— 5 years ago(November 28, 2020 02:02 AM)

ll BELIEVE the HORRORS I witnessed UNTIL THE END!!
SCRAMBLING for a pen and paper,
PC Alan Godfrey
desperately tried to sketch out the vast, hulking vessel that loomed in front of him - until he was suddenly engulfed by a dazzling white light.
When he came to, the young policeman found himself 100 yards down the
Yorkshire
country lane in his patrol car as the mysterious object vanished in his rear view mirror.
Retired
PC Alan Godfrey
, pictured, has left investigators obsessed with his story of a
UFO
sighting in
Todmorden
,
West Yorkshire
, 40 years ago.
The incredible story, which made headlines around the world 40 years ago, earned the small market town of
Todmorden
the title of
Britain
’s
UFO
hotspot and continues to obsess investigators to this day.
“I have never claimed that I was abducted,”
PC Godfrey
, now 73, tells from his home in
Todmorden
.
“But everything up until the bright white light and afterwards, when I was on the other side, I’ll believe it until the end.”.
Here, we step inside the bizarre saga of the
UK
’s most famous
UFO
case and talk to some of the world’s leading investigators about what really might have happened that fateful day.
A sketch of the
UFO
which
PC Godfrey
drew at the time.
Credit:
Supplied
.
The cop was driving when the huge, 'diamond-shaped' object caught his eye.
From 'marauding cows' to
UFO
HORROR!!
:
During the early hours of
November 29
,
1980
,
PC Godfrey
was out patrolling the
Pennines
in the pouring rain following reports that a herd of cows was on the loose.
By 5am, with no sight of the marauding group,
PC Godfrey
headed into
Todmorden
town centre for one last sweep before clocking off.
He passed a bus shuttling morning workers, saw no sign of trouble and decided to go for one last look for “those bloody cows”.
PC Godfrey
passed another bobby on foot patrol, who declined his offer of a lift.
“How I wish he would’ve said yes, it would’ve been priceless to have another officer witness what was about to happen,” he says.
He then drove past his police station and was about to turn right on to the estate when something caught his eye several hundred yards up the road.
Although his story continues to baffle Brits, he said he will believe what he saw till the end.
PC Godfrey
's incredible story earned the small market town of
Todmorden
, above, the title of
Britain
’s
UFO
hotspot.
Credit:
Alamy
.
“If only I’d had a mobile phone on me at the time so I could record what I saw, it would’ve been a lot easier than 40 years of trying to explain it," recalls
PC Godfrey
.
“I thought it was a bus at first, but I remembered I’d already passed the early morning service, and as I got nearer it very clearly looked nothing like a bus.
“It was completely blocking the main road. A huge metal object hanging in the air about five feet off the ground.
“It was diamond shaped, about 20ft wide and 14ft high with what appeared to be dark paneling across the upper top third - my headlights were shining off the side and if I’d gotten out of the car and thrown a brick at it, it would’ve gone 'bang'.
“The whole bottom half was spinning in an anti-clockwise direction, which was kicking up leaves and dirt beneath it.
“I just sat there in awe, staring at it.
“Next, my training and five years on the force kicked in.
“I put my blue flashing lights on, flipped on the hazards and attempted to radio the control room.”.
An old picture of
PC Godfrey
, who has spent the past four decades trying to explain what he witnessed.
Credit:
Supplied
.
Both
PC Godfrey
’s personal and in-car radio sets could not establish contact, so he pulled out a sketchpad and pencil, a common practice for officers used to responding to traffic collisions at the time.
But as he drew the remarkable object, a brilliant white light suddenly flashed, blinding him in an instant.
As the flash gradually subsided, he realised he was no longer sat sketching the object. Instead, he was back driving along
Burnley Road
.
Several people have reported mysterious 'sightings' in the past.
Rob Tibbles
snapped this
UFO
above
Devon
.
'TICKLY electric' feeling!
:
“I was about 100 yards on the other side of where the thing had been hovering,” he claims.
“There was a strange tickly electric feeling about the place.
“I turned around and went back to the spot the object was hovering. The road surface beneath it was bone dry - everything else was glistening from the earlier downpour.
“In the dry patch, leaves, twigs and small branches lay in a swirled pattern. It was very peculiar.”.
Terrified and shocked, the copper rushed back to the station to seek help.
Peter Lee
, from
Manchester
, snapped this photo of what he believed was a
UFO
in 2016.
Credit:
Mercury Press
.
Initially,
PC Godfrey
’s encounter became an in-joke within the station as gossiping bobbies made sniggering remarks such as ‘Captain Kirk’.
One even made a prank report to the local newspaper reporter who rang up to check if any serious incidents had been reported.
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