The A614 UFO Sighting – Just One Of Many UFO Encounters From A Small Yorkshire Town
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Marcus Lowth
- March 2, 2023
- 11 min read
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- UFOs, Sightings
The town of Thorne near Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the United Kingdom is perhaps not the first place one might think of when the subject of UFOs is brought up. However, given that the location is relatively local to me when a brief story appeared on the website of the local newspaper, I decided to investigate further.
After speaking to the witness and using social media in an attempt to locate other witnesses, I was contacted by several people who, while not witnessing the recent sighting of these strange aerial vehicles, had various information on other sightings over the town from past years, some of which stretch back to the 1960s.
While these sightings, understandably given how long ago they occurred and that they...
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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I had a similar sighting in the mid 80s when I was around 12 or 13. It was in Intake Doncaster. The “flattened” cylindrical shaped craft hovered but moved slowly at approximately walking pace and about 3 times the height of the local council houses. I knew it was coming from the direction of RAF Finningley, across the race course and towards me in the line of Evelyn Avenue. I also was well aware of the airforce vehicles, having interest in aviation from my uncle serving in the RAF. This craft was nothing like anything the RAF had and didn’t behave like anything they had. I had plenty of time to see this craft as it wasn’t moving fast and it wasn’t at high altitude. It did have a similar description to the others mentioned in this article, except it didn’t appear cylindrical like a cigars. It was more like a flattened cylinder and the sides were not uniformly straight, there were “features” that were not distinguishable along its sides and undercarriage. There were some small lights of white, red and blue but they were not bright and did not dominate the eye when first sighting this craft. This craft did not shoot around in different directions at break neck speed, it just moved at the same walking pace and did not alter course or altitude. The strangest aspect of all (and this has some similarities to the lady Karen’s account), was that as this craft passed over the top of me, I was more bewildered than scared. Also time seemed to stand still for a while. I had time to look around for other people who may be witnessing what I was. This craft was making an incredible whooshing droning sound as it passed over me. So much so that I could feel the ground vibrate and the cast iron window frames in the old council houses next to me were vibrating. I looked around expecting people to come out to see what all the noise was. There was no one around, even though I was in the middle of Intake council estate at around 8pm on a late summer evening. I don’t recall this craft making noise before it reached me or after it had passed me, only whilst it was directly above me. As it passed over me and continued its course along Evelyn avenue, I turned and watched it in disbelief as it slowly went beyond the rooftops in the distance towards the hospital. Which is roughly in the direction of Thorne, mentioned in the earlier accounts. I was desperately looking for others that had seen what I had seen, there were no cars no people around. The moment this craft had gone out of my sight, I turned around to continue my walk on to Shaftesbury Avenue and cars were driving by and then I saw people on the other side of the playing fields. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming! It was very strange, I also don’t recall telling the story to my cousin who’s house I was going to on Shaftesbury avenue. I do remember later telling that story to family and friends, but at the time it felt like time stood still and was very surreal. I still don’t know what to make of that event but I just wanted to share the story as I have never written it down before. It has some similarities with the other accounts, it’s all very interesting. I’m not that convinced of aliens and ETs as there is never really any solid hard evidence, just eye witness accounts like mine. I definitely saw that craft but no aliens or the like! I feel it’s more likely that humans have developed high technologies. Hopefully one day we’ll find out!
I grew up in Moorends, which is 1 mile from Thorne. Throughout my childhood I was abducted from my bedroom at night every couple of months.
I wrote a book about it in 2019. This article is very gratifying.
Thank you