Todmorden (PC Alan Godfrey)

Police Constable Alan Godfrey said that around 5 a.m. on 28 November 1980, while looking for straying cattle on Burnley Road, he found a rotating dome-shaped object hovering just above the road, sketched it, and after a burst of light found himself further along the road with time unaccounted for; his radio would not work. He reported it to his superiors, and accounts say a dry patch was found on the wet road, a driver three miles away reported a bright object and a Halifax police patrol saw a blue-white glow descending toward the valley. Hypnotic regression eight months later produced an abduction story that Godfrey himself was unsure was real memory. Some accounts date it to 29 November.

none established; the abduction narrative comes from hypnotic regression

• Patrick Gross: Alan Godfrey case fileufologie.patrickgross.org