Gary Heseltine - PRUFOS

On the 11h November 2003, Gary Heseltine gave us, HUFOS - Hull UFO Society, a lecture about Police Reporting UFOS (PRUFOS). It was Gary's first lecture in Hull. Here is a brief Bio about him...............

Gary Heseltine is a serving police officer with the British Transport Police and he has thirteen years experience, the last eight of which has served as a Detective Constable. He has wide experience of Criminal Investigations including the offences of Murder, Rape, Fraud, Assaults etc. He has followed the subject of UFO's since seeing one when I was 15 years old boy in 1975. The sighting occurred in Bottesford, Scunthorpe which is in the county of Lincolnshire. As he walked along a footpath adjacent to his comprehensive school (Frederick Gough Comprehensive) He saw a brilliant white light pass from my right to left. As the object moved slowly across the landscape all electrical power behind its flight path cut off plunging the area into darkness. As he continued to watch it a series of further power cuts followed. His then girlfriend was with him at the time and also observed the object. Because it was heading in the direction of his home he decided to drop his girlfriend off first and then race back on his bike in an effort to get ahead of it by way of a short cut. This he did and just made it in time to observe it pass over the garden of his home. Having got home he rushed inside and told his parents that he believed a power cut was imminent but they looked at him bemused. No sooner had it passed over a thirty minute power cut followed. The UFO was seen against a backdrop of a clear summers night sky and appeared to have no sound. Ever since that day he has followed the subject closely as it has developed over the years.

In 1995 he picked up a copy of the then bi-monthly publication of UFO Magazine and was immediately impressed by the quality of the reporting. The more he read the more he began to look at cases through the eyes of a police officer. He was particularly drawn to the sightings made by commercial pilots, military pilots, astronauts, cosmonauts, high ranking military officers, radar operators and finally police officer reports. When he looked at these cases he was very impressed by the testimonies of these people and felt that they pointed heavily to the conclusion that UFO's were a real phenomena and were almost certainly of an extraterrestrial origin. Keen to become involved in the research side he began to wonder how many police officers had seen UFO's.

As a result he began to trace as many of them as he could find in books and magazines etc.; By definition police officers are trained observers and should count as an excellent category of witness. As his research continued the more he looked the more he found. However he believed one thing is certain - the actual figure for police UFO sightings is almost certainly higher than what is recorded. There was no doubt in his mind that many officers have never gone on to report sightings because they have feared ridicule or perceived that their careers might be harmed. he suspected that for every officer reporting a sighting, nine do not. If that figure is anywhere near accurate it would mean that there are potentially hundreds of unreported cases waiting to see the light of day providing the mechanism is in place to make it possible. It is that point that he began to formulate the idea for a database to record and collate police officer sightings. As a result THE PRUFOS POLICE DATABASE was founded in November 2001. The official launch of THE PRUFOS POLICE DATABASE was by way of an article he had written on the subject in the January issue of UFO MAGAZINE which led to a response from several officers, all of whom were very supportive of his idea and of its need.

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