Foreword by Alyson Dunlop, Lead Research I attended a recent SSPR lecture in Glasgow, where a man, knowing I had an interest in UFOs, approached me. He told me he’d had a sighting back in 1979 and wondered if I would care to hear about it. Of course! But nothing quite prepared me for what he told me… I was too stunned to question him, as I sat and listened, mouth agape. I didn’t need to ask if the event had frightened him. It was clear it had. I asked him if he would share his story with SPI Scotland and thought it would be best if you read it in his own words. This is the first announcement of his incident, and I am quite sure there will be more to follow in the months ahead, when I can again discuss the case face to face with the eye witness. Interestingly, the event happened in November 1979, the same month of Bob Taylor’s incident when he was attacked by a UFO, and various other people saw a UFO in the sky round about the same time in the Livingstone area. It is also the month that SPI was founded, because of that case. Now, it would seem, we may have another piece of the jigsaw… Click here to read the full story.
This month I am joined by my guest Bill Rooke, also known as Alien Bill! Tune in and learn all about the light beings he sees and talks to every night. He will be presenting his photographic evidence on 20th June 2015 at the Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh for the Scottish UFO & Paranormal Conference 2015 (tickets from spiscotland@gmail.com)
Absolutely fantastic interview with distinguished Scottish ufologist and author, Ron Halliday, on what’s going on in Scotland! We talk about the many sightings and where they’ve occurred, including a couple of abduction cases. Listen to it now via the following link: https://www.mixcloud.com/edradio/the-edx-files-show-7/
Read full article here. Hope to see you all there!
Alyson Dunlop, who claims to have been attacked by a vampire-like being in her home and to have seen a bright orange UFO zigzagging through skies above the Carron Valley reservoir, will discuss the possibility of communicating with aliens via shamanism, while Ron Halliday will ask whether UFOs and their occupants are real or just figments of our imagination.
Ewan Irvine will talk about psychic powers, and Peter McCue will discuss UFO cover-ups and conspiracies.
Nick Kyle will give a lecture on the Scole Experiments which were investigations into mediumship and afterlife.
The conference will also feature photographs of ghostly happenings, strange glowing orbs and what some have claimed is an image of a real-life fairy.
The event, sponsored by Phenomena Magazine, will start at 10am and is due to finish and 8pm. Tickets cost £10.
A terrifying and enticing EDX-Files Valentine Special with Steve Mera on the incubus/succubus night demon phenomenon, and other paranormal lovers who have terrorized or pleasured humanity since the dawn of time… What could be more romantic than a paranormal being that seduces you while you sleep? This show is not for the faint of heart, so listeners beware, you’re in for a scare!
I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to chat with my guest Peter Robbins on this month’s EDX-Files about the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident of 1980. We discuss the event and the effect it has had on witnesses such as Larry Warren, the whistle-blower and co-author, with Peter, of “Left at East Gate”. We also discuss the continuing controversy involving Nick Pope, as well as the slanderous allegations of Charles Halt. Please share, and remember to click the heart to follow and show some love! Enjoy, Earthlings!
The Xmas Special of EDX-Files with guest, author and investigator, Malcolm Robinson (founder of SPI). We talk about his new book on the Loch Ness Monster, as well as ghosts, poltergeists, UFOs and alien abduction incidents in Scotland.
On the morning of 9th November 1979, Robert (Bob) Taylor, previously a tank driver at Dunkirk during WWII, now a foreman forester, was walking through Dechmont Woods with his dog. His job that morning was to look out for any stray sheep that might have wandered into the area. As he turned a corner, there was a clearing. Robert froze to the spot and stared at what he was faced with. A large dome-shaped object hovered above the grass. He reported that it “was dark grey all over and was roughly textured, and it was also completely silent. It had a flange going around its circumference of which sticking up from this flange, were several spikes.” He also saw several dark circular spaces, but he was not sure if they were windows. As he continued to stare in shock and disbelief, parts of the object began to disappear so that he could actually see the trees behind it. It then began to materialise again. His dog by now was barking furiously at the strange sight, just as several smaller round, spiked objects, which looked similar to WWII sea mines, dropped out of the object and rushed towards him. He reported that they made a strange sound, like suction, on the ground. The next thing Bob knew, the objects were either side of him and the spikes had attached themselves to each side of his trousers. They began pulling him towards the large UFO. Bob began to smell a strong burning odour and heard a whooshing sound. Terrified, he passed out.
When he came round, approximately twenty minutes later, he could barely move or speak. He had an excruciating migraine and he was nauseous. He crawled to his van, but couldn’t speak on his radio. He backed into a ditch and now couldn’t get out again! Poor Bob staggered through the woods, thankfully knowing a short cut home. He got there about 11.15am. When she saw him, his wife thought he had been assaulted. Distraught and clothes torn, Bob uttered the immortal words “I’ve been attacked…by a spaceship.” His boss and doctor, who arrived on the scene soon afterwards, said that Bob was not the type to tell stories for a joke. The medical examination revealed no head injury or neurological condition. His blood pressure was normal.
On examination of the scene where the incident took place, physical evidence was discovered. Forty holes were found that were about ten cm across and no more than the same deep. The Livingston Police also investigated the scene and had it forensically analysed. The police were baffled, but did believe Bob, and took the case very seriously indeed.
The incident was investigated by Malcolm Robinson, whose group Strange Phenomena Investigations (SPI) was born that very day. This case was to fuel his appetite for many more future investigations, and a life-long commitment to UFO and paranormal research. Congratulations to Malcolm on the 35th anniversary of SPI. The full story of the Bob Taylor Livingston Incident can be read in Malcolm’s book “UFO Case Files of Scotland”.
