The A70 UFO Abduction Revisited.

[karl 12]

When it comes to Car UFO abductions like Stanford:



Devereaux:



Godfrey:



etc.. this one's got to up there as the freakiest of the lot.

First came across it on Michael Aspel's 'Strange But True' TV programme many moons ago and it gives a good intro to the initial UFO sighting, how it affected the two men and the 90 minutes of missing time they experienced.


See 5:37




For members who can't view video here's a written account (also MOD release about case):

The A70 Abduction Case Revisited

In 1992, at around 8pm on a quiet country road on the outskirts of Edinburgh, two ordinary men experienced an extraordinary event that has become enshrined in the annals of Scottish and world UFO mythology. The event, known as the A70 case, was the alleged abduction of the two men by extraterrestrials.

Neither of the two men, Garry Wood and Colin Wright, expected anything out of the ordinary to occur when they set out on the fateful night of the 27th of August 1992. Their journey was from the south of Edinburgh on the A70 to the village of Tarbrax in East Lothian, a drive of some 15 miles.

The journey, which normally takes around 30 minutes, was in connection with a domestic appliance repair. At around 10 pm they drove through the clear summer’s night at about 40 mph chatting about family and other general issues. Rounding a blind corner, in the vicinity of the Harperrig Reservoir, Colin abruptly leaned forward exclaiming, “What the hell’s that?”

Garry peered through the windscreen, there ahead of the car; floating about 20ft above the road was a two-tiered disc-shaped object. He remembers it being about 30 ft wide, wider than the road, smooth, black and shiny with no windows or illumination.

Garry, a motor mechanic by trade, is familiar with mechanical devices and a range of metal finishes, found the appearance and finish of the object unusual.

Wanting to get away as quickly as possible, he floored the accelerator urging their vehicle up to almost 70 mph. In Colin’s words, Garry was “Driving like a bloody madman.” As they passed below the hovering craft a shimmering curtain of light descended on the car, Garry describes it as like looking at a detuned TV set, just flickering lights. Instantly they were enveloped in total, complete darkness.

Later under hypnosis Garry recalled standing (presumably) outside the car, it was still totally and utterly dark, not a hint of light, he could not even see the car; briefly he thought they had crashed and he was dead.

He blacked out for what subjectively felt like a few seconds, then abruptly he was awake and the car was veering all over the road. Garry could hear Colin shouting at him to watch out then thankfully, he was able to bring the car to a stop. They looked at each other in disbelief, what had happened?

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MOD:

]Friends’ UFO abduction claim sparked secret military probe

UFO investigators launched a top-level probe into claims two men were abducted by aliens in the Capital.

The legendary story told by Garry Wood and Colin Wright, who said they were examined by extraterrestrials after their van was ambushed by a flying saucer, is being turned into a film starring Billy Boyd.

But rather than being dismissed at the time as 
Hollywood fantasy, the 1992 incident was taken seriously enough to be investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

Garry, then a 33-year-old ambulance technician from Edinburgh, was driving a car to Tarbrax, South Lanarkshire, accompanied by Colin, 25.

The classified documents – released today – state that Garry “was driving along the A70 when the object dropped a curtain of white light in front of the car”.

The report continued: “His friend blacked out for what seemed like 10-15 seconds. He thought he had died. When he woke up the car was facing the other direction on the wrong side of the road. When he checked his watch he had lost about one hour.”

It describes the UFO as being 20 feet high and 30 feet wide, and black with no lights, and tells how the claims were reported to police, a doctor, a psychologist and a university.

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Interesting that the witnesses described a 'curtain' of light descending from the UFO as it's not the first time this has been reported - other aspects like 'abdominal pressure', being in 'complete darkness' after driving through the light and feeling 'physically drained' in the days following the incident also have parallels with other cases.

Below is a pretty comprehensive presentation by Malcolm Robinson including the hypnosis footage and what the two men actually recounted seeing inside the UFO.


See 26:00



(Also the last ever interview with Rober Taylor can be found at 18:30)

 

[nivek]

Great information Karl, I've just begun looking through this, thanks!...

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[karl 12]

No worries mate and the A70 case really is a pretty disturbing one -this Police report from a motor rally in Ecuador, 1978 could also be relevant as the two drivers state their car was 'levitated' by a dense, yellowish light - afterwards their odometer showed that they had covered 52 kilometers (when they should have covered 127 kilometers) and the journey, which shouldn't have taken more than 75 minutes, had in fact taken 2 hours and 20 minutes.

