When Alan Godfrey pulled on his Police-issued Doctor Martin boots for his night-shift of 27th November of 1980,
one may presume that his musings would not be on an elusive herd of cows or a strange craft rotating in front of
his police car.
The many telephone calls received regarding the escaped cows had kept coming in as P.C Godfrey set out to
check the latest sighting of the runaway beasts. As the night wore on, Alan Godfrey felt he was on a wild goose
chase, as every time a report came in, he arrived at the location only to find nothing.
By 5.am of the 28th -and with his shift nearing its end, the tired Police Officer turned his vehicle onto Burnley Road
a country road that cuts through the valley from Todmorden to central Burnley. One would assume that if the cows
were not where a caller to the station had reported, then Alan would've called it day and went home.
Except, the large rotating object that hovered in the middle of Burnley Road seemed to have changed that assumption.
At first he thought it may have been a bus, but as he crept his car nearer, he discovered it was something altogether
more strange.
In the early-morning November gloom, P.C Godfrey observed a diamond-shaped craft hovering in silence about 5 feet
from the ground. The bottom part of the craft rotated anticlockwise while the top part that looked liked a row of windows
was stationary. The object had a height of over 14 feet and a width of 20 feet.
The strange machine appeared to create some kind of wind or force field as the nearby trees shook but did not generate
any noise nor heat. Grabbing his car-radio handset, Godfrey found the equipment dead, although he knew that the hilly
terrain did hold black-spots where radio communication was useless.
And so he did what any pragmatic law enforcement Officer did, he drew on his training and made a sketch of the craft in
his notebook. Then suddenly there was a bright flash of light and the hovering object had disappeared.
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The sketch.
P.C Godfrey's senses quickly returned and seeing that his hands were on the steering wheel and not with pencil and paper,
he checked his surroundings and found that somehow, he had moved the police car approximately 50 feet further down the
road from his original position. His watch also told him 20 to 30 minutes were missing from his immediate recollection.
Feeling an irritating itch on his left foot and looking down, he saw that the boot of that foot had split. Confused with what
had just occurred, P.C Godfrey aimed the car for the Police station to consider this unusual incident. Clocking out and writing
up his report at 6.00.am, he contacted the farmer who'd lost the cows to inform him that they were still missing.
In the evening of 28th and with three colleagues, Alan Godfrey went back to the spot on Burnley Road to survey the area for
any evidence of the strange encounter. Ironically, by checking a nearby fenced park, the three policemen discovered the herd
of cows that had evaded them the previous night.
The only way into the park was from a latched gate and another one that was locked. The fence surrounded the park was intact
and the Officers found no trails to indicate where or how the cows entered the area.
So it was over and apart from the good-humoured ribbing he took from his fellow Officers during the next couple of weeks,
P.C Alan Godfrey's life returned to normal. Sort of.
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Back then in 1980 and today.
A week later, an article in the local newspaper appeared regarding Godfrey's encounter and asking around, he discovered
that a colleague had mentioned it to a Reporter who rang daily for any interesting events. Eventually, the story became more
and more noticed in the public domain, other incidents involving the West Yorkshire Police added to the pile of UFO accounts
and Alan Godfrey believed it would be only a matter of time before a UFO group would contact him, avid for information.
However, a year passed without such pestering until Norman Collinson, the Chief Inspector of the Fraud Squad for the Greater
Manchester police, contacted Mr. Godfrey and confessed a personal interest in UFO sightings. Seeking a meeting with him,
Collinson wish to question the Officer on the details of what he had seen on that night in November of 1980.
And so Chief Inspector Collinson arrived at Alan Godfrey's home with two other men in order to hear the account of the
rotating 'diamond'. Collinson's companions were a Solicitor -Harry Harris and a witness, Mike Sacks who had also seen
strange lights over Todmorden around the same time as P.C Godfrey.
The entire affair was videotaped and Alan explained his story to the trio. After listening to the account and seemingly curious
about the 20-30 minutes of missing time, the Inspector then suggested to Alan he should undergo a series of regressive
hypnosis sessions to see what more he could recall that they suspected could have been lost to his conscious memory.
Initially, Alan was hesitant, but after much reassurance from Collinson, he agreed to participate.
With two psychiatrists monitoring the hypnotic session, a Professor Blair, professor of psychiatry at Manchester University
and Doctor Joseph Jaffe a Manchester based psychiatrist, Alan Godfrey allowed himself to be hypnotically regressed.
The Doctors had no specific knowledge of the Police Officer's encounter and only a simple brief that he may have some
blocked memories. Those memories would be quite alarming.
With a video camera recording, the reclined Policeman recounted the story upon his approach to the object in the road.
“It’s a bus” he murmured, before correcting himself “It’s not a bus” and then continuing to describe the period of time
between the flash of light and finding himself further down Burnley Road.
Alan Godfrey was floating in a room alongside a “tall guy” in a long white robe and skullcap, a figure that Alan would
name 'Joseph'.
With total astonishment, Alan observed beings he described as 'robots', eight of them standing 3 foot high.
"I don’t like them, for some reason they frighten me" he added with a nervous tone." Apparently they were doing
some kind of examination on me, they attached something to my left leg and my right wrist. There was a dog there too.”
What Alan first recalled as little robots, he later detailed as "Small creatures, about the size of five year olds with heads
shaped like a lamp”!
The two psychiatrists strongly advised interrupting the hypnotic session as Godfrey's heart rate was speeding up alarmingly
and so, what fully happened will never be known. When Alan later watched the videotape of his account, he was shocked to
see and hear himself recall something that he had no conscious memory of.
Even today, the retired Officer suggests that what he said may have been formed from his imagination, although he stands
by the part of the craft sighting.
