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Is this a UFO in the sky over Rossendale?
lancashiretelegraph ^ | 17th February 2010 | Nazia Parveen

Posted on 02/17/2010 9:24:41 AM PST by JoeProBono

A SILVER saucer appears to be hovering in the sky above a sleepy East Lancashire village in this quick snap taken on a mobile phone.

Aron Sacks was looking out of his bedroom window in the village of Stacksteads when he saw something strange floating in the sky.

The 34-year-old grabbed his mobile phone and snapped the mysterious object before it disappeared into the murky grey seconds later.

He claims that it hovered in the sky for a few seconds before silently zooming off at high speed.

The carpenter, who works for JJ Ormerods Limited in the village, said: “I’ve never seen anything like this before it was amazing. I was just looking out of the window to see what the weather was like and I spotted it in the distance. I grabbed my phone and took a quick picture and then when I looked again it had gone – it was quite spooky.”

Sightings of UFOs run in the family, with Aron’s father Mike, claiming to have seen numerous unidentified objects hovering in the skies over their home.

The 69-year-old, said: “I saw UFOs a couple of times during 1978 and 1979.

“The first one was at about 2am in the morning when we were woken up by the brilliance of some lights in the night sky.

“When I looked out there was an object 600ft up. It was a carousel shape and it was travelling at about 80mph towards Lee Mill Quarry. There were six people who saw it that night and its not really that surprising as this is UFO valley.”

Mr Sacks made his way to the quarry along with two police officers, but after looking for several hours they failed to find anything. Four months later, in February 1979, Mr Sacks said he saw a ‘pulsing’ object out of his bedroom window.

And then in May 1979, as he watched the sky with a friend, he said a craft appeared in the sky just feet away from them.

Mr Sacks said: “It was absolutely amazing. There were lights shining from it and there were huge big jet black triangle things beneath it.”

In 2008, Mike, was interviewed on Five’s Britain’s Close Encounters about the three sightings in Rossendale between late 1978 and mid 1979.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: jpb; ufo
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1 posted on 02/17/2010 9:24:41 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Yes it is.


2 posted on 02/17/2010 9:26:19 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: JoeProBono

It’s the upper dish from the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701).


3 posted on 02/17/2010 9:26:32 AM PST by NCC-1701 (ZEROs FAVORITE SONG -- I, ME, MINE -- BY THE BEATLES)
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To: JoeProBono

Is it flying? Check.
Does it look like an object? Check.
Has it been identified? No.

Then I would say, indeed, that this is a UFO.


4 posted on 02/17/2010 9:26:35 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: JoeProBono

I’d say yep!


5 posted on 02/17/2010 9:27:54 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: JoeProBono

Baloon Boy Two!


6 posted on 02/17/2010 9:29:07 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (O)
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To: JoeProBono

Swamp gas


7 posted on 02/17/2010 9:29:47 AM PST by JenB987 (under God's Spirit she flourishes)
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To: JoeProBono

Where is Chilly Billy with The Chiller Theater theme music?


8 posted on 02/17/2010 9:30:08 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m pretty sure that’s where Obama’s birth certificate and college transcripts are kept! :)


9 posted on 02/17/2010 9:30:44 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: JoeProBono

Calling Scully and Mulder... :-)


10 posted on 02/17/2010 9:30:55 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: JoeProBono

Wow, if I were flying a spaceship I’d got to Rossendale! Often! /s


11 posted on 02/17/2010 9:31:31 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: gathersnomoss

Chilly Billy Cardilly! Now I know you’re from PA without even checking.


12 posted on 02/17/2010 9:32:22 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: NCC-1701
It’s the upper dish from the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701).

Caught in mid-uncloaking stage no-less!

13 posted on 02/17/2010 9:33:13 AM PST by OB1kNOb (Help support a sustainable America for tomorrow. Go green by recycling Congress.)
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To: gathersnomoss; JoeProBono
Where is Chilly Billy with The Chiller Theater theme music?

I actually have that track on my iPod.

Used to LOVE Chiller Theater.

14 posted on 02/17/2010 9:34:09 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: JoeProBono

There it is...I wondered where my weather balloon went...


15 posted on 02/17/2010 9:34:13 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: NCC-1701

Looks like they separated the saucer section!


16 posted on 02/17/2010 9:35:50 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: stuartcr

Are you sure it’s flying? Are you sure it’s an object?


17 posted on 02/17/2010 9:36:57 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ReneeLynn
Wow, if I were flying a spaceship I’d got to Rossendale! Often!


18 posted on 02/17/2010 9:37:52 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Yep.


19 posted on 02/17/2010 9:38:05 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife (11/02/10)
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To: Star Traveler

20 posted on 02/17/2010 9:40:28 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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