LETTER: Did you spot a UFO in 1983?

FOR many years I have been haunted with thoughts of the happenings of an afternoon in the early 1980s, possibly January 1983.

I was living in Padiham at the time and, with another man, was walking down Levant Street, a steep hill leading off Hapton Road, with good views of the area from Pendle Hill to Burnley. On this day we saw a UFO – not just a glimmer but a full five-minutes view of a craft as big as a small bus travelling about 200ft. up and parting from the Pendle Hill area towards Burnley, going over the centre of Padiham.

The craft itself looked like something from a Jules Verne film. A big, rusty, cigar shape with flames and billowing black smoke coming from its tail area. It was a sunny day and about a dozen boys on the hill stopped playing to watch it. It was moving about 50 m.p.h. At that time there were no camera phones to take pictures as this would have been the best shot ever taken of a UFO.

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This event has haunted me for years and I reported it to Padiham police at the time. What I could not understand was how could this thing exist in the modern world? So I wondered if any of your readers remember this event and could shed more light on it.

MR DAVID BRIGGS

1 Porthia Cottage, Rose-an-Grouse, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 6JL

Tel: 01736 753966