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Tales of ‘Blinding Lights’ and ‘Alien Abductions’ in the UK North-East ‘Hotspot’

Article by Katie Anderson                                         February 20, 2021                                         (gazettelive.co.uk )

• Glen Richardson’s father once told him about a strange occurrence that happened before Richardson was born. His father awoke one night around 2 or 3 in the morning to the sound of a vacuum cleaner. He ventured downstairs expecting to find his wife, but instead, saw a very big, bright, yellow and orange blinding light coming from outside the window. “He went to take a closer look, it lit up the sky for a few more seconds, and then it vanished,” said Richardson (pictured above).

• With this story, Richardson was hooked. He consumed as many books and articles on the UFO topic as he could get his hands on and became a resident UFO investigator in Hartlepool, in Durham County, England – studying unexplained objects and potential alien existence. He began travelling the length and breadth of the UK to meet people who’d had witnessed similar phenomena. “[M]y late-father that really inspired me- because he was a very skeptical man,” says Richardson, now 45. Richardson works as a mental health care assistant when he’s not chasing UFOs.

• The most compelling case that Richardson has dealt with over the last 20 years involved a woman from Northumberland who came forward two years ago saying she’d seen an unrecognizable object in the sky followed by two Apache helicopters. “…I spoke to a gentleman from the Ministry of Defence” said Richardson. “He confirmed there were three Apache helicopters deployed at the same time and location.” “She was adamant that the third was not a helicopter.”[B]ut… it validated her sighting of an unrecognizable object.

• Richardson says North East England is somewhat of a “hotspot” for UFO sightings, with many reports coming in over the last few years, including across Hartlepool. “A man in Hartlepool complained of missing time while he was awake, and a triangular shaped craft outside his room when he went to sleep,” said Richardson. “He said these things happened to him on three separate occasions during the 1980s.”

• Richardson said he feels there is a difference between these ‘abduction’ scenarios and hallucinations he observes in his job as a mental health worker. Patients will just come out with their hallucination. But when UFO witnesses speak of an encounter, they act very cautiously. “Often it’ll start with them describing a sighting, and once they trust you, they’ll confide in you about something more,” says Richardson. “Often I get the impression they don’t believe it themselves, or they don’t want to believe it.”

• With the advancement of smart phones and other video technology, more people are capturing them and the stigma attached to reporting UFO’s is falling away. And with this change, “[P]eople are feeling more confident than ever coming forward,” notes Richardson. “When I first started, there was a lot of name-calling (from) friends and colleagues… but that’s settled down now.”

• “I’m part of a strong community of researchers and we are all in it for the same reasons: to help people and to gather as much information as possible to substantiate that there is life out there. It would be an amazing discovery.”

• Richardson concedes that there are logical explanations for many UFO sightings. But there are some that just can’t be explained. “I do believe there is something else going on,” he says. And he believes that there is more to it than just unidentified flying objects – there is the potential for alien life. “Regardless of whether you believe in evolution or religious arguments, it seems highly unlikely that we are the only life out there.”

 

     one of Glen Richardson’s UFO pics

For most people, UFOs are a source of intrigue and the extra-terrestrial is reserved for sci-fi Netflix binges.

But for Hartlepool ‘s resident UFO investigator, Glen Richardson, studying unexplained objects and potential alien existence is a life-passion.

“I’ve been interested in this line of work for as long as I can remember” said Glen, 45, who works as a mental health care assistant when he’s not chasing UFOs.

          Hartlepool, England

“But it was one story from my late-father that really inspired me- because he was a very skeptical man.”

“He told me that one night, before I was born, he awoke around 2 or 3 in the morning to the sound of a vacuum cleaner. He ventured downstairs expecting to find my mum, but instead, saw a very big, bright, yellow and orange blinding light coming from outside the window.

“He went to take a closer look, it lit up the sky for a few more seconds, and then it vanished.”

Glen was captivated by the tale, and eagerly consumed as many books and articles on the topic as he could get his hands on. Soon, he began travelling the length and breadth of the UK to meet people who alleged they had witnessed similar phenomena.

He said the most compelling case he’s dealt with over the last 20 years involved a woman from Northumberland, who came forward 2 years ago saying she’d seen an unrecognisable object in the sky followed by two Apache helicopters.

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Near Miss Investigations Prompt Renowned ‘X Files’ Investigator to Speak Out

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Article by Joanna Morris                       September 9, 2019                    (thenorthernecho.co.uk)

• Included in a list of aviation near-misses reported to the UK Airprox Board is a UFO seen by a pilot cruising above Barnard Castle in February 2017. According to the pilot, the UFO was flying “almost directly overhead (of) the aircraft in the opposite direction” as the plane traveled at an altitude approaching 18,000 ft. The UFO passed at high speed 200 ft above the aircraft, and remained in view for just two seconds.

• The Airprox report reflects a situation in which the distance between an aircraft and the object could have compromised the safety of the aircraft. There were 36 such reports involving unknown objects in UK airspace investigated by the Board between 2017 and 2019, according to analysis by Newsquest’s Data Investigations Unit. The Civil Aviation Authority said it was likely that most reports involved drones, model aircraft or balloons.

• The pilot in the Barnard Castle case initially believed the moving object could have been a military jet or potentially a drone. However, many reports reviewed by the board involved sightings of unknown objects at thousands of feet off the ground, at heights above drone capability.

• Nick Pope, who investigated UFO sightings for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), said there were many incidents that deserved more interrogation. Said Pope, “[M]any reports being attributed to drone activity should more properly be characterized as ‘unknown objects’.” We’re “being too quick to blame drones”.

• Pope continued, “The situation has been under-resourced since the 2009 termination of the MoD’s UFO program, and while I’m aware that the MoD continues to study such matters, more should be done.”

• UFO researcher Glen Richardson said he receives multiple reports a year relating to potential alien activity in the North-East, including claims of abduction. Richardson thinks the UK authorities could be working covertly to investigate such cases, and urged them to be more transparent about their findings.

• Dr David Clarke with the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University said, “Things that are unexplained are likely to be natural phenomenon – not aliens from other planets. That’s not to say those reports are of no interest.”

• A Ministry of Defence spokesman said that with the millions of flights in UK airspace each year, “[t]he low number of these incidents highlight the professionalism of commercial, military and private aviators.”

 

A REAL-LIFE X Files investigator has joined a UFO researcher from the North-East in calling for more to be done to uncover the truth behind mysterious objects spotted in the skies.

A unidentified flying object seen by a pilot cruising above Barnard Castle is included in a list of near-misses reported to the organisation responsible for monitoring close calls that could compromise the safety of aircraft in flight.

In February 2017, the moving object caught the captain’s attention, flying “almost directly overhead the aircraft in the opposite direction” as the plane travelled at an altitude approaching 18,000ft.

According to data from the UK Airprox Board, the angular and fast-moving entity passed at high speed and remained in view for just two seconds, approximately 200ft above the aircraft.

An Airprox report reflects a situation in which the distance between an aircraft and the object could have compromised the safety of the aircraft.

There were 36 such reports involving unknown objects in UK airspace investigated by the Board between 2017 and 2019, according to analysis by Newsquest’s Data Investigations Unit.

The Civil Aviation Authority said it was likely that most reports involved drones, model aircraft or balloons.

The pilot in the Barnard Castle case initially believed the moving object could have been a military jet or potentially a drone.

However, many reports reviewed by the board involved sightings of unknown objects at thousands of feet off the ground at heights drones would struggle to reach.

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