards. He notes that his wife and one son were asleep and that another was out with friends –he obviously checked this so he was “thinking straight”. He noted that Richard was watching a football replay on TV following the 22:00 hrs news and that he was wearing a blue dressing gown. He had also checked the car and himself for any damage or injuries. Mr. X even managed to write out a sequence of events for the evening of 15th February:
1) Clock out 9.30 p.m.
2) Walk to car park (2 mins)
3) Drive to M.50 using by-pass (5 min 30 secs)
4) Entre M. 50 9.40 p.m. approximately
5) First gap in hedge light on far horizon
6) Second gap light streaking across valley
7) I go under first motorway bridge
8) Craft descends on me
9) Open window of car and look up at craft
10) Voice tells me to “Pull over and you can get a better look’
11) Voice warning “Unsafe. Unsafe” as I go to pull over. Barrier in way
12) Voice again “Don’t stop now. Keep going. There’s no traffic either side of the motorway keep going”
13) Drive to slip road and junction B4221 at Gorsley 10.22 p.m.
14) Drive home to Newent arrive 10.35 p.m.
One morning at 04:00 hrs in 1993, Mr. X had looked across the yard (from where he worked?) and seen the Moon as well as two “flying saucers” although this appears to0 have been just a sighting with no missing time. With regards to the flash-backs of the 1995 incident Mr. X recalled being observed by entities but also of being in a laying down position in a white room –oddly enough, for no known reason he eventually repainted the interior of the house white.
The remark about the US Air Force no longer present refers to local bases used by them closing down or being used as “stop over” airfields. As I found out in the 1980s in conversations with USAF personnel there their presence had never seemingly been of any concern to “UFOs” locally.
It would be nice to know what the “40 pages” contained especially since it was stated that; “At one point we became very concerned for the “abductees” health and safety, as it seemed he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder directly as a result of his experience.”
Without the necessary details it is difficult to gauge whether this was incident was a psychological or physical event. Circular Forum suddenly became defunct and it was impossible to track Cole down though I did come across him on a ghost forum in which the “ghost hunter” Elliott O’Donnell was discussed. I was told Nick Pope had the full report but when I contacted him he was unsure -“I get sent so many things” which sort of ended my attempts to find out more.
Mr X was 50 years of age in 1996 and would now (in 2020) be 74 years of age if still alive. Unless someone has a copy of the full report Cole indicates went to Tony Dodd (deceased), John Mack (deceased) or Nick Pope this is another case we have lost.
Saturday, 26 December 2020
Berwyn Mountains UFO -Want A Piece of Crashed UFO?
Re. the Berwyn Mts 'UFO' crash which wasn't and Scott Felton's claims of me living in South Wales (never have) and being a government stooge (nope) and never heard of before (in his fantasy world he does NOT check links or other items sent to him showing him my involvment with UFOs going back to the 1970s) or Margaret Fry's utterly faked story -things I NEVER said and it is all in my book Some Things Strange and Sinister. This via John Hanson of the Haunted Skies project:
The Need To Be Honest About The Future of Ufology
We need to be very honest about Ufology. It is dead. Since 1947 the mindset has been that of a social club where people meet, hear the latest news and listen to occasional guest speakers while those in charge try to raise more funds. Yes, there were some really dedicated people but they either gave up for various reasons or succumbed to self-deception.
Carol Rainey, who was married to Budd Hopkins and assisted
him in his work reported ("The Co-Creation of the Abduction
Phenomenon", Spectrum Radio Network 11th February, 2011) how, if she
"challenged"
Hopkins and Jacobs, as far as they were both concerned, could not be challenged on their work and this begins to explain what went wrong with Hopkins work as well as Jacobs; neither man would accept criticism of their work or even allow peer review or analysis of alleged materials from alien abductions (powders, stained clothes or 'implants') there was always a reason why they would not cooperate on this aspect.
We also know that
Jacobs, as I have noted before, went so completely off the deep end that if he were a medical professional he could well be struck off for his actions –telephone hypnosis sessions alone are high risk but, you know, what the hell: he “knows” what he is doing and now that Hopkins is dead Jacobs is the ONLY man who knows the truth (the “David Vincent” syndrome –named after the character from the 1960s TV show The Invaders).
Researchers in psychology distinguish “belief superiority” from “belief confidence” (thinking your opinion is correct). Belief superiority is relative; it is when you think your opinion is more correct than other people’s. The top end of their belief superiority scale is to indicate that your belief is “Totally correct (mine is the only correct view)”. Hopkins and Jacobs fall into this last category.
