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5 min readThree Bodies, Three UFOs
In 1980, Trevor Burrus was walking his coal yard after a rain when he stopped at a ten-foot pile and found a man in a suit lying on top. The man wasn't moving. Burrus's hands were black from the climb, but the man's suit was spotless, as if he had just appeared there. Five days earlier, a coal miner named Zygmunt Adamski had left his house to buy potatoes and vanished. Now he was twenty miles from home, dead on a coal pile, with no footprints, no slide marks, and no explanation for how he got there.
The Man on the Coal
Zygmunt Adamski was 56 years old, with a bad heart and a wife in a wheelchair. He had asked his coal board for early retirement and been denied. The day he vanished, he grabbed his jacket, told his wife he was going for potatoes, and walked out. He never reached the shop. Five days later, Constable Alan Godfrey climbed the coal pile and found himself a foot from Adamski's face. "Those eyes set the shutter down my spine," Godfrey later said. They were wide open.
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What you'll learn
- 1 The Alien Files: Three Bodies, Three UFOs
- 2 Timestamped Outline
- 3 (00:07) **Zygmunt Adamski Vanishes** - A 56-year-old coal miner leaves home for potatoes and never returns, launching a baffling case in England, 1980
- 4 (03:17) **The Autopsy Reveals Strange Details** - The pathologist discovers Adamski was alive and cared for during his entire disappearance
- 5 (06:46) **UFO Alley and Godfrey's Encounter** - Months later, the same constable encounters a craft on a dark road, leading to lost time and official secrecy
- 6 (09:44) **The Unsolved Question** - Godfrey's final word on the case links Adamski's death to something inhuman
- 7 (11:27) **The Kite Kid's Discovery** - In 1966 Brazil, a boy climbing a tree finds two dead men in suits on a hilltop, wearing lead masks and carrying cryptic instructions
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