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Farmer's discovery could answer Wrexham's UFO sightings



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Published Date: 25 September 2008
A FARMER from Flintshire thinks he may have solved Wrexham's UFO mystery after three 'hot-air balloons' landed in his grounds.
Will Fisher, of Bistre Farm in Padeswood, near Buckley, said one of the three balloons, or sky laterns, had been on fire – possibly explaining the strange sightings above the region's skies.

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He said: "I found the first one over the weekend and I've found the other two since. They are all exactly the same and have a wick burning in them.

"I had read about the sightings in the paper and thought they may be of some relevance.

"These things dropped from the sky and all landed within 200m of each other, which I thought was strange. There could well be more of them out there."

The Evening Leader has been inundated with calls from readers since sightings of three strange glowing lights were first reported in Monday's paper.

One Wrexham resident claimed to have seen a 'flying saucer' in the sky over North East Wales.

The UFOs were spotted by a number of people across Wrexham – in Rhos, Johnstown and Borras – and were even caught on camera, the film of which is available to view on the Evening Leader website.

One resident, Gareth Hill, believes the strange lights were nothing more than lanterns.

He said: "I too saw these lights over Johnstown on a couple of occasions within the last week or so, but did not see anything unusual.

They looked to me to fit the descriptions of the floating lanterns perfectly.

"The two I saw simply floated towards the north, flicking as a flame will tend to do, and eventually disappeared from view. There was nothing odd about their motion.

"As for 'forming a triangle', a set of three points of light in the sky, all floating in the same direction, provided they are not in a straight line will form a triangle!

"The lanterns are all released at the same time, so are subjected to the same wind, and hence will float in the same direction, so of course they will appear to float 'in formation'."

To see what sky lanterns look like take a look at this YouTube video.
This is an external link to a video that is not associated in any way to the Evening Leader.

Do you think farmer Will Fisher's discovery explains the number of UFO sightings across North Wales?

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>> Read our original Wrexham UFO story by CLICKING HERE


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Carol Bellfield,

Wxm 25/09/2008 12:58:13
I've just watched the U Tude video as suggested by the Leader and I must say, I find the idea of three lasnterns coming down all on the same farm in Flintshire as mind bogglingly and statistically impossible. You'd have more chance of winning the Euro Lottery outright.

Those lanterns would even if released together, be soon separated by hundreds if not thousands of feet both vertically and horizontally, travel at different speeds and thus never come down in the same area. It would be difficult for two to do this, let alone more.

One only has to observe a standard balloon release. Within seconds, they are widely separated and they all come down, but never together. If a mile two apart that would be close.

My first impression now, is that they've been deliberately planted there by the Authorities to defuse the interest in the sightings.

Three in one area of land - impossible.
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Carol Bellfield,

WXM 25/09/2008 18:29:30
The Evening Leader should now put in an article asking for anyone who might have released the lanterns to come forward, and to prove that it was they who released them.

They would not get into trouble for this and it would help clear up the mystery - or not!
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Carol Bellfield,

WXM 25/09/2008 18:37:53
Oh, I've just thought on too.

Many Leader readers who've commented elsewhere describe these UFOs (lights), as appearing regularly over a period of about a week. That in itself shows that the lanterns could not be responsible. It could not even be argued that an unknown person was releasing these nightly, simply because the wind just would not blow in the same direction and at the same speed every day. That's not possible either.

Yes, I still think these have been planted to diffuse interest in the sightings.
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willyeckislike,

not the rhos 25/09/2008 19:07:32
i am totally baffled and bemused by this whole saga of events.

why would a UFO even dream of going to the rhos as there is no living forms of life to be found there.
what 'government organisation' would cover up this UFO sighting by planting three lanterns in a farmers field.

maybe,its all about deflecting the publics attention from something else that has/will happen.

i think wrexham has more to worry about than lights and lanterns!!!
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SimonUK,

Preston, UK 25/09/2008 19:35:24
Ho hum. People see things they insist are extremely bizarre and then something very ordinary turns up to put people's minds at rest. It seems there's nothing new under the sun and the cover-up continues. Hats off, I suppose, to the guys who are STILL managing to keep people in the dark! Perhaps they're some of the same people who take all the money whilst the rest of us struggle on?
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Evening Reader,

