Andrew Collins

A British researcher, Andrew Collins kept turning up where the strangest English and Welsh cases led. With Barry King of UFOIN he took on the Aveley abduction of October 27, 1974, and his report gave the family the name Avis. The pair also investigated the Langford Budville abduction for their magazine Strange Phenomena. Around 1979 he became involved with the Sunderland family of Oakenholt and the world of psychic questing. Then came Brentford. Collins at first doubted the griffin reports, but after interviewing witnesses he came to believe some, and in 1985 wrote a booklet on the case.

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The Langford Budville Abduction ("Gabriella Versacci")

October 16, 1973 · B3187 near Langford Budville, Somerset, England

United Kingdom

UAP · Being / humanoid · 10 sources

0Thinly documented

British researcher who investigated the witness and published in Strange Phenomena

The Aveley Abduction: the Avis (Day) Family and the Green Mist

October 27, 1974 · Hacton Lane / Aveley Road, between Hornchurch and Aveley, Essex (now London Borough of Havering)

United Kingdom

UAP · Orb / light · 20 sources

20Thinly documented

Lead UFOIN investigator; wrote the 1978 case report and Flying Saucer Review articles

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The Gaynor Sunderland Landing Encounter, Oakenholt

July 1976 · Field beside a secluded road near Oakenholt, near Flint, Flintshire (then Clwyd), North Wales

United Kingdom

UAP · Being / humanoid · 12 sources

11Thinly documented

Psychic questing writer involved with the family from about 1979

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The Brentford Griffin (1984-1985)

1984 · Brentford, west London

United Kingdom

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

13Thinly documented

Fortean researcher, interviewed the witnesses and wrote the 1985 booklet