The Alien. United Kingdom

The witness, Edwin, a retired military figure and scientist specializing in audiologist reported that between the above dates he had no fewer than nine visits by aliens. On the first occasion he met them while out walking with his dogs and invited them in. On later occasions they simply turned up in the house, always in the early hours after midnight. They communicated with each other by whistles and twittering noises but at no point spoke to Edwin, except by gestures. The object from which they emerged was conical and resting on three legs. At no time did he see it land and in later visits the beings prevented him from going out to look at it. They literally carried him back into his house as indication that they did not wish him to watch them depart. The entities themselves were exceptionally thin, and only just over five feet tall. Their skin was described as “gray like parchment” and they seemed to have no body hair at all. He had ample time to study them closely as they stayed for an hour or so at a time (once watching TV with him!). Their lips were almost invisible and their ears just a horny ring inset into the head. Their hands felt like “withered leaves” and had only three fingers and a thumb. They wore tight-fitting wetsuits with balaclava helmets and always came into the house in pairs. During their visits to his home Edwin claims that they took samples of many things, being particularly interested in fruit. They even had sips of whisky and showed great distaste. On their penultimate visit they reputedly stayed in the garden taking samples of shrubs and bushes. Another time they motioned to him that they wanted to take his dog with them. He refused but Edwin placated them by offering two china model dogs instead. They took these. His only attempt to real communication was when he drew a sketch of the solar system and asked them to mark it. They noted a spot outside the orbits of all the planets, which he took to mean they were from another star system. On their ninth visit Edwin decided to defy their ban on watching their departure. He went out while after they had left and noted a blue glow coming from beneath the object. It did not take off as he expected but simply disappeared on the spot. This was the last time he saw them. However before they left they had given him two gifts. One was a few seeds, which they told him to plant. He did so and something resembling a flowering cactus with a single thick and spike-less stump grew from the spot. It was long dead before he reported the case to investigators. The second gift were tiny bits of crystal that superficially resembled uncut diamonds. Thinking they were indeed diamonds he had them examined by a London diamond merchant, but the result was that they were “probably quartz”.