UNITED KINGDOM UFO NETWORK (issue 4 Nov) 1/3

Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:24:55 -0500 (EST)
Source: United Kingdom UFO Network

In this issue:

Editorial

(Important e-zine info)
(UK.UFO.NW in UFO Magazine)
(Dreamland the video)

Requests

United Kingdom News

U1 Norfolk Lights
U2 Were Strange Lights A 'UFO' Or Just A Plane?
U3 UFO Over Sprowston
U4 I've Seen A UFO, Villager Tells Police
U5 Sighting Adds To 'UFO' Puzzle
U6 UFO Mystery Baffles City
U7 Fantastic Light Proves Frightening Sight For Driver
U8 Light in sky thrills UFO man
v U9 UFOs active claims group
U10 'Nothing in our world travels that fast' I saw UFO ball of light
U11 UFO Photo Mystery
U12 Big snowball in sky
U13 Life Was Found On Mars By Britons - And It's Still There
U14 Half-Moon 'UFO' Is Tracked On Video For 40 Minutes
U15 UFO Film Footage 'Best Ever'
U16 Terrified Tourists In UFO Blitz!; UFO Sighting Reported In Killarney
U17 UFOs Disappear In A Flash Of Light
U18 Maybe It Was The Boston Stump...

World News

W1 Meteorite Life And The Cydonia Web Page
W2 CNN Interviews Buzz Aldrin
W3 UFO Messages Prompt Yawns (and a Cleanup)
W4 One-Stop Phenomena
W5 Kazakh Air Defence Spots Second UFO Over Capital In One Month
W6 A Close Encounter
W7 Black Triangles In The Sky
W8 MP Wants To Open 'Alien X-Files'
W9 Scientists Give Meteor Account
W10 Bouncing Meteorite Shed New Light On America
W11 All Mars, All The Time, Red Planet To Go Online
W12 Cydonia Face To Be Imaged
W13 UFOs Said To Invade Holy Land
W14 Business Blooms For Desert UFO Capital Of World
W15 TASK Tracks UFOs Across Ohio

United Kingdom UFO Conferences

Editorial
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** Important E-Zine Information **

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** UK.UFO.NW in UFO Magazine **

We would like to give our thanks to those at UFO Magazine for printing our photograph and report from the August skywatch at Cannock Chase. You will find it in their current issue November/December which is just out.

Most of you will be aware of the Real Audio files that are currently available for download from our www site of the recent 'Dreamland' documentary. The video of the documentary can now be purchased from Ufo Magazine. Details quoted below:

** Dreamland the video **

Now available from UFO Magazine! the Sky Television blockbuster: AREA 51

DD New Video Release - The True Story AREA 51

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The most-talked about documentary of 1996 is now available from UFO Magazine.

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Requests
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If any one has any WAV or Real Audio etc. sound files of interesting UFO related items please let us know. Some of the things that we are looking for are astronaut and governmental related speech.

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If any member has any information regarding sightings etc. in the Latvia, Lithuania areas of the world please mail us: ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk.

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From: JERRY WASHINGTON

Australian UFO Groups?

Could you or any of your subscribers provide me with the E-Mail address of any Australian UFO Groups?

United Kingdom News
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[U1]******

From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

Norfolk Lights

On Thursday September 26, 1996 at approximately 7.00 - 8.00 p.m. everyone's_ light's/electrical powered appliances when "dim" or messed up for about half a second, this also caused my friend's Personnel Computers to reset, and the TV screen of Channel 4 turned to "snow." Of course this sounds like a normal power serge or very short power cut, but the following morning almost everyone I spoke to told me that they had heard reports of UFOs!!! These include discs and BOLs [Balls of Light].

