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   SUBJECT: ENCOUNTER IN ENGLAND                                FILE: UFO1266   
      
      
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   DATE OF ARTICLE:  February 10, 1989   
   SOURCE OF ARTICLE:  News & Advertiser   
   LOCATION:  Todmorden, England   
   BYLINE:  Pat Swift   
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   THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE   
      
   By Pat Swift   
      
        Former  policeman Alan Godfrey has never consciously claimed   
   to have met creatures from outer space.   
        But whatever happened to him in the "missing minutes" in the   
   cold  early hours of a November morning over eight years ago  has   
   irrevocably changed his life forever.   
        Alan  hit  the  national headlines over a year  after  first   
   putting  in  an official report that he had seen a  UFO  hovering   
   above Burnley Road near Mons Jill.   
        At  first there was local interest and a lot of  speculation   
   about  the  sighting,  particularly  as five  other  officers  in   
   Calderdale  and Greater Manchester had reported seeing a  similar   
   object low in the skies on the same morning.   
        But  Alan  was not the first police officer in Todmorden  to   
   put in an official report of a UFO sighting.   
        It  was only when a senior police officer persuaded  him  to   
   reveal  details  of  tapes taken while  he  underwent  regression   
   hypnosis  that  he  really created a stir on the front  pages  of   
   nearly every national newspaper.   
        For under hypnosis,  under stringent conditions and observed   
   by  police officers,  Alan told how he had been taken aboard  the   
   spaceship and had been examined by creatures from outer space.   
        "To  this  day,  I  don't  know what  happened  to  me  that   
   morning," says Alan.   "I can clearly remember seeing this object   
   revolving  and  hovering  above the road as I  drove  up  towards   
   Lydgate in the police car.  I stopped the car, made notes and did   
   a  sketch and then got out of the car and started walking towards   
   it.   
        "The  next thing I can remember is being further up  Burnley   
   Road beyond the point where I had seen the craft,  but it was  no   
   longer there."   
        Consciously  he  has  no recollection of  what  happened  in   
   between, but there are physical clues which appear to back up his   
   story told under hypnosis.   
        On  those  tapes  he tells how he was laid on  a  table  and   
   examined  with some kind of electrical probe fixed to the  insole   
   of his foot.   
        At  the  time  of the incident he found  his  heavy  leather   
   police  boot had been ripped and he had a small burn mark on  his   
   insole.   
        "It  would be a lot easier for me to believe that I made  it   
   all  up  under hypnosis...that it was  something  my  imagination   
   dreamed up.   
        "But  the truth is I don't know what happened,  and probably   
   never will."   
        When  the  details of the tapes were released to  the  press   
   they  linked  it to speculation about a case on  which  Alan  had   
   worked  five months before his UFO sighting--the mysterious death   
   of Polish born Leeds miner Zygmunt Adamski.   
        Mr.  Adamski  had  disappeared  from near his  home  on  the   
   outskirts of Leeds.  He had set out to visit a nearby shop to buy   
   some  potatoes as his family had visitors in preparation for  the   
   following  day when he was due to give away his God  daughter  at   
   her wedding.   
        He   never  returned--but  five  days  later  his  body  was   
   discovered in the coal yard near Todmorden station.   
        Some  of his clothing was missing;  he had  mysterious  burn   
   marks  on  the  back of his head which had been treated  with  an   
   ointment which scientists could not identify as anything known on   
   earth--and  he had died of a heart attack brought on by  fear  or   
   shock.   
        There  had  been  many  reports of  UFO  sightings  in  West   
   Yorkshire  around  the  time and Coroner Mr.  James  Turnbull  in   
   recording an open verdict, said he could not rule out speculation   
   about creatures from space.   
        Alan  was one of the local officers working on the case  and   
   was surprised that no major investigation was launched.   
        But although he was discharged from West Yorkshire Police on   
   medical grounds due to an injury he had received before all these   
   strange events, Alan is still bound by the Official Secrets Act.   
        "Because  of this I am not allowed to talk about the  case,"   
   he says.   
        After  he became a major news story,  Alan felt that he  was   
   being subjected to harassment in the force.  "Life was being made   
   difficult for me," he said.   "I was no longer 'one of the  lads'   
   and superiors sent me for medical examinations in efforts to show   
   I was having hallucinations,  but the doctors all gave me a clean   
   bill of health mentally."   
        Eventually  Alan  and the police parted company when an  old   
   injury incurred during a struggle while on duty was the  official   
   reason for his medical discharge.   
        "I felt I could have continued in the force, even if only at   
   a desk job," he says.   
        But  losing  his job also cost him his home as he  could  no   
   longer  afford to meet the mortgage payments,  and he had to turn   
   his hands to other trades.   
        "It put a strain on everything and life has been difficult,"   
   he  recalls.   "The police even raided my leaving party to  check   
   for after hours drinkers."   
        Alan is regularly sought by TV and radio chat show hosts and   
   the Press.   
        "Whenever there is another major sighting,  I start  getting   
   calls for interviews again."   
        But  don't the fees from these TV and radio interviews  help   
   compensate  for  the difficulties he faced on first  leaving  the   
   force?   
        Alan  smiles wrily.   "There's a sliding scale for interview   
   fees, and I'm definitely on the bottom rung of the ladder!"   
        His  financial fortunes cold change if one of the  Hollywood   
   film giants decides to take up an option on using the transcripts   
   of the hypnosis sessions as the basis for a future film.   
        But  in the meantime,  Alan is settling into his  new  life,   
   although he still misses police work.   
        And has he seen any further strange objects in the skies?   
        "I don't look," he says emphatically.   "If one landed right   
   in front of me,  I'd turn around and run.  I wouldn't want to get   
   involved."   
      
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