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Blog dedicated to Malcolm Robinson and the late Robert Taylor.
Exactly thirty nine years ago today, on the 5th November 1975, Travis Walton experienced something truly extraordinary. It was an event that caused trauma to him, his friends, and his community, as they all tried to explain what happened. Because that evening, at some point between 6.10pm and 7pm, Travis and the other men he was with were subject to an encounter that they would never forget. Through the re-telling of what happened, neither will the rest of the world.
After a hard day of tree-felling, Mike Smith, Travis Walton, Ken Peterson, John Goulette, Steve Pierce, Allen Dallis and Dwayne Smith all made their way home together. Mike Smith, their boss, drove them in his pickup truck. As the others joked in the back, Travis, sitting in the passenger seat, was distracted by a light coming through the trees. At first he assumed it was the sun, but then reasoned the sun would have already set. He thought maybe it was a fire. By now the others had caught sight of it too, and the joking had stopped. As they passed it, the light was almost blinding. One of the men, Dwayne, commented that he thought it might be a crashed plane in the trees.
As the truck moved to where the men could see better what was causing the brightness, they were dumb-struck. Before them was what they could only interpret as a gold, disc-shaped, flying saucer. It was hovering just below the tree tops.
In his excitement, Travis leapt from the truck. The others, beginning to panic, shouted for him to come back. The men later said that Travis was below the UFO when it began to make a loud noise. Travis started to walk away when the disc wobbled from side to side.
Just at that moment, the men watched in horror as Travis was struck by what they described as a blue-green light which shot out from the disc. Clark (1988) stated that Travis “rose a foot into the air, his arms and legs outstretched, and shot back stiffly some 10 feet (3.0m), all the while caught in the glow of the light. His right shoulder hit the earth, and his body sprawled limply over the ground.”
By 7.30pm the men were reporting the disappearance of their friend and co-worker Travis Walton to Deputy Sheriff Chuck Ellison. Ellison recalled that two of the men were in tears and, though he was sceptical of their bizarre story, he conceded that they seemed genuine. Ellison’s superior, Sheriff Marlin Gillespie, along with Officer Ken Coplan, Mike Rogers, Ken Peterson and Allen Dallis, went back to the clearing to search for Travis. Goulette, Pierce and Smith were all too upset and decided to return home to Snowflake and break the news of Travis’s disappearance to family and friends.
No physical evidence of the events could be found. Mike Rogers and Sheriff Coplan went to tell Travis’s mother, Mary Walton Kellett. On hearing the news she was calm – something that debunkers have cited as a reason to suspect the story was false. However, in the days that followed Kellet did break down on several occasions. At 3am on the 6th, she telephoned Travis’s brother, Duane Walton, who travelled from his home in Glendale, Arizona and drove to Snowflake.
Police had scoured the area, and were suspicious that the UFO sighting was a story concocted to cover up an accident or homicide. However, when Duane and Mike Rogers returned to the clearing on the morning of the 6th to find no police presence, they immediately went to Sheriff Gillespie’s office to demand a reason why no further searches were being carried out. Their angry outburst was effective. By the afternoon, police were out searching for Travis with helicopters, horses, and jeeps.
The disappearance of Walton became international news, with reporters, ufologists, and intrigued others, all heading for Snowflake. Of course, the media highlighted controversial statements made by Mike Rogers and Duane Walton, which on reflection they had said without thinking of the possible consequences. Nevertheless, apart from Dallis, the other five men all passed a polygraph test where they denied harming Travis, having knowledge of anyone who had caused him harm, or knowing where his body was. They also maintained that they had seen a UFO. The polygraph result said that, without doubt, they were telling the truth. Even Sheriff Gillespie now accepted their UFO story.
Meanwhile, somewhere else, Travis Walton was beginning to wake up. In his own words:
“I looked at the vague but reassuring forms of the doctors around me. Abruptly my vision cleared. The sudden horror of what I saw rocked me as I realized I was definitely not in a hospital. I was looking square into the face of a horrible creature … with huge, luminous brown eyes the size of quarters! I looked frantically around me. There were three of them! Hysteria overcame me instantly.” —Travis Walton
He went on to describe them as typical Greys, which have been reported in other abduction scenarios. They were shorter than five feet, with large, bald, dome-shaped heads. After jumping off the table he was on, and threatening these creatures, they left the room (or ran away). Walton described walking through the corridors of the place he had found himself and meeting humanoids. One covered his face with an oxygen mask, he passed out, and the next thing he was waking up outside a gas station. He looked up and saw the object above the highway before it shot off. Walton then got himself to a telephone and called his cousin, Grant Neff. He thought he had only been gone a few hours. In fact, he had been missing for five days…
Read some chapters from Fire in the Sky by Travis Walton for free & buy the book (much cheaper than on Amazon!) via this link!
The SKYFIRE Conference 2014 is on from 7th-9th November in Arizona! See the teaser trailer via this link!
Travis Walton’s new theory about his abduction!
Travis Walton speaks more about his abduction and his theory on Coast to Coast. Listen to the full interview (Hour 3 & 4 on the mp3 downloads) via this link!
Steve Pierce speaks out:
The Witnesses – John Goulette and Steve Pierce.
Travis Walton didn’t have much say in the making of the movie, and his book is different. However, it still helps to visualise a few things so here are a couple of trailers.
Fan-made Trailer “Fire in the Sky”
Official Trailer
Until next time, keep your eyes on the skies!
Your friend, A.D.
Dedicated to Travis Walton, his family and friends
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