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From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:35:48 +0100
Fwd Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 20:42:07 -0400
Subject: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?



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From: Martin Jeffrey <martin-j@lineone.net
To: Hauntedscotland@listbot.com <Hauntedscotland@listbot.com
Date: 17 July 1999 17:10
Subject: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?


Haunted Scotland - http://Hauntedscotland.listbot.com

Hello to all the people on the Haunted Scotland list

Here's an interesting article that has just appeared in the
Sheffield Star Newspaper on the 14.07.99.

If you have followed the Sheffield UFO incident, in which two
investigators seem to be having a verbal war via the internet,
then you'll find the following interesting....

MAM TOR HUNT AFTER "AIR CRASH"

Rescue teams spent hours searching Mam Tor after reports of a
light aircraft crash. Police alerted the Edale, Buxton and
Kinder teams after receiving several reports of a plane in
trouble (sounds familiar?) that may have crashed near Castleton.
Two helicopters, 104 mountain rescue team members and six search
and rescue dogs combed Mam Tor, Lords Seat, Perry Foot and
Sparrow Foot before abandoning the search as bad weather set in
last night. They will search again today...

The above totally matches Mike France's statement to myself
during the investigation of "The Sheffield Incident" that "it is
a regular occurrence...people mistake aeroplanes taking off and
landing at Manchester airport or they mis-judge the height of an
aircraft when infact it is at a safe height."  Mike France 20th
April 1997

Again the above case has the same commitment and dedication from
the brave voluntary rescue teams combing over 25 square miles
just because of several reports.

I would be interested in what other people think...


Martin and Louise Jeffrey
Mystery Magazine

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Hi,

Heres a neat twist for you on the above. The incident occurred
at Chapel-en-le-Frith. I live at Dove Holes - a mile away. I was
one of the witnesses who assisted Buxton police on this non
event. I heard the aircraft and the explosion and gave details
of both to David Clarke at the Star and to the Daily Mail, who
phoned me. The Mail seemed to want it to be a phantom bomber
from World War Two. There is no chance of that. This was a plane
far smaller than a bomber.

The whole affair was, in my view, an 8 hour exercise in
futility. The aircraft was unusual - a small light plane flying
very low (500 feet or so). Yes, planes come over here going into
Manchester every few minutes. They are very high (8000 feet or
so) and quite different in every respect. All locals know them
backwards. Yes, military jets nearly knock our rooftops off
every few days on a training exercise. This was no jet but was
as low as they fly. The plane was sufficiently odd to cause me
to go to the window and look (I saw nothing) but unlike an
airline pilot who lives in Chapel and reported it to the police
I thought nothing other than it was a low flying plane maybe
doing aerial photography (as one did last year for a new housing
estate). The pilot says he thought the engine sounded rough. It
did not to me. It was merely flying in low cloud, its sound thus
echoing a bit in the humid atmosphere and crossed right over my
house heading for Mam Tor. But because of the credibility of the
pilot witness the police launched a search and alerted Ringway
(who are scanning radar records but don't seem to have recorded
anything - as I don't expect them to have done, since at 500 feet
this plane would have been too low for radar coverage in these
hills).

As for the explosion, it followed some minutes later, was never
directly connected with the plane by me (I thought - and still
think - they were two entirely separate incidents) and was
without question an airborne report not a ground impact. This I
know for certain because the RMC quarry at Dove Holes shakes our
house regularly with detonations of limestone. This bang was
much louder but caused no ground shake, because, in my view it
was airborne. The weather was humid, low cloud, drizzle and at
the time I believed it was an isolated thunderclap ( although no
actual storm followed - rain did). I still think this.

I was first alerted when Dave called me next morning. I had
never connected either of these events with anything strange or
linked them together, frankly. I told the police in my view this
was an unconnected overflight by an unusually low flying light
plane and a subsequent thunderclap. They told me this was what
they had concluded as well and were delighted to have my account
as it fitted their findings.

This morning I went to Chapel (as I do every Saturday) and asked
around in the library, newsagent, supermarket, bakery etc. I
found nobody who had heard either noise. Several had heard the
story but none of those considered it in any way an an unusual
matter and were perfectly happy with the aircraft and
thunderclap solution. It is not creating any interest in these
parts.

Sorry - no mystery.

Best wishes,

Jenny Randles