Case · UFO Afrinews No 11, Feb. 1995
Philip Spencer on Ilkley Moor (book review)
Ilkley Moor, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
One of the better cases in Nagaitis and Mantle's Without Consent, summarised in Hind's review. Philip Spencer (a pseudonym), a former police constable, took a short cut over Ilkley Moor on a blustery, dull winter morning. On a hilltop he heard humming and saw a strange green creature about 16 metres away with two long arms, two legs and a head, plainly not human. He photographed it; the picture is unclear. Chasing it, he found in a hollow an object of two silver saucer-shaped discs welded together, the source of the hum, which rose to a crescendo before the object shot straight into the clouds. Reaching Ilkley he saw the Town Hall clock reading 10:00 when he expected about 08:15, an hour and three quarters missing. Under later hypnosis he recalled an abduction, which Hind treats with caution.
What Hind made of it
Hind accepts that genuine contacts emerge under hypnosis but warns that memories from one event can contaminate another and that too many ufologists accept hypnosis without question.
In their words
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Too many ufologists accept hypnosis without question.
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what had happened to those one and three-quarter hours?
Cross references
- Without Consent by Carl Nagaitis and Philip Mantle, Ringpull Press 1994
- BUFORA