In November and December 1980, on the east coast of England, UFOs were observed very often, almost every day. The police cars were chasing the plates, the aliens circled over the oil platforms in the North Sea and over the NATO military bases.
The culmination of this wave was a rather scandalous kidnapping of a policeman in West Yorkshire, in the small town of Todmorden (Todmorden).
The story took place on November 28, 1980. Details were found out by the British ufologist Jenny Randles. Let's turn to the materials she has collected (and not to the publications in the not very sensitive press) and we will fill in the gaps in our knowledge, because in the post-Soviet space, practically nothing is known about the case.
Alan Godfrey draws a UFOPolice constable Alan Godfrey was on patrolling that evening and drove a car along Burnley Road on the outskirts of Todmorden. He did the job: he was looking for the missing cows.
And, the constable for a long time was amazed how they found themselves there, how they managed to come there, leaving no traces on the wet land. Having completed the search and informed the dispatcher of the find, Godfrey was going to go back to the site to hand over the shift. However, soon he was really astonished.
At first Alan Godfrey thought that a five-hour bus was approaching him, taking the workers from the city to the surrounding villages.
But when there were thirty meters to the facility, the constable saw that the "bus" was actually very strange. Oval, does not touch the roadway, it floats in the air. And there, where the bushes are flying, the bushes are shaking.
Godfrey stopped the car, took out a tablet intended for sketching schemes of road accidents, and began to sketch an unidentified object. But at that moment a bright light broke out, and ... the constable again led the car along Burnley Road, and the UFO was gone. Lapse of memory. A tablet with a sketch of an unidentified flying object disappeared without a trace.
Alan Godfrey turned and rode back. On a wet, rain-drenched road, a dry area was clearly visible. The moisture evaporated in the place where the aliens landed. When he reached the police station, he checked his watch and realized that fifteen minutes had elapsed from memory.
Initially, the constable strongly doubted whether he should file an official report on what had happened, but then he decided, having learned that that evening he was not the only witness. The truck driver called the police and reported the bright light seen over the city. All coincided in time.
In addition, the police detachment was looking for a motorcycle stolen in Halifax in Calder Valley marshes and also reported on a white-blue glow falling on Todmorden. And again with the chronology everything was in order.
So Constable Godfrey wrote about what happened in the report. And he was surprised when the police department allowed to transfer information to a local newspaper. From it about the incident learned ufologists, and to the scene of the events left a group of researchers from Manchester.
On the shoes of Godfrey, there were scratches, as if unconscious policeman was being dragged somewhere. But he could not remember anything. The erased memories are the true signs of abduction by aliens. Then a psychiatrist from Manchester applied regressive hypnosis.
Alan said that as soon as the light broke out, the police walkie-talkie crackled from static electricity, and the car's engine died. Then the radiance became dazzling, and he lost consciousness.
When he came to himself, he found himself in a strange room, more like an interior of a house than a space ship's cabin. In addition, on the floor lay a large black dog, reinforcing the impression of home comfort.With Alan telepathically speaking, a man in long "biblical" robes, who introduced himself as Josef. This Joseph had servants - undersized creatures, "like five-year-olds," with heads "looking like bulbs." Most likely, they were robots.
Shorties were described as "gray", aliens from Zeta Seti. The same as the crashed under Roswell in 1954, although still slightly different.
Joseph asked Godfrey various questions about his life. There were no medical examinations, usual for cases of abductions, injections or cuts in order to take blood and tissue samples. Just a conversation. Although during the contact there were other failures in the memory.
After a hypnosis session, the constable frankly said that he was sure that the aliens had abducted him. But he does not know whether the memories were genuine, or whether he saw a somewhat distorted reality. For example, under the influence of some alien anesthesia.
The power-holders did not sit idly by. In the press, a whole campaign of mockery and ridicule was unfolded. And, with an exact indication of the real name of the policeman. And then the constable was forcibly sent to a psychiatric examination. In general, everything happened according to the plan worked out by the years, one for rulers in all countries.
Psychiatrists, strangely enough, turned out to be honest and categorically stated that Alan Godfrey is perfectly healthy and fit for further service in the police. Nevertheless, a few years later the authorities recommended him to go to an honorable pension.
The most interesting moment is a room decorated exactly like a typical English living room, except that without a fireplace. But with the dog. In the overall picture did not fit only shorty-biorobots and strange attire of Josef.It can be assumed that Alan Godfrey was not dragged into an alien ship, which was the size of just a large bus. Just opened a small hyperspace portal and moved somewhere else. And then they brought it back in the same way, put the car behind the wheel and started the engine.
This assumption partly explains the testimony of other abductees who have repeatedly noticed that inside the flying saucer seems much more than outside, and it is completely incomprehensible how large spaces could fit in it. In fact, people were not delivered to the ship, but to somewhere else.
In addition, this story confirms the assumption that "classic" alien humanoids, gray or green shorties with large heads and black eyes - are nothing more than biorobots. Servants intended for rough work.
It all ended when the noise in the newspapers died down. Journalists switched to more "hot" sensations, and everyone forgot about Constable Godfrey, except ufologists.
It should be noted that Alan with dignity transferred the glory that fell on him and did not break. However, this is what was expected of him. Wanted to bring to a nervous breakdown and then declare a madman, to whom all dreamed. This is the standard tactic of the authorities. Simply Godfrey was lucky - he was a policeman, and the special services did not dare to eliminate him physically.