St Catherine’s Hospital, Doncaster-4th January 2013
Location of Sighting: St Catherine’s Hospital Doncaster
Date of Sighting: 04.01.13
Time: 1950hrs
Witness Name: Lee Thickett
Witness Statement: Whilst walking my dog in the grounds of the hospital which has few lights, I saw what I thought was a new large constellation to the north west which I thought was odd as I look at the stars each night and had never seen this before.
There was a lot of twinkling which at first backed up my initial thought. It was a matter of 10-15 seconds when I realised it was moving slowly. Zero noise.
There must have been in excess of 20 lights, all white flashes. An aircraft did cross my mind as the craft headed in the direction of the airport but I’ve never seen such a large object in the sky with so many lights whilst producing no noise.
It reminded me in shape, of the large space ships in Star Wars that vader had.
Very very weird!!!
Source: www.uk-ufo.co.uk
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January 5th, 2013 at 12:34 am
hey ye we saw that any1 know what it was plzzz
January 5th, 2013 at 12:49 am
4 of us saw it at 19.44 at warmsworth road and it was like lee said moving slowly and loads lights and changed shape. and also hovered over and if it was a plane why did it take 5 mins to get over to hospital, strange goings on for new year ……..
January 5th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Lee, I presume you mean south west, because the airport is in that direction? How could you determine the shape unless you were looking underneath the object? Did it appear to be climbing? How long were you observing for?
January 5th, 2013 at 8:49 pm
How did you determine it was like something off SW at night. Kim ring ATC at Doncaster, they’ll tell you what it was.
January 6th, 2013 at 9:27 am
So it shape-shifted as well, Kim? Lee didn’t mention that
, although it does chime with his account that the shape was moving north-west ( away from RHADS ). The RHADS air traffic controllers must have been asleep with all these recent sightings in the Doncaster triangle! I look forward to seeing this splashed all over the Free Press and the Star. Bit of cheap journalism here for anyone watching. If it took 5 minutes to clear the hospital, why no picture on a phone to confirm your sighting? You must have one,Kim, as you speak texttalkese 
. I must come and see for myself, although with the streetlights from Warmsworth Road and the light pollution from the urban sprawl of Doncaster, I think I might have some difficulty.
January 6th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Kim / Lee,
Have you read the other report on the site from this area around the same time?
Very interesting…..
January 6th, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Just to clarify, when i saw the object it was in the north west ish position or between west and north west. It then moved towards roughly the direction of the airport which is east/ south east from when i was.
I determined the shape from where the lights were situated. It was dark so getting the exact shape would be difficult but there were no lights from where any wings would be, which is odd if it was an aircraft as im sure all wings have lights. But i heard no noise!!
I saw it for approx 2-3 minutes as it seemed at first to be a new constellation which i thought ‘wow, never seen that before’. Then realised the twinkling wasn’t from stars twinkling but flashing/blinking. I only remember, from approx 20 lights, only a handful were flashing/blinking.
Nice to know i wasnt the only one seeing things!!
January 6th, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Two sightings at the same time. Kim, Lee does not say it changed shape? Nor did it hover. 5 minutes over a hospital, most people have camera’s on their phones no pictures?
As you are just North of some major RAF bases I wonder if this was a refueling aircraft streaming refuelling lines.
Doncaster ATC must have also have noticed this visual spectacle? Anything in the local rag/tv news?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:14 am
Lee, if this huge thing you saw was heading towards RHADS, surely it would have been picked up on radar and intercepted if it was a nuts and bolts craft as you describe? It’s a pretty big thoroughfare for transatlantic flights from Europe, notwithstanding local traffic heading North across the UK.Very puzzling.Something as big as that would surely not be ignored by air traffic controllers?!?
Are you saying all 20 lights were moving in sync? Did it shapeshift as Kim describes?Did it look like the inside of a lung as described in the Bessacarr sighting ( not sure it would have been seen there following the course you describe )?Did it actually go over the hospital? Was it blocking out other stars as it transited?
Following that flightpath, it would have passed over the M18 and Rosso. At that time, surely someone else would have seen it? Sorry for all the questions.
January 7th, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Reason I thought it reminded of star wars was from the positioning of the lights. I couldnt see the outline of the object.
I tried to record it on my iphone but it picked up nothing as it was pitch black and dont believe it was ever made for night photography.
Ive worked on many RAF Bases and would ask why there was no noise. Although it could have been an aircraft with no engine power, but im sure that would have been reported by now.
Ive seen the other report and was glad others had seen it, seen in Warmsworth, Balby and Bessacarr. A straight line.
January 7th, 2013 at 9:39 pm
This affect can be given when aircraft refuel at altitude ie fighter jets. When refuelling for operations practice they turn off nav lights, so if you have a tanker with 4 or 5 jets queing up behind you get this affect.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Only a handful of lights were flashing. Didn’t notice any shape shifting and sha
January 7th, 2013 at 10:43 pm
Only a handful of lights were flashing. I didn’t notice and shape shifting and the only shape I made out ( from the position of the lights) reminded me of vaders ship which isn’t too dissimilar from a lung I think. It’s hard to know exactly where it was directly over but it was north of my position, possibly Balby Road but not too sure.
