Case 8: The UFO in the Playground

Uncanny

BBC

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4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Danny Robins returns to his investigation into the Todmorden UFO case to assess new evidence that has come in from listeners - and also hears from two compelling new witnesses, one in Wales and one in Africa, who both experienced UFO encounters as children. Do their experiences shed any light on the ongoing mystery of possible alien contact with humans? Is the truth out there? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	Hey, let me ask you, sir, have you heard George's podcast?
0:06.1	Me and Ben Brick are back with a blast, this time with stories from Africa's past, not
0:11.0	too distant, unsolved mysteries, unsung heroes from untold histories, I'm trying to make
0:17.2	sense of the present day, join me on this journey by pressing play.
0:23.8	Have you heard George's podcast?
0:25.7	Chapter four.
0:27.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:37.7	It's just after midnight, it's bloody freezing and I'm standing in my garden staring up
0:42.5	at the night sky.
0:43.5	And it's one of those rare nights in London when you can actually see the stars and just
0:49.1	marvel at the huge humbling scale of this one tiny bit of the universe and wonder.
0:57.9	Is there anybody else out there?
1:01.0	This episode, it's time to return to UFOs and the mystery of policemen Alan Godfrey's
1:07.0	encounter in Toddmutter in New Yorkshire.
1:10.2	And our investigation is going to take us further afield to two other major sightings,
1:15.7	one in the UK and one in Africa.
1:19.0	And are these people witnessing, does it come from up there in outer space, some secret
1:24.4	military experiment down here, or that most mysterious place of all?
1:30.8	The human mind.
1:32.8	I realised what I was looking at wasn't anything I'd ever seen before.
1:39.5	It was hovering about five foot off the ground.
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