So why did no Ufologists challenge them and their techniques and lack of any oversight or peer review? Well, Ufology is a kind of hive mentality club: you agree with everyone else or you are out. In the 1980s, t5hrough the efforts of two long standing MUFON members (who left MUFON when things started going wrong) I was persuaded to (all expenses paid) attend a MUFO)N symposium and give two talks on UK CE3K/AE research and how to proceed when such reports were received. No problem even though I do not like public speaking or stepping into even the shadow created by the lime light!
When I heard no more I asked what was happening because I needed to prepare material. “You upset a few people. Deal’s off” I was told. Before “orbs” and all the other “current raves” you have to remember MUFON was drawing in money, TV and a lot of publicity based on the Grey Abduction hysteria. Apparently “someone” (a well known UK Ufologist and author I am told) sent MUFON copies of some of my articles which question methodology and certain cases. No. MUFON was NOT going to allow that.
You see, if you are not “part of the hive” you do not get any time at a conference or speak anywhere. We have seen that corruption of ethics and any pretence at scientific research vanish as (without the permission of investigators or witnesses) MUFON sold all of its UFO reports to Robert Bigelow –just as John Carpenter had sold his confidential files. Then MUFON was hit by claims that it was rigging data to go with the lat4est trend, racist rants from some higher ups, not to mention sexism…oh, and child sexual abuse claims.
If all you see is the TV shows then you think MUFON is a slick hard core scientific organisation. MUFON died a long time ago.
Back-biting, in-fighting, Ufologists hoaxing other Ufologists or adding faked reports into the system making any serious study highly flawed and pointless. Ufology was never a science just as “Bigfootology” and “Cryptozoology” and around 96% of current paranormal research is and was not a science.
When I started working on my first book, Some Things Strange and Sinister” it contained almost 40 years of research into some cases. The UFO related cases outlined showed just how much lying had been going on. Noted American Ufologists admitting openly that reports used since the 1960s were well known hoaxes or fantasy stories from well known “personalities” but were these exposed widely to prevent any serious researcher using them? No. They continued to be used –including by the people who knew they were fake.
With the second book, Some More Things Strange and Sinister I delved into other cases –there were interesting cases to note in all fields including Ufology- and these were not debunking books. If you find an explanation for a report then you have to make that known to prevent serious researchers using it and every one of my books is fully referenced so everything can be double-checked which is the best peer review can be with these subjects.
When it came to the first book entirely dedicated to SETI, CETI and CE3K/AE –UFO Contact?- I decide4d to go straight for the proverbial jugular and hit certain “classic” cases hard. After 40-60 years of debunking there should have been enough pro-con material to reassess these cases. Fake then I’d show why by using facts rather than “Oh, well so-and-so said it was true.” I double and triple checked the cases put forward by debunkers (not sceptics who assess evidence but people just out to disprove everything by fair or foul means) and…most of it turned out to be fake evidence, twisted truths and worse. I had to then double and triple check that these were not Ufologists!
I could dismiss a lot Ufologists claimed –I am sick to my back-teeth of hearing about the Betty Hill “star map” which is pointless. I as sick of hearing “He passed dud cheques” (debunkers, even most Ufologists failing to point out that these payments were honoured by the person in question) or had a record for “parking violations” and when you consider the dirty and not-quite-legal things the debunkers got up to there were some pretty bad double standards going on.
I waded through all of this and concluded –based on testimony and secondary witness reports as well as other factors- that certain reports seemed genuine. “No, I’m not having that –I’ve missed something!” I said to myself. I checked, checked and checked again. Same conclusion each time. I had to stick with the results.
Let me make it clear that we do
NOT have any physical artefact from a UFO. As you might expect because it is
hard to steal something in most of the situations described. Unconnected people
observing a UFO over the area where a claimed encounter took place,
physiological and psychological effects and even trace evidence has to have a
cause. Someone walking down a quiet country lane or through a jungle is not
going to come into casual contact with high doses of radiation. Something has to have been seen or
encountered to cause psychological shock in a person or even post traumatic
stress disorder.
I prefer cases where there are
secondary witnesses if not to entities then to the UFO involved –something that
says yes, something did happen. I prefer cases involving two or more people
and, preferably, a report not messed up by some idiot using hypnosis and
forcing their own beliefs onto a percipient. Not some person who keeps details
to themselves and only releases little snippets as and when they like. The
percipient must be protected at all costs but initial and final
FULL reports must be published for perusal by any serious scientists to look
at. Any and all hypnotic sessions MUST
be recorded and made available. If we can see that no one is misleading us or
stacking the decks somehow then we have something we can look at and build on.
