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Sighting record / 1977

Windermere police and multi-witness sighting, Cumbria, 1977

August 28, 1977 · Windermere and the central Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
24Thinly documented UAP Triangle 15 sources

Just after midnight on Sunday 28 August 1977, police officers across the Lake District looked up. Two very bright horizontal lights were moving in from the direction of Langdale Pike. For the next 20 minutes, officers at Keswick, Bowness and Skelwith Bridge watched a very large craft pass low over the fells. Some called it triangular. Others said diamond, kite, or hang glider. A civilian, John Platt, saw a giant catamaran with twin hulls. Depending on the source, ten or 17 officers saw it. Then it went out over Morecambe Bay. Gary Heseltine's police database ranks it among the three biggest multi-officer cases in Britain.

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Context

The night of Saturday 27 August 1977 rolled into Sunday. It was a bank holiday weekend in Cumbria. Across the Lake District, police officers were out. Some were on patrol. Some were heading home.

Sources (15, most influential first)

  1. The 1977 UFO Chronology · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  2. Famous UFO sightings from the past · Whitehaven News (Newsquest) · Press, book, documentary · news
  3. The 5th Annual PRUFOS Police Report 2006 · Gary Heseltine / PRUFOS · Research organisation · org report
  4. A Covert Agenda · Bookshare · Press, book, documentary · book
  5. A Covert Agenda · Anomalist Books · Press, book, documentary · book