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
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On Saturday the 16th of May at about ten we were out for a walk in Grange and we saw seven cross the sky. There was three together in a group followed by the other four. They were orange glowing lights that all went at the same speed. They made no noise and were like nothing we have ever seen before.
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hi there it was on the 16th of october about 7.45pm at winter hill rivington when i saw 6 strange orange glowing balls of lights in the sky. i was parked up in my van at rivington lancashire overlooking southport the ribble estury and blackpool the sun had just set and all the street lights had come on i could quit clearley see southport road coming out of preston and could see lytham st anns plus blackpool ie i had binoculers sawell thee sky over b .pool and s.port was clear but in land the sky was low black cloud as i was looking inbetween southport and blackpool on the horison i saw a large ball of light shoot up from the sea very fast then it slowed down and started to move inland over warton over leyland and towards chorley under the black cloud by the time it reached me where i was it had gone into the cloud and had stopped moving at the time i thought it could be a plane but it had stopped moving then i looked back as to where it came from and i saw i further five of these things the second one that i saw was again travelling towards chorley the third one cought up to the second one and so on then they were all in one spot for maybe 5 minutes then went out of my sight behind the cloud these wher NOT chinese lanterns as there wasnt any wind that evening not even a breez so there is no way that they could catch each other up or travell under the cloud for that length of distance then all join up and then disapeer .i started my van and drove towards brinscall still overlooking blackpool and when you are at brinscall you can also see fleetwood and barrowinfurness and thats when i saw more of these strange lights doing the same formation isaw 3 comming from fleetwood and a further 4 at barrow please could someone else let me know if they saw this someone must have.
Posted by paul jones on 27 October 2009 at 17:46