A member of a UFO group has told of his experience being "abducted" by aliens near Dunfermline while travelling home from work.
In 1993, at the age of “19 or 20” David Paton worked in the kitchen at a restaurant in Kinross, and after dropping the second chef at his Dunfermline home he lost all recollection of what happened on the drive back.
David, who now lives in Openshaw in Greater Manchester, had been out with UFO Identified, a group of like-minded people with an interest in the paranormal, at Royton’s Tandle Hill Country Park on Friday.
While there, he told his story to the Oldham Times, one of the newspapers in the Newsquest group, which also owns the Dunfermline Press.
The 51-year-old said: “I went from Dunfermline to Kinross, which is about 10 miles, down a relatively new stretch of road. I did this route every single night, but just this one night I came onto the road at exactly 11pm, I know because I looked at the time.
“It normally took me half an hour to get home, certainly no longer than half an hour. I did that every night, or at least five/six times a week, and I knew that road like the back of my hand - I knew every pothole on it.
“This one night I remember driving onto the road but I do not remember coming off it, I do not remember anything of that journey whatsoever and I didn’t get home until 4am.”
The customer service advisor continued: “Obviously my mum went ape at me, ‘where’ve you been’, ‘where’ve you been’ – ‘what do you mean where’ve I been, it can’t be any later than half 11? It never takes me anymore, than half an hour to get home’.
“It was four in the morning, ‘where’ve you been?’ Absolutely not a clue, genuinely for the life of me, three and a half/four hours missing from my life.
“I asked my friends about it, I asked the guys at work about it, I asked the second chef about it – I had no clue, certainly no insight into it and I kind of forgot about it really.”
David explained that it then became a longstanding joke with his mates who would jeer ‘oh David got abducted’, and mock him saying ‘yeah whatever’ anytime he spoke of it.
Since his experience, he has been fascinated by the paranormal, insisting that aliens have landed on earth and he believes that they have “probably” infiltrated society.
He shares the passion of the paranormal with his wife who, while she is reserved on whether aliens have made earth their home, is fascinated by ghosts.
Why did aliens abduct David?
“Why? I have no idea, genuinely no idea. The road wasn’t particularly busy, not at that time,” he said.
“Possibly I was the only person on the road at that time. I was driving a distinctive car, it was a little Mini in red with a white roof, an old-style one.
“Straight away I thought I was abducted, I just thought something weird had happened – I just don’t see how I could’ve blacked out if you like, and still have managed to drive home; my car was spotless there was no scratch on it.”
He added: “The person I dropped off didn’t recall what time he got in, not off hand, but we finished at the restaurant at usually about 10.30pm so he was always home for 11pm and I was always home for 11.30pm. There was nothing unusual, absolutely nothing.”
Now, David wants to get to the bottom of what happened to him on that strange night in 1993 and, after hearing about regression therapy at a UFO Identified conference, he is hoping to speak with a therapist.
Regression therapy, he explained, is when practitioners take patients back to "previous lives" through hypnosis, so that they can live out their oppressed memories – but they can also fill in any missing time.
He added: “I have no theories of why, I would just like to find out why, find out why and what happened to me - even if nothing happened to me, and someone would be able to prove that nothing happened to me, it would fill in that gap in my memory.
“There’s a lot of stories of alien abductions where people don’t remember and they wake up at 2am naked in the woods, they don’t have any idea how they got there, and these people help bring back those memories.”
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