So what would a neutral person think of Officer Godfrey's account and is there evidence of a more rational explanation of
what the Yorkshire Policeman saw?
one may presume that his musings would not be on an elusive herd of cows or a strange craft rotating in front of
his police car.
The many telephone calls received regarding the escaped cows had kept coming in as P.C Godfrey set out to
check the latest sighting of the runaway beasts. As the night wore on, Alan Godfrey felt he was on a wild goose
chase, as every time a report came in, he arrived at the location only to find nothing.
By 5.am of the 28th -and with his shift nearing its end, the tired Police Officer turned his vehicle onto Burnley Road
a country road that cuts through the valley from Todmorden to central Burnley. One would assume that if the cows
were not where a caller to the station had reported, then Alan would've called it day and went home.
Except, the large rotating object that hovered in the middle of Burnley Road seemed to have changed that assumption.
At first he thought it may have been a bus, but as he crept his car nearer, he discovered it was something altogether
more strange.
In the early-morning November gloom, P.C Godfrey observed a diamond-shaped craft hovering in silence about 5 feet
from the ground. The bottom part of the craft rotated anticlockwise while the top part that looked liked a row of windows
was stationary. The object had a height of over 14 feet and a width of 20 feet.
The strange machine appeared to create some kind of wind or force field as the nearby trees shook but did not generate
any noise nor heat. Grabbing his car-radio handset, Godfrey found the equipment dead, although he knew that the hilly
terrain did hold black-spots where radio communication was useless.
And so he did what any pragmatic law enforcement Officer did, he drew on his training and made a sketch of the craft in
his notebook. Then suddenly there was a bright flash of light and the hovering object had disappeared.
The sketch.
P.C Godfrey's senses quickly returned and seeing that his hands were on the steering wheel and not with pencil and paper,
he checked his surroundings and found that somehow, he had moved the police car approximately 50 feet further down the
road from his original position. His watch also told him 20 to 30 minutes were missing from his immediate recollection.
Feeling an irritating itch on his left foot and looking down, he saw that the boot of that foot had split. Confused with what
had just occurred, P.C Godfrey aimed the car for the Police station to consider this unusual incident. Clocking out and writing
up his report at 6.00.am, he contacted the farmer who'd lost the cows to inform him that they were still missing.
In the evening of 28th and with three colleagues, Alan Godfrey went back to the spot on Burnley Road to survey the area for
any evidence of the strange encounter. Ironically, by checking a nearby fenced park, the three policemen discovered the herd
of cows that had evaded them the previous night.
The only way into the park was from a latched gate and another one that was locked. The fence surrounded the park was intact
and the Officers found no trails to indicate where or how the cows entered the area.
So it was over and apart from the good-humoured ribbing he took from his fellow Officers during the next couple of weeks,
P.C Alan Godfrey's life returned to normal. Sort of.
Back then in 1980 and today.
A week later, an article in the local newspaper appeared regarding Godfrey's encounter and asking around, he discovered
that a colleague had mentioned it to a Reporter who rang daily for any interesting events. Eventually, the story became more
and more noticed in the public domain, other incidents involving the West Yorkshire Police added to the pile of UFO accounts
and Alan Godfrey believed it would be only a matter of time before a UFO group would contact him, avid for information.
However, a year passed without such pestering until Norman Collinson, the Chief Inspector of the Fraud Squad for the Greater
Manchester police, contacted Mr. Godfrey and confessed a personal interest in UFO sightings. Seeking a meeting with him,
Collinson wish to question the Officer on the details of what he had seen on that night in November of 1980.
And so Chief Inspector Collinson arrived at Alan Godfrey's home with two other men in order to hear the account of the
rotating 'diamond'. Collinson's companions were a Solicitor -Harry Harris and a witness, Mike Sacks who had also seen
strange lights over Todmorden around the same time as P.C Godfrey.
The entire affair was videotaped and Alan explained his story to the trio. After listening to the account and seemingly curious
about the 20-30 minutes of missing time, the Inspector then suggested to Alan he should undergo a series of regressive
hypnosis sessions to see what more he could recall that they suspected could have been lost to his conscious memory.
Initially, Alan was hesitant, but after much reassurance from Collinson, he agreed to participate.
With two psychiatrists monitoring the hypnotic session, a Professor Blair, professor of psychiatry at Manchester University
and Doctor Joseph Jaffe a Manchester based psychiatrist, Alan Godfrey allowed himself to be hypnotically regressed.
The Doctors had no specific knowledge of the Police Officer's encounter and only a simple brief that he may have some
blocked memories. Those memories would be quite alarming.
With a video camera recording, the reclined Policeman recounted the story upon his approach to the object in the road.
“It’s a bus” he murmured, before correcting himself “It’s not a bus” and then continuing to describe the period of time
between the flash of light and finding himself further down Burnley Road.
Alan Godfrey was floating in a room alongside a “tall guy” in a long white robe and skullcap, a figure that Alan would
name 'Joseph'.
With total astonishment, Alan observed beings he described as 'robots', eight of them standing 3 foot high.
"I don’t like them, for some reason they frighten me" he added with a nervous tone." Apparently they were doing
some kind of examination on me, they attached something to my left leg and my right wrist. There was a dog there too.”
What Alan first recalled as little robots, he later detailed as "Small creatures, about the size of five year olds with heads
shaped like a lamp”!
The two psychiatrists strongly advised interrupting the hypnotic session as Godfrey's heart rate was speeding up alarmingly
and so, what fully happened will never be known. When Alan later watched the videotape of his account, he was shocked to
see and hear himself recall something that he had no conscious memory of.
Even today, the retired Officer suggests that what he said may have been formed from his imagination, although he stands
by the part of the craft sighting.
So what would a neutral person think of Officer Godfrey's account and is there evidence of a more rational explanation of
what the Yorkshire Policeman saw?
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.