Why 250 British officers finally spoke about 'close encounters' | Reality Check

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In 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.

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. 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.

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CREDITS:

Host: Ross Coulthart

Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

Research Producer: Rob Jones

Editor: Anthony Diasio

On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro

1:51 Why a Serving Inspector Started Asking

4:50 London 1997, a Police Helicopter

7:52 A Word From Odoo

9:21 What They Did With the Footage

16:40 Ninety Nine Percent Said Nothing

20:34 Missing Time on the A14

24:52 Aldridge 1971 and J. Allen Hynek

29:00 Aboyne 1989 and an MRI Scan

34:22 Benbecula, 640 Miles in 80 Seconds

37:38 PC Barman's Malta Photographs

40:50 A Black Triangle a Mile Wide

44:20 The Risks of Speaking Out

48:50 Sergeant Spinks and the Vigo Village Saucer

54:36 The Too Difficult Box

59:08 Chased Down the A19 in 1973

1:02:28 Todmorden, Adamski, and PC Alan Godfrey

1:10:06 The Hitchhiker Effect and 250 Officers