UFOs in Reality (20 page)

I was taken along the footpath they had walked and shown the location where the object had been seen hovering. Its approach path seemed to have been over a long, recently built, motorway bridge, the construction of which had necessitated the re-channelling of the River Mersey in that area. In my view, the area had many of the features favoured for UFO activity. (See Phase 1)

When I showed the timings graph for the Greater Manchester area to Mrs. Jones and explained that their event had seemed to fit in with the global pattern of UFO events, she was overjoyed. She told me that, among the many investigators she’d had to relate the story to, I was the only one who had been able to offer any sort of explanation. Some had just dismissed the story out of hand. In effect, all I had done was to give some confirmation of their observed UFO event, but I could not, at that time, explain the lost hour. That was done later, when I produced a computerised graph targeted on East Didsbury. This is shown as Fig.36 .

Fig. 36

The two diagonal crosses on the timings graph mark the significant times associated with the Jones event. From the time of sunset on that evening in August and the fact that the family group had begun to return home in the deepening twilight suggested to me that the object had descended from the sky at about 9 o’clock BST, that is, 20:00hrs GMT, as depicted by the lower cross. They had seen a brilliant light lift off from the location and head skywards at just before 10:15 pm. BST, say at 21:13 hrs. GMT, and this time is marked by the upper cross. Well, Well, Well!!!

The computed graph (produced by the globally-derived AT) just happened to have produced two lines passing through those points. The interpretation suggested is that an exploration craft, delivered from a delivery spacecraft travelling temporarily along sunset-orientated path No.5, had landed in that East Didsbury meadow and had remained there for over an hour to await the next retrieval opportunity. This had occurred when a retrieval spacecraft had overflown the area on the star-orientated (2130hrs RA) path No.4. If reference is made to the Latitude/Longitude grid map above the timings graph, we can see that paths Nos. 4 and 5 both provide ready access to that East Didsbury location. That particular arrangement of path (or track) lines was of great interest to me, because
I had noticed that Close Encounter events of all kinds had seemed to favour (but not exclusively) a combination of sun-orientated and star-orientated paths to determine the time allowed for a given mission.

When Mrs. Jones was shown this later graph, she was doubly excited by it, because not only was her account being validated, but an explanation for the family’s lost time had been suggested. It looked as though I had provided tangible indication that they had been detained by the occupants of that craft, even though Linda was personally inclined to disbelieve that suggestion. Others had put forward the same idea and she had been very disturbed by it. As I was soon to discover, one of those ‘others’ had been a Manchester solicitor (lawyer) Mr. Harry Harris, whom I was invited to meet at the Jones’ home one evening. I was told that Mr. Harris had been arranging hypnotic regression sessions with medically-qualified hypnotists for UFO witnesses who had had similar ‘memory-loss’ experiences.

At that first meeting with Harry Harris at the Jones’ home, he was accompanied by fellow-researcher Mrs. Linda Taylor. During the introductions, I learned that Mrs. Taylor had had a UFO-related time-loss encounter during 1982 and that she had consented to hypnotic regression arranged by Harry Harris. She had been so impressed that she had wanted to participate in Harry’s future investigations. Both she and Harry had been intrigued when Mrs. Jones had informed them of my participation in the investigation of her experiences and they had requested a meeting with me. The discussions we had then revealed that Linda Jones and her daughter had both been hypnotically-regressed, on Harry’s suggestion, (the boy being considered to be too young for that process). As usual, Harry had videoed the sessions. The outcome had been traumatising for both Linda and her daughter. Under hypnosis they had, individually, given similar accounts of all that had happened after their initial encounter with the SAC, including physical examinations. They had been disinclined to believe their recorded accounts, but, as I discovered later, they had been given other reasons to believe them. It seemed, also, that my discoveries had inadvertently reinforced their worst fears. (Linda’s daughter was not present on that evening, nor at any other meeting with the Jones’. In fact, I have never met her.) The outcome of that meeting was that I was invited to join in Harry’s activities..

Through this link-up I learned, first of all, the details of Mrs. Linda Taylor’s encounter and subsequent regression and, later, of several other similar events.

An Interrupted Journey on the A580 ‘East-Lancs’ Road.

On January 10th, 1982, Mrs. Linda Taylor and her mother were returning from a visit to a relative living in Southport, a seaside resort on the west coast of Lancashire. The night was cold and moonlit (there was a full moon) and snow lay on the fields. Their route home towards Manchester took them onto the A580 trunk road at a junction near St. Helens. This was to have been a journey they had made many times before, but that particular journey was to be anything but routine. The first indication had been the sighting of a bright light apparently dodging through the trees on one side of the road. Then this light had suddenly disappeared. In the vicinity of a road junction to the west of Leigh, Linda’s Ford Cortina car had begun to behave oddly. It had seemed to be losing power and resisting all Linda’s attempts to compensate for this. Speed dropped off, the car seemed to be bouncing up and down and all the electrics began to go berserk. Suddenly, the rear end of a large black limousine of a 1930s variety had appeared directly ahead of the Cortina, so close that it seemed that a collision would be inevitable. Even Linda’s mother sitting in the rear seat shouted out in alarm and, having no means of controlling her car’s behaviour, Linda tried unsuccessfully to sound the horn. By then frantic, she had opened the driver’s window to shout at the car in front and in so doing had seen a huge craft (“as big as a double-decker bus on its side”) directly above her car. Its underside displayed large coloured lights and the glow from them lit up structure above them. Linda had quickly pulled her head back into the car and, to add to her utter confusion, the car in front had disappeared. As the Cortina had then seemed to be behaving normally again, it was driven frantically to the haven of a filling station, a short distance away. On arriving there, Linda and her mother saw a brightly lit craft circle the station and then hover over a tall tree on the opposite side of the road. It suddenly shuddered before accelerating vertically upwards at an unbelievable rate and disappearing from sight. Unfortunately, there was no one else to witness the departure of the SAC. After arriving at her mother’s home they both realised that the journey had taken about one and half hours longer than usual. On arriving back at her home in north-east Cheshire, the door had been opened to the still-shaking Linda by her husband, who thought she must have been involved in an accident. He had noticed also that she was not wearing her winter coat and had asked where it was. Linda had been unable to give an answer. She’d had no recollection of having taken it off !

