HI GROUP, I WAS SENT THIS TODAY.
ARE ALIENS WATCHING US?
09:30 - 05 January 2006
Spooked residents claim to have seen alien spaceships hovering over
Lincolnshire.
Two groups of people, who have all denied being under the influence of
alcohol or drugs, said they saw the UFOs on December 30 and 31.
They both claim that glowing objects hovered over them for a few
seconds and then silently disappeared.
No official radar records exist for the dates in question as RAF
Waddington's air traffic control centre was closed.
And the police say that they have received no reports of other
sightings.
But Beth Clarkson (58), of Dene Close, Skellingthorpe, is convinced
that she saw a UFO. She was at a caravan convention at the Memorial
Hall in Wellingore when it happened.
"It was about 5pm on Saturday. I was fetching some water for the van
with another man when he just gasped and pointed to the sky. There was
this orange cone shaped object burning in the sky. It hovered for a
while and then headed off towards Waddington. There was no sound, it
was really eerie."
Mum Sandy Gregory of St Peter's Avenue, Boultham, Lincoln, had a
similar experience the next day.
"My family and neighbours were stood out front at about midday and the
strangest thing flew past at about tree height. It was like a plate
with a flame on it and it was going at about 20mph," she said. "Then it
flew over Boultham Park and went towards the city. We don't know what
it was - and no we weren't drunk."
In May last year the Echo used the Freedom of Information Act to access
information on UFO sightings across the county.
Documents revealed that six unidentified flying objects had been
reported in Lincolnshire's skies over the past five years.
Flight Lieutenant Roger Steel, who works in air traffic control at RAF
Waddington, said: "We only started operating the radar again yesterday
and it was out of action from December 21 for Christmas so we have no
records to check whether we picked anything up or not. "There are a
number of possible conventional explanations.
"Obviously it could be aircraft. Since the opening of the new Robin
Hood airport there's been a lot more activity. And there is also the
possibility of the Humberside Police helicopter. This uses a powerful
search light that creates a column of light. And the sound of the
helicopter can often be blown away if there is a stiff breeze."
Lincolnshire Police spokesman Tony Diggins said the force had received
no UFO sighting reports over the festive season. "And to our knowledge
the Humberside chopper was not out."
In the know
Under the Freedom of Information Act the Echo received details of all
official UFO sightings reported to the military over the past five
years.
The records show six sightings involving seven objects reported to
personnel in the county.
All of the sightings were made by residents or motorists who claimed to
have seen unexplained objects.
But no reports explaining the sightings or showing the results of
further investigations into their authenticity have been released.
The sightings include reports of objects shaped like triangles,
torpedoes or even cylinders. Others were recorded as "glowing" and
"lights" in the night sky.
The objects were reported to hover in the air, move silently, race
across the sky and even spin. One "speeding light" was said to have
"turned 180 degrees back on itself instantaneously".
Another was reported to have hovered in the air before it "shot off
creating a blue and white light some 30ft long".
In November 2001 a resident of Gonerby, Grantham, reported that his
house had started to shake and had experienced a power cut when a
"glowing object" appeared over it.
MoD records report the caller seeing what "looked like a missile"
moving very fast.
"Caller believes it could not have been an aircraft as it did not have
wings," read the report.
At the time the RAF reported no flights in the area.
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