Not sure about it blocking out any stars was too interested in looking at it to make any real observations of anything else. But I didn’t notice any lights moving position apart from the ones on the object so can assume it was solid.
Not had a response to my email I sent to the airport though.
January 7th, 2013 at 10:45 pm
Gary, if you don`t believe these sightings then just don`t believe them and stop interrogating people in every minor detail. For someone who goes to the far end of a fart in tripping people up you must know phone photos are useless in these cases. Not got any other hobbies?
January 8th, 2013 at 1:01 am
Gary your attempt at dismissing everyone is some what strange.
I was never able to take a picture of what I saw with a samsaung camera because it did not pick up the light so far away with light pollution! And this was an illuminated object.
Secondly differing witnesses with a different view/perspective can observe a different behavior,what is common is a large object was spotted that was illuminated and was out of sync with people’s knowledge of craft.
Secondly if you knew anything about cover up/ how the press is controlled and the history in anything like finance, war, corruption you would know it is common practise I give you an example of WMDs 45 mins.
This was peddled to us as fact!
January 8th, 2013 at 12:24 pm
If you’ve worked around aviation you’ll know that noise can be cancelled out by the prevailing wind – which will vary at altitude – high flying jets you’ll hear the noise long after they have actually flown over you..
I can watch aircraft taking off from where I live and sometimes I hear no noise because of wind direction.
January 8th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Alan, interrogation gets to the truth. Its usually the minor details that nails the truth. Many of us on this site are aware their are many hoaxers. The water tower on the M11 report on this site was a classic.
Tom, the press is controlled is it? Of course it is, phone hacking never happened did it? Savile, out of control reporting – people wrongly named on TV? Lizards running the world in human guise?
January 8th, 2013 at 7:58 pm
Tom, I’m not into conspiracy theories. Alan, if you don’t like my opinion just don’t read it.
Incidentally, I’m not the only one guilty of the heinous crime of debunking, or haven’t you noticed?I don’t see Lee being fazed by my asking questions.
Thanks for the responses by the way. Please let us know what the airport have to say; though if they say they have nothing to report, some people will no doubt say they are covering up 8-/.
January 8th, 2013 at 8:06 pm
Is it Gary Heseltine?
I Wonder……
January 8th, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Sorry Gary, but I had to laugh at your “Picked up on radar” comment.
Were the U.S not creating stealth aircraft in the 20th century?
I would advise anyone who has experienced the events frequently reported on this site to never question what they saw…
Never question your own experience if you genuinely believe it.
I also suspect that Gary has also experienced sonething a long time ago.
Care to elaborate Gary?
January 8th, 2013 at 10:39 pm
Tom and Alan ….Well said! Lee, thanks for sharing your sighting with us. Please let us know if you have any others!
January 8th, 2013 at 11:30 pm
Alan & Tom – Anyone claiming to have seen something unusual, on an open website that invites comments, must be aware that not everyone will take everything claimed at face value. Lee & Kim have made their claims, now other people have their opportunity to query the reports or give suggestions as to what the objects may have been. Many of the reports on this site are obviously not UFOs, and unless the errors are pointed out the mass of false sightings will bury any reports that could be real UFOs. Sometimes further information is needed to make a clear decision, which is what Gary was asking for.
Tom – What is the relevance of your remark about ‘cover up/ how the press is controlled and the history in anything like finance, war, corruption’ to Lee’s & Kim’s sightings? Do you seriously think that the mysterious ‘They’ will be controlling every little local paper to prevent news of a few lights in the sky being made public? If ‘They’ are so powerful why don’t they simply close down sites like this one? Why do they allow so many ‘sightings’ to be published on YouTube? I wonder how many conspiracy theories are dreamed up by people making a fortune selling books about ….Conspiracy Theories, which are peddled to us as fact. You don’t have to believe everything you read.
January 9th, 2013 at 12:12 am
Tom, you sound like a boring sixth form conspiracy theorist. Credit people with more intelligence than yourself fella.
January 9th, 2013 at 5:14 pm
The prevailing wind theory could be true but I dont quite buy it for 2 reasons, firstly if they were refueling the air craft would have been at a low altitude and surely with the position the object was in I would have heard it, and secondly id be surprised if the RAF refuelled over a populated area whether training or not.
I accept though that both of my thoughts could be very wrong though.
Ive had no response from RHADS so they must think im one of the usual weirdo’s!!!
January 9th, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Peter,
Your theory cannot explain away the lack of noise.Please don’t tell me the wind was the reason!
Gary,
You’ve no doubt read that these objects are seen visually but don’t show on radar & the Mod has “no interest in UFO’s”
that’s just another lie, why wouldn’t any nation want to know what’s going on in there skies, they just hide behind words.
