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SUBJECT: ENCOUNTER IN ENGLAND FILE: UFO1266
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NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE
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DATE OF ARTICLE: February 10, 1989
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SOURCE OF ARTICLE: News & Advertiser
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LOCATION: Todmorden, England
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BYLINE: Pat Swift
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(C) Copyright 1989 ParaNet Information Service
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All Rights Reserved.
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THIS FILE WAS PROVIDED BY THE UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE
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AND PREPARED BY PARANET ALPHA -- PARANET INFORMATION
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SERVICE
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PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS
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PARANET ALPHA
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DENVER, COLORADO
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NOTE: THESE FILES ARE NOT FOR REDISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE
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OF THE PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE NETWORK
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THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE
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By Pat Swift
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Former policeman Alan Godfrey has never consciously claimed
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to have met creatures from outer space.
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But whatever happened to him in the "missing minutes" in the
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cold early hours of a November morning over eight years ago has
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irrevocably changed his life forever.
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Alan hit the national headlines over a year after first
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putting in an official report that he had seen a UFO hovering
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above Burnley Road near Mons Jill.
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At first there was local interest and a lot of speculation
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about the sighting, particularly as five other officers in
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Calderdale and Greater Manchester had reported seeing a similar
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object low in the skies on the same morning.
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But Alan was not the first police officer in Todmorden to
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put in an official report of a UFO sighting.
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It was only when a senior police officer persuaded him to
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reveal details of tapes taken while he underwent regression
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hypnosis that he really created a stir on the front pages of
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nearly every national newspaper.
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For under hypnosis, under stringent conditions and observed
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by police officers, Alan told how he had been taken aboard the
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spaceship and had been examined by creatures from outer space.
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"To this day, I don't know what happened to me that
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morning," says Alan. "I can clearly remember seeing this object
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revolving and hovering above the road as I drove up towards
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Lydgate in the police car. I stopped the car, made notes and did
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a sketch and then got out of the car and started walking towards
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it.
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"The next thing I can remember is being further up Burnley
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Road beyond the point where I had seen the craft, but it was no
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longer there."
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Consciously he has no recollection of what happened in
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between, but there are physical clues which appear to back up his
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story told under hypnosis.
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On those tapes he tells how he was laid on a table and
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examined with some kind of electrical probe fixed to the insole
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of his foot.
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At the time of the incident he found his heavy leather
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police boot had been ripped and he had a small burn mark on his
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insole.
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"It would be a lot easier for me to believe that I made it
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all up under hypnosis...that it was something my imagination
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dreamed up.
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"But the truth is I don't know what happened, and probably
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never will."
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When the details of the tapes were released to the press
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they linked it to speculation about a case on which Alan had
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worked five months before his UFO sighting--the mysterious death
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of Polish born Leeds miner Zygmunt Adamski.
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Mr. Adamski had disappeared from near his home on the
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outskirts of Leeds. He had set out to visit a nearby shop to buy
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some potatoes as his family had visitors in preparation for the
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following day when he was due to give away his God daughter at
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her wedding.
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He never returned--but five days later his body was
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discovered in the coal yard near Todmorden station.
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Some of his clothing was missing; he had mysterious burn
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marks on the back of his head which had been treated with an
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ointment which scientists could not identify as anything known on
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earth--and he had died of a heart attack brought on by fear or
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shock.
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There had been many reports of UFO sightings in West
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Yorkshire around the time and Coroner Mr. James Turnbull in
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recording an open verdict, said he could not rule out speculation
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about creatures from space.
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Alan was one of the local officers working on the case and
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was surprised that no major investigation was launched.
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But although he was discharged from West Yorkshire Police on
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medical grounds due to an injury he had received before all these
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strange events, Alan is still bound by the Official Secrets Act.
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"Because of this I am not allowed to talk about the case,"
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he says.
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After he became a major news story, Alan felt that he was
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being subjected to harassment in the force. "Life was being made
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difficult for me," he said. "I was no longer 'one of the lads'
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and superiors sent me for medical examinations in efforts to show
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I was having hallucinations, but the doctors all gave me a clean
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bill of health mentally."
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Eventually Alan and the police parted company when an old
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injury incurred during a struggle while on duty was the official
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reason for his medical discharge.
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"I felt I could have continued in the force, even if only at
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a desk job," he says.
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But losing his job also cost him his home as he could no
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longer afford to meet the mortgage payments, and he had to turn
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his hands to other trades.
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"It put a strain on everything and life has been difficult,"
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he recalls. "The police even raided my leaving party to check
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for after hours drinkers."
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Alan is regularly sought by TV and radio chat show hosts and
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the Press.
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"Whenever there is another major sighting, I start getting
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calls for interviews again."
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But don't the fees from these TV and radio interviews help
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compensate for the difficulties he faced on first leaving the
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force?
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Alan smiles wrily. "There's a sliding scale for interview
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fees, and I'm definitely on the bottom rung of the ladder!"
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His financial fortunes cold change if one of the Hollywood
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film giants decides to take up an option on using the transcripts
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of the hypnosis sessions as the basis for a future film.
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But in the meantime, Alan is settling into his new life,
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although he still misses police work.
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And has he seen any further strange objects in the skies?
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"I don't look," he says emphatically. "If one landed right
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in front of me, I'd turn around and run. I wouldn't want to get
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involved."
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5/89
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