The Peak District in Derbyshire, England, is frequently contrasted with the Bermuda Triangle. This is because fifty aircraft have crashed nearby, killing more than one hundred people.
There is a legend that the Peak District is haunted. Since World War I, witnesses have reported seeing phantom aeroplanes in this area.
These sightings continue. Several eyewitnesses reported seeing a vintage World War II bomber flying over the region in August of last year. All of the witnesses concurred that the aircraft’s silence while it was nearby was one of the encounter’s most peculiar characteristics.
There were no air displays nearby on the day these witnesses spotted this World War II bomber, and no flight paths were recorded for vintage aircraft to fly on that day.
Due to the scarcity of flyable World War II bomber aircraft, many people think that these sightings, as well as others in Derbyshire, are exceptional.
Richard and Helen Jephson spotted an enigmatic jet on August 3 while travelling on the A6 near Rowsley. The Jephson family claimed they could have reached out and touched the jet since it was so close to the ground and their car windows were down.
Despite the plane’s four engines, they heard nothing. They kept watching, fearing that the jet was going to crash, only to witness it vanish into thin air.
The Lancaster, a four-engine bomber used by the Royal Air Force in World War II, was compared by the Jephsons to the aircraft.
A former member of the Lancaster crew noticed this odd aircraft that day from his bedroom window. Like Richard Jephson, George Furnace reported that this aircraft had four engines and was flying low. Additionally, he said that it was silent.
But he claimed that it wasn’t a Lancaster since it was too little. Instead, he said that it was an American B-24 bomber called a Liberator.
Richard Burley, still another witness, was playing golf when he saw this bomber flying obliquely over some woods. He said that this aircraft was too tiny to be a Lancaster, much like Furnace had. Like the rest, he heard nothing and only saw this jet fly away.
Was the flying crew on this jet still protecting England, then? One has to question given the abundance of witness accounts throughout the years that are comparable to the reports above.
