Cumbria is UFO hotspot claim investigators
Last updated at 13:47, Tuesday, 10 February 2009
UFO hunters have claimed Cumbria is becoming a hotspot of extraterrestrial activity.
Ufologists across the region have reported what they believe is an unprecedented rise in the number of unexplained events in the night sky.
Strange shapes and lights have been reported in several areas including locations near to sensitive military sites and nuclear power stations.
The most recent sighting were reports of orange lights above the Irish Sea off the coast of Ravenglass, a few miles from the Sellafield nuclear plant.
Whitehaven-based UFO investigator Sharon Larkin, 37, said she was aware of a recent increase in activity and claims Cumbria, especially the Lake District, is becoming a UFO hotspot.
She said: “There has been a lot of activity lately. Some theories suggest the large amount of water in the lakes is useful to craft which may need it for propulsion systems. Another theory is that they are monitoring our use of nuclear power.”
According to UFO investigator Pat Regan from West Lancashire the Ravenglass lights are unlikely to have been maritime flares.
He said: “The report was submitted by a man who has extensive knowledge of the area and is familiar with flares. He reported that what he saw were definitely not flares and that the lights moved without making any noise.”
In Carlisle, however, UFO sightings in the city over the festive period were thought to be nothing more than hot air – carrying glow lanterns up into the night sky.
Numerous sightings of bright lights floating above the city were reported to the News & Star over Christmas and New Year. But alien enthusiasts were left disappointed after it emerged that Kerry Higgins, of The Garlands, Carlisle, released glow lanterns into the sky on Christmas Day.
First published at 11:27, Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk
it was the 11th of june at 12:30am i was on my way to bed when i noticed out of the corner of my eye about 8 to 10 strange orange lights zig zagging across the pennines i was about to get my camera and film them when all of a sudden they whent in a perfect straight line and went straight up of the pennines and dissapeared into the night sky.
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Their have been unusual flights over disington and frizington over the last two years for about two month each year,every tuesday at 8.30 a flight came past at night half an hour later it came back, this became quite obvious so much so that when we went outside some of the neighbours were also outside waiting, it came and we saw a military jet shortly followed by a triangle shaped aircraft that made a strange noise, a few weeks later i was driving through asby and looked to my right i could see it coming towards us, i pulled over got out of the car to my partners shock and it flew right over us,it was definetly a triangle shape and i got a very weird feeling. To cut the story short a few months later BAE systems anounced to the world TANARIS, an un manned aircraft, makes you wonder if it was a trial or something,we wern't drinking and i don't like cider,an open mind is better than ignorrant bliss i think.
Posted by James O on 6 May 2011 at 08:14