Monday, 13 June 2016

My UFO Sighting - 13th June, 1996


It was twenty years ago to the day that I saw a UFO. It was on June 13th, 1996, at around quarter to three just round the corner from my home in Warrington, England. I know these specific details because when I returned home I made a note of them. The note you see pictured is the actual account I wrote down at the time.
         The skies were a sparkling blue that day and as I walked to the local shop, glancing up at tranquil heavens (as I’m prone to do), I noticed something that made me do a double take and stop dead in my tracks. There was a perfectly round object over to my left in the sky flying away from me. I hate to opt for the cliché name but it was a flying saucer because that’s exactly what it was! It wasn’t a shiny metallic object, as so often depicted in the movies, it was dark and contained no apparent lights of any kind, flashing or otherwise. I wrote down the color brown in my description and added that it was “marked.” I can’t specifically recall how it was marked. The crude image I drew doesn’t really help in my recollection. I wish I’d had a camera on me. That really would have helped.


         Unfortunately back in 1996 I wasn’t in possession of a handy mobile phone with a camera on it. I had cameras back at the house but in the time it would have taken me to run back and find one I would have missed the whole spectacle and, as I remember, I was pretty transfixed by it, mesmerized even. I think I watched it for somewhere between two to three minutes approximately until it had fully flown out of sight.
         The UFO wasn’t flying at any sort of speed I’d consider unusual; it was flying at the same speed as an airplane. In fact there was an airplane in the sky at the same time, over to the left of the disc. The fact that I could clearly make out the shape of an airplane leads me to the conclusion I wasn’t witnessing some kind of atmospheric distortion. I was looking up into that clear and vast blue oasis and I was staring at something I couldn’t quite believe was there. What the hell was it? I can’t really speculate a rational explanation. This was a large flying disc up at the same height as an airplane, unlike anything I’d ever observed up there before. It was as real as the houses around me, as real as the cars parked on the street next to me. It truly was a bizarre thing to witness.
         I realize that there are plenty of people who don’t believe in this sort of stuff but there are so many confirmed and valid sightings when you start to look into it, things that are difficult to debunk. Without doubt there are unexplained objects flying around out there and I can say this with some authority having witnessed a mysterious object myself. I’m not saying I know what they are, seeing a daylight disc myself doesn’t really help shed any light on what is behind the phenomenon. It could be something terrestrial, something natural or… who knows?
         So, do I believe little green men were at the helm of the craft I saw? Well, that’s the big question isn’t it? If you’re prone to skepticism you’re probably hoping I’ll go full-out kooky and say of course there were aliens onboard, they beamed me up onto their ship and shoved a probe up my ass later that evening. Truthfully I don’t know. I would go as far as speculating that it’s plausible UFOs are unmanned (well, unaliened) crafts just like the ones we send out into the cosmos ourselves to gather data and observe and photograph the universe.

In 1995 there were 117 reported sightings of UFOs in Britain, in 1996 that figure shot up to 609. I’ve only just found out that fact but it’s pretty interesting. It does appear to be an incredibly heightened year for UFO sightings in the UK and perhaps that’s why I was lucky enough to see one that year. I still have no idea what it was that I saw and all I can firmly say is that I had never seen anything like it before and twenty years later, sadly, I have never seen anything like it since. I’ve seen other strange things in the sky, things I could offer explanations for, but nothing as unambiguous as that big ol’ chunk of flying round metal that I saw on that warm day in June all those years ago.
         I do feel rather blessed to have seen a classic daylight disc UFO. It certainly made me see things differently, made me question things a little more, opened my mind up. I have no motivation to fabricate something like this, in fact over the years when I recount the story to people it is more often that not delivered to grinning faces and ensuing or interrupted words of ridicule and disbelief.
Whatever your opinion maybe one day you’ll be idly looking up at the sky and see something you can’t explain yourself, maybe you already have. One thing’s for sure, on the anniversary of my sighting I’ll definitely be looking. I’ll be sure to tell you if I see anything and I hope you’ll do the same for me.
Thanks for reading.


“Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!”


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