'UFO' appears over Newmarket
A JOURNAL reader has told of the night he thought he saw a UFO over Newmarket.
Mark Watson of Beaverbrook Road spotted the unidentified object when he was standing talking to his neighbour at about 10.45pm around August 14.
He thought he saw the light in the sky fly across Newmarket, hover over Bury Road, before dashing off toward the M11.
"It came in at the sort of speed you would expect a plane to be landing at and then slowed down, turned and shot off," Mr Watson told the Journal.
"My neighbour spotted it and said 'what is that'?
"We actually thought it was a plane coming towards us with its landing lights on, coming in over Newmarket.
"When it flew off it got smaller very, very quickly."
Mr Watson, 74, who lives with his wife Pamela, 61 and daughter Clare, 26 said he had never seen anything like it before, ruling out the possibility of Chinese lanterns, which are often mistaken for UFOs because of their orange light shades, released into the air.
"This was a really big light and it came in really fast," he said.
Mr Watson, who was unable to capture the mysterious object, contacted the Journal to ask if fellow readers had reported anything similar in the night sky on August 14.
*Last year the Journal reporter a series of strange sightings over Mildenhall and Barton Mills which turned out to be Chinese lanterns.
One Mildenhall residents snapped a series of bright orange lights floating mysteriously in the sky.
Did you manage to get any pictures of the UFO? Did you see anything mysterious? Email reporter ROBERT ANDREWS
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