On 29 November 1980, Police Constable (“PC”) Alan Godfrey, stationed in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, allegedly had a close encounter and interacts with a human-like figure called “Joseph”, some robots and a dog early in the morning (near the end of his night shift).
This incident is Case 56 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article, since it was referred to in 51 of the books covered by that article.
This incident has also featured in a list of cases produced jointly by British ufologists Dave Clarke and Andy Roberts for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.
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Book References
For discussion of the PC Godfrey encounter see the following:
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Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrials Among Us” (1986) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 3) of the Llewellyn softcover edition, at pages 105-106 of the Llewellyn paperback edition. |
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Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157, 158, 159 of the Select softcover edition. |
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Budden, Albert in his “Electric UFOs: Fireballs, Electromagnetics and Abnormal States” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 196 (in Chapter 5) of the Blandford hardback edition. |
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Bullard, Thomas in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 561-562 (in Section 13) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Campbell, Steuart in his “The UFO Mystery Solved” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 (in Chapter 4) of the Explicit Books softcover edition. |
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Cassirer, Manfred in his “Dimensions of Enchantment” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 108-110 (in Chapter 8), 150 (in Chapter 10) of the Breese Books softcover edition. |
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Cawthorne, Nigel in “The World’s Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 114-118 (in the chapter entitled “Abductions UK”) of the Chancellor Press softcover edition. |
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Cawthorne, Nigel in his “The World’s Greatest Alien Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 88-91 (in the chapter entitled “Abductions UK”) of the Hamlyn softcover edition. |
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Christopher, Paul in his “Alien Intervention: The Spiritual Mission of UFOs” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 22 (in Chapter 1) of the Huntington House softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “Extraordinary Encounters : An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 136-137 (in an entry entitled “Joseph”) of the ABC-Clio hardback edition. |
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Dennett, Preston E in his “UFO Healings” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-106 (in Chapter 9) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Devereux, Paul in his “Earth Lights Revelation” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 102 (in Chapter 4), 181 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Dormer, Jospeh in “UFOs: The Final Answer?” (1993) (edited by David Barclay and Therese Marie Barclay) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 148 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary and Spencer, John in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134, 141 (in Chapter 2.5, entitled “Abductions and Contactees”) of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition. |
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Evans, Hilary in his “Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 162, 167 (in Chapter 4.4) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Fuller, Paul and Randles, Jenny in “Circles From The Sky” (1991) (edited by Terence Meaden) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 118-119 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Crop Circles: A scientific answer to the UFO mystery”) of the Greenhaven Press softcover edition. |
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Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-117 (in Chapter 5) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition). |
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Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 80-81 (in Chapter 5) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition). |
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Greer, Steven in his “Disclosure : Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 403-408 (in Section 4) of the Crossing Point softcover edition. |
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Mantle, Philip and Nagaitis, Carl in their “Without Consent” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 139-142 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Is it all in the mind?”, sub-section entitled “PC Alan Godfrey”) of the Ringpull hardback edition. |
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Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: Aliens” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-49 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
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O’Connor, Charlotte A in “UFOs: The Final Answer?” (1993) (edited by David Barclay and Therese Marie Barclay) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-156 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Owens, Andy in “Supernatural England” (2002) (edited by Betty Puttick) at pages 244-245 (in the chapter entitled “Yorkshire”, in a section entitled “Close Encounters of a Deadly Kind”)) of the Countryside Books softcover edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 328-329 (in Chapter 5) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 85-87 (in Chapter 5) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Fuller, Paul in their “Crop Circles : A Mystery Solved” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 172 (in Chapter 10), 179, 214-216, 218, 219 (in Chapter 11) of the Hale softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Death By Supernatural Causes?" (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 125-129, 130-132, 134, 135-140, 141 (in Chapter 5) of the Grafton paperback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Space Invaders”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 186-189 (in Chapter 20) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 285-286 (in Chapter 25) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86-87 (in Chapter 7), 107-108 (in Chapter 8), 141 (in Chapter 10) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-149 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Alien World” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Stranger than Fiction”) of the Orbis softcover edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 269-271 (in an entry entitled “Godfrey Abduction”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFO Conspiracy” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-70 (in Chapter 10), 154 (in Chapter 25) of the Barnes & Noble hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The UFOs that never were” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Jenny Randles, Andy Roberts and David Clarke at page 167 (in Chapter 9, by Jenny Randles) of the London House hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “UFO: 1947-1997” (1997) (edited by Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacy) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 253-254 (in the section entitled “Aspects”, unnumbered chapter entitled “A Few Home Truths”) of the John Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 89-90 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Headline paperback edition). |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 95-96 (in the chapter entitled “1980”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Aliens” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56 (in Part 1), 94 (in Part 3), 145 (in Part 6) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sterling softcover edition published under the title “Alien Contacts and Abductions”). |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Beyond Explanation? : The Paranormal Experiences of Famous People” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 1) of the TLC hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “Star Children” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-41 (in Chapter 3), 165 (in Chapter 12) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a pages 44, 51-52 (in Part 1), 122 (in Part 4) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”), 368 (in Part 3, “UFOs Worldwide”) of the Sterling softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Pennine UFO Mystery" (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in the Introduction), 122-131 (in Chapter 10), 134, 137, 140 (in Chapter 11), 147-169 (in Chapter 12), 188 (in Chapter 13), 215-218 , 220, 221 (in Chapter 16) of the Granada paperback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFOs and How to See Them” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 106-107 (in Chapter 4), 116 (in Chapter 5) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
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Rimmer, John in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 158 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part |
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Rimmer, John in his “The Evidence for Alien Abductions” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-18 (in Chapter 1), 93 (in Chapter 4) of the Aquarian softcover edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Dark White” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 120 (in Chapter 7) of the Hamish Hamilton softcover edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 3) of the Virgin paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-129 (in an entry entitled “Godfrey, P C Alan”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 146-147 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “UFOs: The Definitive Casebook” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 115 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Europe”, in the chapter entitled “Database”) of the Hamlyn hardback edition. |
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Watson, Nigel in “Phenomenon“ (1988) (edited by John Spencer and Hilary Evans) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 339-340 of the MacDonald hardback edition (Part |
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