Serving police officer Gary Heseltine has become a specialist in investigating UFO sightings by his colleagues.
Published: 12:01AM BST 28 Sep 2009
Daily Telegraph
The 49-year-old detective constable, who works for British Transport Police in Leeds, has studied weird and wonderful conundrums in the UK's skies for years.
Seven years ago Det Con Heseltine created a database to cover UFO sightings by officers both on and off duty.
His favourite relates to 1979 when three unsuspecting bobbies parked up for a chat and a cigarette in a quiet country lane at 3am.
"One of the best to come my way was from Chiltern in the Thames Valley in 1979 involving a PC Eric Rayment and two of his colleagues," he said. "It was an amazing report."
They didn't think much of a bright white light in the distance that blurred into view for a few seconds before continuing their conversation.
"Five minutes later and suddenly the bright white light appears and it's the size of a football pitch shining a beam down the width of a football field," said the father-of-three.
"It was at an altitude of about 500 feet and was about a mile away from where they were."
After moving its beam across the landscape a remarkable thing happened.
"There are smaller objects flying around the larger object akin to the mother ship and suddenly it's gone, as corny as it sounds," the detective said.
Det Con Heseltine's interest in the paranormal was sparked when he was just 15.
He was walking his girlfriend home one evening in Scunthorpe when a white light past over them and appeared to be causing power cuts in neighbourhoods as it flew overhead.
He raced home to warn his parents that the light was coming their way.
They laughed at him but minutes later the light appeared and their power supply was lost too.
He has had two more first hand close encounters during the last 12 years.
At about 9.15pm on August 21 1999 he was sitting in the garden of his Wakefield home watching the stars.
"It was a lovely summer's night, I was looking at the stars when my partner drew my attention to three white lights in a triangle above the house in an arrowhead formation.
Serving police officer Gary Heseltine has become a specialist in investigating UFO sightings by his colleagues.
Published: 12:01AM BST 28 Sep 2009
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The 49-year-old detective constable, who works for British Transport Police in Leeds, has studied weird and wonderful conundrums in the UK's skies for years.
Seven years ago Det Con Heseltine created a database to cover UFO sightings by officers both on and off duty.
His favourite relates to 1979 when three unsuspecting bobbies parked up for a chat and a cigarette in a quiet country lane at 3am.
"One of the best to come my way was from Chiltern in the Thames Valley in 1979 involving a PC Eric Rayment and two of his colleagues," he said. "It was an amazing report."
They didn't think much of a bright white light in the distance that blurred into view for a few seconds before continuing their conversation.
"Five minutes later and suddenly the bright white light appears and it's the size of a football pitch shining a beam down the width of a football field," said the father-of-three.
"It was at an altitude of about 500 feet and was about a mile away from where they were."
After moving its beam across the landscape a remarkable thing happened.
"There are smaller objects flying around the larger object akin to the mother ship and suddenly it's gone, as corny as it sounds," the detective said.
Det Con Heseltine's interest in the paranormal was sparked when he was just 15.
He was walking his girlfriend home one evening in Scunthorpe when a white light past over them and appeared to be causing power cuts in neighbourhoods as it flew overhead.
He raced home to warn his parents that the light was coming their way.
They laughed at him but minutes later the light appeared and their power supply was lost too.
He has had two more first hand close encounters during the last 12 years.
At about 9.15pm on August 21 1999 he was sitting in the garden of his Wakefield home watching the stars.
"It was a lovely summer's night, I was looking at the stars when my partner drew my attention to three white lights in a triangle above the house in an arrowhead formation.