When I realised that there were
seemingly genuine incidents I began to look at others. I checked as I normally
do and came up wi8th various trends and findings that –it seems- no one else
has in Ufology. I was working alone and not connected to any group (most of who
would not cooperate anyway) and just ignoring the Grey (or which ever alien
Jacobs currently claims is the real
power behind things…until the next one is discovered) abduction phenomenon –I did assess the various aspects involved
in UFO
Contact?- and looking at the reports.
Everything I came across and
added to is fully referenced so anyone can come along and say “Let’s see if
this is accurate” and can do their own work.
Ufology cannot just sit on its
collective backsides and say “Jacobs is handling this” because he is NOT. A pinpoint of light in the sky is a pinpoint
of light in the sky and not proof of extraterrestrial space craft or even “back
up evidence” to someone’s claim of being abducted by aliens.
Although, if these objects and
those on board them are not from Earth, it leaves only one real conclusion
outside of wild and sometimes fantastical speculation; they are from another
planet. However, on that subject I have
to remain neutral because there is nothing to show us which planetary system or
planet. In fact, I do not even thing extra terrestrial when I study these
reports because that would mean the research would get tainted. If I believe
Betty and Barney Hill or Travis Walton, Zanfretta or any other percipient it is
because there is a strong case not because I believe in extra terrestrial
visitors.
If a percipient is told a planet
of origin, the planetary system and how far from Earth it is then that can be
checked to a degree –is it an exo-planet in a system we know of for instance.
Earth is currently (and very likely will not be for hundreds of years) not a
threat to any superior extra terrestrial civilization so one might hope that
one day someone asks one of these entities; “Where you from, pal?”
Ufology is currently in its death
throws but is in denial because admitting that affects certain power bases and
definitely the money coming in. Will it ever change or just fade out to become
an obscure fringe subject –no one can answer that. It is up to the individual
Ufologist.
Me? Well, I’m doing the work and
the results are there to read by anyone and with no seriously established
publisher being involved the reach is not as wide as I might hope. Would I
accept funding to continue the work? Like a shot.
Tuesday, 22 December 2020
Saturday, 19 December 2020
I am gone.
When this blog disappears please remember that I started this blog in 2012 -nine years ago- and the response has been under-whelming. Some 390,000 views and 30 comments which basically me chatting with a friend.
I had hoped that 2020 would see me posting some videos here on various reports I have looked into over 40+ years as well as some longer posts. But all of that takes time and my laptop died on me and I'm now using a PC that's in rapid decline. I needed support to keep things going.
Buy one of the books then at least you get something out of it and I can put the money into newer things (a You Tube channel was planned).
The response was...nothing. 1,500+ posts and all I saw were the people taking origuinal material and using it as their own -and getting comments and responses!
The reaction to In Pursuit the magazine was appalling. About three copies sold.
Well, you want unresearched fake and junk posts pretty soon you'll have the internet to choose from.
I gave it almost a decade. I tried. Pity no one was interested.
And this is my last post. Go to the AOP Face Book page or where ever. I am gone.
Thursday, 17 December 2020
It's....Beyond UFO Contact
I have just finished the final editing on my fourth, possibly final, book on Close Encounters of the Third Kind or CE3K. Each book has looked at classic as well as little known cases but each is analyzed and all the sources are fully referenced so others can also look into them.
I look at how Ufology has treated percipients in these UFO encounters and if I can dig up new material I will.
Before Skinwalker Ranch there was Clearview. Never heard of it? Well buy the book and you will. UFOs, CE3Ks, Bigfoot and cattle mutilations.
Harrison Bailey -rarely reported on but Ann Druffel used the title “Harrison Bailey and the Flying Saucer Disease”. Controversial case and with a hiont of racism aimed at Bailey. In a very chunky chapter I look at the case and, in my opinion, finally give a conclusion and it should wake up a few Ufologists.
There are little known cases as well as cases that are often misrepresented online. There are over 320 pages so there’s a lot to read.
That includes a look at what official policies therte are shhould a flying saucer land, the position of the United Nations Out Space Affairs office and I answer the question; “What would YOU do if a UFO landed in front of you?”
There’s a smattering of SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) too.
Book should be available soon!
