Several people contacted the Evening News with reports after earlier this week we published an article detailing recent unexplained sightings.
Lecturer Pat Argent said two groups of his foreign exchange students spotted an unexplained flying objec
t (UFO) above Scarborough Castle at 9.45pm on Tuesday August 18.
He said one group had been at the top of the steps at the side of the Grand Hotel and the others were sitting on the beach at the time of the sighting and they all saw it.
"It was like a big fireball. It started to go up from the castle area and it was moving up in the sky with a straight trajectory. After a few minutes it stopped and it became fixed for around five minutes. Then it disappeared," he said.
Mr Argent said he saw a UFO in November 2007 and the Spanish students had been sceptical – but now they were convinced about them after witnessing it for themselves.
The students who saw the object were Sergio Guindas Garcia, Ana Maria Checa Sanchez-Oro, Guillermo Bautista Ruiz, Alvaro Lozano Carneros, Carlos Remiro Hernandez, Tomas Rodriguez Huescar and an unknown French student.
And 61-year-old Carol Buxton said she also spotted a yellow ball above the houses in Wain Close in Eastfield on Sunday at about 10pm.
She said it had a number of red lines extending from the ball and was travelling at about 30mph in an easterly direction. She said: "My daughter, Katie Barker, said 'Look at that in the sky' and we all got up to have a look. It was just above the houses. It was going quite slowly."
She added that it could not have been a helicopter because there was no noise and they watched it for three or four minutes before it just disappeared.
There was also a spate of sightings in the Filey area with witnesses reporting bright orange lights – and even flying saucers. Earlier this month, holidaymaker Barry Liles reported a large white object about 50ft above the ground in Muston.
Russ Kellett, of Filey, who has recently been appointed as the vice chairman of the British Flying Saucer Bureau, said he had received a lot of reports lately including one from a woman who lives in Hunmanby.
He said: "On Sunday night at about 11pm she said she saw three orange lights in formation and a red light that seemed to be following behind.
"They came over near Hunmanby then went out across Primrose Valley and when they got out there they went north up the coast."
He said the same woman claimed to have seen a "flying saucer" land in a field near her home about three weeks ago. "She said it had a lot of fairy lights round it in all different colours."
