By Philip Mantle
Special thanks go to Jan Patience, the editor
of the newsstand publication BEYOND. The following was
a ‘letter to the editor’ of BEYOND but as the magazine
does not have a letters section Jan kindly asked me if I could
respond to it. I have contributed several articles to BEYOND
on the UFO subject and don’t live too far away from where
the sighting took place.
I have withheld
the real names of the witnesses to this sighting but do have
them on file. Mr Christopher Stevenson (pseudonym) wrote to the
editor of BEYOND on October 9th 2007. He stated:
Dear
Editor,
I
have spoken over the phone to one of your male colleagues
informing him of the problems that my wife and I have encountered
in trying to get in touch with a UFO investigator to report
a UFO sighting (7th Sep 2007).
We
did report the ufo sighting the next day via the internet
to BUFORA, the British UFO Research Association, who simply
said ‘thank you for reporting your sighting and sending
the photo via email’, but I haven’t heard anything
since. We have not met with an investigator to date. It
is as if no one is particularly interested in UFOs anymore.
I
had tried to contact some addresses from the internet for
the old UFO investigators agencies that are still on the
internet, but to my dismay they had all closed down or
were doing other things like investigating ‘big cats’ etc.
I
really have given up trying to give our report of the UFO
sighting with photograph to an investigator, and have decided
to go public on this through your magazine, on the basis
that you please respect our privacy by not publishing our
names or address.
I
don’t know whether you pay for UFO stories or photographs,
but I would really would appreciate a complimentary copy
of the magazine when/if you publish our report. Please
find our report and photographs enclosed with this letter
and please reply soon.
Thank
you. Yours Sincerely C. Stevenson.
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UFO over Mexborough.
This is our personnal
witness statement from the start to finish of what my wife and
I observed on the evening of Friday 7th September
2007.
It was shortly
before 230 hours, my wife and I had been out walking our dog
and we were heading on our way back home. When we got close to
the end of our road (road name deleted to protect witness identity)
near the bus stop my wife pointed out to be a very bright luminous
piecing light in the sky to the south of us giving the appearance
that it was shooting sprays of light out from it. There were
no clouds that evening and no moon in the sky.
The light remained
stationary for a while roughly two miles away above the fields
and to the right of a local farm, which stands on a wooded hilltop
overlooking the village of Old Denaby. We crossed over the road
just as this light began to move north toward Mexborogh on a
flight path that would take it over the rear of our house.
We went into the
house and I got my digital camera out of the display unit. I
then immediately went outside the back kitchen door into the
garden where I stood on the gardens bench seat for a better vantage
point to view and to capture this light on camera as it passed
overhead. Unfortunately the glow went out but I still managed
to get a single photograph of the underside of a strange circular
object passing overhead.
The object was
a greenish-orange colour with a number of small lights on its
outer rim. My dog was barking frantically and running up and
down the back yard setting off our security light obscuring my
view. When the security light went out again the object had gone.
The time was now exactly 2300 hours by my wristwatch. However,
it is interesting to note that shortly after the object had gone
overhead, a large heavy sounding aircraft followed in that same
direction, north toward Adwick upon Dearne. The plane was undercover
of darkness with only its flight lights on, but no cabin or passenger
windows lit or visible.
The details of
my digital camera are: Samsung with SHD lens zoom 7.4,22. – 2mm
(Digimax S800).
The object bears
a remarkable similarity to a reported sighting by the Chinese
Air Force pilots over north China military frontier in June 1982
(enclosed clipping from Chinese UFO journal showing picture of
this sighting).
I will stop here
as I wish to add that my wife and I do not wish to publicise
our names with this story because we really do value our privacy
and we would like to remain anonymous for private and personal
reasons please (can we do this ?).
Please do keep
us informed, yours,
Mrs & Mrs
Stevenson (real name and address on file).
Mr. Stevenson
has supplied three photographs all of which are shown here for
your attention. They are ‘interesting’ but like
a lot of such photographs they lack any real detail. It is therefore
almost impossible to reach any definitive conclusion concerning
the sighting in question.
Photograph taken by Mr. Stevenson.
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Enlargement of UFO photographed on 7th September 2007.
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Further
enlargement of object.
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Sketch
of UFO sent by witness.
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There is no reason
to doubt the sincerity of the witnesses and it is a great shame
that a once fine UFO research and investigation organisation
such as BUFORA are unable to respond. I was at one time the Director
of Investigations for BUFORA and it saddens me to hear this.
It would seem
to me by reading between the lines that the witnesses are looking
for feedback on this sighting. If you have any comments or have
seen something similar yourself then I will gladly pass it on
to the witnesses direct. You can contact me via the magazines
editorial address or via email at: philip@mantle8353.fsworld.co.uk
Special thanks
to Jan Patience the editor of BEYOND magazine for forwarding
this letter on to me.
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