Man Taken By Aliens? In 1978?

On 16 August 1978, Carl Cox was hunting badgers in Cauldon Park. As he shot his assault rifle at a nearby badger, a most bizarre thing happened. The bullet travelled in slow motion, as if he had entered another dimension!
 

To his utter shock and amazement, he saw a humanoid entity standing nearby. The "alien" was quite tall and gangly, at over six feet in height, looking a bit like Peter Crouch. He was clad in a blue catsuit with a wide belt. A bit like the kind Peter Crouch might wear.

Standing bow-legged, the alien spoke to Cox, asking him if he was hungry. The alien threw some sweets to him, telling him if he took one, he would not have to eat for "literally ages". It was surmised that the entity was smart enough to realise that Cox may have been hungry, or else he would not have been hunting badgers.

Soon, the alien pointed toward Cox, and the next thing he knew, he was in a spaceship, with a catsuit on. Also present were two more aliens, and the five badgers he was previously stalking. The badgers were dancing to pop music. He was told that the aliens were travelling to their home planet, located some 164,003 light years away. In a flash, they arrived at the distant location.

Cox described the surrounding landscape as being occupied with large skyscrapers. The brightness of the atmosphere caused Cox's eyes to water. Cox's next remembrance was being back in Cauldon Park. He says that approximately 3 hours had elapsed since his encounter with the alien had begun.

Dare you cross the road and enter Cauldon Park?

Cox was found in a state of panic and nervous exhaustion, shouting: "They took my badgers!" He was taken for medical care to the North Staffs hospital. His blood work showed he had a highly elevated level of blood lust, probably from the sweets he had eaten.

Cox refutes the suggestion he made up the story to cover for an affair he was having at the time, later discovered by his wife. "These are two unrelated things," he said. "They are mutually exclusive."