'East Lancs is a UFO sightings hotspot' (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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'East Lancs is a UFO sightings hotspot'
1:10pm Tuesday 28th August 2012 in News
By Jessica Cree, Education reporter
Chinese lanterns often cause false alarms
EAST Lancashire has been described as a ‘hotspot for UFO sightings’ after a number of reports to police were made.
Five sightings were reported to Lancashire Police over two years, it can be revealed.
But enthusiasts said sightings were much more regular, with some parts of the region acting as a ‘window area’ for flying objects.
It was revealed that police and fire crews attended when ‘aliens were seen in the sky’ coming out of trees in Church.
The emergency services believed a caravan may have been on fire, but found no evidence of a blaze.
And in Blackburn, there was a report of ‘two lights following each other in the sky, moving slowly and drifting’.
These sightings were logged by police and it was suggested that the UFOs may have been Chinese lanterns.
In Barnoldswick, there was a report of three red lights hovering in the sky before flying off in three directions at very high speeds.
In Padiham, a caller reported seeing bright lights, which she believed to be a UFO, and in Burnley, there was a report of five flying saucers in the sky. Both callers were known to police and understood to have mental health problems.
All of the sightings were logged in 2009-10 and released via a freedom of information request.
Sam Wright, chairman of Probe International, based in Blackpool, said people should be more open-minded about life on other planets.
Mr Wright, 64, said: “Most sightings are aeroplanes and things like that, but there are some where there is no explanation.
“I don’t know where they come from, but they are obviously a highly intelligent civilisation, they are far more advanced than we are.
“This is happening all the time, UFOs are real, that is all I can say.
“If they were bad, they could have destroyed Earth many, many years ago. We don’t have anything to worry about and I am looking forward to one coming down and saying hello to me.”
Watch manager Steve Johnson, from Lancashire Fire and Rescue, said measures were in place to make sure emergency services’ time was not wasted with hoax calls.
He said: “People ring our control room if they think there is an incident happening and the challenge this sort of thing to ensure it is a genuine call.
“We attend if control sees fit.”
East Lancashire UFO reports
- May 16, 2009: In Padiham, a caller believed she had seen a UFO when she kept seeing bright lights.
- Dec 31, 2009: A report of five flying saucers in the sky in Burnley was logged with police.
- May 21, 2010: Three red lights hovering above the ground in Barnoldswick were investigated as UFOs. The lights were reported to have sped off in different directions.
- July 24, 2010: Reports of two lights following each other in the sky. Moving slowly and drifting. Could be Chinese lanterns.
- Dec 26, 2010: Aliens were reported to have been seen in the sky coming out of woods in Church. Police and the fire service attended but it is believed the lights were from a Chinese lantern.
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Comments (35)
1:25pm Tue 28 Aug 12
accy lad and proud says...
1:28pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Troy McCLur says...
1:37pm Tue 28 Aug 12
jimpy0 says...
2:14pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Keith Myath says...
3:38pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Redbike says...
"Aliens have been seen in the sky coming out of woods in Church"
4:13pm Tue 28 Aug 12
California Blue says...
4:22pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Izanears says...
5:31pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Darren1951 says...
5:37pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Chris P Bacon says...
5:48pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
5:59pm Tue 28 Aug 12
shytalk says...
What me and a few others saw when working nights at a Clitheroe conservatory manufacurer were not chinese lanterns,shooting stars, car headlights, or aircraft. Military project who knows, but i don't really care.
6:12pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
Next you'll be shaving your legs and sucking fluids out of a bag on yer back as it makes you go faster.
Okay Crispy pork rind, tell me, as you keep saying that shaving your legs isn't to go faster, why do male cyclists shave their legs then? please take into account that I have asked around and found that, mountain bikers don't do it. So why do you shave your legs then?
Please enlighten the uneducated. And try not to waffle on, coz I know the answer and i'm just checking if you know why you do it.
6:25pm Tue 28 Aug 12
johnley says...
