ILKLEY MOOR

Opening

On 1 December 1987 a retired policeman walking Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire photographed a small green figure on the path ahead, then said he lost time and found a compass mark on his skin. Philip Spencer is the name the later circuit used. The still went around the British UFO press. Sceptics offered a child in a suit, a statue, a hoax by a man who knew how a frame would travel. No second walker on that path produced a matching frame.

Ilkley is one still and a retired officer's hour. It is not a landing pit the council logged.

The spine of the file is a moor path and a green figure on film. Ilkley is Spencer's frame. It is not a specimen in a Bradford drawer.

Timeline

1 December 1987 the walk and the still. Later interviews add the compass mark and missing time.

British UFO press circulates the frame. Sceptical readings arrive.

No second photograph from that hour. The moor stays a moor.

Later alien-photo lists keep Ilkley. That list is later life. The December still is first.

Ilkley Moor kept a retired policeman's still of a green figure in later British lists. The moor is working walking country. The still is why the file is not only a fog story. No wreck sat on the gritstone.

A camera on a moor path is a cheap hard object. Labs did not all sign the figure as a known walker.

1 December 1987 Philip Spencer walked Ilkley Moor with a camera and came back with a still of a small green figure. Later interviews added a compass mark and missing time. Those layers are later talk. The December frame is first. British press circulated it. Sceptical readings called costume and distance. No second camera sat that hour.

A retired policeman with a dated still is why Ilkley is not fog gossip. Labs did not all sign the figure as a walker.

Key figures

Philip Spencer owns the walk and the camera.

The British UFO press owns the circulation.

Sceptics own the suit-and-statue door.

The moor owns the lack of a second walker with a camera.

Physical and documentary trail

On the paper, 1 December 1987 gives you four hard objects and no body.

One: Spencer's account of a figure on the path.

Two: the still itself.

Three: later missing-time and mark details.

Four: the absence of a second frame. Philip Spencer photograph, Ilkley Moor, 1 December 1987, is the originating tray.

There is no lab that named a species. There is no statue logged as the prop. There is no second witness with a camera.

A dated still and a named policeman are the stay-behinds. A lab both camps sign would finish the figure. A second camera from that minute would finish the other door.

The 1 December still and Spencer as a named walker are the stay-behinds. A lab both camps sign would finish the figure. A second frame from that hour would finish the other door.

It stood on the path and I took the picture.

Competing explanations

A small green figure on a Yorkshire moor. This is Spencer. It has a still. It has no second camera.

A hoax, a child, a prop. The sceptical door. Has to carry a retired officer who put his name on it.

A mis-seen walker. Possible. The colour is why the frame travelled.

Hybrid caution. A man shot a figure. The moor kept the rest. Morning had no pit.

Later life of the case

Later alien-photo lists. I keep those on the later-life shelf. The December still stays first.

Finding

A retired policeman photographed a green figure on Ilkley Moor on 1 December 1987 and put his name under the walk. Believe the walk as a walk. An officer does not invent a path only for a later magazine.

What still will not resolve: a second camera from that hour, or a prop with a 1987 chain. Either one would pin the figure. The proving object is still that shape on the path, held as suit or as guest by more than one still.