Ince Park Incident

 

Date: 23 January 1995. Time: 20.00 Location: The Park, Manchester road, Higher Ince.

Several witnesses saw a UFO soaring towards the ground and apparently land in Ince Park. The initial sighting was reported to police by a taxi driver from Freeways taxis, who described the object as an orange object. The police were quick to respond but on arrival at the sight no debris could be found.

A police spoke person said; “there was absolutely nothing to suggest that a plane had crashed in the area. Following procedures we contacted Air Traffic Control to see if they could throw any light on the matter but they knew as little as we did, it will probably remain a mystery.

The taxi driver though, was not the only witness that night. A paper-lad Sebastian Willerton and his friend Anthony Bayliss also saw the luminous object. “At first I thought it was someone mucking about with fireworks,” Sebastian told Jon Peake of the Wigan Reporter, “but I realised it wasn’t and saw it looked like a plane that had crashed.”

Jon Peake also uncovered another witness who recalled, “It was close to eight o’clock and I was walking up Manchester Road, not paying much attention as it was very cold and I was well wrapped up. I couldn’t help noticing though, something not so far in the distance dropping out of the sky. It looked very much like a light aircraft and it went down in the vicinity of the park. Something I found a little odd at the time, before the object crashed (if it did crash), it seemed to pause above the ground for a split second. It was only a split second and I can offer no explanation as to why this might have happened if it was an aircraft.”

On the night in question Bill Eatock, the Quest International local investigator, had noticed an unusual triangular shaped UFO pass very low by his computer room window, he lives a short distance from Ince park. However he saw nothing of the 'crash'

Investigating further, he discovered on visiting the park that a number of trees had been either cut or knocked down, several circular holes had been freshly cored out the nearby grass and that there were dead fish floating in the park lake.

On later questioning local residents, he discovered that there had been a lot of activity in the park on that night and when the locals went to investigate they found one area of the park cordoned off protected by men in light-coloured coveralls. When the residents questioned the men in the coveralls, they were told by persons claiming to be from the MoD, to leave the area.

Did a plane crash or did a UFO land near Wigan in late January 1995? It has all the hallmarks of Wigan’s answer to Roswell and the story will probably grow before we find the answer.

Footnote. There were three very deep indentations in the grass. Evenly spaced in a triangular shape. The object had apparently hit some trees before it landed. It must have taken off again within seconds.