Alien Hit and Run........................Arion

A popular theme in UFO encounters is the Abduction. People snatched up by Greys "lose time" or are snatched up and left wandeering. But on June 6th, 1980, an Englishman named Zigmund Adamski had what can best be described as a "Hit and Run" abduction. It's a case so bizarre that even now, forty years later, people are hard-pressed to figure out exactly what happened.

Zigmund Adamski was a Polish immigrant to England. He was a hardworking man who had a wife named Lotti and a few children. Zigmund worked in a coal mine in the city of Todmorden. He was well-liked by his coworkers, and was not in debt. By all appearances he was just a working-class kind of guy.

On June 6th, he volunteered to walk down to the corner grocery store to buy some potatoes for his wife to cook for the family's supper. The errand was expected to take no longer than ten minutes, and it was a chore he'd done many times. When he left the house he was cheerful and said he'd be back soon. But he did not return.

This was in the days before cell phones, so his family simply waited for him to come back. When this didn't happen, she wondered if he had decided to stop at the local pub and lost track of time. But a phone call proved he wasn't there. By the next morning, with her husband still missing, Mr. Adamski called the police.

A search of the neighborhood, and in the surrounding area turned up nothing. No one had seen him, and the corner grocery said he had never appeared to buy his potatoes. Had his family bumped him off? The investigation was thorough, and ranged through his personal life, but there was no evidence of foul play.

Suicide was ruled out, for Adamski was to be the guest of honor at his goddaughter's wedding the following day, on June 7th.

Then, five days later on June 11th, Adamski turned up, but in an alarmingly mysterious way. His body was located on the very top of of a 20' high coal mountain in Tomlin's Coal Yard, more than 20 miles from where he disappeared. More alarmingly, it wasn't clear how it got there. The coal pile had no footprints to show how his body was put there by his killers. Nor were there signs that Adamski had walked up the coal himself. He was lying on his back, staring up at the sky. It was as though his body had simply been dropped there, which should have been impossible.

Even more mysterious was Adamski's body, and the state in which it was found. An autopsy showed the cause of death was a heart attack, and that he'd died several hours before he was found. The expression on his face was that of a man who'd had a severe fright. But strangest of all was his attire.

Police Officer Alan Godfrey, who was on the scene, later testified that Adamski was wearing an overcoat and a vest, but no shirt. His jacket was fastened incorrectly, the fly on his trousers was down, and his shoes had not been laced or tied correctly. In fact, it looked to Godfrey like his shoes had been put on by someone who simply didn't understand how to tie shoes at all.

But Godfrey said what struck him most of all was Adamski's face. "Sheer terror," he testified. "Whatever happened to him literally scared him to death."

The coroner also testified that strange burns were discovered on Adamski's body. There were also parts of his skin which were covered in a curious gel-like substance which defied analysis. Most puzzling was that Adamski's death had occurred at 1:00 pm on June 11th, the day he was found. The burns, meanwhile, had been inflicted two days prior.

To sum up the case, Zigmund Adamski was abducted while walking approximately 1/16th of a mile away from his home. He was held in an unknown location, subjected to burning brands, covered with an unknown jelly, literally scared to death, then dressed hastily and dumped atop a coal pile more than twenty feet in the air approximately twenty miles from his house. How do you make sense of that?

The simplest explanation would be an abduction by a UFO, but even this has problems. People abducted by aliens usually return after only hours, and are rarely harmed except for skin and blood samples harvested from them. Adamski's captors held him for five days, and were so terrifying (or so incompetent) that he died while in their custody. Their hasty dressing and dumping of the body suggests they were anxious not to get caught. Could these have been Greys who were new on the job?

UFO investigators looking at the case, also checked to see if there were other sightings or unknown phenomenon on any of the days. In fact, police officer Alan Godfrey, had a Close Encounter just months prior to finding the missing man's corpse. He wonders if he actually met the killers themselves.

Godfrey had been called out to a nearby farm months earlier to investigate the disappearance of some cows. He took his car on some unused back roads, thinking he might run into the rustlers. What he found was a large object which he thought at first was an overturned bus. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was an unknown craft floating several feet off the ground! He grabbed his radio transmitter to report the craft, and realized it was dead. So, he snatched up his pad and started to sketch the thing.

Then, the scene shifted. One minute he was sketching a diamond-shaped object, the next moment he was driving his vehicle in the opposite direction, ninety feet from his former position. A classic "missing time" episode had just occurred. He spun his car around to investigate the UFO, only to find that it had vanished.

Many months later, Godfrey underwent time-regression hypnosis in an attempt to understand what happened. He spoke of being blinded by a sudden beam of light which paralyzed him. Aliens disembarked from the craft and "floated" him inside the craft. There, he met two separate beings. The bulk of them were classic Greys, short with large eyes. The second was a tall man with a stern face and a black beard. He later chronicled his experiences in a book, "Who and What Were They?"

There's no proof of any connection between what Godfrey said he saw, and Adamski's body atop the coal pile. But could two separate groups of aliens be in the same general area around the same time? If so, it might explain why the ones who 'contacted' Officer Godfrey were "professionals", while Zigmund Adamski's abductors were clearly amateurs.

Or, perhaps Zigmund met his end in a different way entirely. It's just not clear how that occurred.

It didn't, but I'm starting to think that maybe alien abductions are carried out by subcontractors. In this case, it was "lowest bidder."

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