Classic Uncanny: S1. Case 3: The Todmorden UFO

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Retired policeman Alan Godfrey tells us the story of the case that has obsessed him for his whole life. When Alan tries to solve a weird and seemingly impossible murder in the small northern town of Todmorden, it leads to a bizarre UFO sighting and then a strange and sinister government cover up that ends up affecting Alan’s life.

Danny Robins explores if there is real evidence of extra-terrestrial visits to Earth. Did Alan genuinely have an alien encounter and, if not, why were the real-life ‘men in black’ from the government so interested?

Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts: David Clarke and Colin Lyall 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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0:12.0	We were told to stay at home.
0:15.0	We lived with an invisible enemy,
0:17.0	with only the internet for company.
0:19.0	That changed people psychologically.
0:21.0	I'm John Ronson, and I'll be unerthing the roots of the
0:24.4	culture wars that engulfed us then and still do now.
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0:40.0	There's a whole fleet of a look on the ASA.
0:44.0	My gosh.
0:47.0	They're all going against the wind.
0:49.0	The wind's a hundred and climb out to the west.
0:51.0	I'm all they, dude. That's two US Navy pilots spotting what they believe is an unidentified flying object.
1:00.1	It's from a video that was leaked a few years back and then finally declassified before the Pentagon released their report this year about UFOs, acknowledging that there have been encounters.
1:11.0	So what are those pilots seeing? Is the enemy aircraft or alien visitors?
1:16.0	The case that we are looking at this episode takes us into these new realms.
1:21.0	It's not a ghost story. It's a UFO sighting. It takes place a long way
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