An interesting book by Alan Godfrey

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It may seem obvious to most, but when discussing extraordinary claims, one would be prudent to initially seek out more
conventional explanations of an event instead of just allowing a witness' natural assumption based on their reading of the
situation.

A person witnessing a strange shape in the night sky may not be aware of a nearby Balloon Festival or that the weird small
beings roaming the darkness outside a window are merely there to promote a selfish scheme to benefit an individual or a
group.

Mr. Godfrey mentioned in his hypnotic state that at first, he believed he was observing a bus in the restricted light of that
November morning. Considering public transport in these agrarian regions were more vital in 1981 than they are today
with current economic advantages, people needing to get to their employment relied heavily on bus services and especially
early in the morning.

More acceptable propositions can be offered when one looks at the amount of UFO sightings that involve military bases in
the vicinity of the incidents. Who knows what public-funded projects are tested in the air-space over these sites in the name
of defence and sucking more money from Government contracts?!

The year before Mr. Godfrey's occurrence, the well-known Rendlesham Forest incident happened just outside of RAF
Woodbridge in Suffolk -an English county on the East coast and a facility used at the time by the United States Air Force.
A strange engagement was reported amongst the surrounding trees to the base that to this day, has never been fully
explained.

A craft was alleged to have been witnessed and in the unscrupulous media, the incident became known as UK's 'Roswell'.
The UK Ministry of Defence stated the event posed no threat to national security, and it therefore never was investigated
as a security matter.

Across the North Sea in south-eastern France, the small town of Trans-en-Provence became famous in January 1981 for
a reported UFO landing that left defined traces. Again, Canjuers Military Base is nearby.
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I believe Alan Godfrey saw a large object in the early hours of November 1981, just as I also agree with his down-to-earth
suggestion that what he experienced under hypnosis is suspect. In the universe of the subconscious, there are trails that
lead to places that we fully don't understand yet. Self-hope and cruel misery await there, along with monsters that are sadly,
the real people we don't wish to be.

So what could be offered as rational candidates for the Police Officer's bizarre experience?

Todmorden is a small town that grew from a traditional Yorkshire village, like most modest-sized rural communities around
the world, information around the area is usually unpretentious and fairly mundane. Also like many small towns around the
world, Tordmorden existed due to an industry that could utilise the locale -such as rivers and access to other areas of the
country, especially with the advent of steam railways.

Textile mills had generated most of Todmorden's income and sadly as cheaper goods, changes in technology and fashion
became more pronounced, many of these limited communities suffered and fell into decline. That sober and commonsense
manner of communication would surely darken as livelihoods battle against an assumed hopelessness.

But in 1960 and in Todmorden, a fresh breath of life was generated into one of those struggling milling buildings when
a textile spinning and weaving firm called Fielden Brothers changed their name and product-output from textiles to a new
material that was trending across the globe.
The technology of plastics had greatly improved and with a developing market, it can be said that this Tordmorden-based
company had a pragmatic eye on the future.

Waterside Plastics specialised in glass fibre, and also made sailing boats. When Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed
a mainly-plastic 'holiday house' or vacation home, this West Yorkshire business grabbed the opportunity to build the 'out
-of-this-world' structure and hopefully promote itself onto the world stage.


Matti Suuronen.

Low in maintenance and easily transported, this ovoid-shaped dwelling came with specialised furnishings and stood on legs.
Fashionably titling the building 'The Futuro House', the final design was just over 26 feet in diameter and composed of
fibreglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly-methylmethacrylate.

In gratitude for the newly-acquired industry, Todmorden's Council exhibited the 'flying saucer-like' structure in their 1971's
town's 75th centenary. Loaded on a flat-bed truck, the strangely-shaped house was celebrated by the waving residents of
Todmorden as it passed down the main street.
Waterside Plastics employed almost 2,000 people in eleven of its mills, so I think we'd agree that the jubilance was warranted!


The scene of the Futuro house in Todmorden in 1971 and a Waterside Plastics brochure.

Then, as quickly as it was exalted, the Futuro House became a pariah in housing designs.

By the mid seventies, the market for such a strangely-shaped abode dried-up with comments of it looking 'unnatural' to the
landscape and In the United States, Futuro houses were banned from many municipalities by zoning regulations with Banks
unwilling to finance their purchase.

Waterside Plastics struggled on until finally going out of business in 1979.
The once-famous and applauded house of Todmorden was now seen as a shameful idea and dejectedly parked near the
railway viaduct, just a few hundred yards from Todmorden Police Station.
The futuristic 'Space-Age' home now resorted to being occasionally used as office-space and an Information Centre.

But could it be that Alan Godfrey saw the Futuro house in the dark of that November morning?

Granted, a Policeman of Godfrey's knowledge of Todmorden knew -and seen, the structure that had been parked at the side
of Burnley Road, but there's evidence that its location was moved between 1969 and the early 80's.
Could it have been on the back of a stationary truck, ready to be moved again to an entirely different destination when
P.C Godfrey's headlights shone onto its spaceship-like surfaces?

Where that particular structure is now is unknown. A turquoise specimen of the Futuro house was shipped from South Africa
in 2013 and exhibited on the roof on London-based Central Saint Martins University of the Arts. But for ours, some said it went
to the Lake District and others proffered it was destroyed.


Godfrey's sketch and an example of a Futuro home.
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As I've said, I believe Alan Godfrey saw something he couldn't account for in 1981, it's just the above suggestion of an alternative
scenario is too glaring to ignore. What are the odds of a 'space-ship-like' structure being in the same small town that someone saw
an alleged space-ship in?

That West Yorkshire astuteness would surely give the above theory some credit.

Thank you Just Looking for the thread and I apologise for 'hijacking' it!