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UFO over Wooley Services
I was interested to read the article by Don Mort in The Wakefield Express (20 Feb). I'm glad to know that my own sighting was plausible and that I didn't imagine it.
On Thursday 5 February at about 7:20pm I was driving back from Barnsley on the M1 when, just after the Wooley Services, I saw two orange lights in the sky above the motorway. At first I thought they were stationary but then I realised that they seemed to be moving diagonally from the west side of the road to the east. I slowed down to look more closely at the lights and I noticed that the driver in front had done the same. I passed underneath the lights and I saw that they were globular but they had a bell shaped halo around them.
I came off at junction 39, went round the roundabout and back onto the motorway. I saw what looked like one of the lights fading out of view over the fields near Crigglestone. I came off at junction 38 and made my way to Wakefield via Haigh but I did not see any further sign of the lights.
There was low cloud that night and I thought that no aeroplanes would be that low down. Besides, aeroplane lights are white and red and often flash. These were bright orange - the same colour as street lights.
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