Also within 30 minutes of the "power serge" a bright blue flash was seen right across the Eastern counties [as far as Cambridge] according to BBC Radio Broadland (the local radio station) the following morning. I personally saw the flash, it lit up my whole room! I was doing some writing on my PC and I was expecting it to reset, but it did not, fortunately :)

I should most probably have more information on this by next Tuesday as I am sure the matter will be discussed at the Norfolk UFO Society's meeting on Monday October 7. Also reports stated that we can expect to see more of these objects very soon, I hope we do :)

BTW is if anyone reading this lives in Norfolk, please email me for details of the Norfolk UFO Society, NUFOS, we need members :)

[U2]******

Source: Eastern Evening News [Norwich]
Date: 20 February 1995.
From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

[Sighting was on the 17 February 1995]

Were Strange Lights A 'UFO' Or Just A Plane?

Is it a bird, is it a plane?

Chris Hylton was convinced it was neither when he saw a strange object in the skies on his way home near Wymondham on Friday.

The Biochemist from Hardingham reported seeing a jumbo-jet-sized object while he was crossing the B1108 at about 7.20pm.

An RAF Coltishall spokesman said it could have been a survey plane which would use bright white lights for mapping purposes.

Mr Hylton, 31 is keen to hear from anyone else who may have seen the object. They can contact him on 0953-850124.

[U3]******

Source: Eastern Evening News [Norwich]
Date: 25 February 1995.
From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

UFO Over Sprowston

YOUR report on Chris Hylton sighting a mysterious flying object recently accords well with my own experience a couple of days earlier, on Wednesday, February 15.

At about 4pm that afternoon I was sitting indoors when something outside the window caught my eye.

There, in the north-western sky from this point in Sprowston, I observed a brilliant white light.

Since it was at a great height I was unable to determine any distance shape, and whatever it was presented itself as a ball of vivid light.

It remained completely stationary for upwards to two minutes, after which it moved slowly smoothly in a westerly direction.

I watched the object for a further minute and, although it must have been many miles away by this time, the light did not diminish.

Then, suddenly, just a flick and it had vanished from sight. No man-made vehicle would have been able to remain in one position for as long as that. No helicopter could have been operated at such a height. No conventionally powered lamp could have generated such intensity.

It was no flying object that I could identify. What was it?

Geoff Hendry,
Moore Avenue,
Sprowston

[U4]******

Source: Eastern Evening News [Norwich] - 4 November 1995.
Date: 4 November 1995.
From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

I've Seen A UFO, Villager Tells Police

A WORRIED villager alerted police last night after he spotted a suspected UFO hovering in the skies over Norfolk.

The man telephoned officers at Great Yarmouth claiming he saw the flashing blue and white star-shape disc above Freethorpe.

He told police the mystery object was in the area for about 30 minutes before it moved off into the night.

PC Martin Peterson said: "He sounded quite genuine according to the officer who spoke to him. We had no other reported sightings in the area."

[U5]******

Source: Eastern Evening News [Norwich]
Date: November 8, 1995
From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

Sighting Adds To 'UFO' Puzzle

by GREG MILAM

A NORFOLK UFO mystery deepened today after a second man reported seeing strange lights in the sky.

Computer engineer Nick Colman was driving home from work on Friday night when he says the bright light tracked his car as he approached Aylsham.

The sighting came just hours before a man telephoned police at Great Yarmouth reporting a suspected UFO at Freethorpe.

The Evening News told of that sighting on Saturday -- and Nick then realised he might have not been seeing things.

Worried Nick, who works for a computer company on the Sweetbriar Industrial Estate, watched as the light appeared in his rear view mirror and moved round to the side of his car before shooting up into the sky in front of him.

The 30-year-old said: "At first I thought it might have just been a halogen lamp but when it started moving to the side of the car, where they was no road, I knew it wasn't.

"It couldn't have been a helicopter because it was too low to the ground and I have never known a helicopter shoot up that fast.

"I told about 20 people about it later that night and then I read about the sighting at Freethorpe.

"Someone told me it could have been a reflection in my windows but I was smoking a cigarette so my window was would wound down."

