Why 250 British officers finally spoke about 'close encounters' | Reality Check

Why 250 British officers finally spoke about 'close encounters' | Reality Check

September 1, 2026 · 1h 16m

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Ross Coulthart interviews Roy Teague about police encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena.

Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business at https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMN In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with inspector Roy Teague, a serving West Midlands Police tactical firearms commander whose new book, "Close Encounters of the Police Kind," collects unidentified aerial phenomenon encounters from about 250 British police officers. Teague explains how a 2016 documentary on UAP over American missile fields led him to ask which witnesses the public would find hardest to dismiss and why he concluded the answer was serving police. The conversation works through his strongest cases, among them a metropolitan police helicopter crew and an Army warrant officer who watched a dart-shaped aircraft over central London accelerate away and disappear into an opening in the sky in July 1997; an off-duty constable who lost two and a half hours on the A14 with his wife, his children and the family dog; and a Grampian officer whose MRI shows a small metallic object behind his right eye. Teague also details the pressure that follows these sightings, from a colleague grounded and quietly debriefed by the RAF at a private…

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