Aug 15, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Paratalk, I’m joined by **Roy Teague**, author of *Close Encounters of the Police Kind*. Roy has spent years collecting accounts from serving and former UK police officers who have…
Roy TeagueGuest
Reeves CookeHost
When you were researching the book and you were putting it together, obviously you were talking to people and you had to interview people to put the cases together or whatnot.
Did you find that people that were sort of close to you were going, you know, are you all right? Why are you doing this?
There's an article released in the West Midlands Police Federation magazine, and that was me appealing for police witnesses to, at the time, just UFO encounters.
Now it's UFO and sort of the paranormal and cryptid and anything of the unexplained, but i mean i think the the banter started within about three seconds and i don't mind the banter because you know banter's good for the soul and it was from sort of the ranks pc sergeants fellows inspectors and i had loads of banter things like oh when that book's written or fly off the shelves pardon the pun you know because we're talking about ufo craft and all this stuff and uh i didn't mind that but i do think since that day to this And unfortunately, because of my interest in UAP phenomena and the paranormal, I am regarded a lot less seriously, in my professional opinion, than I was even six months ago, purely because of my interest in these, you know, these topics.
I think that's a shame, really, because, you know, the police were seekers of the truth.
Been an interesting journey and it's been an interesting reaction along the way.
As someone who works as a policeman, before you went up the ranks and were now an inspector, before that, when you were, shall we say, on the beat, did you ever experience anything strange? Did you have any call-outs to weird stuff?
I haven't, myself, personally, and I've never seen anything whilst out and about in the car.
They do say that the more you open yourself up to this phenomenon, the more likely you are to experience something because you become more sort of open-minded.
When you were researching the book and you were putting it together, obviously you were talking to people and you had to interview people to put the cases together or whatnot.
Did you find that people that were sort of close to you were going, you know, are you all right? Why are you doing this?
There's an article released in the West Midlands Police Federation magazine, and that was me appealing for police witnesses to, at the time, just UFO encounters.
Now it's UFO and sort of the paranormal and cryptid and anything of the unexplained, but i mean i think the the banter started within about three seconds and i don't mind the banter because you know banter's good for the soul and it was from sort of the ranks pc sergeants fellows inspectors and i had loads of banter things like oh when that book's written or fly off the shelves pardon the pun you know because we're talking about ufo craft and all this stuff and uh i didn't mind that but i do think since that day to this And unfortunately, because of my interest in UAP phenomena and the paranormal, I am regarded a lot less seriously, in my professional opinion, than I was even six months ago, purely because of my interest in these, you know, these topics.
I think that's a shame, really, because, you know, the police were seekers of the truth.
Been an interesting journey and it's been an interesting reaction along the way.
As someone who works as a policeman, before you went up the ranks and were now an inspector, before that, when you were, shall we say, on the beat, did you ever experience anything strange? Did you have any call-outs to weird stuff?
I haven't, myself, personally, and I've never seen anything whilst out and about in the car.
They do say that the more you open yourself up to this phenomenon, the more likely you are to experience something because you become more sort of open-minded.
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