A man called Great Yarmouth police in the early hours of Saturday morning reporting a blue and white flashing disk over fields at Freethorpe.

A police spokesman said today there had been no more reported sightings of strange lights.

[U6]******

Source: Eastern Evening News [Norwich] [Cover story]
Date: November 11, 1995
From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

CLOSE ENCOUNTER

UFO Mystery Baffles City

NORWICH was today at the centre of a baffling UFO mystery over this spectacular picture which has griped the nation.

The silent, biscuit-shaped object was captured by stunned Glen Webster on his camcorder in the sky above Mile Cross.

Experts are now examining the tape in a bid to discover exactly what 32-year-old Glen saw from his window.

The unemployed painter and decorator today revealed reading the Evening News prompted him to tell of his sighting.

The amazing film has surfaced just days after we told how motorist Nick Colman was tracked by a mysterious light near Aylsham.

The sighting has have been reopening the UFO debate and left everyone wondering if there really is something out there.

Glen scrambled across his room to grab his camcorder and captured the mystery object, zig-zagging above his home.

He ran outside to get a better shot before it headed off towards Great Yarmouth. But he did not even look at it again until after he had filmed bonfire night celebrations.

Father-of-two Glen, of Appleyard Crescent, said: "If it hadn't been for the storied in the Evening New, I wouldn't have had the confidence to tell anyone about it.

"I had got the camcorder for bonfire night and it was only when I was showing the tape to my parents that they convinced me to tell someone," he said.

"When I zoomed in on the shape I couldn't believe it. I moved forward and tripped over my hi-fi. It made no sound and I gasped when I saw it shoot towards the moon.

"I have always been a bit sceptical about this type of thing but this was simply amazing.

Wife Lesley said: "We have had loads of UFO investigators around here since it happened."

The specialists noticed two smaller background objects which could also be UFOs.

The minute-long film shows a black object in three segments passing across the yellow axehead shape. It spins rapidly before zooming into the night.

The film original, which has already been copyrighted, has been sent to UFO boffins.

Experts say it bears a striking similarity to a sighting in New Zealand in 1978.

Glen's sighting is being linked with two others on the same night revealed by the Evening News this week.

A man called great Yarmouth police after seeing a strange spinning disc over Freethorpe and computer engineer Mr Colman told how a bright light followed his car.

Expert Ian Simmons, British editor of the Fortean Times, which records strange phenomena, watched the video.

"The object does not behave like anything we know about. It is unidentifiable and this is a very interesting sighting."

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Source: Eastern Evening News [Norwich]
Date: November 8, 1995
From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

Fantastic Light Proves Frightening Sight For Driver

STRANGE tales of unidentified objects continue to come flying onto the Evening News after our front page story on Saturday.

Last week we told how motorist nick Colman was tracked by a mysterious light on a road near Aylsham last Friday.

The same night, a motorist called Great Yarmouth police after seeing a spinning disc in the sky over Freethorpe.

And then on Saturday Glenn Webster from Mile Cross showed his amazing film of a weird biscuit-shaped object near his home, recorded on Friday night.

His minute of camcorder footage has been sent off to UFO experts who admit to being baffled by the zig-zagging, quick-moving flying disc.

Now security engineer James Mason, 21, of Angel Road, has described how he was driving back from King's Lynn at about 4.50pm on the previous Friday when a blue light appeared in his rear view mirror as he passed though Bawdeswel, near Dereham.

Thinking it was a police car, he pulled over and got out of his car, only to discover the light had gone. "Then my car lights went off and on again. looked up and realised this light had gone over head and was about 200 yards in front of me and about 100ft in the air.

"It wasn't flashing it was spinning, it looked like a Catherine Wheel.

Mr Mason added: "I was so freaked out I turned back and came back on a different road and then went down to Bethel Street Police Station to report it."

