The quaint UK market town where UFO sightings and a mysterious death haunt locals

Tucked away in the Pennines lies the quaint market town of Todmorden, once a thriving hub of the cotton industry during the Industrial Revolution.

Fast forward to modern times, and it's not the echoes of its bustling past that are causing a stir but rather its newfound reputation as a centre for unexplained phenomena.

It all began back in 1980 with a rather macabre incident: the body of coalminer Zigmund Adamski from Tingley turned up on a Todmorden coal pile seven days after he vanished, bearing unexplained burns on his head, shoulder, and neck, leaving the cause of these injuries shrouded in mystery.

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The extraterrestrial whispers started when Police Constable Alan Godfrey commented that Adamski seemed to have been "frightened to death."

Confronted with speculation about alien abduction, Godfrey responded to press queries saying, "I am open-minded. I can't rule it out."

Just half a year on from the Adamski conundrum, Godfrey himself encountered the inexplicable. While investigating reports of stray cattle on a Todmorden estate, the now ex-officer witnessed an enigmatic bright light in the skies, which he likened to a "rotating diamond-shaped object.", reports .

Attempting to call for assistance was futile; his radio refused to function. Suddenly, the object disappeared, and Godfrey realized he was standing 30 yards from where he had been moments before, sporting a torn boot and a peculiar, itchy red mark on his foot.

He also had a half-hour memory gap. Later, under hypnosis, he alleged that he briefly woke up in a room where he was being medically examined by what seemed to be extraterrestrials - though he conceded in 2018 that this was likely a dream.

Following his UFO encounter and assertions of potential alien abduction of Adamski, Godfrey says he was introduced to a man who professed to be "from the ministry" and made him pledge under the Official Secrets Act not to disclose what he had witnessed.

Godfrey then alleges to have encountered this man several more times until he finally confronted him in a pub, telling him to "clear off."

He never saw the man again but later expressed his belief that this enigmatic individual had been an MI5 Agent.

In the years following these events, Godfrey claims he was compelled to resign from the police force. He has since penned a self-published book detailing his alien encounters.

However, UFO sightings in the area have persisted, and 40 years after Godfrey's account of the "spinning diamond", local resident Vicky Dinsdale asserts that she too spotted this UFO just a few months after the former police officer.