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Huge winged creature over England
Posted by Neil Mitchelson <[email protected]>
On September 30, 2003
http://www.cryptozoology.com/sighti...show.php?id=840
Six or seven years ago I was camping with friends in the Lake District, England - I think it was in October. We were situated between Little Langdale and Coniston. A local farmer had agreed to let us use one of his fields and so we pitched our tents before it got dark and gathered firewood for the evening.
It hadn't been dark too long, in fact there must have been a full moon as the clouds were well lit up from behind, the fire was burning well and we were all seated around it talking. I lay back and watched the clouds for a while and to my left I noticed a dark shape beneath the clouds, moving from my left to my right. I watched it quietly for a while trying to figure out what it was.
At first it looked like a balloon in the distance but as it got closer I realised that it was flying against the wind and I could see it undulating slightly. I kept watching as it moved into a position more directly overhead, listening carefully for the sounds of an engine and watching for lights but there was only silence and the light of the moon on the clouds above.
As it flew over the top of us it became apparent that it was not balloon shaped at all but was shaped more like a manta-ray fish but with a short tail and the undulation I had detected was actually the tips of its "wings" gently flapping. It was huge, I would estimate its wingspan at 35 feet.
I wanted to know if the rest of my party (approximately ten) could see the same thing I could, but was conscious that I could not suggest to them what I was watching - I needed independent statements, so I simply pointed skyward and said, "can anyone else see that?" Everyone looked and all were astounded by what they saw. Afterwards I questioned them one by one and each gave a description in line with what I had seen.
Some time later I was reading a book about superstition and found a passage which reffered to a similar creature being sighted in the same area a couple of hundred years earlier by climbers who found it sunning itself on the mountain side, when they disturbed it they said it "vanished".
Posted by Neil Mitchelson <[email protected]>
On September 30, 2003
http://www.cryptozoology.com/sighti...show.php?id=840
Six or seven years ago I was camping with friends in the Lake District, England - I think it was in October. We were situated between Little Langdale and Coniston. A local farmer had agreed to let us use one of his fields and so we pitched our tents before it got dark and gathered firewood for the evening.
It hadn't been dark too long, in fact there must have been a full moon as the clouds were well lit up from behind, the fire was burning well and we were all seated around it talking. I lay back and watched the clouds for a while and to my left I noticed a dark shape beneath the clouds, moving from my left to my right. I watched it quietly for a while trying to figure out what it was.
At first it looked like a balloon in the distance but as it got closer I realised that it was flying against the wind and I could see it undulating slightly. I kept watching as it moved into a position more directly overhead, listening carefully for the sounds of an engine and watching for lights but there was only silence and the light of the moon on the clouds above.
As it flew over the top of us it became apparent that it was not balloon shaped at all but was shaped more like a manta-ray fish but with a short tail and the undulation I had detected was actually the tips of its "wings" gently flapping. It was huge, I would estimate its wingspan at 35 feet.
I wanted to know if the rest of my party (approximately ten) could see the same thing I could, but was conscious that I could not suggest to them what I was watching - I needed independent statements, so I simply pointed skyward and said, "can anyone else see that?" Everyone looked and all were astounded by what they saw. Afterwards I questioned them one by one and each gave a description in line with what I had seen.
Some time later I was reading a book about superstition and found a passage which reffered to a similar creature being sighted in the same area a couple of hundred years earlier by climbers who found it sunning itself on the mountain side, when they disturbed it they said it "vanished".