Scarborough Evening News
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2 November 1995
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RAF shot down for 'UFO' explanation. Witnesses scorn jets theory
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Military chiefs say that suspected UFOs reported in the Scarborough and
Whitby area were believed to be jet planes on manoeuvres.
Dozens of people contacted the Evening News after spotting mysterious lights in the night sky.
But a spokesman at RAF Staxton Wold says that there were a lot of
military aircraft in the air on Tuesday 10 October - the night when
many people thought they saw something from the unknown.
The spokesman said that the lights could have been from jet fighters refuelling in mid-air.
However, Andrew Crimliss, 33, of Colescliffe Road, Scarborough witnessed the lights and says the explanation does not add up.
He said: "If they were planes refuelling then they must have been travelling sideways to do it.
"It was a perfect night to see what I and my daughter saw.
"After seeing the lights we saw three civilian aircraft and a military
plane but we saw their lights clearly whereas the objects around the
lights could not be made out."
Mr Crimliss added "Whatever the lights were, they did not make any noise.
"Plus, I have seen a video of planes refuelling in mid-air and the
lights that Tuesday were not in the same configuration The lights were
flying low at the same level for a long time and heading from land out
to sea. I think the explanation is rubbish."
Mr Crimliss saw the lights above Scalby but others saw them above
Sleights, near Whitby, Ravenscar, Burniston and, several days later
over Malton and Norton.
The spokesman for RAF Staxton Wold said he confirmed the air activity
that night with an RAF radar station in Norfolk which said that
American F15 fighters were on exercise in the area.
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