WATCHERS BAFFLED BY LIGHT IN SKY

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From:lem@chaddo.demon.co.uk (Steve Leeming)
Title:WATCHERS BAFFLED BY LIGHT IN SKY
Source:Derby Evening Telegraph
Date:Feburary 09, 1996


Derby people were baffled by a mysterious light last night.

The first sighting was reported to Derby police at 5:50pm by a man in Winmill Hi

ll Lane.

June Kerry (65), was visiting Richard Milner (74) in Havenbaulk Lane, Littleover

, and they both saw the light for more than an hour in the direction of Toyota's

Burnaston plant from 6:45pm. Mrs Kerry said it seemed to be about 10 miles awa

y and added: "It was like a large star with a smaller version underneath. But i

t wasn't a star. Through binoculars it looked like a mushroom."

Andrew Fairweather (66), of NewZealand Lane, Duffield, said "It was a bright lig

ht, low in thee sky. It seemed to be flickering but not moving."

It was also spotted by our photographer Barbara Evripidou later last night.

She said: "I was in Oakwood, driving up Mansfield Road. I looked west over the

sewage works and saw a light hanging there. I thought it might of been a star.

It was there for about 10 minutes."

An East Midlands Airport spokesman said there was no air traffic to explain the

sightings.