Abduction Digest, Number 24
 
                         Wednesday, September 4th 1991
 
Today's Topics:
 
                                Alan Godfrey Case

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From: mrc-crc.ac.uk!sgamble
Subject: Alan Godfrey Case
Date: 30 Aug 91 15:11:53 GMT

From: Steve Gamble x3293 <sgamble@mrc-crc.ac.uk>


To : Jim Speiser 

In reply to your message in abduct 23 :-

+Forgive me if you got this message already, but you never responded, so I 

The original message did get thro'. It came thro' just before I went off to
the International Congress in Sheffield. I remember making a mental note
to reply to the message but then forgot - Sorry

+sure what ParaNet echoes are hooked into the InterNet. (Mike, if ABDUCT is 

I get the abduction newsletter so no problem (IF I remember to answer!!)

+ a few months ago a program aired on American television on the
+subject of abductions. One of the three segments centered on a case
+involving a police officer in Yorkshire by the name of Alan Godfrey. I
+wondered if you were familiar with this case, and how it is regarded in
+the UK. It seemed a very interesting case on this end, but I had never
+heard of it before.

I heard about the programme when I was at Leo Sprinkle's conference in
Laramie. Several people mentioned it to me and remarked how good it was.
If it is the same programme I am thinking of there were two other segments
which were Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton.

The Alan Godfrey case is featured extensively in a book called the
Pennine UFO Mystery by Jenny Randles, published around 1983. Basically
early one morning Alan was patrolling in his car near Todmorden in
Yorkshire. He came across a large UFO with what he described (I am
working from memory here) as a series of windows across the middle.
When he arrived back at the Police Station he appeared to have been
away around 15minutes longer than he expected. He described a circular
dry patch (on the wet road) just below where the UFO hovered.

At some point Alan was hypnotised. I can not remember what information
he came out with but recollect that it added something to his story. I
do remember seeing Alan on a couple of TV programmes where he said that
he could only vouch for the information he recalled without hypnosis. So
if he is not entirely happy with the hypnosis information we would be
better disregarding it. (perhaps that's why I cannot remember what came 
out.)

The case has been somewhat controversial. Steuart Campbell has attempted
to explain it as some form of mirage. Jenny Randles has put forward a
form of the plasma vortex as a solution. One suggestion I have heard is
that, possibly as a result of working many night shifts, Alan suffered
from narcolepsy (cat napping) and that the incident was part of this. I
do not know if anybody has run any of these solutions past Alan. 
 
There were a couple of other UFO reports from Yorkshire that same night.

I think the case is really wide open still. 

Steve Gamble
s.gamble@mrc-crc.ac.uk






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