What a story! It involved a bright light moving through trees, a series of car problems like those encountered with car-stop events, a close encounter with a structured craft, a phantom car dating back to the days when the A580 had first been opened and time loss. Mrs. Taylor had not been impressed by the outcome of her hypnotic regression session. She felt it seemed more like a dream sequence than a real series of events. I offered to try to process the facts to see if there had been any connections with the established global patterns for SAC encounters.

Two essential facts needed to be established –- the location and the approximate time of the happening. As the location appeared to have been within about 3 miles from the town of Leigh, Lancashire, the location of Leigh would be close enough for the initial investigation. As the journey had been made many times before, Mrs. Taylor was able to give an estimate for the initial time of the event based on the time of departure from Southport. She estimated that 7:30 pm. GMT would have been about right.

Given these approximations I was able to proceed. Fig.37 shows the computer- produced output, targeted on Leigh. Superimposed on the timings graph at January 10th is a cross marked at 7:30 pm. It lies very close to the timing line for a No.4 sunset track. If it is now assumed that 1.5 hours were lost during the encounter, this creates another time of 9 pm. for the close of the happening. As can be seen, this cross lies on the timing line for sunset track No.2, which represents the next possible retrieval track (or path) option in space. Once again, the indications are that the time allocated for the SAC’s mission had been determined in that way. From the latitude/longitude grid map it can be seen that No.2 and No.4 paths are well placed for this happening to the west of Leigh.

Fig. 37

Through my continued association with Harry Harris, I learned about other CE4s he had investigated using hypnotic regression. The first one, if I remember correctly, had involved PC Alan Godfrey, a police patrol car driver who had encountered a large hovering object blocking the road ahead when he was on his way to investigate a report of a herd of cows wandering round a housing estate in Todmorden, a small Yorkshire town on the border with Lancashire. He braked, brought the car to a halt and tried to contact his HQ by radio. He found he could not even radio to his colleagues. As he sat watching the SAC, he decided to try to sketch it on his notepad. The next thing he’d been able to remember was driving further along the same road towards the Police Station. On his arrival there he reported the incident and noticed he’d lost track of about half-an-hour. This event had been, subsequently, widely reported by the local press and the publicity had resulted in an invitation to PC Godfrey from Harry Harris to participate in a hypnotic regression session. (Harry told me, later, that he had been inspired to do this because his own wife had been regressed by a dentist friend, and she had been able to remember incidents in her childhood she had consciously forgotten. These forgotten incidents had then been confirmed by her mother.) The revelations given by Alan Godfrey were to become familiar aspects of subsequent ones given by other CE4 participants whilst in hypnotic trance. Typically, they were a bright light, a floating sensation, finding themselves in a strange room containing a surgical bed or couch, meeting with humanoid creatures (some of them very human-looking), a voice in the head telling them to lie on the bed, initial refusal then meek compliance, then being attached by cables to electronic equipment with arrays of coloured lights, being physically examined and, finally, finding themselves wherever they were when the encounter began. (In Britain, the creatures encountered have been generally described as being human-like, in contrast with those described by many American participants.) My processing of Alan Godfrey’s event was able to confirm the object’s departure time. The arrival time was uncertain because the object seemed to have been the one which police officers had been chasing round the adjoining moorland for several hours and which had last been seen dropping down towards Todmorden just prior to the Godfrey encounter.

After trust had been built up with Harry Harris he invited me to meet two other participants who, with a third person, had experienced a CE4 during the summer of 1981. These three young women had been regressed and had revealed some remarkable new aspects of the abduction phenomenon. One of them had since emigrated. Harry had contacted the remaining two, suggesting that another regression using a different technique might be helpful. They had responded and requested a meeting at Atcham
,
Shropshire. Harry drove Linda Taylor and I to meet these young women, Valerie and Rosemary, at a public house (inn) near to the scene of the event. I was told about the circumstances of the happening, which had occurred just a few miles further along the road. Then, we all went to the site. En route I noticed we were passing a restored Roman
settlement called Wroxeter and commented about it. It reminded me of the link I had discovered between UFO sightings and ancient sites. Valerie said that when she had first sighted the lights in the sky they would have probably been over Wroxeter. The full story, as well as I now know it, follows.