Tom,
You are so right in every word, nice one!
Nicholia,
High flying jets that take on the appearance of a lung!
January 9th, 2013 at 8:22 pm
So will the ordinary joe in the street who HAS seen something want to post a report after reading all the above ? Gimme a break.
January 9th, 2013 at 9:57 pm
Just to say that ive no issue with people asking questions and adding their own theory. It makes you think more about what you saw in a more logical manner to see if it fits with what your own eyes saw.
I added my sighting in the hope that I wasnt seeing things and others had seen the lights so to speak and 2 people confirmed it was a real sighting but no real explanation has been received……yet!!
January 9th, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Thanks, Lee. I must admit when you made the Star Wars analogy, I thought uh-oh weirdo alert, particularly when Kim jumped in so quickly to verify.
I agree with you about in-flight refuelling. It’s far more likely to take place over open spaces or over the sea. Not saying it never happens though, so who knows? I hope RHADS do respond. Have you tried the Free Press? With what passes for news in there, a multiple-witness UFO sighting would be a decent human interest story.
Re A.R.A, the answer’s no to both questions.
January 9th, 2013 at 10:23 pm
Thanks for giving me a belly laugh, you guys.
Lee’s quite happy to answer my questions and he’s the main witness! The only ones fazed are yourselves!
January 9th, 2013 at 11:02 pm
just to clear up i did say in my first comment does anybody know what it was i am not saying it is a plane or a ufo i am just saying what we saw there was 4 of us that saw it an have since been told that the changing shape would of just been the angle that u looked at it we did try to take a photo but it was to dark it was going in the direction of the airport though. i also said it hovered when over the house not the hospital but it did look to be high up to me. i really dont know what it was and that is why i was asking.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:11 am
So it’s better for people to read about conspiracy theories and interdimensional twaddle than reasonably seeking the truth about each sighting? Please. Lee isn’t put out by my questioning, so why should you be?
January 10th, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Tom,
You wrote, intriguingly: “Secondly if you knew anything about cover up/ how the press is controlled and the history in anything like finance, war, corruption you would know it is common practise I give you an example of WMDs 45 mins.
This was peddled to us as fact!”
What, then, is being covered up? Aliens? Inter-dimensional visitors from the 4th dimension on Venus? Top secret military craft? What? What is it that, in the cover-ups and misinformation we know of in past warfare and other incidents, has any relation to strange objects in the sky?
January 11th, 2013 at 12:33 am
That’s fine, Kim. It wasn’t a dig, but I was suspicious at first given the circumstances. I’m pretty sure you both saw something but without any further evidence I’ve run out of ideas. However, am not convinced that the Bessacarr sighting is linked but that’s just my opinion. Guess we’ll never know.
January 11th, 2013 at 9:24 pm
Hi Gary, you question away.
I think Lee has been very open, candid and rational. Lee, your right, the RAF do not, for obvious reason, refuel over populated areas. However, it could have been an a/c being escorted/shepparded.
Too many people take at face value the reports on this site -some people are genuinely frightened by them. Through questioning, some have been exposed. These people either don’t answer questions or their replies are of a subjective nature – You’re getting at me etc! – Or anger that the’re being challenged!
Conspiracy theories – gagged press – spare me please.
However, there are reports on this site that need further research. Project Condign is seldom, if not even mentioned on this site – I think we get unusual visitors at least once a month – maybe they are tourists. The triangles are ours or belonging to the USAF – just remember the Blackbird was crewed by RAF personnel as well – Chris this is well documented and a book was published – sorry I mentioned book again – I’m just erudite.
I promised on one of the other reports that I would not be adding any other comments on this site. This is my last one.
However, Gary, I think you needed support from some of the contributors both on this report and others. Keep on questioning, as after all, the truth is out there!
Good Hunting Everybody.
April 30th, 2013 at 1:53 am
Hey you good people, I find your E mail conversations most interesting, not because I’m a UFO enthusiast or sceptic it is because I can verify what Kim had reported as I was one of the four who was with her. However Kim must have forgotten to mention that before we all witnessed this slow moving/ almost hovering large craft, we were all sat in the back room of the house when somebody within our company said that some ones phone was vibrating. we all checked our phones as soon as this was mentioned but this was not the case, then our conversation moved onto something else but it was only around that time that one of us went out of the rear door for a smoke an then alerted the rest of us of what they could see. We naturally went to investigate assuming it was nothing, but we all ended up equally astounded of such an unusual sight. The craft was in my opinion was like a large oblong shape with lots of lights beneath it. it hovered very slowly away from us as we continued to watch. what ever this thing was, it had no sound, however the lights were able to provide some clues to the outline of it’s shape. attempts were made to take photographs but our mobile camera phones were not equiped to provide the evidence we sought at that time. Although we were disappointed at the lack of evidence it became quite a topic during the next few following days especially from the converted sceptics. Sorry about the spelling but it’s been a long day. Hope this proves interesting whatever your beliefs. cheers DETS