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
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(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
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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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Australian UFO Groups?
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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."
[U7]******
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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