Short Haunts - A Tale of Two Sightings
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Some witnesses are trained to look carefully.
To observe. To stay calm. To assess what’s in front of them without panic, exaggeration or assumption. Which is why, when police officers report seeing something they can’t explain, those accounts carry a particular weight.
In this Short Haunts listener story, an anonymous former police officer shares two extraordinary UFO sightings witnessed during service. The first occurred on a dark, wet February night in a rural area, when a colleague spotted something strange hovering over a farmer’s field: a silent, matt-black barrel-shaped object, suspended in the air, apparently unaffected by the wind and rain.
Years later, a second sighting unfolded during a targeted patrol on a foggy autumn evening. What first looked like the lights of an illegal rave became something far stranger — coloured beams rising into the sky, followed by the appearance of a silent metallic wedge or triangle near power lines, with dull orange lights along its sides.
Both incidents were witnessed by serving officers. Both were kept quiet. And both left behind the same unsettling question: were these experimental aircraft, something natural and misunderstood, or genuine UAP encounters?
Grounded, unusual and quietly compelling, this is a story about trained witnesses, rural patrols, strange lights, silent objects, and the difficulty of reporting what shouldn’t be there.
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| 1:47.0 | I'm Welcome, dear listeners to our series of short Horns, a shot of scary, just for you. |
| 2:23.0 | So grab a hot chocolate, maybe a tea, or maybe something stronger, because this is Haunted UK podcasts, short haunts, a tale of two sightings. |
| 2:40.5 | Earlier in Season 5, episodes 44 and 48, to be exact, |
| 2:44.5 | we heard from many listeners who worked in the emergency services and the armed forces, and their stories of encounters with the paranormal. |
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