THE ALIEN IS AMONG US

Friday, August 23, 1996
Source: Daily Mirror newspaper
DAILY MIRROR - DAY 2 OF A SPECIAL ENQUIRY

A respected ambulance chief and his friend reveal under hypnosis they were abducted by a spaceship on a lonely road. Is this the proof?

THE ALIEN IS AMONG US

Case 1: The ambulance chief
Dateline: August 17, 1992
Location: A70, near Edinburgh

IT TAKES only a dark road with a dip in it, or a blind corner, and Gary Wood is gripped by fear. Nightmares shatter the four hours' sleep he has now learned to live with. Every day the words echo in his head: "We are already here and we are still coming."

Yet this is a man who holds down the vital job of keeping Scotland's ambulances on 100 per cent call-out readiness.

In a country pub, his drink untouched, making his story as detailed as possible, 32-year-old Gary shoots embarrassed glances at his listeners.

He shakes his head. "I'm sorry. I know it sounds nuts, but I can only tell it how it happened ... I don't want this. I would rather have my life back the way It was."

Gary tells a story of alien abduction on a Scottish road. Of beings who probed his body and mind and left him terrified that one day they will return for him.

Of all the encounters claimed around the world, Gary's is considered one of the most authentic. For he was not alone on the night of August 17,1992, when he was plucked from his car.

Friend Colin Wright was with him. Separately, under hypnosis, They have told the same story.

Colin has coped with it better, refusing to talk publicly. Gary talked and suffered ridicule and hostility. It took much persuasion to arrange this rare interview.

Nervous, and watching for the first hint of derision, he begins.. "I was just a normal guy. All I wanted was my job, plenty of money, a nice house, a family..."

Today he shrugs as if these things are lost forever'.

AT ABOUT 10pm that August night, Gary set off with Colin on a 40 minute journey to another friend's house outside Edinburgh.

Driving at a safe 45mph, the pair had just passed Harper's Ridge reservoir on the A70 when they approached a blind dip in the road.

Before them, floating about 2Oft above the ground, was a black, domed object measuring 3O-35ft across. It was a classic flying saucer shape.

A curtain of light bathed the width of the road.

"Suddenly, it was like I was in a black void," says Gary. "There I am, standing up and thinking, 'Where's my car? Where's Colin?' I wondered if I was dead.

"Another 15 seconds went by and I was back in my car on the wrong side of the road, shunting diagonally into the banking."

At their friend's home, the terrified pair told what had happened.

Independently, in separate parts of the house, they drew what they had seen. The drawings were identical.

They also discovered that somehow, they had lost an hour-and-a-half en route.

For Gary, the ordeal was just beginning. He began to suffer severe headaches and flashbacks which left him screaming in bed. The fear was so crippling he couldn't go out alone, except to work.

Nine months after his encounter, Gary was prepared for hypnosis. Colin also agreed to undergo testing.

The regression was video-taped. Horror is stamped over Gary's face as he relives the meeting.

"I saw three creatures coming towards my car. I felt intense pain, like an electric shock. Then I was in some room.

"I saw these things like wee men moving about, doing something to me. I could only see up. Then this six-foot creature approached.

"It was white-grey in colour with a large head and dark eyes with a long, slender neck, very slim shoulders and waist.

"There were either ribs or folds of skin on its body. The arms were like our's but there were four very long fingers.

"The little ones were about three feet tall and seemed to do all the work while the big ones did the communication.

"I felt that some of them felt sorry for me. One of them looked into my life and I looked into it - it couldn't stop me. It was hiding something.

"One of the big creatures put his face close to mine and I was so frightened I could hardly breathe.

IT NEVER spoke to me, but something came into my head.

"I heard a voice saying: 'I have a life like you but different things happen to us - but it's got to be done.'

"I was crying like a baby I wanted to get away. I must have asked what It wanted. It said: 'Sanctuary - we are here already and we are coming here.'

"Just to the left of me I saw a girl. She was on the ground, her hands clasping her knees to her chest. She was naked and crying.

"She looked at me, but I couldn't do anything. Tears were coming down her face. She was in her early twenties. With shoulder length blonde hair. I would recognise her face if I saw it again but it was nobody I'd met before."

In separate sessions, Colin remembered being in a different room. He was naked and sitting in a chair.

If he tried to move, one of the creatures would stop him.

In his head he heard: "Gary's all right you don t have to get off the chair."

Hanging from the ceiling were cylinder shaped objects which marde him think of containers for people.

After the regression, Gary became obsessed with research and tracking down other people who have had similar experiences.

He now has his own page on the Internet. Along with Edinburgh author John Jenkins, he has recorded the stories of others debunking many of them.

Every spare hour is devoted to seeking an answer to what happened to him.

"I know somthing is going to happen. I believe they are here and they are coming.

"I want to be ready."

MANY CASES INVOLVE SANE, HONEST PEOPLE

PHILIP MANTLE, of the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), has interviewed many of the 80 Britons claiming alien encounters. He says: "There are too many cases involving sane, sober, decent and honest people for it to be discounted.

"The fact that alleged abductees risk ridicule when they talk publicly must deter the cranks."

AN MoD SPOKESMAN dismissed the threat of aliens arriving here as "negligible". He said: "We don't perceive any threat from extraterrestrials.

"Around 99.9 per cent of cases are explained by natural phenomena like lighting, weather balloons or aircraft.

NICK POPE spent three years at the MoD, investigating and researching the UFO mystery. He says: "I have absolutely no doubt that some of these accounts do happen and that some sort of alien intelligence may be involved

"Of the MoD UFO sightings, five to ten per cent are unexplained

"On a number of occasions, RAF jets have been scrambled to try and intercept UFOs."

Philip Mantle's book With out Consent is published by Ringpull Press.

You can contact BUFORA at BM Bufora, London, WC1N 3XX

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