Window Cleaner Recalls Alien Abduction

CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Researcher and broadcaster Richard Hall with 76-year-old Robert Hall in the back lane where the pensioners says he was grabbed by an alien in 1940 before his uncle killed it with a shovel.

The alien ‘killed with a coal shovel’: Stories of alien abductions peaked in the Sixties and Seventies, but one case that predates them is said to have taken place in the North-East. Gavin Havery reports.

It is a sunny spring day in 1940. Soldiers are marching south along Saltwell Road, in Gateshead, towards Low Fell. Nearby, five-year-old Robert Hall is playing with his friends in the maze of red brick Tyneside terraces, not far from the train tracks. Earlier in the day, he had seen something whizzing about in the sky and, after he tired of playing with his friends, he decided to go to his Hedley Street home around the corner.

Robert, a retired window cleaner, says he was confronted by an aircraft the like of which he had never seen before. He described it as “a big egg-shaped thing surround by bright light”. Robert says it was then that he spotted strange-looking creatures standing in the back lane. He says three of them were built like men, but ranged from 2ft to 4ft in height, one looked like Big Foot while another had long flowing hair and a coat that partially covered a skeletal body and bat wings. “Other children were petrified and in shock. They were trying to get over the railway, but there was barbed wire and they were getting cut and were screaming,” he says.

The story sounds like something from a low budget sci-fi film but the man telling it is no attention-seeking youngster. Robert Hall is 76 and he has been telling the same story all his life. And now he is telling it in a television programme that has brought his story to a worldwide audience.

Recalling what happened, Robert says the creatures spoke to him in perfect English, with no accent, and asked if they could examine him. “I told them it was 1940 and we were at war with Germany,” he says. “They took blood out of the back of my neck and put some jelly on. I kept my eyes shut. I was so frightened I was shaking.” After 20 terrifying minutes, he was allowed to go. “I was up that street like a shot,” he says. “My parents thought I was kidding and so did the soldiers.”

The next day, Robert says, two men with black suits came to the house and warned him that if he said anything, he would disappear. One close encounter would be fascinating enough, but the pensioner says things took an even more sinister turn a few days later when an alien tried to snatch him off the street.

He says a grey alien, fitting the common description of an extra terrestrial with big eyes and a large head, grabbed him. “He was on me in a couple of seconds,” he says. “I fell over the kerb and bashed my toe. My Uncle Ernie saw what was happening and bashed its head in with a coal shovel.” The alien’s body was allegedly put in a coal sack and Robert was sent to find a local policeman, Sergeant Brookes. He says the Army was called and took the body to a church.

Robert says strange small triangular marks appeared on his left cheek, which remained until he was about 12 or 13, before disappearing, leaving no trace. Seventy years after his alleged close encounter, Robert’s story has become the subject of a television documentary.

Researcher and broadcaster Richard Hall, who is not related to Robert, studies all things out of the ordinary for his digital television programme, The Rich Planet Starship, and richplanet.net In 2008, he was giving a lecture on UFOs at the Caedmon Hall, in Gateshead, when he was contacted by Robert, who lives nearby. Richard, who is 43 and lives in Sunniside, but is based in Consett, says: “It is a fascinating story and it is a very, very early case in terms of modern day grey alien abductions.”

Richard says other abduction cases were reported in Brazil in 1957, and in the US in 1961, increasing throughout the Sixties and Seventies. “There is a case of a recovered UFO in Missouri where small alien creatures were allegedly recovered and, obviously, we have got Roswell in 1947 (an alien spacecraft allegedly crashed at Roswell, in New Mexico). “But this predates all of that, which makes it a very interesting case.” Richard carried out a three-month investigation into Robert’s claims. He verified that street and shop names checked out. He also managed to confirm there was a Sgt Brookes working the area at the time.

Richard says Robert’s description of the creatures – the small stature, the grey skin, the large eyes, the craft itself, elliptical shape and the metallic surface with the bright light – are common features of alien abduction stories “There’s also the fact that they tried to interfere with Robert’s neck. “I don’t believe that they took blood, as Robert claims,” he says. “They were possibly trying to put something in. “Interestingly, Robert says the creatures had a short, white hand-held device which could subdue or immobilise somebody and there’s the triangular marks that were left on his face. “These are all things that we find in abductee cases, again and again.”

Richard’s investigations are ongoing and he is keen for anyone who can back up Robert’s claims to get in touch with him. Robert, who has four children and three grandchildren, is sincere and earnest about his alien encounter all those years ago. Richard, who has met Robert’s sister, says it is a story he has stuck to since he was a little lad. Robert says: “I got the p**s taken out of me for years, and at school the teacher would say ‘there’s the boy who believes in little green men’. “They weren’t bloody green, they were grey. I will take it to my grave.”

Aliens "Don't Do Windows" - They Just Leave Residue

Observations and comments on how aliens pass through solid walls: The grays, to differentiate from other ET’s visiting planet Earth most preferred method of entering a building is through the windows. For some reason glass must be easier to enter or require less energy or less work. I don’t know. I just know for a fact they prefer to come through windows. But coming through windows is not just coming through glass, as you generally have a screen, blinds and curtains as in my home but whatever window covering that may be on any windows they grays prefer coming through glass. This is a given and having asked them on two occasions they confirmed that window entry is their preferred method of entering any structure, be it home, work or wherever I might be when they come for me.

And if I am standing in front of a window when the grays come through, which I have of course, this is what I witness; I blast of air hits my face and body and the gray just shot by me at hyper speed. When this happens to me my jaw drops at what had just transpired. I saw something quickly go by. I turned and said telepathically; welcome. I mean; what the hell am I supposed to say when something like this happens? Witnessing this did not shock me or frighten me but it did surprise me.  And it still surprises me each and every time this happens. And while I’m thinking about this; I can say for an absolute fact that after coming through the same windows for a period of time a residue will build up on the outside of the glass. You cannot see this residue from inside looking out. I decided to clean some windows one spring day and to my utter astonishment there was a residue on the outside of some of the windows I was cleaning.

I started with glass cleaner. That was like elk hunting with a slingshot. I moved to rubbing alcohol; that was like elk hunting with a BB gun. I moved to Goof Off; that was like elk hunting using a 22 rifle. I went to my toolbox and got a scraper and put a new razor blade in the scraper. I don’t know why I wasted my time with this method. I finally gave up. I did remove some of this residue on the windows that had the residue and only in the thinner areas but the work involved and the time spend on one window made me quit washing windows.  In the areas where the residue was built up I could not make a dent in removing this residue.

I finally came up the idea that this residue has actually become part of the glass, as if the process of entry changed the properties of the glass if only for a few microseconds. Again I’m trying to describe something way beyond my area of expertise and have no idea how to properly describe this where it makes any sense or where one can understand what I am describing. I kept wondering what in the hell was on the outside of several windows. Then it hit me. Of course; these are the windows the grays often use for entry.I believe if I ever wanted clean windows I would have to replace the windows with this residue on it as it will not come off. This residue now appears to be part of the glass.

I decided to ask the grays to clean my windows. Good luck with that one. They don’t do windows.

Above: UFO Residue/The Angel Hair Phenomenon - Angel Hair is a mysterious substance thought to be extraterrestrial exhaust but very rare this is due to the fact that it usually melts as soon as it falls to earth. Only hardcore UFO experts would have heard of this. Visually it would look like silk threads that rain down from the sky, but it would melt to the touch.

A man arrived at his Birmingham home at 4am on March 20, 1997, to discover an illuminated blue triangle hovering over his garden. The craft shot off leaving behind a ''silky-white'' substance on the tree-tops, which he collected in a jam-jar.