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Todmorden

Calder Valley, West Yorkshire

A policeman, a hovering craft and twenty minutes he can't account for.

In November 1980, PC Alan Godfrey was on patrol when he came upon a large diamond-shaped object hovering over the road. The next thing he knew, he was further down the road and time had passed that he could not explain.

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When
1980
Where
53.7130, -2.0970
Group
UFO cases

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A Pennine market town, popular with walkers.

Cover of UFO Cases of Britain by Cale Mills
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UFO Cases of Britain

Few British UFO cases carry the institutional weight of this one: a serving police officer, on duty, in his own patrol car, in the middle of a shift, describing an experience so strange that it would go on to shape, and in his own account damage, the rest of his career.

Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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