[U8]******

Source: Eastern Evening
News [Norwich] - August 24, 1996
Date: August 24, 1996
From: i.read@netcom.co.uk (Ian Read)

Light In Sky Thrills UFO Man

A NEW case in Norwich's own X-files has been opened by a UFO spotter on the Heartsease Estate.

Raymond Evans was left baffled after hearing an unexplained low humming noise and spotting a bright white light on Wednesday.

"I was in two minds about whether UFOs exist but now I believe in them," said Mr Evans, 61, who lives on Redfern Road.

Unable to sleep in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Mr Evans went into his garden to see if neighbours were playing music.

"I saw a brilliant light about six times bigger than a star," he said.

"I think the humming was coming from it."

"When I thought about what I'd seen I was really thrilled."

The light appeared to be hovering motionless in the direction of Great Yarmouth and was spotted at 2.30am.

Now Mr Evans is hoping other Evening New readers will be able to explain the strange sighting.

Contact reporter Stacia Briggs at the Evening News on Norwich 772439 if you can help solve the mystery.

[U9]******

Source: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
Date: Thursday 3rd October 1996
From: "Darren Birch"

UFOs Active Claims Group

by Paul Bloomer

UFOs continue to be active over Scunthorpe and the surrounding district, according to paranormal investigators who have logged a series of sightings.

The investigators are members of the local group of BEAMS, the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society, who are compiling their own 'X Files'.

They have logged reports of sightings in Spencer Avenue, Ferry Road, and near Atkinson's Warren, Scunthorpe, as well as in Winterton and Scawby Brook.

Scunthorpe BEAMS group, one of the area's fastest growing organisations, has published reports of UFO sightings in its journal Probe, now in its second edition.

Among the incidents is an encounter with a 'droning' object with a 'bright pulsating light, moving backwards and forwards' over Safeway store and subsequently over the rooftops of nearby terraced houses on successive nights, May 5 and 6 this year.

According to the report the UFO 'was a definite triangular shape with a revolving light at the bottom of the triangle'.

It tilted, hovered and 'fired beams of light towards the ground' before zig-zagging away.

Other reports testify to more zig-zagging by an object with 'a green tinted light' over North Street, Winterton, last Halloween Night; two flashing lights, one pink, one blue, moving around each other erratically above fields in Scawby Brook; and a 'soft droning engine' above the gardens outside a bedroom window in Spencer Avenue, Scunthorpe.

Formation

For one night-time observer 'part of the sky seemed to be moving' over The Cocked Hat pub in Ferry Road - a whole mass of lights travelled across the sky 'all in formation at the same speed'.

There is also a report of 'a white orb, fuzzy, around the edges' hovering five feet above the ground in Louth one November evening as the observer put out milk bottles on a doorstep.

Eventually it 'just lowered to the ground and disappeared.'

Additional sightings come from local area residents who used to live elsewhere - 'a large ball of light travelling across the sky' several times in Surrey, and a 50-foot-long 'silver cigar-shaped object' floating above roof level during daylight in South London.

Other strange happenings recorded include a bluish-white light shining in through a half-open bedroom door in Scawby Brook and 'a presence' in the room which was 'not liked'.

Combustion

Probe editor Val Mitchell, founder of Scunthorpe BEAMS group, includes in the publication articles on hauntings, spontaneous human combustion, reincarnation, American 'deep underground bases' and she reports that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed that 'Britain has its own X Files'.

Scunthorpe BEAMS the 22nd branch of the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society, holds regular meetings and members are keen to study any unexplained phenomena from hauntings and poltergeists to crop circles and UFOs.

[U10]******

Source: The Glossop Chronical
Date: 17th October 1996
From: steven.walton@zetnet.co.uk (steven walton)

'Nothing In Our World Travels That Fast' I Saw UFO Ball Of Light

Dear UK UFO Network

Firstly i would like to thank you all for doing such a good job, I am very grateful to you all.

