Denis Kilcommons: Tales of UFO and alien adventures in Yorkshire and Lancashire

PEOPLE in Huddersfield are a real sceptical lot. Earlier this week, I recounted the story of the road traffic policeman who saw riders dressed as highwaymen in the middle of the night on the deserted road over Buckstones Moor. Were they ghosts from an earlier century?

I asked if readers could provide an explanation and Stephen Priest says: “It may have been due to LSD being dropped into the officer’s drink without his knowledge.”

He claims this happened to a police officer near Todmorden in 1980. The affects of the mind-altering hallucinatory drug made him believe he had been abducted by aliens, says Stephen.

“This is the explanation behind many UFO sightings,” he adds.

Which takes us into a new field of speculation: alien abduction.

Drugs or alcohol may well facilitate out of body experiences with little green men. I was always quizzical when those claiming to have been abducted were hillbillies with three teeth living on a mountainside in Tennessee with such a strong penchant for moonshine they could often lose days at a time all on their own without any help from flying saucers.

And back in the swinging 60s many followers of Timothy Leary turned on, tuned in and dropped out. How many confused bad acid trips with being medically examined on a hovering space ship? It’s easily done.

“Cool man, but warm the probe next time.”