Let's set the scene.

It's 27 August 1992, a little after 11.30pm and ambulance technician Garry Wood and his friend Colin Wright are driving along the A70 between Edinburgh and Tarbrax (a wee village in South Lanarkshire).

It's a fairly straight forward journey - you can do it in just 30 minutes and the pair were just popping to the village to drop off a satellite system to their pal.

Gary was reportedly driving at 40mph and there was little traffic around.

The car had just passed Harperrig Reservoir when Colin and Garry saw a two-tiered disc-shaped objects hovering 20ft above the road - and it definitely wasn't an aircraft or helicopter.

Terrified, Garry put his foot down on the accelerator and sped under the object, using his elbow to lock the doors.

The object emitted a silver, shimmering mist and as it touched the car both men were enveloped in total darkness.

What seemed to be a second later, the pair regained their sight. Garry, still driving like a madman, was fighting hard to control the car but managed to regain his composure.

Reaching their destination, Garry recalls frantically banging on the door of his friend's house - the friend was concerned on answering as the pair were 90 minutes late.

What had happened in this unaccounted for time? Garry and Colin had only blacked out for what had felt like a second.

They left to return to Edinburgh, taking a different route home, but Garry had the feeling that something else had happened.

Soon after the encounter, he was bothered by strange dreams, he developed severe headaches and even had a CAT scan - but nothing unusual was found.

And, suspecting something had gone awry, the pair turned to hypnosis to see what happened - to see if there was something lodged in their subconscious that could provide them with the truth.

Helen Walters, a qualified hypnotherapist and psychic, was called in to help get to the bottom of the mystery through hypnotic regression.

During his first session, Garry burst into tears and was distraught, but Colin remained calm.

Over the course of several weeks, Garry recalled seeing vague shapes, while both men's bodies jolted as they recalled the encounter.

Both men stated the car was stopped, after which the doors were opened by three small entities.

Colin was led up a ramp into the object, where he found himself in a round room with a curved chair.

Colin was stripped naked and placed on the chair, where a medical examination was conducted on him. Garry remembers being taken into a round room with a raised table - he too was stripped and placed on the table.

Both men came back from their encounter with scars which previously were not there, which further added to the mystery.


Once-classified documents, released by the British government in 2012, revealed that the Ministry of Defence had taken the ‘abduction’ so seriously they investigated it, filing an official report.

The truth remains a mystery to this day.