Runcorn, a Gateway to UFOs?

By Sue McAllister

Articles in the weekly news, local Runcorn newspapers and now the Daily Mail have caught my attention somewhat, especially throughout the month of March.  Roger Ellison who is also a member of MARA suggests that the borough of Halton / Runcorn is a window area of UFO activity and I am now inclined to take this view seriously myself, since having had a recent sighting with Larry Warren, (author of Left at east Gate) on the 16th of March 1999.  From my house in South Liverpool, looking to the east I can see Runcorn bridge and although our sighting was to the west, it was nevertheless along the South Liverpool Mersey area. 

The South Liverpool Incident

It was approximately 8.55 p.m. and Larry had just nipped outside to smoke a cigarette, as he didn’t like to smoke in my house!  I was in the kitchen at the time washing a few dishes, when Larry came back in and explained that he could see a bright light at the top of my road.  I followed him back out to see it while he was telling me that a red light had dropped out of it and shot off northwards at great speed!  At the front gate with no shoes on my feet I could see a very bright light.  At first I thought, it was a planet, then realised that it was too big and decided to run back in to put on my shoes and coat to have a longer look.  I was indoors less than a minute, then I was back out and Larry was over on the other side of the road in front of my house.  I could no longer see it from the front gate because it had moved.  We walked up the road and onto some wasteland where we caught sight of it again.  While watching this “light”, an aeroplane was approaching from the south, and Larry explained to me that sometimes these lights blink out when aircraft are near!  We could see the light starting to change colour from a bright white / yellow to amber, then all of a sudden it blinked out as the aeroplane crossed its path!  After the aeroplane flew past northwards, the light reappeared.  We couldn’t hear any noise from the light but we could hear the aeroplane, although very faintly.   While still watching “it”, we both witnessed the next red light suddenly pop out from the left of the UFO and stop a short distance from it.  It then shot off at great speed in a southerly direction.  The main light seemed to change colour again then blinked out.

Having read a number of articles on loan from Mark Rosney (another MARA member), I noticed that there were a number of separate reports of red fireball type lights in the skies!  Some of them also in an easterly direction.  A coincidence?,  I don’t think so! 

The Runcorn Bridge Incident

This leads me on to another UFO sighting by guess who? My own brother and sister-in-law.  They were returning home from Manchester after visiting a friend in hospital.  On the 15th April at approximately 8:50 p.m. (surprise surprise), and guess where?  On the freeway that leads onto the Runcorn bridge!  My sister-in-law in the passenger seat saw it first, towards the ICI plant on the Wirral but above the river Mersey.  My brother got a better look as he drove around the bend in the roadway taking you up to and across the Runcorn bridge.  He described it as quite high above the horizon and it stood out because the lights were as bright as light bulbs.  This was not just one light though, but a configuration of 8 lights as in the diagram below. As they drove over the bridge they lost sight of it as if it had just disappeared.  

Formation of lights seen in the Runcorn bridge incident.

Conclusions

So what on earth is going on?  I don’t claim to know, but I suspect that some kind of military activity is involved.  As for the river Mersey with its varying depths, many UFO sightings have been reported from Seaforth to New Brighton to Runcorn West Bank through to Warrington with some reports of UFOs actually seen ascending out of the Mersey itself!  This is not unlike the many UFO sightings over the Hudson River USA which stretches for approximately 200 miles in New York state!  There has also been a wave of UFO sightings in this region recently near and around the many upstate New York lakes.

  What is the connection with our waterways?  Maybe the UFOs are less conspicuous over the dark waters and hence they are able to carry out whatever tests they are involved in with less scrutiny from the general public.  The British Aerospace plant at Warton, Lancashire overlooks the Irish Sea and is only about 15 miles up the coast from the Mersey Estuary.  How convenient?  There have been many UFO sightings around the Warton area including flying triangles etc.  Now that more and more people are accepting that something out of the ordinary is going on involving UFOs and the military, I suggest that you all keep your eyes on the skies and the waterways, and hopefully, the answers to our questions will one day soon be answered.

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