UK UFO Sightings

Location of Sighting: Isle of Man
Date of Sighting: Many Sightings-1993-1996
Time: varied
Witness Name: Jeanette Jordan

Witness Statement: Lived in the IoM for three and a half years related to ex husband's work.

Whilst there, had many paranormal experiences, as well as UFO sightings.

We'd not long arrived on the island for a three day visit, an induction for the job my then husband was about to take, and a chance for ten years old son and myself , to see whether we wanted to move there.

It was early April 1993. And we actually moved there on the fifteenth, my late granddad's birthday.

We were in a hired car, collected from Ronaldsway Airport . After settling into our hotel, the three of us and our two dogs, went on a tour around the island, you can do it in two hours if you don't stop,

We'd been driving for a while doing all the coast roads and found ourselves travelling back again on the road to Douglas, where our hotel and his future work, was based, and as we did, we were chattering and laughing and enjoying the absolute beauty of the island. Suddenly, from the front passenger seat, through the windscreen, I saw three (one after another) objects arc across the sky.

It was afternoon time, coming on for tea time, broad daylight, seriously blue skies, some fluffy white clouds, but all dispersed, so lots of blue sky.

To me they looked like shooting stars, and for a second, to my eyes, they left a mark like shooting stars do, fleetingly, forming arcs, but they were clearly silvery at the tips, and gone so fast, by the time I shouted "Look!" to make my family aware of them, they were gone.

I'm not sure of north and west etc from where we were, but , we were looking up toward Onchan.

They went from right (England way) to left and seemed to be so close to land, I winced, expecting them to crash, although, if they had, logic told me afterward, they would have hit the Irish Sea somewhere between Ireland, Scotland, and the IoM.

They were headed between Peel and the Scottish coastline and Ireland. I didn't know the island as I know it now.

My family never saw them, and I felt seriously annoyed, oh why did I always see things that they didn't?

As time passed on the island, during those three and a half years there, I saw many, many more of them, at varying times, in varying places, and as we lived in three homes on the island, inside the time I lived there (my Asperger husband was always running from himself and needing to change employers, dragging us behind through many homes, because people got too close and he couldn't handle it, I didn't know then, that his problems which rebounded on us often, isolating us from everyone, had a name, called Asperger Syndrome) and all of them, these objects in the sky, seemed headed for the sea somewhere around the island.

I made many friends on the island and one of them, Eve, ran a cafe called Allendale, in Port Erin, near to where we lived. Since I also home educated our Asperger son (again, I would learn his problems had a name later too) we spent a lot of time in there, where he made friends with the daughter of a new friend of my own.

As they practised French together at another table, I got chatting with the locals, and was talking about these things one day, explaining that I'd many times before inside my life, seen UFOs and that I just knew, that that's what I was seeing, and not shooting stars.

An elderly man was watching from across the room, sat all alone at a corner table, and eventually, only I, along with my son, and he, were the last people in the cafe (I stayed since I used to help clear tables) and I realised that he'd waited to speak to me.

He wasn't the sort to make idle chit chat, a typical Manx man, saw anyone from outside as suspicious. I have a knack of opening people up, it comes from sensing them, part of the odd gifts I have been afforded, it happens all the time, people who wont speak to others, speak to me.

The island people then, called you a 'comeover', but, if you stayed while, they called you a 'stayover' and... if they really liked you, they called you 'one of us'. I was very lucky, since I became, 'one of us'.

He'd seen me many times before, but never spoken until then, when he nodded for my attention, and I went and sat down at his table.

"I've seen 'em you know... those UFOs you were talkin' about." and he waited for my reaction, and immediately I knew he was very serious, that he'd never admitted this to anyone before, but that he chose to tell me, because he trusted me. He'd heard me sharing my sightings and I got the distinct impression, he wanted to unload his own experience for the first and likely, onlyuy time. I felt like me, he had been ridiculed and so kept silent, as so many UFOs witnesses do.

He said that some years earlier, he'd seen a strange craft 'sitting suspended in midair' "Right over the top of Bradda Head" and, he added that he knew "for sure" that it was no aircraft of any kind that we knew.

He said it made no noise, had no signs of engines, nothing was emitting from it, and though he didn't fully tell me what shape it was (we got interrupted at this stage, Eve wanted to lock up, and he clammed up) he watched it for a very long time, "It was just hanging there... and I've seen lots of others too!"

I wanted to see him again, talk some more about his other sightings, but he seemed embarrassed that he'd shared even this with me and as soon as Eve appeared, he scurried off, I never did see him in the cafe again.

I experienced many other things that no one would believe during my time there, but, they all fit the paranormal, and even though I personally know that they too link somewhere with UFOs, I wont leave them here.

Because one of them, even I refused to accept I'd seen, and thought finally, that I was going crackers, but, it never left my mind and I know for sure that I did see it. It links to the 'IoM fairies at Fairy Bridge' supposedly, merely superstition, but I'll clam up now as well on that, except to say, when it happened, I wasn't anywhere near the Fairy Bridge:-)

Oh... and yes, one other odd thing happened there as well, to my ex husband and my son, they went off out for a walk whilst I prepared the Sunday dinner one weekend (usual) and were very late returning, and when they did get back, they were both stunned that two hours had passed, my husband said that they'd only been gone an hour, they both felt that this was so, and both seemed slightly confused about this too. And something in me made me think of all those sightings I was having and wonder?

And to any Manx readers here, tell me please, are they still 'longtails' in the island these days, and is it still bad luck to call them 'r**s'? You'll know what I mean, so just for you, I wont even go there;-)

Source: Direct request on UK-UFO

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