Modern Mysteries

Mysterious 'ghost plane' spotted over UK

By T.K. Randall
August 13, 2015 ·  48 comments

Could the plane have been a Lancaster Bomber ? Image Credit: CC BY 2.0 Paul Hudson The large prop-driven airplane had been spotted by multiple witnesses and was described as "completely silent" as it flew low over the English countryside.

Richard and Helen Jephson had been driving their car in Rowsley on the afternoon of August 3rd when they saw the plane flying so near to the ground that they thought it was going to crash.

"My car window was open and this plane was so low that you could touch it – but it was completely silent," said Richard. "We sort of braced ourselves for a crash but nothing happened."The strange aircraft was later seen again by witnesses on the A52 from Derby.

"It was flying very, very low but there are quite a lot of trees at the point, so I couldn't get a very good look at it," said Richard Burley. "It was definitely not a Lancaster, it was much smaller than that, but I couldn't be sure. I couldn't believe that nobody else had seen it !".

Authorities have confirmed that there were no scheduled air displays or flyovers at these times.

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