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Alien abductee's pants at center of spat with Scottish museum officials

By T.K. Randall
February 3, 2025 · Comment icon 9 comments

Bob Taylor at the site of his encounter. Image Credit: Archival / Edinburgh Evening News
The famous torn trousers are considered to be physical evidence of one man's close encounter with a UFO.
The pants, which are in the possession of paranormal investigator Malcolm Robinson, once belonged to the man at the center of one of Scotland's most famous UFO incidents.

It all started when Robert "Bob" Taylor - a 61-year-old forestry worker - went out into the Dechmont Woods in West Lothian, Scotland on November 9th, 1979 to walk his dog - a red setter named Lara.

As he turned a corner, he came across what he described as a "flying dome" that was hovering a few inches above the forest floor a short distance from where he was standing.

Its surface, he noted, was like "a dark metallic material with a rough texture like sandpaper" and a distinct smell similar to that of burning brakes seemed to permeate the air.

Then, without warning, two spiked, metallic spheres appeared, grabbed his clothes and began dragging him across the grass toward the object.

It was at this point that he fell unconscious.

When he awoke several hours later, he found that his clothes were torn and that he had suffered a series of cuts and bruises all over his body.

When police officers later went to investigate the scene of the incident, they discovered strange "ladder-shaped marks" on the ground.
Ultimately, no definitive explanation was ever found and Taylor himself died back in 2007 having never discovered the truth of what had happened to him.

His torn trousers, however, still remain an intriguing piece of physical evidence of the incident.

Robinson, who has been attempting to donate the pants to the National Museums of Scotland as an important piece of Scottish history, has been met with a frustrating level of resistance.

"This is not any old pair of trousers," he said. "They are part of Scotland's biggest ever UFO story."

"A full-blown police investigation was carried out including a forensic examination of the ripped trousers. It might sound bizarre to some. But this is an iconic piece of Scottish history which rightly deserves it place in a museum."

"I've been offered thousands of pounds by an American businessman but I have refused."

"I wanted to donate these trousers to the National Museums of Scotland. Sadly, they refused. I'm very disappointed."

The only reason given by museum officials is that they "already have similar material".



Source: The Scottish Sun | Comments (9)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by Alchopwn 14 days ago
Were they brown, or only partly brown?
Comment icon #2 Posted by Amorlind 14 days ago
I remember quite well an excellent TV Show from Wateborn Production on that event : The West Lothian Question...interesting.  
Comment icon #3 Posted by Still Waters 14 days ago
I remember this case from the video at the bottom of the article. There's little point in moaning about the museum, If they don't want the torn trousers there's nothing he can do about it. Perhaps they're too sceptical, after all nobody knows for sure what really happened that day.
Comment icon #4 Posted by Hazzard 14 days ago
BWAAAHAHAHA ??? I have heard som silly sh!t in my days but has to be among the top five! Anyway... https://www.scotsman.com/news/author-attempting-to-debunk-lothians-ufo-mystery-1613548 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_incident  
Comment icon #5 Posted by Ell 14 days ago
My pants were in far better condition after my experience in late 1979. The museum therefore might prefer my pants instead. Bad luck for the museum, though: I suspect I threw them into the garbage a number of years afterwards.  
Comment icon #6 Posted by flying squid 14 days ago
This ''UFO case'' is solved. He run into some tracked military vehicle at that forest clearing. In the same time, in his field of vision, there were an large water tank for which he in the panic thought was an UFO.
Comment icon #7 Posted by Hazzard 14 days ago
Link?
Comment icon #8 Posted by flying squid 14 days ago
I remember, I watched it on the TV. But, I will check if there is an link on the internet.    
Comment icon #9 Posted by Antigonos 14 days ago
I think we’re finally hitting rock bottom.


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