On the Evening of September 18th 1998 at 8:15 p.m, a man noticed a large white light in the sky. "It shone like a very bright star" he said. Outdoors at his home in Sunderland Tyne & Wear. "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, 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. Then 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."