..Suddenly the light vanished from the passenger compartment and saw it fading away into the west, like a cone of yellow light, but one that didn’t end in a tip, it was somewhat truncated. I don’t know. It might have measured some five meters at the base and two or three at the cusp, measuring some six or seven meters in height. The base lit the ground, ahtough you really couldn’t see what it was lighting, that is to say, you couldn’t see through the light. A few seconds later, the light…how can I explain it? …retracted itself or drew up like a curtain, from bottom to top, and all that remained in view was an oval, whitish-yellow light that kept heading west until it vanished in the distance,” said Acevedo.

Argentina: Police Report Documents 1978 UFO Teleportation / Main Link

This other 1978 Argentine car levitation incident is also very bizarre and has echoes of the Devereaux case.

..During the night of July 6, 1978, they travelled on board an old Chrysler 1933, in direction of the town of Maipu, when suddenly, to their great astonishment, their vehicle was deviated from its road and lifted in the airs, as if the force of gravitation did not intervene any more. At the same time, the engine of the car stopped inexplicably while the car's radio still functioned. They were thus in full rise, while "being bathed in pleasant feelings", according to their later statements.

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Cheers.

 

[karl 12]

Below is yet another completely bizarre UFO car case involving the Avis family and 'a bank of thick green mist' - Aveley, Essex, October 1974.

The UFO investigator at the time (Andrew Collins) called it 'probably the most important British case ever'.

The Aveley Abduction Case

John Avis, 29, his wife Elaine, 25, and 3 children, were driving home to Aveley, traveling southward along Hacton Lane and the Aveley Road when they saw an oval pale blue light to their left. This light traveled with them, and presently crossed the road in front of them, about 500 yards away.

About a mile further on, they suddenly came upon a bank of thick green mist covering the entire road, 8-9 ft high. At this moment the car radio started crackling and smoking, and John pulled out its wires. The car’s headlights went out, and they entered the mist. In the mist “it was very light,” and they felt very cold; there was a dead silence. After what seemed like a second or two, there was a jolt, and the mist was gone; the car was now half a mile further along the road. Elaine’s first impressions were not until it had traveled another half mile.

One of the children was still awake, and the other two still asleep. When they reached home, they found that the time was not about 2200, as it should have been, but about 0100A. Three hours had somehow been lost..

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This one from May, 1973 involving Judy Doraty is also extremely strange.

One Of The Strangest Alien Abductions Of All


As is the case of the Mann Family from England in 1978.

 

[karl 12]

Lots more very strange UFO motor vehicle cases in Keith Basterfield's Australian catalogue:

In a typical scenario, the victim is driving along a deserted road late at night, sees a UFO, momentarily blacks out, regains consciousness a "moment" or so later, then discovers that over an hour or two has mysteriously passed away from his life. Later on investigators may ask the witness to undergo hypnotic regression, during which he "remembers" that his car stalled and alien beings took him onboard the UFO. Many UFO abductees say they were given a medical examination, or a message before being returned to their cars with the command to forget what happened. (1)

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[karl 12]

When it comes to UFO car abductions, don't know if this Knowles Family one from the Nullarbor Plane in 1988 is a contender but it's certainly very odd .

News Archive

''We were a little bit skeptical at first,'' said Sgt. Jim Furnell of Ceduna Police in the state of South Australia. ''But after investigating, we are treating the reports very seriously.''

Article:

“I felt like my brain was being sucked out…” Patrick Knowles told the reporters.

“It felt like something was going into our heads…” Faye Knowles added.

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[karl 12]

Another highly unusual car UFO case 2 days before Westhall incident - Ron Sullivan's beams from his car's headlights pull towards a UFO 'as though they were magnetised' - authorities investigated case but no records exist in official files.


See 6:30

Initially, as he approached Sullivan saw a white phosphorous type of light on the ground that appeared to be about 15 feet in diameter. "It opened up and there was another white oval on top of it, about 30 feet (in height, coming down making the shape of a cone (with a) 15 feet bottom diameter and 20 feet to diameter - and in that cone were tubes of coloured lights - all the lights as you see as you look through the spectrum ("all the colours of the rainbow") ... red, blue, indigo and purple ... travelling up and down ... or they seem to be... from the small oval to the bigger oval at the top. They were going up and down in shafts. Then gradually the top seemed to come to meet the bottom ... They seemed to close in ... making a transition of one light oval -- similar to first view -- everything then just disappeared." The last thing Sullivan saw of the light display was "just a spot on the ground -- a light spot, become smaller and smaller, to nothing." Meanwhile, as he was driving, he observed that his car headlight beams suddenly appeared to be pointing in a direction off to the right in the direction of the strange light display and also seemed to be, bending back on an axis with the object in the paddock. As he got closer, the angle of bending of his car's headlight beams became more acute. He thought his car must have been heading off the road to the right, and immediately compensated by turning it to the left. He found he was now heading directly towards a tree on the left hand side of the road. Sullivan turned the car to the right to regain the direction of travel along the straight section of road, thoroughly confused and leaving behind the display in the paddock.

