EXCLUSIVE by ANDY RIVETT-CARNAC and ANDREW STRONACH
MYSTERIOUS bright lights in the sky were today being investigated by the
Ministry of Defence to see if they posed a threat to national security.
The MoD said it was taking seriously several sightings of two large
unexplained objects hovering in the skies above the Wash.
Mystified personnel at RAF Neatishead, near Wroxham, spent hours tracking
the lights of the UFOs, sighted over Boston on Saturday.
And coastguards at Great Yarmouth was kept busy co-ordinating reports from
police, shipping, and RAF.
Nigel Sergeant, spokesman for the MoD, said today : "We don't know what
they are. We are investigating to see weather they are a threat to our
security."
Skegness police called the coastguard 3.14am on Saturday after seeing a
number of objects flashing in the sky, they later took video footage of UFOs.
Bostan police also reported a light in the sky.
Flt Lt Keith Sweatman, of RAF Neatishead said: "The number of independent
reports we have had suggest there is something to follow up. "We will be
investigating the matter thoroughly and we are already collating all the
information we have."
Sightings later came to from a tanker and a civilian aircraft and two
military radar stations verified "strange" traces.
The UFOs were described by witnesses as large, a mile up in the sky, and
with blue, white, red and green flashing lights.
A spokesman for Skegness police said: "We had calls overnight which
suggested a large bright object over the coast. In the past, sightings like
this have been either a plane or a weather balloon"
But Yarmouth Coastguard records show a force four wind was blowing at the
time. The objects were monitored in the same positions for at least seven hours.
The objects did not carry transponders, the electronic equipment which
gives out a signal identifying civil or military aircraft.
Witnesses reported no aircraft in the area. Military radar reported no
aircraft, civil or military, in the area apart from the civilian flight
which reported "strange lights."
Military officials said late on Saturday morning that no airforce planes
had been scrambled to investigate as the object were not seen as a threat.
But a military jet was seen heading up the Norfolk coast towards the area
at 9am on Saturday.
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Sighting so existing for researcher
THE sighting exited researcher Alex Clarke.
"I am a sceptic by nature and I don't believe in little green men but this
is the best lead I have seen so far in my career."
We showed Mr Clarke the transcript of the conversation.
And Mr Clarke, 20, of Hevingham, had been in the subject for years and
spent 18 months working full-time as an aerial phenomenon researcher.
He said he believes the sightings were unlikely to be Venus rising.
He said: "The average man in the street often mistakes Venus, it is the
queen of UFOs, but something showed up on radar, there were multiple
witnesses on land, sea and air =, and they were all professional observers
who should recognise the difference between Venus and a UFO.
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COASTGUARDS in Great Yarmouth co-ordinated the whole exercise spanning
Scotland and the east coast of England to track the unexplained lights. The
Evening News has obtained a transcript of a conversation between coastguard,
RAF stations in Norfolk, Scotland and London, police and North Sea tanker
Conocoast about the unexplained lights. This is the recording taken at
Yarmouth Coastguard HQ:
0314 Skegness police: "We can see a strange red and green rotating light in
the sky directly south-east from Skegness. it looks strange as it is
stationary and there is no sound in the area."
0326 RAF Kinloss: "Northwood have a radar contact bearing 221 degrees at 16
miles. it looks to be stationary be stationary and there is no way of
determining its height but it must be quite a size to be visible from Skegness."
0331 Kinloss: "Neatishead now confirm a couple radar contact in the area but
no height. They seem to be stationary. There are definitely no military
aircraft in the area and no notified civil flights should be there.
0346 Conocoast tanker: "We have these lights on visual, now they are
flashing red, green and white. Cannot identify it as an aircraft as it looks
stationary and it is approximately one mile high."
Yarmouth Coastguard: "Did you see which direction it appeared?"
Conocoast: "No, it just appeared and is stationary."
0353 Kinloss: "Neatishead say it could be caused by the weather."
Coastguard: "I don't think so as we have visual contact."
Kinloss: "Well, Neatishead and Northwood report that there is no transponder
on this object and therefore no means of interrogation. it is obvious that
whatever it is it does not want anyone to know that it is there. Also
Neatishead report its position as directly over Boston."
0408 Conocoast: "It is still stationary and flashing red, green, blue and
white. it looks very high, north of us, and there is no engine noise."
0417 Coastguard: "Skegness, can you get video footage as the RAF are very
interested and may require it later."
0427 Kinloss: "Neatishead are keeping a log of what looks like clutter on
the radar."
0445 Yarmouth Coastguard: "Conocoast, can you give us an update?"
Conocoast: "We can see two lights flashing green and red."
0501 Coastguard: "Give us both bearings of the two lights."
Conocoast: "There is one stationary light at 345 deg true and the other at
160 true. The lights are both visible with the naked eye and both exhibit
the same characteristics flashing red, blue, green and white."
0517 Boston police: "We can still see the light. It is towards the
south-east and seems about 40-45 degrees up in the sky it is just a bright
light to us."
0521 Kinloss: "Neatishead are running a trace on this and cannot explain it.
If they are helicopters they are fast approaching the end of their endurance
as it is well over two hours since the first report let alone how long they
were up there before they were actually sighted."
0552 Conocoast: "We can still see the lights and they are on their original
bearing and flashing the same colours but they seem higher and dimmer."
0708 Flt Lt McFarlane, Neatishead: "We had a report from Northwood that a
civil flight had also reported strange lights in the area. They fit exactly
what was seen from the ground, multi-coloured, flashing, stationary lights."
0731 Flt Lt George, Northwood: "This echo is still on our screens and we
cannot explain this at all apart from it being a metoeoroligical phenomenon
but then again we have visual sightings also as well. The civilian flight
that reported these lights as a flare was six miles away at the time. All
very strange."
1109 Neatishead: "The object has not moved. London radar and Waddington can
also see it."
1920 Anglia radar: "There is nothing there now. We are of the opinion that
it was Boston Stump."
Wind: force 4
Visibility: 20 miles
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