On the evening of 28 November 1980, PC Godfrey responded to reports of cattle wandering around a council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
Adamski went missing on 6 June; his body was found three days later on top of a 10-foot-high (3.0 m) Todmorden coal pile, 20 miles (32 km) from his Tingley home.
[6] Godfrey told reporters that he believed it possible that Adamski may have been abducted by aliens and placed on the coal pile "by someone or something", saying that he was "open minded".
[4][6] Other theories put forward have suggested that Adamski was killed by KGB agents, or that he had been struck by ball lightning, become dazed and confused and wandered off to the coal pile and died.
[5] Godfrey has self-published Who or What Were They?, a book that includes his speculations regarding his own UFO sighting, the Adamski case, and abduction claims by Travis Walton.