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In the county of Berkshire, sits a small suburb named Reading. This English suburb is usually a quiet and peaceful location. That is until a strange event that occurred in the early night of October 20th, 2011, had locals talking and conspiring in the early hours.

During that Thursday night, some residents reported a loud and deafening sound coming from the heavens. At least that’s the description I’m gonna use. The sound, almost sounding like an air-raid –according to some locals– was heard all over Reading and adjoining towns and cities. Some people even claim to have seen a low-flying passenger jet, while others claim to have seen a lighter aircraft. Regardless, the different accounts all agree that whatever it was, it seemed to be in distress and flying really, really low. An odd smell of ‘burning oil’ was smelled across the otherwise peaceful suburbs.

A downed aircraft. Big deal, right?

Well it wouldn’t be such a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that no aviation or law-enforcing authority can account for such sighting. The Civil Aviation Authority had no notifications of any aircraft, whether it be civilian or military, experiencing problems in or around those areas.

Spokesman Nic Stevenson said: “If something was that low that far from an airport it would be an unusual situation and it would need to be reported to us.

“The mandatory occurrence reporting scheme covers everything from if a member of cabin crew broke a bone in their foot on the trolley to if an emergency landing had been made – it covers a lot of instances.”

Mr Stevenson said that light aircraft are covered by the same rules but that they can be harder to track than passenger jets.

So not only does the CAA have no clue as to what to make of these calls and complaints, but the local police are also left in the dark. There’s obviously no plane crashes near the areas. If the aircraft was as big as some people reported it to be, then there would have to be a great trail of destruction left behind as the craft regretfully plunged to the earth. If this was a smaller aircraft, say more of a cessna type of aircraft, then it would make a bit more sense that a crash-site wouldn’t be as easy to spot as with the bigger aircraft. OK, but what about airport logs and concerned family members? Someone has to account for the plane’s and pilot’s whereabouts. It’s strange.

Authorities, civilians and the military all are confused as to what had been witnessed and reported that night. With so many people flooding the telephone lines and making posts on social networking sites, you have to wonder if this was a top-secret experimental airplane, or maybe something not of this world.

More updates as the story develops.

Full source: GetReading UK

An aircraft that flew dangerously low, made a strange noise and left behind a smell of burning fuel over Tilehurst is being covered up by the authorities, witnesses claim.

Hundreds of people heard a “deafening” noise over Tilehurst, Calcot and areas of West Berkshire and some say they saw what could have been a passenger jet flying over town at around 8.30pm last Thursday, sparking rumours of a plane crash in Sulham Woods.

But the police say they have no record of any incident and nor does the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which also says it should have been notified if anything caused an aircraft of any sort to have difficulties or fly lower then 1,000 feet above a settlement.

Ben Savery, a decorator from Wardle Avenue, said he was with a friend having a cigarette in his garden when he heard the strange noise getting louder and louder for several minutes before the aircraft came overhead.

The 22-year-old said: “I thought it was an air raid siren at first. Me and my friend were talking about it, wondering what it was and it was getting really loud – it was deafening.

“Then we saw it. It was difficult to make out what it was because it was dark. It had a red light on it and it was low – very low. It looked like it was some sort of light aircraft.

“My friend went inside because he was scared.

“I’m worried that there’s a cover-up going on – like someone’s nicked a plane or they were doing something dodgy.”

People all over the area heard the noise and saw something passing overhead.

Rumours started circulating on Twitter and Facebook with thousands of people heading to the getreading website.

More than 30 people commented about what they saw and heard on the website (see page 38).

Princess Pea wrote: “I was out in the garden in Mortimer at about 8.15-8.45ish last night and I heard something really strange . . . it struck me because I couldn’t work out whether it was a plane or a Chinook – either way it wasn’t right.

“I am starting to wonder if this was a military aircraft of some description? After all if it was in trouble it would be wanted to be kept under wraps as much as possible I am sure?

“Not a conspiracy theorist, but clearly something odd was occurring yesterday yet authorities saying nothing happened and that seems the most logical explanation to me.”

JE added: “I saw it, it was definitely a passenger jet, the noise was so loud I had to go look outside, it went right over our house in Calcot.

“Despite the noise (which was like a hairdryer) and being very low it didn’t seem out of control or about to crash.

“You could see the flashing landing type lights very clearly, looked like it was about to land. I watched it head off over Linear Park towards the M4. Very odd, never heard a plane make a noise like it.”

Tenacious wrote: “There definitely was a smell of burning oil in the air, it made me close my windows.”

It is a legal requirement for any aircraft which has experienced almost any sort of problem to notify the CAA within 96 hours but a spokesman for the organisation said they have heard nothing.

Spokesman Nic Stevenson said: “If something was that low that far from an airport it would be an unusual situation and it would need to be reported to us.

“The mandatory occurrence reporting scheme covers everything from if a member of cabin crew broke a bone in their foot on the trolley to if an emergency landing had been made – it covers a lot of instances.”

Mr Stevenson said that light aircraft are covered by the same rules but that they can be harder to track than passenger jets.

Police this week began investigating incidents where a green laser pen was shone at aeroplanes as they passed over the area.

Last Wednesday a laser was shone from the Upper Lambourn area near Hungerford at a plane which had just taken off from Heathrow Airport at 7pm and on Tuesday a laser was shone from the South Oxfordshire area at a plance coming in to land at Gatwick Airport at 8.45pm.