Was this Notts UFO an alien spacecraft?
COULD sketches of a mysterious object which appeared in the sky over Notts be of an alien spaceship?
They are among a number drawn by people who have reported UFO sightings to the Ministry of Defence.
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WEIRD: A sketch of the UFO drawn shortly after the sighting near Newark. Right: An artist's impression of how it might have looked.
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WHAT IS IT? Another drawing of the sighting on the A46 heading for Newark.
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information: The page from the file showing the two sketches and a location map. Left: The location in more detail.
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The MoD has today released previously top secret files to the National Archives, where they are now available to the public.
Witnesses saw the star-like object appear over the A46 between Farndon and Newark on June 15, 1994. It initially appeared as a single light, but then changed in shape to show four white lights.
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Dr Dave Clarke, an expert in UFO history and consultant to the National Archives for the ongoing release of the MoD's UFO files, said of the Newark sighting: "The most likely explanations are the usual things. It could have been an aircraft coming in to land or a bright star or planet.
"There were quite a few incidents in the 1990s where pubs, clubs and rock concerts were using searchlights and shining them on the clouds and people saw them and thought there was something flying around in the sky. The most unlikely thing it would be is an alien spacecraft in my opinion.
"When people check things out, 99% of the time it turns out to be something ordinary."
This fifth online UFO release is the largest to date, containing 24 files and totalling more 6,000 pages of material, spanning from 1994 to 2000.
The release also highlights how shapes of reported UFOs have changed over the last half-century.
Many reports in the latest file release describe them as big, black and triangular in shape with lights along the edges, while the predominant form in the 1940s and 1950s was saucer or disc-shaped.
Dr Clarke said: "In the 1950s the next big leap in technology was thought to be a round craft that took off vertically and it's intriguing to note that this is the same period when people began to report seeing 'flying saucers' in the sky. In the period the latest file release covers, triangular-shaped US stealth bombers and Aurora spy planes featured heavily on TV and films and the shape of reported UFOs corresponds.
More recent UFOs in Nottinghamshire seem to have appeared as clusters of bright lights.
Four bright lights were spotted over Keyworth on May 31, 2009.
On May 19 2009, residents of Broxtowe Estate and Nuthall said they saw a line of lights over the skies of Nottingham. In August 2008, the Evening Post was inundated with calls from people who saw lights floating across the sky in Carlton but they were later said to be Chinese lanterns.
The files are available to download for free for a month from the website www.nationalarchives.gov .uk/ufos
Caroline.lowbridge@nottinghamevening post.co.uk
Comments
by Sutmpy, The Hollows
Friday, February 19 2010, 9:20AM
“Badger, FW and Sensible are undeniable proof that life has visited us from another planet!
Nothing else but living on another planet could account for their often completely fallacious takes on life on Earth.”
by The serious half of my brain, just spoke
Thursday, February 18 2010, 9:29PM
“On a more serious note, governments have been working on spying technology for decades. Anything odd shaped in the sky that cannot be identified as an "everyday" object, is more than likely going to be either our government testing its own technology, or the technology from another country being used to spy on us.
I'd believe that, before I believe any nonsense about aliens.
When the stealth bomber was first being flown, I'll stand a good bet people thought that was a UFO (and to all intents and purposes, it was.....unidentified, and flying, therefore a UFO). Now that thing was developed DECADES ago and was way ahead of its time even then.
....so what do you suppose governments are capable of now? Do you seriously think they stopped developing things like that altogether? Why stop there? Has human technology EVER stood still for even a minute?
Like I say, its all stuff that governments have been working on for decades. It does'nt help that there are idiots out there who scream "Aliens!!!" at every first opportunity as that only adds to the disinformation.
Stealth bomber, born in the 1970's.......since then a good 4 decades have passed - what do you think governments are capable of doing in that time?
The mind boggles, it really does.”
by Frying or Flying?, Its all the same to me
Thursday, February 18 2010, 9:17PM
“The BBC are reporting "Flying Toblerones" in scotland. (this is no joke by the way, go and check).
Now, this could be one of two things....
a) Given the scottish attitudes towards frying anything that dares to lie in eyesight of anyone wearing a kilt, and given the BBC's terrible record of spell checking, could it actually be that the Scots have now begun FRYING toblerones?
or b) Chocolate manufacturers have secretly been working behind the scenes in order to cut down on export costs by installing their chocolate bars with the latest anti gravity technology so that we can all enjoy the chocolatey goodness.
It's one or the other. YOU decide.”
by As our learned friend, would usually say
Thursday, February 18 2010, 8:19PM
“The aliens are here!!!!
Deport Them!”
by Pete, notts
Thursday, February 18 2010, 7:48PM
“intergalactic asylum seekers , that's all we need.”
by Stumpy, The Hollows
Thursday, February 18 2010, 7:00PM
“FW, Sensible and Badger had to get here somehow.
They obviously come from another planet!!!!!”
by mong, ming
Thursday, February 18 2010, 6:11PM
“dot-tor spock may have a few words or better still send the pictures to tony hart”
by S, Notts
Thursday, February 18 2010, 6:08PM
“I doubt it”
by The truth IS out there, so start sketching, art fans!
Thursday, February 18 2010, 5:31PM
“As if anyone's going to believe a sketch! Tell you what, I'll sketch a really good drawing of an alien, send it in, and tell you I saw it last night at 10pm out my living room window.
Would you believe me?
How about if I send in a sketch of Che Guevara and I tell you its the guy I saw walking past my window last week?
Believe that? (some of you nutters probably would).
Anyone can sketch anything and say they really saw it. That is not proof, its just proof that someone can sketch, That people are sketching things and expecting other people to believe it is beyond belief.”
by Don't mention my name, In hiding
Thursday, February 18 2010, 5:16PM
“Mossad?”