United Kingdom · 1980-06 (body found; disappeared 6 June)
Coal yard, 1980
ReportedA coroner formally recorded that a dead man's burns had been dressed with a substance that could not be identified, and the body appeared to have been placed on top of a ten-foot coal heap.
- Where
- Coal yard, Todmorden, West Yorkshire
- When
- 1980-06 (body found; disappeared 6 June)
- Who reported it
- Deceased colliery worker; officials on record: the attending constable and HM Coroner
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- GOV-1
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNKNOWN
No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.
What is not settled
A genuine coroner's inquest and police death investigation, the strongest class of UK record, but the file could not be retrieved and the verdict and cause could not be verified. The UFO association rests entirely on the attending officer being the same constable who had his own encounter five months later - a coincidence, not evidence. Prosaic explanations were never excluded on the published record.