Alan Godfrey is a retired police constable of the West Yorkshire Police known for his 1980 report of an unidentified flying object.
UFO encounter edit
On the evening of 28 November 1980, PC Alan Godfrey responded to reports of cattle wandering around a council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Godfrey claims that during this patrol he saw a bright light hovering above the road, describing it as a rotating diamond-shaped object about 20 feet (6.1 m) high and 14 feet (4.3 m) wide. Godfrey tried to radio for help but his equipment did not work; the object then suddenly vanished and Godfrey found himself 30 yards (27 m) further down the road.[1] He could not account for approximately 30 minutes, and had a split boot and an itchy red mark on his foot.[1] During hypnotic regression, Godfrey recalled how a beam of light blinded him and made him pass out, before waking up inside a room being medically examined by small beings and a humanoid.[1]
Godfrey believes that he was forced into early retirement from the police force.[1] In 2018, he stated his belief that the abduction he told of under hypnosis was probably a dream, stating that he "never said [he] was abducted by aliens".[2]
Connection to Adamski case edit
Six months earlier, in June 1980, Godfrey investigated the death of 56-year-old Zigmund Adamski. Adamski went missing on 6 June; his body was found three days later on top of a 10-foot-high (3.0 m) Todmorden coal pile, 20 miles (32 km) from his Tingley home.[2] He was wearing a suit but his shirt was missing.[2] His clothes were "improperly" fastened and his hair had also been cropped short in a "roughly cut" manner.[3] Godfrey told reporters that he believed it possible that Adamski may have been abducted by aliens and placed on the coal pile "by someone or something", saying that he was "open minded".[1][3] Other theories put forward have suggested that Adamski was killed by KGB agents, or that he had been struck by ball lightning, become dazed and confused and wandered off to the coal pile and died. Adamski's wife, Lottie, initially suspected that her husband had been kidnapped.[2]
Godfrey has self-published Who or What Were They?, a book that includes his speculations regarding his own UFO sighting, the Adamski case, and abduction claims by Travis Walton.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Dillon, Jonathan (21 October 2014). "Former policeman's story of a close encounter with a UFO pulls in crowds". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Robinson, Andrew (14 January 2018). "Alien abduction or KGB? The baffling case of the miner whose body was found on a pile of coal". YorkshireLive. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ^ a b "BBC Inside Out - Alien abduction claims in Yorkshire". www.bbc.co.uk. 3 February 2003. Retrieved 17 July 2023.