UFO alert sparked by strange lights in sky over York

9:10am Friday 1st February 2013 in News By Press reporter

DOZENS of people reported seeing a UFO in the sky over York with police investigating claims space debris crashed into the ground at New Earswick.

North Yorkshire Police said a member of the public contacted the force to report a hole in a grass verge in Hazel Close at 1am yesterday.

A spokeswoman said the caller thought the small crater was caused by space debris.

“An officer attended the scene and found a hole in a grass verge approximately 1ft deep,” she said.

“There was no debris inside the hole and we are not in a position to confirm how or when the hole was made. City of York Council will be made aware of the hole.”

Chief reporter Mike Laycock reported on The Press website yesterday that he had seen what appeared to be a UFO over York on Wednesday evening.

“I caught a fleeting glimpse of a bright blue-green light flashing through the sky very fast,” he said.

“It appeared to shoot towards the ground to the west of the city.”

Within minutes, readers began emailing and ringing to say they had witnessed the phenomenon.

John Charlesworth, of Rowntree Wharf, said he saw a bright blue light, low and heading north, north- west over the city at just after 9pm.

Chloe Jepps said she saw something which stopped her in her tracks at about 9pm, when she was walking home from the city centre to Layerthorpe.

“It was like a really bright, big, slow shooting star in the sky, but heading downwards towards the ground over to my left (the north of the city),” she said.

“I half expected there to be a noise when it disappeared out of sight but there was nothing.”

Dave Scott said he was travelling down Millfield Lane at 9pm when a bright white ball of light flew in front of his car, at about a few hundred metres in height, with smaller balls of light trailing it.

“I saw it for about one second and then it was gone,” he said.

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kimothy22 says...
12:15pm Thu 31 Jan 13

what has he been smoking?

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jadestars says...
12:20pm Thu 31 Jan 13

kimothy22 wrote:
what has he been smoking?
A UFO? Really? Brave man admitting to that on here ..

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Fat Harry says...
12:22pm Thu 31 Jan 13

good grief

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York Manor says...
12:22pm Thu 31 Jan 13

It was reported last night that this was space debris breaking up upon entry into the earths atmosphere, BBC look north i believe.

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jadestars says...
12:24pm Thu 31 Jan 13

jadestars wrote:
kimothy22 wrote:
what has he been smoking?
A UFO? Really? Brave man admitting to that on here ..
sorry didnt mean to quote you!!!

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capt spaulding says...
12:24pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Theres a hole in the verge and a council worker is looking into it. !!!

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pedalling paul says...
12:26pm Thu 31 Jan 13

ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......

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TerryYork says...
12:31pm Thu 31 Jan 13

York Manor wrote:
It was reported last night that this was space debris breaking up upon entry into the earths atmosphere, BBC look north i believe.
wouldn't of reached the ground though if so. all space debris burns up, so it would have had be huge for it to survive all the way down.

And the crater would be more than one foot deep!

Sounds like a joke story to me.

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the original Homer says...
12:37pm Thu 31 Jan 13

pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
No, ET is too busy playing the part of Gail in Coronation Street.

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redbluelion says...
12:57pm Thu 31 Jan 13

its a sign of larger things to come from the sky's..mark my words the end is nigh we are all doomed-doomed i say..stack up on your food everyone the aliens are coming to take over..and make us all slaves and lab rats..

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Madasanibbotson says...
1:03pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Quote from JA must be due soon, maybe

Both I and the Council staff have worked really hard to bring this space debris to York, It just goes to show what Labour can achieve.
We are now looking for a suitable trade fair (somewhere hot) to establish what we can buy to mark this wonderful occasion for the City of York

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yorkborn66 says...
1:15pm Thu 31 Jan 13

It’s an intergalactic conspiracy against Alexander, Potholes by vehicles, now by UFO’S. News travels Far it would seem! .

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imk says...
1:18pm Thu 31 Jan 13

i saw it too, was bright with a long streaky tail not sure what it was

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Whis1962 says...
1:28pm Thu 31 Jan 13

I was metal detecting yesterday down Hazel close, I must have forgot to fill one of me holes in.

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Minguel says...
1:32pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Does anything EVER happen in York? There was a hole in the floor. That's it. It's not news!!

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yorkborn66 says...
1:36pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Story from American paper: 15/09/2011
Thousands of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles were mystified yesterday when they saw a blue-green light flash through the sky.
Fireball? Meteor? UFO? Space junk?
None of those, says NASA, who declared that the flash probably was a “near-earth asteroid” no bigger than a basketball that streaked across the sky and then incinerated before hitting the ground.
Video can be found on YouTube.com, type: U-F-0 or M-3-T-3-0-R ??

