Tony Dodd - a night to remember - a very close encounter in Scotland

Author: Tony Dodd.

On the evening of the 23rd. September, 1996 a Scottish family experienced an incident which would remain with them for the rest of their lives. The family were left bewildered and traumatized to the extent that they were afraid to sleep alone at night and needed counselling. The trauma and fear suffered by the family bears witness to their credibility and prior to the incident the witnesses had no knowledge or interest in the UFO subject. The story involves two adults: Mary and Jane and their children Peter 10 years and Susan 14 years.

On the date in question both families were at Jane’s house when they found that they had run out of coffee. At 8pm Mary and Jane accompanied by Peter decided to drive to a late night shop a few miles away in the next village, a journey which would take them along a number of remote country roads. It was a dark clear night and they chatted happily away about the events of the day.

Mary, who was driving, suddenly became of some bright white beams of light which were emanating from the sky and flooding the fields below. She said, “Where are those lights coming from?”

As they got closer to the lights, the witnesses looked out of the car windows and saw two very powerful beams of white light coming from a stationary object in the sky. At that point Jane commented, “It must be an aeroplane.”

Curiosity soon got the better of them and Mary stopped the car. A nearby field and plantation of trees were illuminated like daylight. The object in the sky started to move and the two white lights dimmed and went out. Moments later, their eyes having adjusted to the light, the witnesses observed the underside of a huge triangular craft which they estimated to be not less than 80 yards across. The witnesses watched the object slowly bank and turn revealing a large dome on the top. On the underside they could now see a cluster of three small red lights on each point of the object. Suddenly the engines of an approaching aircraft were heard and the triangle moved away at speed until they could only see a very small red light in the distance. The witnesses then got back into the car and carried on to their destination.

During the journey they discussed the importance of informing somebody of their sighting, but had no idea who to contact. When they arrived at the shop Jane, who was browsing through the magazine rack saw a copy of UFO Magazine. They saw the telephone number of a UFO group and decided to make a call.

Returning homewards they again arrived at the location of their sighting at approximately 8.30pm, and stopped the vehicle. A very small red light was still visible in the sky in the distance. Suddenly it shot across the sky towards them as if aware of their presence. Again the giant triangle appeared, only on this occasion without the powerful searchlights. Peter started screaming with fear and the women although shocked, tried to comfort him. The object suddenly moved away again to it’s original position in the sky.

By the time they arrived home, the witnesses were quite shaken by what they had seen and hurriedly telephoned the UFO hotline.

The researchers advised them to try to get some binoculars and a camera and go back to the location in an effort to obtain pictures. They possessed neither.

They conversed about the events, but Susan who had been at home throughout the evening refused to believe them and asked to be taken to the area. Following a lengthy discussion they decided to return to the scene, at this time taking Susan. Mary however was reluctant to take Peter, but he too insisted on making the journey, the time was now 9.45pm. As they reached the area a very powerful blue glow appeared in a field, somewhere above tree top height. In order to get a better view they drove down a narrow lane and parked the vehicle, leaving the lights on and the engine running.

A large star like object was visible just above the blue glow and was pulsing and growing larger and smaller alternately. They described it as giving off spikes and coloured beams of light shooting up into the air. They described seeing red, blue and green lights).

Suddenly they saw the silhouettes of numerous small thin figures that were obviously not human, moving about. One figure was much taller than the others, about seven feet tall. Other small beings moved amongst the trees of the plantation.

A large black object sat on the ground, but it was impossible to determine its shape. The figures appeared to be moving towards the object. By now the observers had seen enough and became extremely frightened, quickly finding a place to turn the vehicle around.

As they arrived at Jane’s house, her brother called on his way home from work. When the story was related, he offered to lend them a set of binoculars and they decided to go back to see if the activity was still taking place and collected the binoculars en-route.

As they again approached the location, they noticed the blue light was still glowing. Even with their naked eyes they were still able to see the little beings moving in and out of the trees. They could also see one of the very tall beings with its back to them. As Jane looked through the binoculars she kept repeating, “Oh my God, Oh my God,” She passed the binoculars To Mary who could now see the star-like object in the sky more clearly. She described the object as being amber colour with dark indentations around it. It was rotating slowly and occasionally tilting on its axis. Dozens of small creatures were apparently carrying small boxes and tubular canisters. The tall figures appeared to have brown skin and oriental eyes and seemed to be supervising a large group of the smaller beings. At this time Susan and Peter also had a look through the binoculars to confirm the observation and were shaken by what they saw. The binoculars were then returned to Jane who made the following statement.

“ At this time I could see one big star which I first thought was on the ground, it a was large transparent illuminated capsule-type thing, rippled on the outside with indentations like a brain. There were some very small thin beings inside it. Next to it was another smaller one, otherwise identical to the first one. This one contained a very tall being with brown skin, the capsule was moving- slowly rotating. I then looked toward the ground and saw the big craft we had first seen, it appeared to be on the ground near the woods. There were lots of lights around it and dozens of these small entities who appeared to be working in groups. They were going in and out of the woods. They appeared to be putting things on the ground and picking things up from the ground. Each group was carrying small boxes and canisters between the woods and the craft.

