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From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:17:35 +0100
Fwd Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:50:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?


>From: Martin Phillips <mphillips@btinternet.com>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?
>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:52:13 +0100

>>From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>Subject: Sheffield UFO Incident 2?
>>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:35:48 +0100
>
>>-----Forwarded Message-----

>>MAM TOR HUNT AFTER "AIR CRASH"

>>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

>>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.

>It's just a thought, but low-flying small aircraft without
>recognised flight-plans suggest an illicit operation. As
>Manchester is one of the main centres of the drugs business,
>could it be a drugs runner dodging radar?

Hi,

The drug running idea was seriously considered by the police
during the l997 incident. It remains an option for the untraced
light aircraft, I believe.

Some of the mystery helicopters connected with the l973 - 75
Pennine/Peak District wave (ressurected by Nick Redfern -
somewhat bizarely in his new tome 'Cosmic Farces' - ooops,
Freudian slip there, 'Cosmic Crashes' - as possible intelligence
agency vehicles tied to UFO crashes) were at the time blamed on
drug smuggling by the police (as well as ferrying illegal
immigrants and even a home-made helicopter illegally flown from
someones garage)!

In fact many of these 'helicopters' were merely LITS and the
term helicopter was applied by police who pursued them due to
apparent manoueverablity. As an investigator just starting out
then I learned this from Oldham police one night when told - 'we
chase these buggers over't hills and they just fly off. I'm
damned if any aircraft can do that. So we reckon it must be a
'elicopter'

Hardly anyone actually saw what clearly was a helicopter. But
the name stuck.

As for last week's escapade - my main reason to doubt this idea
that it was a drug run is simple. A flight in the dark over the
fairly remote moors west of Sheffield (as in l997) is fair
enough. A flight in broad daylight literally following the path
of the A 6 - chock-a-block at this time of year with holiday
traffic and at that time of day with commuters to and from
Buxton would be just plain daft. Maybe Del Boy (note for non UK
readers - a slightly dodgy dealing, but incompetent TV character
in Britain's top rating sit com) was flying it, but I can't see
any half-sensible drug runner choosing such a time and locale to
sneak through (if sensible drug running is not a contradiction
in terms).

Best wishes,

Jenny Randles