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Keeet Lemon says...
1:38pm Thu 31 Jan 13

pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Well done! You have yet again managed to mention your beloved bikes in an article that has got nothing to do with them, the more you post the more you look a complete fool.

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ReginaldBiscuit says...
1:44pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Put a geiger counter over the hole. The ionisation reading will have the military and bio-hazard people swarming all over the place.

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yorkborn66 says...
1:58pm Thu 31 Jan 13

yorkborn66 wrote:
Story from American paper: 15/09/2011
Thousands of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles were mystified yesterday when they saw a blue-green light flash through the sky.
Fireball? Meteor? UFO? Space junk?
None of those, says NASA, who declared that the flash probably was a “near-earth asteroid” no bigger than a basketball that streaked across the sky and then incinerated before hitting the ground.
Video can be found on YouTube.com, type: U-F-0 or M-3-T-3-0-R ??
http://www.washingto
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YorkPatrol says...
2:02pm Thu 31 Jan 13

It was probably a flux capacitor

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Podlet says...
2:14pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Is our regional economy at the bottom? Or could that be another fiction made up by weirdos and fanatics?

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pedalling paul says...
2:19pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Keeet Lemon wrote:
pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Well done! You have yet again managed to mention your beloved bikes in an article that has got nothing to do with them, the more you post the more you look a complete fool.
Only one bite so far...tch...tch...tc
h!

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Geoffers says...
2:32pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Hmmm, saw what looked like a rocket firework coloured green falling to earth about 8:45 last night, near the lights at Wigginton junction.
Didn't see any little green men though.

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Keeet Lemon says...
2:33pm Thu 31 Jan 13

pedalling paul wrote:
Keeet Lemon wrote:
pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Well done! You have yet again managed to mention your beloved bikes in an article that has got nothing to do with them, the more you post the more you look a complete fool.
Only one bite so far...tch...tch...tc

h!
Thing is , you don't do it for a bite, you just use the term " bite" when somebody challenges your moronic comments.... Fool!

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Podlet says...
2:47pm Thu 31 Jan 13

pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Wasn't he the same guy who went home on his own in a massively overpowered multi-occupancy space ship leaving the planet clouded in exhaust fumes? Or did I just confuse his good looks with one of the commentators on this forum?

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yorkborn66 says...
3:22pm Thu 31 Jan 13

pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
You do correct me as and when, so here goes: The bike belonged to Elliot, and E.T sat in the front basket. He never owned one but if he did it would have a motor in, I assume.

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Kevin Turvey says...
3:25pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Geoffers says... 2:32pm Thu 31 Jan 13
Hmmm, saw what looked like a rocket firework coloured green falling to earth about 8:45 last night, near the lights at Wigginton junction.
Didn't see any little green men though.’

No, what I saw was an idiot with a deathwish in a dark coloured Audi going through a red traffic light towards Sutton at about 80 mph at the Sutton Rd/Wigginton village junction this morning at about 0715am.
He had obvious little regard for anybody else whose lights had just gone to green!

If the timing had been only very slightly different you would have seen the red blood from his smashed corpse all over the front of the tractor that he only just missed!

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BL2 says...
4:00pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Keeet Lemon wrote:
pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Well done! You have yet again managed to mention your beloved bikes in an article that has got nothing to do with them, the more you post the more you look a complete fool.
Maybe if everyone ignores his attention seeking he'll go away...

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Podlet says...
4:07pm Thu 31 Jan 13

BL2 wrote:
Keeet Lemon wrote:
pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Well done! You have yet again managed to mention your beloved bikes in an article that has got nothing to do with them, the more you post the more you look a complete fool.
Maybe if everyone ignores his attention seeking he'll go away...
Which one are you writing about?

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akuma says...
4:10pm Thu 31 Jan 13

pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Incorrect, it was not ET's bike.... and you are also assuming that ET was a male, and that species even has gender, not very politically correct of you, is it?

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R'Marcus says...
4:27pm Thu 31 Jan 13

the original Homer wrote:
pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
No, ET is too busy playing the part of Gail in Coronation Street.
I like it, Homer.
Peddling paul: just mend your punctured tyre.

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BigJon says...
4:29pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Judging by the number of holes in the roads throughout the whole of York that must've been a large debris cloud that fell.......or they could all be botch-job patched-up potholes......

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PeenJay1 says...
4:41pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Goodness Me,
It's nice when "The Kidliwinks" come out to play.
And it's funny to see the interaction between "Old" Mates/Rivals.
Keep it up,My TYKE Mates, As An Aussie, I could have added a "Bit" of our Humour in on this one, BUT I'm sure, the result would be , That I wouldn't be able to post tomorrow, if I tried (you know The PC Brigade" have an enormous amount of power.
But to each of "Thank You"..for your comments about a "8!00&7" hole in a verge......

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Priapus says...
5:30pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Cllr Alexander's ego returning to Earth. Or would that have made a bigger hole?

