The Police Files
British-based UFO researcher Gary Heseltine has published an excellent PDF-format report (that runs to 51 pages) on his investigation of UFO encounters involving British police officers. Covering the period 1901 to 2005, it includes data on some highly intriguing, and little known, cases from all across the country.
Heseltine has himself served in the British Police Force for 18 years, the last 13 in its Criminal Investigation Division (CID), and as a Detective Constable with the British Transport Police.
As Heseltine notes: “Five years of research have resulted in 500 British police officers being involved in 213 UFO sightings. Whilst I genuinely accept that some of these cases are likely to have a terrestrial explanation I genuinely believe that in high caliber witness categories (i.e. pilots, astronauts, cosmonauts, radar operators, senior military figures and scientists and police officers) the majority of cases point to an extraterrestrial conclusion.”
Heseltine’s statistical analysis of the collected data demonstrates that the heaviest concentration of reports is in West Yorkshire, followed by North Yorkshire, London, and Staffordshire.
This is a report well worth reading for anyone interested in police-originated UFO encounters in Britain.
A note to publishers: Heseltine hopes to write a book on his research into UFO-police encounters, and is looking for a suitable outlet for his work. I’m not aware that this is something that has been the topic of a full-length book before. Now may be the time to rectify that.
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Feb 14 2007 
February 14th, 2007 at 8:37 am
The police car UFO chase in Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was based on a real incident. Why should anyone doubt that plenty of UFO-law enforcement run-ins have occurred all across the globe? Not me, that’s for sure!!! Its part of the nature of the job. The police are called when people see things that make them “uncomfortable”. This happens more these days than ever before. If one was out and about “in days of yore” and saw something “weird”, one could look around for a gas station or convenience store that had a phone booth to call the incident in…or one could wait till you got home and used your own phone. In either of those cases, oftentimes the ultimate reaction was “Naaah. Its not worth fooling with” and you’d blow it off. Today, though, everybody is walking around (or driving around) with cell phones and you can instinctively make a call any where, any time. Some people are now even bionic cyborgs with cell phones and microphones “growing’ out of their heads and ears (wonder if anybody ever reports them to the cops as suspect aliens?). So you got live, walking telecommuncations everywhere, and the call-in rate on sightings has GOT to be higher than ever before. And that’s just re: the public at large.
Now the police themselves are always out patrolling and looking for things unusual (which might warrant a ticket or an arrest), and they may well see something in the air that pushes their buttons. Could also see citizens on the street looking up and pointing, and then crane their necks to see “whazzup”.
All told, I’d say the law enforcement agencies have a HIGH LIKELIHOOD rate of seeing “off-the-wall” things and investigating them. How much of that gets to the public through the media is problematical, but if you tell me a UK police official has a lot of saucer stories to tell, I’ll believe it in a heartbeat. Same for France, Belgium, or anywhere else you’d care to name.
I’d like to see Gary Heseltine’s manuscript appear in book form. Even in PDF it is a fascinating read.
February 14th, 2007 at 9:57 am
My late ‘father-in-law’, a wonderful big-hearted Scouse police sergeant called Richie Owen, told me how him and a fellow officer’d once seen a UFO while on duty.
What was most striking about this event, though - at least to me - was not so much the scant detail he’d reluctantly divulge so much as the profound effect it’d obviously had on him.
His whole face’d positively light up with awe whenever he’d recall the episode, clearly seeing the whole thing playing itself out once more before his eyes, before always concluding, “And that’s when I finally knew there WAS a God.”
I always found this remark very striking because, clearly, for him, it’d been a profound spiritual experience.
It was also highly suggestive, though I’ve never been quite able to decide whether he’d been mistaken to make a connection between the two subjects - God and UFOs - or or’d actually been profoundly insightful.
February 14th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Alan,
I think the correlation between the UFO and God might be that in the dismissive Rationalist-Materialist-Atheistic-”Scientific” (supposedly) worldview that the prevailing orthodoxy seeks to impose upon us; i.e. that belief in God, angels,
feys,devils, demons, UFOs, Black Dogs, tulpas,
ETs (or IDs),devils, ghosts, magick, haunted places, and all things SPIRITUAL (religion included) and “otherwordly” are just pure delusional hornswoggle that “enlightened” people don’t credit.
Problem with that outlook is that most people living in the real world DO believe in such things as real…or at least possible real…or likely real…and even those of us who were raised under the influence of the pervasive humanist-materialist culture of conditioning are at least HALF believers in the reality of this supra-normal “humbug”, and…it has been more my own experience that…the more one investigates it all , if one has a GENUINELY analytical mind…the more one BECOMES a believer (or at least a considerer) in things “out there”. God included.
Sergeant Richie Owen’s delight in seeing his UFO was in that one of those things he knew in his soul to be real…despite the yammerings of the “scientists” and “authorities”…had just been shown to him, up close and personal. And in that moment he knew that “They” were not always right (likely, not even OFTEN right) about what was and wasn’t real…and that HE was!! Its a heady, liberating moment, because it has ripple-effect implications. It means if they don’t know their butt from a butterbean about UFOs, chances are they don’t know it about ghosts either, or anything else. Like God. In that context, the realization of the superiority of what YOU have believed all along in your heart of hearts over what “They Say”
could be absolutely thrilling…a validation of your intelligence over “theirs”. Could be a real rush…and a pure delight.
I once posited to people that the character of Dana Scully, as depicted in “The X-Files” was unrealistically depicted on that show. How?, I was asked. I replied that she was depicted as being smart, observant, thorough, analytical, and a seeker of truth. That being the case, in real life such a person could not go through one complete season of X-File cases without “defecting” to Fox Mulder’s POV over that of the FBI officialdom. The fact that the writers would keep Scully’s doubting going as long as they did was rooted in maintaining a point/counterpoint balance in the overall dynamic of the series….NOT in having her “see the light” within a REALISTIC time frame.
Of course our favorite female FBI agent finally DID wake up (after far too many “duhs”) and get her eyes fully opened. but it was a long time coming and…if she was as smart as they set her up to be…it would have happened much earlier on.
There is much parallel, I think, with the way governments and scientific establishments deny and denigrate belief/research into “fringe” (according to them) beliefs, to the way the late Soviet Government of the USSR viewed people who were dissident to the “Great Socialist Utopia”. They’d be declared counter-revolutionary crackpots…utterly insane…and packed off to the nutworks (or Siberian Gulags).
Our own “Scientific Establishment” just labels believers in “out there” ideas as whackos, weirdos, and nutballs and uses the dimwit national media to smear on the virtual tar and feathers…this by way of ridicule. Same principle. The USSR did things one way over politics, the Reigning Orthodoxy does something totally similar over things deemed “Reality Incorrect”. (See what happens if you are a scientist working at some university and try to research
something deemed “Tommyrot” by the “powers that be”).
Blogs like this one, The Anomalist. The Book of Thoth, Cryptomundo, and others, in this new context, function very much like the old SAMIZDAT publications in Russia…offering an alternative way to look at the world and what is “real” or not.
Because of such we get to hear what Sergeants Heseltine and Owen have seen and experienced, regardless of what officialdom thinks of it. Hooray for the blogosphere! Screw Reality Correctness!!!