Here's my opinion as to why the below are not what I saw on the 9th, these being the explanations I thought of myself - Bearing this in mind I do hope others decide to share some of their own explanations which I have not highlighted.
Anyway,
Was it a plane?
In my humble opinion, no. Here's a Google maps overhead view of where I live:
The red line was where I estimate I was looking when I saw this light (I placed it right over my house in this pic too)
The orange line is where I estimate it was moving (Beginning at the bottom and moving up - It's worth pointing out that It was most probably further out, this is just to show the direction I thought it was moving in.)
The white cross is where I estimate It stopped for around 20 or so minutes (which was just to the right of where I was looking out my window) and then the continued orange line is where It quite clearly started to move once again to where I could no longer see it as there is other houses in the way and there is also tree's blocking my view more so the house though)..
As we can see there is an airport to the right hand side of the map (which is Robin Hood airport) so I do see airplanes in the sky quite a lot here and the object I saw was quite different to what I'm used to seeing. Plus whenever I do see a plane in the sky, with the landing lights on, It's always seen to the upper right hand side of that map - coming into land from a North East direction - roughly around the complete opposite direction to where I was looking and the light is always big and orange, similar to a Chinese lantern in fact but bigger. And what I saw was a very bright (brighter than an airplane I've ever seen) and it was white in colour.
Not forgetting I saw this light appear to stop in the sky after I could previously see it moving. If it was a plane then I don't understand why it would do that unless, like highlighted in a past thread here, it was moving straight towards me. But I'm still a little bit sceptical due to the appearance of it as well as the fact that it was heading in a direction away from the airport and the landing light would've been out for a very, very long time.
Was it a Helicopter?
In regards to it being a helicopter, again I'm not so sure because I do see them quite often here as well. Often flying overhead but I do see them in the distance from time to time as well and what I saw on the 9th was totally inconsistent with every other helicopter I've seen here so I do find myself feeling a bit more sceptical about that explanation as well to be completely honest with you all although of course I wouldn't rule it out completely.
I do think It is unlikely though taking into consideration my past experience with seeing them..
Was it a Lantern?
I have absolutely no reason to even mention this but as It is ATS someone else was bound to mention it so I thought I would get there first.
No it was not a lantern. Simple as that. What I saw was incredibly bright and white. Every other Chinese lantern I've seen here (and I saw one 2 days ago) are fairly small, albeit bright, and almost always orange (although yes they do come in other colours).
What I saw moved, seemed to stop for what seemed like a long time, and then began moving again, not forgetting I see a lot of lanterns here and I know this was not one of those - another member also saw this "UFO" and they seem to be as sure as I am this was not a lantern. And there is nothing in the description to suggest it was one of these.
Like I said though, I'm only mentioning it (I don't feel it deserves a mention personally) because I know some out there would go straight to that explanation, as I often do myself.
Did others see the same thing?
I've already explained how another member here in Doncaster posted a thread about a sighting of his, this being the one I seem to have seen from my position also, but after doing some searches online from the same date (the 9th of January), I came across another report that really interested me.
Bear in mind my sighting was just before 7 pm at the latest, this report came in on this website for UFO sightings very shortly afterwards:
Location of Sighting: Osmotherly, Pickering North Yorkshire(Source)
Date of Sighting: 09/01/12
Time: 7:45-9:30
Witness Name: Luke
Witness Statement: Me and my friend were lamping in a farmers field in osmotherly and as we were walking downto the field we noticed what looked like a star that was flashing different colours:red,blue yellow,white green. It seemed fairly close and was in the direction of Pickering. We then went into the farmers house at around 8:00 and pointed this "star" out to him but thought nothing of it. At around 9:00 i went outside and the "star" had gone so we went back in the house and we chatted some more. At 9:30 we were leaving the house but my friend pointed out that the object had returned and was in a simliar place and the farmer also saw it for the second time. As we were watching it suddenly started to moved after being completely stationary all night. It moved to the left and came slighting towards us still flashing various colours but then out of nowhere two bright lights appeared either side of the flashing dots and then it moved very quickly to the point where it was out of vison but there was no sound from the object such as an engine . This could be nothing but all three of us saw it and agreed we had never seen anything like this before and was worth noting.
Obviously this could just be a coincidence that the object I saw was heading north, and then shortly after my sighting a UFO report came in from the north not long after my initial sighting. But I think it's at least possible they could be connected.
I find it particularly interesting how they mention and I quote: "As we were watching it suddenly started to moved after being completely stationary all night" which is of course similar to how I saw this strange light here in Doncaster.
Anyway, this is my UFO report, I think I've covered everything that needed to be covered here. Sorry if I missed out anything. I’m just opening up this separate thread though as personally, I’m fascinated by what I saw and as of right now I can’t think of any explanation which makes sense to me and fit’s with what I saw exactly. But in opening up this thread I figure some more explanations are bound to be shared by those who research this topic pretty much every single day and I genuinely do hope someone can come up with a rational answer for me.
Thanks to those who took the time to read about this potential sighting of mine.
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