More Fenland (UK) UFO Sightings

If I'm being completely honest, I'm now more than a little sceptical of the Fenland Citizens UFO Reports. In 2007 they had three articles on UFOs, all of which were in January and were about the (explained) lights that were reported on Christmas Eve. I mentioned this in the first paragraph of the original post I made about the recent Fenland UFOs, you can view it here. This month (February 2008) has seen four UFO articles published in less than three weeks and really there's very little information about the original UFO sighting in the subsequent articles with the content focusing on being older sightings of its readers. In my opinion their latest article (20 th February 2008) is a little telling when they state that:

“Readers have been in sending in their experiences and
thousands have checked out articles on the Citizen website.”

But irrespective of this most recent statement I thought their intentions may not be entirely, “Honourable” when their third UFO article in three weeks appeared, but as I've covered the others I decided to add this latest one.

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More UFO sightings in Fenland, UK
(20 February 2008)

STORIES in the Citizen about strange lights and possible UFO sightings have prompted a flood of responses. Readers have been in sending in their experiences and thousands have checked out articles on the Citizen website. One of the latest readers to give details of his experience is Graham Chapman, of Walpole Highway , Mr Chapman said it was in his home village he saw the strange lights - the first time on Saturday, February 9:

"From the ground all you could see was a pulsating light. It was so high up that it looked no bigger than a star…..When I looked at the light with my binoculars, I could see a red and blue flashing light and a constant light which, even with the binoculars, still looked like a star…..The object in the sky from 5.30pm to 12am was in different positions. Each time I saw it but I never saw it move…..On Sunday, February 10, there were three objects all the same as the one the previous night…..They disappeared one-by-one over the course of the night…..The last sighting was on Wednesday but with the fog the last few days it has been impossible to see if they have been there since.”

Mr Chapman said the last reported UFO sightings were in 2001 over Wisbech St Mary, Christchurch , Chatteris and Queens Road in Wisbech.

"How many more sightings have there been that were not reported and is there a logical explanation? Who knows?"

Andy Cordery and his wife, of Wisbech, saw the same sight as Alison Hunt from our original story, on the same evening (January 30).

"I had just turned on to the 16 Foot Bank road when I noticed an orange light in the sky which seemed bright, with a slight haze about it. The light went from one light and appeared to split into three, but closer together…..It didn't gradually disappear. It just vanished."

Reg Wenn has spotted many strange lights in the skies around his Acre Fen, Chatteris, home for over 15 years. One sighting he has seen so many times he calls it 'Old Mate'.

It has alternating orange, green and red lights at the bottom and bright lights above, like a cluster of stars…..It just appears, as if someone had switched a big set of lights on, and we never see it fly away…..On odd occasions we do see really thin red streaks in the sky when it has gone."

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Our previous posts on the Fenland Citizens UFO articles are here.

Source: Fenland Citizen

Cambridgeshire, UK - UFO Reports Increasing

This is a follow up to a Blog Post made on the 11 th February 2008, “UFO Reported - Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (Fenland Citizen)”.

Fenland Citizen – 14 th February 2008

REPORTS of strange lights in the skies over Wisbech have sparked interest from across Fenland and from much further away as well. In fact one woman from Barnstaple, North Devon , contacted the Citizen after spotting the stories of the recent Wisbech UFO sightings.

She was interested in the story where Alison Hunt, of Cherry Road, Wisbech, reported seeing a very bright glowing orange light the size of a 'full moon' over her garden on January 30. The woman, who didn't want to be named, said her daughter and her husband actually saw two of these objects, which she described as "huge, massive, orange orbs very bright. Both were the size of a full moon."

She had spotted them as she was driving her car in Barnstaple with her husband in the passenger seat. It was between 5pm and 6pm on a clear evening.

"My daughter told me that it absolutely frightened her…..They looked as though they had just appeared out of the atmosphere and just hovered there silently…..They then disappeared into a dot.”

The woman herself claims to have had a sighting of two blue/silver orbs back in early August 2007 just above her Barnstaple home and she managed to photograph one of them. She also claims they have been experiencing electrical disturbances here a few times recently, where the lights flicker. And she claims to have actually seen an object over her home after the lights in the house started flickering and her computer turned off. "I felt rather spooked by the experience to tell you the truth.”

