Scottish Mysteries. The Dechmont Woods Incident.

We’ve talked about monsters. We’ve talked about ghosts so, naturally, we also have to mention aliens. Scotland has its fair share of UFO sightings, but none more mysterious than the Dechmont Woods Encounter of 1979.

On November 9, 61-year-old forestry worker Robert Taylor arrived home in rough condition, with cuts and bruises on his body, his pants ripped to shreds and in a general state of confusion. Thinking he had been attacked, his wife called the police. Investigators arrived at the house expecting to look into an assault case, but Taylor had quite a different story for them.

He claimed to have encountered aliens. While walking his dog at Dechmont Law, he saw a UFO in a clearing. It was dome-shaped, about 30 feet high, and made out of a dark metallic material. He then said that two smaller, spiked spheres came out of the ship and approached him, hooking their spikes into his trousers and pulling him towards the dome. At that point, Taylor noticed a strong, burning smell and passed out. He woke up 20 minutes later in the same place, but the UFO had disappeared.

That was his story and he stuck to it word-for-word until the day he died in 2007. Besides all the media attention it generated, this event stands out in UFO lore because it was actually investigated by the police. Officers went to the abduction location and found 32 strange holes in a pattern, about 3.5 inches in diameter. They examined the forestry machinery, but found no equipment that would make those holes. They seemed to indicate that a large object weighing several tons stood on that spot, but there were no signs of it moving in any direction… unless it went up, that is.