I saw other capsules which looked like cocoons coming out from the trees. Suddenly some of the capsules shot across the field towards where we were standing. I was very frightened and started screaming. The objects were quite close to us by this time and we could see that each capsule contained one of the small entities. They were no farther than four feet from us and there were dozens of them in front of us. Then pandemonium broke out with Mary, Peter and Susan screaming. I vaguely remember screaming ’Lets get the hell out of here’, and we eventually drove back home, terrified by the events we had witnessed”.

She went on to say, “Later it was strange because we started to remember things and somehow felt that they had taken us towards their craft. I remember this place, it was very bright, I couldn’t move and they were doing things to me. They didn’t hurt me so I felt happy. The little ones were smiling at me with their big eyes, and taking things from me. These they gave to a tall being. He touched them with a long probe like rod. The little creatures were about four to five feet tall and there was nothing human about them at all. The tall one had a nose and very slanted eyes- oriental like. There was no obvious sex gender; no did I see any body shape or waistline. They did have two arms and legs, and when they communicated they made strange noises – high-pitched noises, like whales. I didn’t hear them talking, it just happened in my head.

I don’t think they enjoyed what they were doing, it was just work. They seemed very efficient, and knew exactly what they were doing. When we got home I was frightened and kept asking Mary, hoping she would tell me that I had imagined the whole thing.

Mary had witnessed the whole thing and confirmed that it really had happened. I was so disturbed by the whole thing that I was afraid to sleep alone and we all ended up in the same bedroom that night with the lights on. I was so scared, I feared having a nervous breakdown, because I couldn’t cope.

The craft was triangular in shape with a dome on top. It had two giant white lights which shone beams onto the ground. When the lights went off I could see small red lights on each point of the triangle. The small beings had very big dark eyes and their heads looked too big for their bodies. They didn’t appear to have mouths. I don’t know how I know, but they must have told me that the small aliens were workers for the tall brown ones”.

Mary then related her story:

“We could see the bright blue light coming from the trees, even with our naked eyes. We were able to see a very tall being with its back to us, because everything was lit up. There seemed to be a small orange ball of light on the ground next to him. At this time Jane had the binoculars and she kept saying, ‘Oh my God, Oh my God you want to see this’. She eventually passed the binoculars to me and I was amazed to see that star-like object we had been watching was amber colour, with dark indentations all round it”.

There was a lot of activity involving the small creatures in the wood. At one point a very tall dark skinned oriental looking man, who seemed to be in charge walked over to where the little ones were working. I focused the binoculars on the nearby trees and saw another tall being, he was watching the small beings who were running around carrying small boxes and tubular objects. They seemed to be taking these to the craft on the ground. We then let Susan and Peter have a look through the binoculars so they could confirm our observation. Jane took the binoculars and said, “ Oh my God they’re coming out of the woods, and there are hundreds of them”. Susan then shouted, ‘They’re coming across the field towards us’. By this time I was panicking and disorientated and saw what I thought was a load of bales in front of me. Susan said,’They are not bales, they are pods with aliens inside, they’re here in front of us ‘. Jane screamed, ‘Lets get the hell out of here’. I hastily put the car in gear and drove away very fast. I never realised at the time that the bales were transparent cocoon things and at the last minute we were surrounded by them. I remember that the small beings were very thin and had heads which seemed too large for their bodies.

We arrived home badly shaken and in deep shock. Jane and I were crying and trying to come to terms with what we had witnessed, none of us got any sleep and this went on for days.

The effects of these incidents will always be with us. There is no doubt in our minds about what we saw and we do not want any publicity whatsoever”.

Susan and Peter related similar stories and described in detail how the final confrontation had taken place.

Mary said,” We were sitting in the car with the windows open, watching the coloured lights, Jane had the binoculars, when suddenly dozens of the bubble-like things came out of the woods and flew across the field towards us. I screamed,’they’re coming over here and we all started to panic and scream. Then all these bubbles were all around us, about four feet away from us in the air, they never moved. They were all alike and we could see through them and each one had one of these small creatures inside. They had big black eyes and big heads. They seemed to have smooth bodies and strange deceiving mouths.

We are still very frightened and would like now to forget everything that happened”.

Our field investigators went to the scene of the incident with the witnesses and found areas of burnt grass and apparent pressure marks on the ground. Some of the marks were semi circular in shape, burnt and dead grass was also evident. Branches of nearby trees were covered in spider web type of material, but it was concluded that this could have been normal spider web material. All the signs were that something had put pressure marks on the ground and burnt the grass and ground with half circular marks. There was no access to the site for motor vehicles and the country rod was two hundred yards from the scene.

I spoke to the families involved on many occasions and even months later they were reduced to tears when talking about it.

I would be very interested to hear how the MOD would explain this incident and fail to believe that such cases would be of no defence significance to either the MOD of the scientific community.

Tony Dodd.