Case description
Lorry driver Ernest Suddard, also spelled Suddards, and his thirteen-year-old son reportedly encountered an unusual small figure on Roundhill Street in Bradford in August 1955. Vallée’s catalogue and the account reproduced from Merseyside research place it at approximately 4 a.m. on 16 August; other compilations differ in date or time. The imported record supplies only the year. Their headlights illuminated something the driver compared to a boy about four feet, or 1.2 metres, tall.
The figure wore close-fitting black clothing, held its arms along its sides and kept its feet together. Instead of an ordinary stride, it advanced in short, jerky jumps. A circular silvery disc perforated with holes shone just below its throat or on its chest. After travelling a few yards, it abruptly turned into a passageway and disappeared from the witnesses’ view. They did not follow it. The report does not establish unusual eyes, skin, facial features, speech or a physical interaction.
A separate local account concerned Joseph Wood’s sighting of a bright, upright bullet-shaped object near Bowling Park on 19 August. That later report is sometimes attached to the Suddard story, but no craft was observed with the jumping figure itself. The documentary trail leads through Jack Ibson and Flying Saucer News, not a demonstrated medical or laboratory investigation. The imported automatic physiological-effects label is unsupported by the narrative; surprise is not evidence of an injury.
