One of Scotland’s most famous UFO cases has resurfaced and been discussed on a world renowned paranormal activity podcast in America.
The terrifying A70 incident was said to have happened on August 27 1992 shortly after 11:30pm when ambulance technician Gary Wood and his friend Colin Wright were travelling between Edinburgh and Tarabrax.
As they passed the Harperrig Reservoir on their way to drop off a satellite system to their friend - they claim to have encountered a two-tiered disc shaped UFO that was larger than the width of the road. They say that it definitely was not an aircraft or a helicopter.
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They added that the object was smooth, black and shiny with no windows. The men were both awestruck and terrified.
The pair blacked out during the ordeal and arrived at their destination after feeling dazed and confused but what was unsettling was that they had taken two hours to arrive at their friends home when the journey should only have taken 30 minutes.
Gary awoke the next morning feeling fatigued and said that he could not get out of bed due to his body feeling heavy. He then began suffering from nightmares when sleeping.
What bothered the two men most was the missing time, and despite friends and family not believing their story, they were adamant that something had happened that night which could not be easily explained. This led to them reaching out to Malcolm Robinson, the creator of Strange Phenomena Investigations (SPI).
Malcolm set out to disprove strange happenings from UFOs to poltergeists but ended up becoming embroiled in the subject when encounters seemed to demand serious investigations.
On the podcast ‘Somewhere In The Skies’, Robinson describes how Gary called him and explained the A70 incident. Malcolm said that his initial thought was that this tale was head and shoulders above anything he had seen before.
This led to both Gary and Colin undertaking hypnotic regression to get at their subconscious memories. Taking separate sessions the two men recalled almost identical scenarios.
They said that their cars had been hit by a light and was approached by six humanoid characters that placed them on a stretch hovering above the ground. From then they were convulsing after receiving an electric shock.
During the session Colin remembered the craft being a circular object and was led to a chair where he was stripped naked and underwent a physical examination. He then said he was imprisoned in a glass container where a device that had a triangular head and two red lights rose from the floor to scan him.
Colin scarily recalled his right eye being examined as a red hot poker pain was felt in the centre of his eye. He ended by describing the aliens as deformed and extremely ugly.
Gary said that he remembered a buzzing around him and a black lens that examined his body. He said there were 20 to 30 creatures within the spacecraft and that they had what looked like Native American markings below their eyes.
But what scared them was the use of the word “sanctuary” that one alien repeated to them. Gary added that the being had said that humans were more advanced than them in many ways but that their potential had been “capped.”
When Gary and Colin were returned to the car and awoke from their experience, they said that they found objects strewn across the ground from inside the car and a white crystallisation impacted the vehicle for weeks after the event.
Malcolm and the podcast hosts believe that it is one of the most believable and unexplainable alien encounters to happen in Scotland.
The men have never changed their stories since. Once-classified documents, released by the British government in 2012, revealed that the Ministry of Defence had taken the ‘abduction’ so seriously they investigated it, filing an official report.
You can listen to the full podcast here.
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