25/09/2008 22:01:36
Even if they were 'Sky lanterns' the chances of 3 of them landing together would be truly remarkable? Hanging in the air over Rhos and then travelling all the way to Buckley?.
I couldn't travel that distance in my car in that time! So, someone's suggesting that these lanterns blow all the way from Rhos to Buckley in the wind and land all together in a field?
These lanterns only work at the best for 20 minutes.
See this website for details.
http://www.skylanterns.co.uk/

Why doesn't someone try out an experiment and see if they can form the triangle witnessed by many people?
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Carol Bellfield,

WXM 28/09/2008 17:40:23
May I advise Evening Reader and others, that I understand the UFO community is having almost every sighting reported to it, now blamed on these lanterns. They are a perfect excuse to cover up anything in the night sky be it human or alien in origin.

Various UFO groups with the support of aerodynamic experts have conducted numerous experiments with these lanterns and that is why it is well known that some sightings can with accuracy be stated to be mis identified lanterns and some most definitely are not.

The lad who runs the Conwy UFO Group I've mentioned before borrowed a saying from a cosmologist with whom he's friendly and he says "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".

I also know, that the same UFO buff has a blanket DA Notice against him. That means, no newspaper, radio show, television channel etc will contact him about any UFO sightings, or publish or broadcast anything he has to say about them.

A DA Notice is a Defence Advisory Notice issued by the DAN Secretary. That department is one of the few within the MoD exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

Persons may recall the recent Channel 5 series on UK UFO cases. He was filmed for two days on location and showed documents proving conspiracy between the British Geological Survey, North Wales Police, The MoD and the Civil Aviation Authority to cover up the Berwyn Mountain UFO event. Channel 5 removed every scrap of his evidence from the programme and let the filming company Firefly Productions to take the flack.

That is fact, whether one believes in UFO/cover up conspiracy theories or not.

It is all on the Conwy UFO Group website.
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Evening Reader,

28/09/2008 23:23:31
May I advise Carol Bellfield to actually read what I have posted?

"Even if they were 'Sky lanterns' the chances of 3 of them landing together would be truly remarkable? Hanging in the air over Rhos and then travelling all the way to Buckley?.
I couldn't travel that distance in my car in that time! So, someone's suggesting that these lanterns blow all the way from Rhos to Buckley in the wind and land all together in a field?"



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Carol Bellfield,

WXM 29/09/2008 10:33:48
Steady on boy.

I responded in rference to your last paragraph re: experimenting to see if lanterns can group to form triangles.

You are perfectly correct about the three lanterns in the farmer's field. As you say, "Truly remarkable".

I bet the local press won't follow up that story.
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Jones the Expat...,

BC Canada 11/10/2008 22:51:34
"I also know, that the same UFO buff has a blanket DA Notice against him."
This is meaningless as evidence, since the first thing one can read at the D Notice website says "The DA Notice system is a voluntary code that provides guidance to the British media on the publication or broadcasting of national security information."
Voluntary... Hardly something to be used as a means to stamp down on someone who has information about some alleged cover up...

In any case, ask yourself a couple of questions, and be honest - what better way for the military to garner huge increases in budgetary support from the government than by publicizing that which you say they're covering up? A lot of UFO buffs say there would be public panic / outcry if the "truth" were known - what better way to justify the existence of an enormous military could there be? And it would be with the full support of the public too.

And if you're going to invoke statistics to support this, what do you think, statistically speaking, would be the chance of these lights being a vehicle from another world, crewed by entities from said world - compared to the lights having a much more mundane, earthbound origin, whether that be lanterns or whatever? (You post with such authority, that I assume you are a statistician / expert of some kind?)

Have you ever wondered why, despite the fact that here we are, in 2008, with the enormous selection of advanced digital cameras and camcorders available to us, and all the "believers" out there, watching the skies, all the photographic and video evidence looks no better than it did 30, 40 years ago? not one person has come up with something more conclusive. Not. One.

Think about that...
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