September 18, 1998, at 8:15 p.m. On a Evening out a man
noticed a large white light in the sky. It shone like a very bright star,
but I knew it could not be. Outdoors at his home in Sunderland, I saw that
"it was a cloudy night, and all the other stars were blocked out by the
cloud layer. While I watched the UFO, there was another smaller light
directly underneath it, and, as I got closer, I realized it was a
helicopter. The helicopter suddenly turned and flew in a northerly
direction." "Around two minutes after the first, another helicopter went
past in the same direction., and, five minutes after that, another one did
the same.
This is unusual. I have only ever seen one helicopter in the Sunderland area
at one time, and they could not have been police helicopters because they
did not have searchlights scouring the ground." Thirty minutes later, he
added, "the light continued to move upwards out of the atmosphere, but it
was going extremely slowly, around a degree every ten minutes. A plane flew
toward it around 9 p.m., but it was not like any plane I have ever seen. It
flew directly underneath the light, which was still moving. It went past and
did not circle the light." "I continued to watch it until 10 p.m. and then
saw a smaller light detach itself from the large light. It hovered for a few
seconds, before shooting off into space." The UFO was spotted again the next
night, Saturday, September 19, 1998.