August 27th, 1979 - Police Officer Val Johnson witnesses UFO descend on his car causing him lose consciousness - sheriff's eyes were affected as if he had suffered "mild welder's burns" and patrol car clock and officer's wristwatch both lost 14 minutes.

August 27, 1979-Deputy Val Johnson of Marshall County was on duty that night, driving not far from the North Dakota border, when at around 1:40 a.m. he saw a light through his side window. It was obviously not on a road and looked too glaring to be a car headlight.
He first thought it might be a small plane on or very near the ground. He turned left on another road to try to get closer to the light to identify it. Suddenly, the light moved toward him, travelling so fast that it almost instantaneously was upon his car (covering an estimated mile and a half).

Johnson was blinded by the brilliance of the light and heard glass breaking, then lost consciousness.

 

[karl 12]

Very bizarre case from Great Orme, Wales in 1997 - possibly involving those cheeky MIB.

A well researched case of alien abduction comes from Wales, and well-known researcher Margaret Fry. The case involves missing time and lost memories, a typical scenario for abduction. Multiple sightings of UFOs over the Great Orme, a legendary and mysterious mountainous region in North Wales, preceded the events of November 10, 1997 by several days. One family would have their entire lives changed within a short period of time by encountering a strange UFO.

The family was motoring on the Bodfair-Landemog highway, when without a warning, their car was overwhelmed by a purple flying object which seemed to attach itself to their car. This brief moment of terror would be followed by another in which the UFO was gone. They were again driving their car down the road, but now they were trying to understand what had happened. The had not a clue.

Margaret Fry's Statement:

"But they could not account for considerable hours of time lost," said Fry.
"The male was having trouble afterwards with a top molar tooth and he had to go to the dentist's... and a black unknown object fell out while he was at the dentist's-but he had no fillings," she said.

Men in Black:

After the trip to the dentist's office, the husband made a report of the family's strange encounter on the highway to local authorities. Shortly thereafter, he was visited on two separate occasions by plain-clothed men identifying themselves as Air Force personnel. He was warned to never talk about his family's incident. The men looked like the legendary American "men in black."

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[karl 12]

Professor John Salter and son, March 20th, 1988 - travelling across the U.S. in car - missing time for an hour - claims of alien abduction.

See 33:52

 

[karl 12]

Another freaky one involving Police Officer Herbert Schirmer driving his patrol car, witnessing a UFO and experiencing missing time.

 

[karl 12]

Different UFO motor vehicle cases in Ontario taken from the catalogue UFO Entities and Other Similar Encounters in Ontario by Albert Rosales - also some very early UFO occupant and water collection accounts.

Location. St Catharines Ontario Canada
Date: 1961 Time: night

The witness, Bill, was driving home with his young son, when his vehicle apparently stopped. He got out of the car and was confronted by several four-foot tall humanoids that had been standing in front of a landed object. He remembers being taken through a black shiny mirror like entrance of the object. Under hypnosis he recalled seeing some type of museum of time onboard the craft, where he encountered a range of devices from the early 20th century to the future.

HC addition # 295

Source: Lawrence J Fenwick, SBI Report # 40





Location. Northern Ontario, Canada, exact location not given

Date: Fall 1971 Time: 02:00 a.m.

The main witness and some others were on an isolated road on an incredibly clear night. There were four people in the car. Her husband who was driving, the witness was sitting in the middle and her friend Yvonne was sitting beside the passenger window. Another friend, Darryl, was laying on the back seat taking a nap. Yvonne was watching the sky when she saw two objects that were quite bright and seemed to be chasing each other. She pointed them out. All of them started to watch the objects (they woke Darryl up). The objects were clearly disc-shaped and made no discernable sound. The objects seemed to be playing tag with each other and performed impossible maneuvers. One of the objects left very quickly. It was as if it had completely left our known universe, or solar system, in an instant. When it sped off, the witness could feel it inside her body (perhaps a low frequency sound wave that can be felt but not heard?). The other craft stayed in the area. At this point the witness could “hear” herself talking with the occupants and she told them that she had heard about them and that some of them are good and some of them were bad and wondered what kind they were. She clearly heard, “Don’t worry. We’re just here to watch.” She thought back, “Okay, you watch us and we’ll watch you.” It then came down to just above treetop level and matched their car speed. She could see the outline of the trees against the light of the craft. It was clearly a saucer shaped object and it was spinning. There was no sound, even though it was now so close, but again she could she could “feel” it inside her body. At that point the witness conscious memory picks up when they are approaching the next town and the sun is coming up. At this time they were all quite awake. There was some missing time, at the minimum several hours. The witness suffered from nightmares after the incident.

