Posted: June 28, 2009

Date of Sighting: Sunday 14/06/09
Time: 10:15pm approx.

Witness Statement: I was stood in the doorway of my conservatory last Sunday evening whilst smoking a cigarette as we no longer smoke in the house since the birth of our daughter a couple of years ago. The evening sky was just starting to darken after the setting of the sun and there was moderate patchy cloud with the cloud base being at around 3000 ft. I had just seen an airliner pass traveling west to east though a gap in the cloud when out of the corner of my eye I noticed what I can only describe as a bright orange ball of light appear from behind a neighbour's house. My conservatory doors face east and the light was traveling from north west to south east at what i would guesstimate to be between 2500 ft and 3000 ft. I think the heights to be pretty accurate as we live in the flight path of Doncaster Robin Hood Airport and seeing large passenger jets is a daily occurrence as they approach Doncaster for landing. I would estimate the airspeed to be between 400 and 500mph as this thing was really moving compared to the approach speed of commercial air traffic which approaches Doncaster at around 180 to 200mph.

I shouted to my wife Susan to come and look just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. We observed the object for around 15 to maybe 20 seconds at most as it flew completely horizontal at a steady pace until disappearing behind the rooftops of some neighbouring houses. I can honestly say I have never seen anything like this before. I could rule out aircraft as it was totally silent and too near to be so, I could rule out these silly Chinese lanterns as it would need one hell of a hurricane to move it at that speed and I can rule out the sun shining on the metal fuselage of an aircraft as the sun was already below the horizon and there would have been illumination to the underside of the clouds also. It's not as if I could even pass it off as lighting from an aircraft because I viewed it as it approached and flew past us and the intensity of the light was constant, there was no structure visible at all and this thing seemed to be completely spherical. My wife was quite unnerved by the whole incident as it's not the sort of thing you see everyday and it was just how silent it was. I'm not sure I would say it was alien in origin but it was sure strange and definitely a vehicle under intelligent control.