Case · UFO Afrinews No 22, July 2000
Tony Dodd's Yorkshire sightings (book review)
1978 ยท Yorkshire dales and moors, 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
Prier Wintle's review summarises Tony Dodd's own experiences over twenty-five years as a Yorkshire policeman. In January 1978 he saw his first UAP while patrolling the dales with a colleague in the car, and afterwards saw them repeatedly, often with another constable who provided independent confirmation, though the others rarely saw anything alone. Dodd took to flashing a torch at passing objects; on one occasion a craft swung back and repeated his exact sequence with an elliptical amber beam, which two policemen recognised as deliberate acknowledgement. Sightings became so routine that his wife Pauline would call from the garden that his 'friends' were here. Dodd came to believe he and other close-encounter witnesses were chosen and allowed to see, as part of an education the aliens were giving him.
What Hind made of it
Wintle accepts the sightings as police-corroborated and calls the idea that witnesses are chosen fundamental to the mystery; Hind's editors reserve their disagreement for the Kalahari chapter.
In their words
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Tony, your friends are here.
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So it's true what they say about working with you!
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We were not just in the right place at the right time; the event happened because we were there.
Cross references
- Tony Dodd, Alien Investigator (Headline, 1999), chapter 1, p 14