6:28pm Tue 28 Aug 12
rover69 says...
7:03pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Chris P Bacon says...
7:04pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
I saw one a long time ago. There were a few of us. December 1978 loads of snow, at least a foot and a half deep, it was dark. We went on the moors to make a slide and it came out of nowhere. It was quite big. Thought it was a helicopter at first until it got real close and we realised It made no noise at all and it was round. You could feel an electrostatic charge in the air, three green lights on the bottom, with a very dull red one in the middle that looked more like a UV or infra red lamp that was like beating very slowly, fading to almost black and then back to a very dull red over about 30 seconds a cycle. It came to within 200 meters of us Certainly put the creeps up me and my mates. Must have set a new land speed record over snow to get back to town Next day went to the police station to report it. Got the mickey taken out of us. They were doing the smash alien advert while we were trying to explain. Low and behold last year the telegraph runs a story about the same object seen between december 1978 and february 1979 that even the police had reported to their superiors as it was buzzing ROF.
Weren't taking the p1ss then were they when they chased it in their patrol cars. I kept the newspaper as it was on the front page, and the police artist impression was exactly the same as the one we took to the police.
Telegraph published it last year as the info was released. I've kept it in my drawer.
My theory sounds a bit outlandish I know but I think it holds water.
Between September 1978 and Febrauary 1979 we were at the height of the cold war. There were more nuclear device detonations on this planet than at any other time in the planets history. The russians did three in december and the americans did 2, just in december alone, there were more the following months. The snowfall in that time period was considered heavy in this area of the uk. Anyway I think whatever this object was it was taking samples of the fir trees in that area. They are very susceptible to minute amounts of radiation picked up from the atmosphere and I beleive whoever or whatever it was, it was taking samples.
I could waffle on about why I think so because there was more to this story but I aint saying nothing okay.
Anyway check the records, you'll find It all took place.
Anyway, I'm not arsed what anyone else thinks, I saw it and they didn't. i was there, and there were others too.
7:05pm Tue 28 Aug 12
rgray222 says...
http://www.educating
humanity.com/2012/07
/Mass-UFO-Sightings-
Top-15.html
7:08pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
7:14pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
C'mon Crispy jump in, why do or why did you shave your legs?
7:18pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Stuart Farquar says...
7:24pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
7:32pm Tue 28 Aug 12
johnley says...
7:38pm Tue 28 Aug 12
johnley says...
7:40pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
7:51pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Stuart Farquar says...
7:55pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
8:04pm Tue 28 Aug 12
johnley says...
8:35pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
8:48pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
o.uk/blog/290/cyclin
g/cyclist-shave/
Is the best I could come up with :)
9:02pm Tue 28 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
I've got a tip for anyone wanting to take up cycling. Buy the lycra uniform, the helmet, the rubber underpants, the undershoes and the shoes with clips. Shave your legs. Put all the gear on, then take a photo of yourself just stood there without the bike. And you can say, yes, that is what I look like to others. A mincer
9:14pm Tue 28 Aug 12
real betis hotpot says...
I believe in Unidentified Flying Objects up to a point - the point were they are identified when they become identified flying objects like Planes and Chinese Lanterns and stuff... Anything that isn't identified remains an unidentified flying object no matter what it really is, so long as nobody knows what it really is then it remains unidentified, so yes UFOs do exist through the literal use of the word unidentified.
11:07pm Tue 28 Aug 12
Stuart Farquar says...
2:56am Wed 29 Aug 12
Gennoe1 says...
8:09am Wed 29 Aug 12
Chris P Bacon says...
A thread with a title like this one becomes an obvious beacon for the mentally befuddled to congregate. And just like the crop-circle obsessives, as Mark Twain famously said; it's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled. Even when the facts are presented to explain away these 'UFOs' there are people who refuse to believe the facts and will only believe their warped interpretations of what they've seen. Or imagined.
3:31pm Wed 29 Aug 12
RUinsane says...