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Fringe Weird Report

Statistical analysis is one of the most important approaches to research into any academic field – and it can be applied very advantageously to research into the anomalous phenomena – those weird things on the fringe –in which so many of us are interested.
In order to make the statistics as accurate and useful as possible, it was felt that the best idea would be to compile them from official reports, concentrating on those involving the police whenever these could be found.  My father served for many years as a Special Constable, and during my eleven years as Headmaster of Glyn Derw Comprehensive High School in Cardiff I served on the Police Liaison Committee.  In consequence, we have many current and retired police officer friends.
The data have been taken from the past twenty-five years of reports covering a wide range of sources: our own extensive archives; the outstandingly good PRUFOS website created and maintained meticulously by Detective Constable Gary Heseltine; and many other valuable sources of data dealing with UFOs and the anomalous weird fringe in general.
We have analysed the data we found into locations and categories in order to provide useful pointers for other researchers who are interested in examining particular phenomena or in exploring specific locations.  The analysis below excludes UFO data, which are listed separately below it.

Locations Totals Types/Categories/Sub-totals
Kent 14 Road Phantoms 7


General Phantoms 4


Poltergeists 3
London 12 Airport 1


Road Phantoms 3


General Phantoms 6


Strange sounds/steps 2
Notts 10 Strange sounds 3


Trail of wet ghostly prints 1


General phantoms 4


Poltergeists 1


Cold spots 1
Suffolk 10 Strange sounds 3


Trail of steps from one-legged ghost of Priest 1


Cats 2


General Phantoms 3


Phantom Spheres 1
Yorks 9 Strange sounds 2


Moving lights 1


Stocksbridge Phenomena 1


Ghostly toilet flushing 1


General Phantoms 1


Apports 1


Strange sense of Psychic Presence 1


Haunted Police Museum 1
Dorset 8 General Phantoms 4


Train Phantom on track 1


Phantom voice 1


Strange sounds 1


Earth Giant Phenomenon 1
Sussex 7 General Phantoms 4


Road Phantoms 1


Haunted Police Stations 1


Strange sensation of Psychic touch 1
Lancs 6 General Phantoms 4


Time slips 1


Road Phantoms 1
Somerset 5 Road Phantoms 2


General Phantoms 3
Norfolk 4 Cats 1


Dogs 1


Misty lights in forest 1


Unaccountable Scratches that appeared on wall 1
Surrey 3 General Phantoms 1


Road Phantoms 1


Corpse in car mystery 1


Beds 3


Road Phantoms 1


General Phantoms 2


Berks 3


General Phantoms 3
Scotland 3 Ghosts of children 1


General Phantoms 1


Greyfriars Bobby, Edinburgh Cemetery 1
Wales 3 General Phantoms 2


Psychic odours/perfumes 1
Birmingham 2 General Phantoms 1


Road Phantoms 1
Derby 2 General Phantoms 2
Essex 2 General Phantoms 2
Hants 2 General Phantoms 1


Haunted Police College 1
Leicester 2 Cats 1


General Phantoms 1
Manchester 2 Strange sounds 1


General Phantoms 1
Bristol, Avon 2 Sea Phenomenon 1


Exorcism phenomena 1
Devon 2 Medieval Battle re-enactment 1


Cryptozoological Phenomena 1



Special additions to include the categories of crop circles and werewolves



Cannock Chase 20 Werewolf sightings 20
Southend in Essex 1 Werewolf sightings 1
Wiltshire 5 Crop Circles 5



Grand Total Excluding UFO Data 142


Police Reports of UFOs based on DC Gary Heseltine’s excellent PRUFOS Data Analysed by Locations NL = Nocturnal Light DD = Daylight Disc CE1 = Close encounters of the first kind CE2 = Close encounters of the second kind

Location Total NL DD CE1 CE2
Yorks 14 12 1 1
London 9 7 2

Somerset 7 6
1
Cheshire 6 3 1 2
Kent 6 6


Scotland 6 5
1
Staffs 5 5


Lancs 5 3
2
Essex 5 4 1

Wales 4 3
1
Northumberland 4 4


Hampshire 4 4


Wilts 3 3


Sussex 3 1 1 1
Norfolk 3 3


Dorset 3 2 1

Derby 3 3


Birmingham 3 3


Manchester 2 2


Gloucester 2 2


Berks 2 2


Durham 2 0 2

Warwicks 1

1
Shropshire 1 1


Northern Ireland 1
1

Notts 1 1


Lincs 1 1


Hunts 1 1


Devon 1 1


Cumbria 1 1


Totals 109 89 10 9 1
Grand Total of UFOs and Weird Fringe Phenomena together 251