On the afternoon of June 11, Adamski's body was discovered near a railway track by Trevor Parker, the son of Tomlin Coal Depot's owner. Zigmund was found atop a 10-foot-high coal heap, clad in a suit but lacking a shirt, watch, and wallet.
Unexplained burns marred the back of his head, neck, and shoulders. Interestingly, the depot hadn't been in use since 11 a.m., and nobody had noticed the body earlier. Parker had arrived at the depot at 8:00 a.m., and police officer Alan Godfrey, along with a colleague, arrived at the scene at 4:10 p.m.
James Turnbull, the coroner, described Adamski's case as the most baffling of his career. The coroner was perplexed by the fact that though Zigmund had been missing for five days, he showed only one day's beard growth. He stated, "The questions of where he had been before his death and what led to his demise remain unanswered."
Turnbull discovered an unidentified ointment on Zigmund's burns that couldn't be identified by forensic experts. Comprehensive checks revealed no evidence of any hospital treating Zigmund during his five-day disappearance. The coroner ruled his death a heart attack, which raised questions about the unidentified ointment and its applier.
However, this case piqued the interest of not only the police and the coroner but a ufologist as well. The ufologist turned out to be Alan Godfrey, the same police officer who had discovered Adamski's body.
Six months after the incident, Godfrey, still in Todmorden, found himself embroiled in another enigma when he claimed to have sighted a UFO around 5 a.m. on November 28, 1980. Godfrey was investigating reports of stray cattle in a local council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire when he spotted a bright, hovering, rotating object in the road ahead.
Godfrey alleged that he experienced "missing time," a period of around twenty-five minutes for which he had no recollection. Through hypnotic regression, he narrated an encounter with extraterrestrial beings who had examined him.
Alan said, "I wish I had never seen the UFO, particularly because of the effects on my children." He added, "It's not easy to have a policeman as a father, but when it's a policeman who has seen a UFO, it's even worse." Since then Godfrey's life changed, he decided to leave the police force and devote himself to the role of speaker at charity fundraising events.
On the end of Zigmund Adamsky, Alan Godfrey has no doubt, there have been many sightings in the Pennine Hills around Todmorden over the past 20 years.
The place is considered Britain's UFO hotspot. The two stories were commemorated three years later when UFO writer Jenny Randles wrote "The Pennine UFO Mystery." Godfrey's story made headlines around the world, prompting UFO fanatics to rush to West Yorkshire in search of evidence.
Other theories were advanced about Adamski's death that he had been killed by KGB agents or had been the victim of "lightning" or killed by other phenomena that had never been identified.
A decade ago, two British UFO investigators looked into the case again. According to reports, they found that at the time of his disappearance, Adamski was involved in a feud with a family member who was having marital problems and had moved in with the Adamskis.
Investigators believe that Adamski's disappearance may have been a kidnapping related to the feud. Godfrey has no information on this view, but said, "We had no reason to suspect any family members."
Les Hewitt, in an article in Historic Mysteries, states that family members believed that Mr. Adamski had been kidnapped and held in a barn before suffering a heart attack.
Godfrey, who is now 70 years old, retracted part of the story he told under hypnosis stating that it was probably just a dream, adding, "I never said I was abducted by aliens." However, he believes it is possible that Adamski was abducted by beings from other worlds. "I'm open-minded. I can't rule it out." he added a few years ago.
Godfrey, recently published a book that includes details of the Adamski case, stating that what happened to poor Zigmund Adamsky had some points of contact with the abduction of American lumberjack Travis Walton that occurred in Arizona in 1975. Travis Walton also disappeared for five days but returned home alive and well with a very peculiar story.
Sources:
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/articles/how-did-todmorden-become-one-of-englands-biggest-ufo-sighting-hotspots/
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/unsolved-baffling-case-missing-miner-14150127
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/yorkslincs/series2/ufo_alien_abduction_yorkshire_pennine_sighting_adamski_mystery.shtml
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