HC addendum

Source: Pararesearchers Ontario Canada





Location. Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Date: July 8 1976 Time: 02:30 a.m.

An orange colored oval shaped craft swoops down from the sky and comes alongside vehicle. 30 minutes of missing time is reported. Hypnosis was tried but hypnotist refused to continue sessions. No other information.

HC addendum

Source: D. Webb (UFOCAT entry)





Location. Brantford Ontario Canada

Date: Summer 1979 Time: afternoon

The witness was traveling by car when a craft with bright lights descended over the highway in front of the car. The witness then sees two short humanoids standing on the side of the road. The beings are described as having large triangular shaped heads, large eyes, small mouths, and small holes for a nose. They had broad shoulders and thin necks and wore one-piece dull gray colored suits. The witness was then floated into the craft. Inside she saw a curved corridor with many rooms. She was then examined on a small table by six small beings that communicated by using mental telepathy. The witness remembers seeing other humans being examined onboard.

HC addition # 1147

Source: Bonnie Wheeler, Cambridge UFO Research





Location. Near Toronto Ontario Canada

Date: December 22 1979 Time: 1825

The main witness and her brother were driving just north of town on a foggy evening, when they came upon a really heavy fog bank, they entered a dense black cloud, and when they emerged there was not any other traffic around. They had lost 20 minutes of time. Later under hypnosis they recalled seeing a swirling black cloud and three human like figures approaching their vehicle, they were very human looking, blond and about five-foot ten inches tall. They wore gray green coveralls. They took the main witness apparently into an object, which was green inside; her brother was left in the car. She was later brought back to the car.

HC addition # 291

Source: Cuforn Bulletin, May/June 1988






Location Cambridge, Ontario Canada

Date: November 18 1980 Time: 1930

The main witness and her son were traveling on Pinebush Road when she spotted some bright lights approaching from the east. The witness pulled over and stopped the car thinking that it was an airplane in distress. The lights now approached and stopped nearby, the witness could now see a dark metallic dome shaped craft behind the light. Now more lights turned on, on top of the hovering craft. The witness now felt hypnotized by the lights, she then had a floating sensation and felt drawn towards the craft. Here next recollection was of seeing the craft shoot straight up and disappear. Later under hypnosis she recalled being taken into a small craft that was cold inside, then into a larger object. She was then surrounded by numerous short ugly beings with large bright eyes that were somewhat insect like. She was then taken through a long tunnel with rough edges. She then entered a room with bright lights, there her clothes were removed, and she was medically examined. The beings communicated by using telepathy and told the witness she had been “rejected.” Another being with three eyes was apparently in charge and commanded the others. She was finally released. The witness suffered many painful after effects similar to some type of radiation damage. Her son was apparently not abducted.

HC addition # 1145

Source: Bonnie Wheeler, Cambridge UFO Research

Main link:

http://psican.org/index.php/ufological-information/ontario/955-entities-ontario

 

[humanoidlord]

No worries mate and the A70 case really is a pretty disturbing one -this Police report from a motor rally in Ecuador, 1978 could also be relevant as the two drivers state their car was 'levitated' by a dense, yellowish light - afterwards their odometer showed that they had covered 52 kilometers (when they should have covered 127 kilometers) and the journey, which shouldn't have taken more than 75 minutes, had in fact taken 2 hours and 20 minutes.

interesting! why this one doesn't receive too much attention?

 

[humanoidlord]

Below is yet another completely bizarre UFO car case involving the Avis family and 'a bank of thick green mist' - Aveley, Essex, October 1974.

i like this one! i remenber it was first reported in FSR and the creatures looked nothing like the modern greys, they looked like animals!

 

[humanoidlord]

This other 1978 Argentine car levitation incident is also very bizarre and has echoes of the Devereaux case.

this story sounds more like a timeslip
@Carl Grove