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‘Close Encounters of the Police Kind’:
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\nIn this episode of “Reality Check,” Ross Coulthart sits down with inspector Roy Teague, a serving West Midlands Police tactical firearms commander whose new book, “Close Encounters of the Police Kind,” collects unidentified aerial phenomenon encounters from about 250 British police officers. Teague explains how a 2016 documentary on UAP over American missile fields led him to ask which witnesses the public would find hardest to dismiss and why he concluded the answer was serving police.<\/p>\n

The conversation works through his strongest cases, among them a metropolitan police helicopter crew and an Army warrant officer who watched a dart-shaped aircraft over central London accelerate away and disappear into an opening in the sky in July 1997; an off-duty constable who lost two and a half hours on the A14 with his wife, his children and the family dog; and a Grampian officer whose MRI shows a small metallic object behind his right eye.<\/p>\n

Teague also details the pressure that follows these sightings, from a colleague grounded and quietly debriefed by the RAF at a private address in Croydon, to the senior officers who advised him to pick another subject to write about. Of the officers who came to him, all but nine agreed to be named and Teague argues the ridicule attached to this subject is exactly why so few of these accounts have ever surfaced.<\/p>\n

Chapters<\/u>:
\n0:00 Intro
\n1:51 Why a Serving Inspector Started Asking
\n4:50 London 1997, a Police Helicopter
\n7:52 A Word From Odoo
\n9:21 What They Did With the Footage
\n16:40 Ninety Nine Percent Said Nothing
\n20:34 Missing Time on the A14
\n24:52 Aldridge 1971 and J. Allen Hynek
\n29:00 Aboyne 1989 and an MRI Scan
\n34:22 Benbecula, 640 Miles in 80 Seconds
\n37:38 PC Barman’s Malta Photographs
\n40:50 A Black Triangle a Mile Wide
\n44:20 The Risks of Speaking Out
\n48:50 Sergeant Spinks and the Vigo Village Saucer
\n54:36 The Too Difficult Box
\n59:08 Chased Down the A19 in 1973
\n1:02:28 Todmorden, Adamski, and PC Alan Godfrey
\n1:10:06 The Hitchhiker Effect and 250 Officers<\/p>\n