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Silver says...
5:52pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Aliens always return the idiots so they were obviously just giving us back JA

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stopatred says...
6:19pm Thu 31 Jan 13

is this story going to turn into the same one as the horsemeat in burgers saga?
i do hope so that thread was hilarious keep up the good work everyone!!

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bob the builder says...
6:32pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Just reinforce the stereotype about York - honestly, what next, the earth is flat?

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bob the builder says...
6:35pm Thu 31 Jan 13

... and the police can manage to attend a hole in grass but not untethered horses in the road - not doing themselves any favours. At least the council can claim potholes are caused by space debris as an excuse for doing nothing till they get more money from Whitehall or sue NASA, which is the sort of daft thing Labour will try. On the plus side they might extradite Alexander & co for being muppets.

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TheotherChucklebrother says...
7:45pm Thu 31 Jan 13

PeenJay1 wrote:
Goodness Me,
It's nice when "The Kidliwinks" come out to play.
And it's funny to see the interaction between "Old" Mates/Rivals.
Keep it up,My TYKE Mates, As An Aussie, I could have added a "Bit" of our Humour in on this one, BUT I'm sure, the result would be , That I wouldn't be able to post tomorrow, if I tried (you know The PC Brigade" have an enormous amount of power.
But to each of "Thank You"..for your comments about a "8!00&7" hole in a verge......
I...I think it is trying to make contact! If only there was some way to decipher what it is trying to say!?

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Trespar Zagenstuz says...
9:59pm Thu 31 Jan 13

A one-foot deep hole in the ground and an extra snippet of news from the Press's own Mike Laycock.
Doubtless this story will be syndicated world-wide....

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charvisioku says...
11:37pm Thu 31 Jan 13

the original Homer wrote:
pedalling paul wrote:
ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
No, ET is too busy playing the part of Gail in Coronation Street.
You, sir, have just made my day.

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Pete the Brickie says...
8:48am Fri 1 Feb 13

imk wrote:
i saw it too, was bright with a long streaky tail not sure what it was
A Tiger, wearing a high visibility vest possibly?

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Trespar Zagenstuz says...
12:29pm Fri 1 Feb 13

A 'mysterious' hole is reported in Haxby.....
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Police are looking into it........

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Trespar Zagenstuz says...
12:35pm Fri 1 Feb 13

I have a confession. The hole is mine; it fell out of the back of my van whilst I drove down Hazel Close.
I can prove it is mine as I have a one-foot high mound of topsoil that will fit it perfectly.
I can collect it any time, I presume, from the North Yorkshire Constabulary HQ lost-property department?

I will be auctioning the hole via eBay.......

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Capt. Dobie says...
12:51pm Fri 1 Feb 13

charvisioku wrote:
the original Homer wrote:
pedalling paul wrote: ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
No, ET is too busy playing the part of Gail in Coronation Street.
You, sir, have just made my day.
Now THAT is funny.

Oh no...I've just Google a pic of James Alexander...WHAt was I thinking?!?!?

Yuk.

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bob the builder says...
12:57pm Fri 1 Feb 13

The RAF have been night flying over York this week, and high winds have blown utility works barriers down, so that's both hole and ufo debunked.

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Trespar Zagenstuz says...
1:11pm Fri 1 Feb 13

bob the builder wrote:
The RAF have been night flying over York this week, and high winds have blown utility works barriers down, so that's both hole and ufo debunked.
Cripes, old chap, you managed to lay blame onto some organisation apart from the Labour Party.
You are slipping, I feel....

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Podlet says...
1:28pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Capt. Dobie wrote:
charvisioku wrote:
the original Homer wrote:
pedalling paul wrote: ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
No, ET is too busy playing the part of Gail in Coronation Street.
You, sir, have just made my day.
Now THAT is funny.

Oh no...I've just Google a pic of James Alexander...WHAt was I thinking?!?!?

Yuk.
Easy mistake - you should have Googled UFO hole and instead you put in A hole.

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connorgurney says...
9:05pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Podlet wrote:
Capt. Dobie wrote:
charvisioku wrote:
the original Homer wrote:
pedalling paul wrote: ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
No, ET is too busy playing the part of Gail in Coronation Street.
You, sir, have just made my day.
Now THAT is funny.

Oh no...I've just Google a pic of James Alexander...WHAt was I thinking?!?!?

Yuk.
Easy mistake - you should have Googled UFO hole and instead you put in A hole.
Wow! Scary.

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CAB says...
10:22pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Keeet Lemon wrote:
pedalling paul wrote: ET must have returned on his bike, to promote sustainable transport.......
Well done! You have yet again managed to mention your beloved bikes in an article that has got nothing to do with them, the more you post the more you look a complete fool.
How true!

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