I can only go by the data provided and that should have been the correct location.sometimes News likes to get a little play for tourism. There is an excerpt in the 2 officers story that made for interesting reading. One of the officers was so impressed he went into ufology . The colin andrews article in 2009 in Eulogy to him was pretty good reading..
colinandrews.net/TonyDoddPassing.html1978 Tony was one of two police officers who witnessed a
UFO at close quarters. Here is his story thanks to:
ufoevidence.org/cases/case662.htmSource: Michael Hesemann
The incident occurred on the frosty winter morning of December 12, 1978, not
far from Skipton in North Yorkshire. At 4:30 a.m., a lonely police patrol car was
driving on a remote country road along the Cononley Moor. In the car were
Sgt. Anthony Dodd and Constable Alan Dale, who operated the radio. It was
very dark and the road was lit only by the headlights of the car, the silence
broken only by the noise of the motor and the occasional messages over the
radio. Dodd loved that kind of mysterious stillness in the middle of a bare and
unspoiled countryside, with dark houses snuggling up against the low hills as if
seeking shelter from the cold winds, and the stone walls that divided the
meadows from time immemorial.
It was the land of sagas and legends, of witches and elves, spirits and
wills-o'-the-wisp, which lured unfortunate wanderers in the moor towards
inescapable death. There was a magic in the air which, even thousands of
years ago, the ancestors of the Celts must have been aware of, as is shown by
the mighty sacrificial altar stones in the middle of the moor.Suddenly, a loud static noise, hissing and rustling, tore Sgt. Dodd out of his
reverie. They were just then driving into a curve when, to the right, a bright
white light seemed to be diving towards them in a glide. They thought it was a
burning airplane so they drove to the side and stopped the car to see what
was happening and where it would land, in case help was required. It was,
however, no airplane but a big shining disc which flew over their heads at a
speed of about 40 mph. At its closest, it was hardly 100 feet away from them,
so that they could see a number of details.
When I interviewed Dodd in 1991 for my documentary film UFOs: The Secret
Evidence, he explained, "It had a dome with ports all around it. The bottom was
surrounded by colored lights like neon lights in blue, red, green and white
which blinked in a sequence as if they were rotating, and in the middle there
were three spheres or hemispheres. It was a huge thing, about 100 feet in
diameter, and it made no noise whatsoever. What fascinated me even more
was that the object was enveloped in a kind of halo which made its entire
metallic structure glow white. It flew slowly over our heads and seemed to land
at a place behind a group of trees. But we couldn 't see or check that out
because at that point it was too far away and in the middle of the moor." "What
on Earth was that?" asked Constable Dale breaking the silence, brought back
to reality by the penetrating cold. Sgt. Dodd's answer came minutes after that.
"/ don't know, but it was wonderful. "
From that day onwards Dodd started collecting all the information about UFOs
that he could get, including, of course, the book "Flying Saucers Have Landed"
by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. His personal encounter with a
saucer that resembled Adamski's saucer like a twin had convinced Dodd that
Adamski must indeed have had an encounter with a UFO. Since retiring in
1988, Dodd has dedicated himself fully to his "cosmic hobby" as he calls it, and
is today one of Britain's leading UFO researchers.
Adamski was the first person to have spoken about contact with aliens who
resembled human beings. After him many others reported such encounters.
With Adamski, the age of the contactees had begun.
