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   SUBJECT: UFO INFO Service Reports                            FILE: UFO1126   
      
   PART 43   
      
    Report #: 17   
        From: UFO INFO SERVICE            
   Date Sent: 12-10-1986   
    Location: BARNSLEY, ENGLAND           
      
   CASE TYPE:  CE II      
        DATE:  22 AUGUST 1986       
        TIME:  2250 HOURS      
        CFN#:  17    
    DURATION:  UNKNOWN    
   WITNESSES:  ONE   
      SOURCE:  CHRONICLE, BARNSLEY, YORKS, ENGLAND   
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   A BARNSLEY man is recovering after a close encounter with a flying   
   saucer!    
      
   Mr. Joh Brook fled in fright after the UFO turned a blinding white   
   fluorescent type beam on him.  Mr. Brook, of Berby Street, Barnsley,   
   felt a tingling sensation throughout his body for the few seconds   
   he was transfixed by the light coming from beneath the oval shaped,   
   60 feet wide object.   
      
   He has spoken for the first time this week about the experience which   
   left him ashen-faced.  The UFO was hovering at a height of about 50   
   feet in the night sky somewhere in the direction of the Co-op Dairy   
   in Summer Lane.  The object had flashing red and purple lights on   
   its side.   
      
   Mr. Brook, an unemployed technical illustrator, said the close encounter   
   took place at about 10:50 p.m. on a recent Friday.   
      
   He told the Chronicle: "I was on my way home from the pub when I saw   
   the object in the sky.  From where I was standing, it looked as though   
   it was spinning on it axis.  Suddenly, this bright white light with   
   a fluorescent tint shone down on me. I had to close my eyes, it was   
   so bright.   
      
   "I felt this tingling sensation all over and through my body and the   
   hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.   
      
   "I just turned and ran as fast as I could towards home.  I know that   
   people will suggest that either I was drunk or just another nutter   
   but I had only drunk about three pints that night because I am unemployed   
   and that was all I could afford."   
      
   When Mr. Brook got home, he and his wife Josephine watched the UFO   
   from their garden before it disappeared. Mrs. Brook said: "When John   
   got home he was out of breath and his face was as white as a sheet.   
   I have known him for about six years and I have never seen him so   
   frightened."   
      
   This was the third time that Mr. Brook has had an encounter with a   
   UFO.  His first sighting was in the early 1970s and the second, which   
   took place last year while he was with his neighbour, Mr. Richard   
   Shirt, was reported to the Royal Air Force.   
      
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    Report #: 18   
        From: UFO INFO SERVICE            
   Date Sent: 12-18-1986   
    Location: BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND         
      
   CASE TYPE:  LRS   
        DATE:  09 OCTOBER 1986      
        TIME:  UNKNOWN    
        CFN#:  18    
    DURATION:  UNKNOWN    
   WITNESSES:  FOUR       
      SOURCE:  SANDWELL MAIL, WEST MIDLANDS, ENGLAND   
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   Reports of an unidentified flying object hovering over a Birmingham   
   hospital are being investigated by UFO experts.   
      
   The 400ft long by 60 ft wide cigar shaped object was spotted by staff   
   at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield during a night shift.   
      
   Three nurses and a doctor who were taking a tea break all saw the   
   silent object hovering about 800ft up.   
      
   The matter has been reported to UFO-Studies Investigations, an amateur   
   organization funded by British Aerospace, and the sightings are being   
   investigated.    
      
   Mr. John Hurley, of the Midland branch of the organization said:   
   "Ninety-five per cent of all sightings can be explained away after   
   investigation as an aircraft an airship, balloon, helicopter or even   
   a bright star, but not in this case."   
      
   He added: "Birmingham airport said they spotted something on the radar."    
      
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    Report #: 19   
        From: UFO INFO SERVICE            
   Date Sent: 12-18-1986   
    Location: FOREST ROW, ENGLAND         
      
   CASE TYPE:  LRS - NL   
        DATE:  07 SEPTEMBER 1986    
        TIME:  UNKNOWN    
        CFN#:  19    
    DURATION:  10: MINUTES     
   WITNESSES:  THREE      
      SOURCE:  NEWS IN FOCUS,E.GRINSTEAD, ENGLAND   
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   A Forest Row woman still can not believe her eyes after sighting what   
   she can only describe as a UFO.   
      
   Last Thursday evening just after midnight Mrs. Penny Crowder was leaving   
   Ursula and Tom Scratchly's house in Post Horn Lane, Forest Row.  Before   
   getting into her car Mrs.  Crowder looked up at the clear night sky   
   and saw a glowing orange ball with a pale orange aura surrounding   
   it move across the sky from west over the Royal Ashdown golf course.   
      
   Thinking she might be imagining things she called out to her friend   
   Penny and they walked up the lane to get a better view.  The two women   
   were so astounded that they asked Penny's husband Tom to confirm what   
   they were seeing.   
      
   "It was a fiery colour and looked as though it was lit up in some   
   way." said Mrs. Crowder. "We were just incredulous, you couldn't relate   
   it to anything because you had never seen anything like it," she said.   
      
   The three stood watching the UFO for about ten minutes as it progressed   
   noiselessly to the east and out of sight.    
      
   Looking for a rational explana-tion for what they had witnessed, they   
   telephoned flight control at Gatwick.  Gatwick said nothing had showed   
   up on radar but asked them to file a detailed description and a diagram.   
      
   They considered all the other possibilities, a hot air balloon, a satellite,   
   but none of these fitted the description of what they had seen.  They   
   sat and talked until three in the morning about the strange fiery object.   
      
   "It gave you an eery feeling as it came straight towards you" said Mrs.   
   Crowder, who has never before spent time puzzling over the arguments   
   for and against the existence of UFOs.  "When you started thinking   
   about it you got a bit frightened," she said,"I had the spooks all   
   a the way home."   
      
   Mrs. Crowder is not the first to be "spooked" by ball-shaped objects   
   flying over the Ashdown Forest. In the late 1970s a spate of sightings   
   over the forest exactly match the description of what Mrs. Crowder   
   and the Scratchlys saw last Thursday evening.   
      
   In April 1978 local police launched a search of the area after a Nutley   
   woman saw what she called a "ball of fire" hurtle past her window.   
   She then saw bits break off the object and fall directly on to the   
   Forest.  At least six people in the Forest witnessed it, and on that   
   night firemen were called to put out fires in two areas of the forest.   
      
   News in Focus would be interested to hear from anyone else who saw   
   the Thursday night fireball.   
      
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