Image via WikipediaJanuary 26, 2012 - UK - The Teesdale Mercury newspaper has an amazing story about a close encounter with a UFO.
A man and woman, both 84 years old, say that the glowing object came within inches of their car.
"Two Barnard Castle pensioners say a flying saucer hovered inches from their car as they drove home at night," reports the Mercury in an article dated January 26, 2012. "Bruce and Priscilla Wetherill ... have described the brief encounter at 'frightening'. They say the UFO sighting happened near Arlaw Banks (see map) on Darlington Road (A67) between the towns of Gainford and Barnard Castle, as 'frightening'."
The couple described the UFO as silent and shaped like a flying saucer, dark on top and glowing underneath.
Mrs Wetherill is quoted as saying, “We saw this thing heading towards us – it was coming right at us and was as low as the car and huge," and "Bruce kept driving but we both ducked down, expecting it to hit us. I thought, ‘This is it, we’ve had it’."
According to the Mercury, the Wetherills's UFO sighting occurred two years ago "but they wanted to come forward after a spate of recent UFO sightings in Teesdale." More at the Teesdale Mercury...
On February 10, 2009 the Mercury published "Little Green Men Over Teesdale?"
"Several strange sightings in the area were reported last month," the 2009 report said. "On-lookers described seeing three balls of light that became orange and then disappeared. People living in other areas of County Durham also saw the lights. Witnesses Jeff Edwards said he watched the UFO over Barnard Castle .... The incident was reported to uk-ufo.co.uk, a website listing unexplained incidents in Britain. It was said to have taken place between 6pm and 6.30pm on January 1 [2009]." Full story....
