250 British Police Officers Break Their Silence on UFO Encounters | Inspector Roy Teague

Summary

Serving West Midlands Police Inspector Roy Teague discusses his book Close Encounters of the Police Kind, built from interviews with more than 250 British police officers who say they have seen UFOs. The cases range from police helicopter crews watching a craft vanish into a hole in the sky over London to a glowing sphere pacing a patrol car and officers who believe they were abducted. Teague also describes the career stigma that keeps UK officers silent, and he shares a source's claims about the 2024 drone incursions over US airbases in Britain.

Key takeaways

• 1Teague's book 'Close Encounters of the Police Kind' (released July 2nd) includes 75 of the best cases from about 250 officers he interviewed over five years. The total has since passed 300, and only about 12 asked to stay anonymous.
• 2He was inspired by Robert Hastings' documentary 'UFOs and Nukes', about UFOs allegedly disabling nuclear missiles (ICBMs) at US bases.
• 31997: PC Paul Hammond and Army Warrant Officer David Frampton, aboard a police helicopter over restricted London airspace, reportedly saw a metallic dart-shaped craft enter a hole in the sky that then closed behind it. Heathrow and Gatwick had nothing on radar, and the crew never reported it.
• 41979: PC William Humphrey Bishop chased two barrel-shaped UFOs in a police helicopter over London. He says a superintendent told him to describe them as a drone or kite in his report, and he was ridiculed for years afterward.
• 51979: PC David Flanagan says a red glowing sphere paced his patrol car for about three miles on the A19 and knocked out his radios. He was later interviewed by the RAF.
• 62006: PC Stephen and a helicopter pilot report seeing a triangular craft about a mile per side over Caerphilly Mountain area hills in South Wales. It vanished and reappeared roughly 19 miles away, near the Severn Bridge, within about three seconds.
• 7'Officer F' (Grampian Police, 1989) says a blackout rolled across streetlights and houses before a silent matte-black triangle flew overhead, followed by 30 minutes of missing time. A 2005 MRI later showed a metallic object behind his right eye, which he links to a possible false memory of a childhood coal fight.
• 8A female officer recalled under regression (2023) being taken aboard an egg-shaped craft in 1978 while her mother appeared frozen in time outside.
• 9A source told Teague that US personnel at British airbases fired small arms and an EMP weapon at drones during the incursions, with no effect. Teague also says a Gloucestershire police helicopter turned back after smaller drones swarmed it.
• 10Teague says the UK has no current police protocol for UFO reports; reports were once passed to the RAF.
• 11He has launched a YouTube channel called 'Policing the Unexplained'.

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Transcript excerpt

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Oct 5, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.