United Kingdom · 28 November 1980
Burnley Road, 1980
ReportedA serving police officer filed an on-duty report of a 20-foot object blocking a public road, with a 25-minute unaccounted time gap, a split boot and a dry patch of road in the rain.
- Where
- Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire
- When
- 28 November 1980
- Who reported it
- 1 serving police constable on duty and alone; partial corroboration from a Halifax patrol and a civilian driver
- Entities described
- None reported
- Described as
- UNKNOWN in the official record. The report and sketch describe only the object.
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- GOV-1
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNKNOWN
No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.
What is not settled
The document is an internal police report by an officer, not MoD storage, but the file itself could not be located or verified and release requests have been refused. The Official Secrets Act claim is uncorroborated. THE ENTITY CONTENT IS HYPNOSIS-DERIVED (eight months later) and must not be presented as documented.
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