Source: Fenland Citizen

UFO Reported - Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (Fenland CItizen)

You may be able to remember that Wisbech hit the news on Christmas eve of 2006 when it was claimed a UFO was spotted, after much speculation the UFO was identified as a laser light display on the roof of Jacks nightclub (on Nene Parade) which was reflected on low cloud cover. Obviously this didn't satisfy the witnesses but to be honest it rarely does, anyway another UFO has been spotted in the area and was recently reported by The Fenland Citizen.

Did You See UFO?

The Fenland Citizen (01 February 2008)

STRANGE lights and saucer-shapes were spotted in Wisbech's skies on Wednesday. Alison Hunt, of Cherry Road , noticed an orange glow above her while in her back garden at 9.20pm. She said:

"At first I thought it was just a reflection from the street lights, but then I looked up. It was quite big, about the size of a full moon, and was extremely bright."

Mrs Hunt, who tried to film the sighting but could not find her video recorder, then ran to get her partner. Out of the spare bedroom window, the sightings were 'even stranger', white lights appearing to move off the side of the orange glow. The sighting, which created no noise, has left Mrs Hunt questioning what it was she saw:

"It did not look like a helicopter or anything like that, as it was saucer shaped and then the whole sighting just disappeared…..It did not even move away, it just vanished. If anyone in the area has seen anything like this I would love to know - it really was so strange ."

Fenland District

Shown within Cambridgeshire

Flood of calls over UFO

The Fenland Citizen (08 February 2008)

STRANGE lights and saucer-shapes spotted in the skies over Fenland have prompted dozens of calls to the Citizen's news-desk this week.

Last week we reported how Alison Hunt, of Cherry Road , Wisbech, had noticed an orange glow above her while she was in her garden at 9.20pm on Wednesday, January 30. Mrs Hunt was left mystified by the glowing light, which she described as being about the size of a full moon. After her story appeared many readers contacted the Citizen to say they have also seen strange lights.

One reader said she saw something at 8.15am that day falling from the sky. The reader, who lives in Leverington, said the object was in the Sutton Road direction but was too far away to see clearly.

"I had the door open in my house and I looked up in the sky and it was like something falling from the sky. It was very quick - too quick for an aeroplane. "

Among the first to ring in was Colin Coulson, who believes the answer to the mystery lies not in a far-flung galaxy but much closer to home. He thinks what everyone saw was a hot air balloon. He spotted the strange light as he was travelling home from Peterborough along the A47. Mr Coulson said he followed the light and realised it was probably a hot air balloon. He explained the strange glow would be created by the burner used to heat up the air.

"The burner would be turned on and light up to heat the air and then it would be turned off - that would explain how the light suddenly disappeared.”

Martin Brown, from Walpole St Andrew, spotted the lights and said they were “ Definitely an awesome sight - definitely unusual. ” But he believed the lights could have been from a jet fighter as they appeared to be over the Wash area. He described seeing bright flashes of light and wondered if they had been caused by a pilot ejecting from his aircraft.

Wisbech taxi driver Glenn Rowett said he was travelling back from Wisbech St Mary when he saw the strange lights that left as quickly as they came. He later spoke to a colleague who said he had pulled over by the side of the road to try to hear anything., but he couldn't hear anything, so the pair ruled out a plane or a helicopter.

Another woman, from March, who didn't want to be named, spotted the lights slightly earlier in the evening at around 7.30pm as she travelled home from Whittlesey via the Turves Road . At first she thought they might be lights from the March GER football ground, but she realised they were too high for that. She said there was initially just one light, then a second appeared and she thought it could be a plane turning. Then a third white light appeared and she realised it was something else, but she didn't know what.

Wisbech St Mary man Richard Young was also bemused about what he saw and his daughter thought he was seeing things, too:

"I thought it was a helicopter, but then I thought no it's not that because the lights split into three. Then it shot off like a shooting star."

Amy Parish and her partner Andrew Hill thought they were seeing things when they spotted an orangey light as they drove home from Peterborough at around 9.15pm.

"I was looking out of the car window and spotted three lights very close together. They were too close together to be an aeroplane…..Then there was an orangey light and then it just disappeared - I looked at my partner and said did you see that…..We both knew it wasn't a plane, and we hadn't seen anything like it and we came to the conclusion it had to be a UFO - it was out of this world."

Source: The Fenland Citizen