FLINTSHIRE MAYOR SEES UFO AND CUMBRIA POLICE INVESTIGATE PENRITH UFO - UK
Cumbria police investigate UFO sighting over Penrith
Cumbria police have investigated an alleged UFO sighting over Penrith late last month, a spokesman confirmed today.
As a call-handler at the force’s HQ in Penrith listened intently, a man on the end of the phone explained that he wanted to report something strange he’d seen in the night sky north west of Penrith.
What he’d initially dismissed as a shooting star turned out to be something entirely different, he said.
The man then described seeing an oval object, traveling in a straight line northwards, at around the height of a small aircraft.
Bright white at the front, it had an orange mid-section, with its rear leaving what looked like a trail of sparks.
Cumbria police confirmed today that officers spent an hour investigating the sighting on the night of September 22, speaking to experts at RAF Culdrose in Cornwall, and scientists at Edinburgh’s Seismic Research Center.
Neither could throw any light on the sighting.
The incident has come at the end of a three-month period which has seen at least a dozen mysterious UFO sightings in the skies over Cumbria, says one enthusiast.
After failing to find any explanation for the latest report – described by police as a yellow light-ball – officers told the caller it must have been a natural phenomenon. But the caller was clearly not convinced, and posted his account of the encounter on an international UFO website.
He described how he first spotted it at 9.45pm as he was about to lock his front door and go upstairs to bed.
The man said: “When I looked out of the hall window, I noticed what a calm, clear night it was and how the stars seemed to be really bright – brighter than I have ever seen them before.
“Then I noticed a bright light heading towards my house. At first, I thought it was a shooting star. Then as it got closer I could make out details that dismissed it as a shooting star. It flew at the height of a small aircraft and was bright, really bright white at the front with orange in the middle.
“What really grabbed me were the sparks coming from the back, nothing like a meteor. It was way too slow for that and the speed was constant and the angle the same. It was not heading towards the ground as a comet would, but steady in its path.”
The man asked police to check for seismic readings over Scotland in case the object later hit the ground. He said police initially suggested it may have been part of a military exercise.
Cumbria Police confirmed the sighting, their investigations of it, and the conclusion of officers that it had been a natural phenomenon, but the force declined to comment further.
Sharon Larkin, of North West Cumbria UFO Investigations, said: “There has been a rise in sightings in Cumbria in the last three months: about a dozen of them – some over the Solway, some over Cockermouth, and others above the Lake District.
“They’ve included bright white lights moving slowly across the sky. We’ve investigated and they’re all unidentified at present.”
Source: News and Star - UK
Flintshire mayor calls for witnesses after seeing 'pipe-like' UFO
Flint mayor, Terry Renshaw, is asking
if anybody else saw a flying ‘pipe-like’
object in the sky above Flintshire
Flint's town mayor is seeking witnesses after spotting a mysterious 'pipe-like' object in the sky.
Flint mayor Terry Renshaw was making lunch at his home in Bagillt at about 1.30pm on Saturday, when he noticed a strange pipe-like object flying through the air.
"I thought at first that it was a plane trailing a big streamer behind it, but then I realized it was something else," he said.
"It looked like a big, flexible aluminum pipe and it was traveling very fast, with no sound.
"I took a picture of it on my camera and carried on watching it for a bit and then it disappeared, behind what I thought was a cloud, but there were no clouds.
"I then looked at the picture on my camera but there was nothing there – just a clear blue sky."
However, the sighting is not the first unusual object to be spotted in Flintshire's skies in recent months.
During the Christmas and new year period, dozens of residents reported seeing a series of strange orange lights traveling quickly across the sky.
So far, no-one has been able to offer a concrete explanation as to exactly what these objects were.
Following this latest sighting, Cllr Renshaw is looking for anyone in the area who may have noticed something similar.
He said: "I have contacted the UFO Society to see if it has received any similar reports, but I have not heard anything from them yet.
"I would be really interested to know if anyone in Flintshire spotted the same thing."
Did you see the object in the sky?
Source: The Evening Leader
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