The following is copied from a front page article which appeared recently in a local newspaper, The Glossop Chronicle, October 17th 1996. Glossop is a small town in Derbyshire near the pennines, between Manchester and Sheffield.

I would like to add, that as someone living in the area, I do not believe that the following sighting could have been a plane as planes can be seen and heard very clearly as they fly over the Pennines towards Manchester airport.

Headline: 'Nothing In Our World Travels That Fast' I Saw UFO Ball Of Light.

Bob, 58, tells of close encounter in the dawn sky.

A close encounter on a cloudless morning has convinced a man out walking his dog that UFOs do exist.

Bob Walmsley was gazing at the dawn sky when he saw something that will haunt him the rest of his life. Looking out over Longendale towards The Snake Pass (A57 to Sheffield Looking West) he spotted a brilliant light travelling towards him. Three times it came and mysteriously hovered in the dark sky. And each time it hurtled away at speeds that Bob of Bracken Close, Hollingworth, finds unbelievable. Twenty-four hours after he spotted the incredible ball of light at 5am last Thursday Bob was still shaken by the ordeal. "I know what i saw and it wasn't a plane or a helicopter I will stake my childrens lives on that," he said. "all i can say is there is nothing in our world that can travel that fast." Fifty-eight-year-old Bob's brush with the unexplained happened as he was taking his dog Ben for a walk. What followed next is in Bob's own words: "I was looking up at the sky as i normally do, it was a clear morning. Suddenly i saw a light coming towards me, I thought at first it was the headlights of a plane, I expected it to bank around and get on the flightpath for Ringway. (Manchester airport) Then i realised it had stopped. It was just hovering in the sky, a round ball of light similar in colour to a light bulb. It was very bright, it had no shape and no real colour. All of a sudden it shot back from the way it had come, it was moving very fast. It seemed to leave a haze where it had been hovering, like a huge cigarette smoke ring. I looked up again and it had come back, it was hovering in the same spot and then disappeared just as quickly. A plane appeared a lot lower than the object and turned towards ringway. I thought that was it but suddenly this object was back again, I watched it hovering there not making a sound for five minutes. It was still there when i took the dog into the house but when i went out for another look it had disappeared." Bob's tale brought the expected bout of mickey taking from workmates. But he knows what he saw. "I wouldn't make a thing like that up", he said. "Why should i do it to embarass myself?" "I know what i saw, it wasn't any aircraft that i have seen, it moved too fast. As i have said there is nothing in our world capable of those speeds."

Bo's sighting is likely to be logged as another UFO mystery in an area that has been dubbed the Pennine Triangle because of the large number of unexplained phenomena in the skies. It also adds to the increasing number of lights reported by readers in the last twelve months over Glossopdale and Longendale. A ministry of defence spokesman in London said: " We have no record of any UFO being seen at that time." He added that the MOD looked carefully at all reports but there had never been anything to suggest alien spacecraft "What a lot of pilots mistake for a UFO is the planet venus," he said "look at it through binoculars and it does appear to be glowing red and green." UFO investigator Dave Clarke said: "It follows a pattern over the last few years of what people have seen in the area. The problem is, it is on the flightpath to Manchester airport which is always busy."

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Also in Glossop Chronicle....

Bright Lights And Flying Saucers... As Seen On TV

Mysterious lights and UFOs reported in Longendale and Glossopdale for more than 30 years.

Glossop mountain rescue team often called out to lights. Hanging lights seen over Longendale reservoirs.

Last spring John Gwynne saw "blue V-shaped light" travelling at terrific speed above Dinting Vale.

Laverne Marshall of Quarry Close, was with family on Woodhead Pass when brightly coloured balls of light suddenly appeared in the car and danced around.

In July school friends Matthew Greaves and David Pervival from Whitfield saw a flying sauces trailing light over Mouselow Castle.

Number of UFO sightings so great that London Weekend TV filmed people in Longendale who had seen strange lights in sky. Programme "Strange but true" goes out on November 1st..

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