Did you see mystery plane over Burnley?

A 'MYSTERY' plane was seen flying low over Burnley last night.

The grey-coloured aircraft was seen flying at low altitude above Cliviger and Worsthorne between 9pm and 10pm.

Residents in Rossendale also reported the aircraft over Crawshawbooth.

Checks with radar controllers at Manchester Airport have drawn a blank and there was no air traffic from either Blackpool Airport or BAE Samlesbury at the time.

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Comments(21)

tombo1984 says...
1:08pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Probably a foreign aid company dropping supplies to the poor.

CLARETMINTY says...
1:28pm Wed 15 Aug 12

i saw this plane it looked like a military one possibly a hercules flying over townley park it was very low

nil bye mouth says...
1:41pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Probably another hair brained stunt from T`rovers fans, who can forget the revenge mission after we draped jack walker in a burnley shirt and they wrote graffiti and stuck a cone by a turf moor turnstile,clueless classless ,brainless T`rovers fans.

sweeneybrfc says...
1:43pm Wed 15 Aug 12

We was at Darwen Tower last night & it came right past us and over Darwen. We just presumed it was a glider... It had a bright white flashing light.

DtheP47 says...
1:54pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Probably sent over by NASA looking for signs of intelligent life !

Angry Bob says...
2:58pm Wed 15 Aug 12

One if these Hurcules type transporter planes flew extremely low over Trawden a couple of years ago. the RAF practice extremely low level flying now and again from a base in Scotland all the way to Oxfordshire.

They dont bother telling anybody first they just scare the sh1t out of folk who thinks it's going to land on their houses.

johnley says...
3:37pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Well well, you have seen it at last. The beginning of the ufo invasion of earth. Its predicted that in 2012, the true date is 21st, 12th 2012 that the world is waking up to a shock, some say the world will end, others say the beginning of a new enlightenment of the world, why do you think all government have been bizzy gathering all the gold and other precious metals in the past few years. Look up what Baba Vanga as to say about the 44th president of usa, then make your comment. I will be back to answer any queries you might have. Remember, we are being watched

johnley says...
3:39pm Wed 15 Aug 12

i am also available for childrens partys,

JPB says...
4:08pm Wed 15 Aug 12

is this REALLY newsworthy? `did you see a plane?` : D

Malthus says...
4:45pm Wed 15 Aug 12

I wonder If it had anything to do with the two explosions on Monday night?

nmclean77 says...
4:49pm Wed 15 Aug 12

I recall hearing this pass over my house last night thinking that it was odd to be travelling so low. I went outside and looked up and it was directly over my house in Rossendale, no more than a few hundred meters high.

I logged on my plane tracker app, and the only plane shown in the area was heading over towards Todmorden and the Worsthorn area, looking as though it had come from the general direction of Darwen.

The ID this plane was showing was EI-EKF, and on Google, this shows as a Ryanair Boeing 737, which does seem a bit odd if it was not showing on any radars at airports.

johnley says...
5:17pm Wed 15 Aug 12

ghost plan, Wooowwww

vicn1956 says...
5:39pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Magic mushrooms?

Angry Bob says...
6:26pm Wed 15 Aug 12

nmclean77 wrote:
I recall hearing this pass over my house last night thinking that it was odd to be travelling so low. I went outside and looked up and it was directly over my house in Rossendale, no more than a few hundred meters high.

I logged on my plane tracker app, and the only plane shown in the area was heading over towards Todmorden and the Worsthorn area, looking as though it had come from the general direction of Darwen.

The ID this plane was showing was EI-EKF, and on Google, this shows as a Ryanair Boeing 737, which does seem a bit odd if it was not showing on any radars at airports.
You logged on to your plane tracker app ?
You need to get a dictionary and look up the words LAGER and WOMEN!

Angry Bob says...
7:23pm Wed 15 Aug 12

johnley wrote:
Well well, you have seen it at last. The beginning of the ufo invasion of earth. Its predicted that in 2012, the true date is 21st, 12th 2012 that the world is waking up to a shock, some say the world will end, others say the beginning of a new enlightenment of the world, why do you think all government have been bizzy gathering all the gold and other precious metals in the past few years. Look up what Baba Vanga as to say about the 44th president of usa, then make your comment. I will be back to answer any queries you might have. Remember, we are being watched
Baba Vanga is one crazy old boot!

I especially liked her prediction that by the year 3197 animals would be half human........I've got news for you Baba this is already happening in Nelson and Brierfield !

johnley says...
7:24pm Wed 15 Aug 12

i like trains myself, can i get a app

johnley says...
7:25pm Wed 15 Aug 12

ho sorry, i have one. its called a time table

Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
8:57pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Got to get that plane spotter app that;s the best geek toy ever lol

ToffeeGuy says...
12:28am Thu 16 Aug 12

Shebby Singh's private jet?

Plasticbertrand says...
8:16pm Thu 16 Aug 12

Agent Kean must have been picking up his wages from Turf Moor.

earwego says...
11:02pm Thu 16 Aug 12

nil bye mouth wrote:
Probably another hair brained stunt from T`rovers fans, who can forget the revenge mission after we draped jack walker in a burnley shirt and they wrote graffiti and stuck a cone by a turf moor turnstile,clueless classless ,brainless T`rovers fans.
And the turf moor dingles smashed up their own town, what a set of brainless wxnkers,guess your town will be ready this time and get the shutters up ready for a repeat performance,..watch out watch out, there's a dingle about.

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