Dechmont Woods Encounter is the name given to claims of sighting an extraterrestrial spacecraft on Dechmont Law in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland in 1979 by forester Robert “Bob” Taylor.
When Taylor returned home from a trip to Dechmont Law disheveled, his clothes torn and with grazes to his chin and thighs, he claimed he had encountered a “flying dome” which tried to pull him aboard. Due to his injuries, the police recorded the matter as a common assault and the incident is popularly promoted as the “only example of an alien sighting becoming the subject of a criminal investigation”.
According to Taylor, a forestry worker for the Livingston Development Corporation, on 9 November 1979, he parked his pickup truck at the side of a road near the M8 motorway and walked along a forest path up the side of Dechmont Law with his dog.
Taylor reported seeing what he described as a “flying dome” or a large, circular sphere approximately 21 feet in diameter, hovering above the forest floor in a clearing about 530 yards away from his truck. Taylor described the object as “a dark metallic material with a rough texture like sandpaper” featuring an outer rim “set with small propellers”.
Taylor claims he experienced a foul odor “like burning brakes” and that smaller spheres “similar to sea mines” had seized him and were dragging him in the direction of the larger object when he lost consciousness. According to Taylor, he later awoke and the objects were gone, but he could not start his truck, so he walked back to his home in Livingston.
Taylor’s wife reported that when he arrived home on foot, he appeared disheveled and muddy with torn clothing and ripped trousers. His wife called the police and a doctor, who treated him for grazes to his chin and thighs. Police accompanied Taylor to the site where he claimed he received his injuries. They found “ladder-shaped marks” in the ground where Taylor said he saw the large spherical object and other marks that Taylor said were made by the smaller, mine-like objects. Police recorded the matter as a criminal assault.
Ron S
It’s kind of interesting to look at the artistic rendering of the mine shaped objects. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine the protrusions from the sphere emitting some kind of energy encompassing a field or light around it… reminds me of what used to be reported as “Foo Fighters”. It might be interesting to match up the timeline between the date his encounter was documented, the drawing and the first reports to the public of Foo Fighters.
Why were the dicyanin goggles used in the Viet Nam war (the real ones, not the modern retail kind) made illegal and still prohibited in every country even today? Why are we forced to see things in only certain (allowed by law) spectrums of light?