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Strange sightings in the evening sky

Discussion in 'Break Room' started by Mark Russell, Jan 1, 2010.


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    Good evening and a happy New Year to all on Arena. This is a serious post and not as a result of enthusiastic over-indulgence last night! Just wondering if anyone else has seen unusual airborne activity over the festive period? For those not in the UK, we are in the grip of very cold weather presently and have been for a couple of weeks - with more forecast - but in many areas the wintry days are accompanied by spectacularly clear nights which are perfect for star-gazers. Earlier this evening, at 5.10pm whilst enjoying a New Year meal with some friends, we noticed a strange object flying across the sky in front of my dining window. What caught the attention was the underside - it had the appearance of an aircraft on fire. I live midway between Blackpool Airport and BAE Warton in Lancashire so we see quite a range of aircraft from cessna props, chartered mid-size jets such as 767s, typhoons, tornados and assorted helicopters. Naturally we opened the window to get a better look. The "aircraft" was travelling around the same speed as a helicopter - around 100 kts, at around 1,000 and 1,500' altitude and approx 1 mile from where we were. The sun had just set and the sky was clear and the visibility was excellent. Whatever it was it was something none of us had seen before - certainly not in these skies.

    Underside had the appearance of hanging globules of fire atop a cylindrical object around 10-15 metres in length. It radiated a bright orange glow and was completely silent. I live opposite a beach and there was absoltely no traffic noise at the best of times. We hear aircraft from miles away. This was flying around a mile away and it was silent. It passed north to south for a couple of miles then simply disappeared. One of our party recalled seeing two similar objects on Christmas night around 7.15pm whilst driving, but discounted it at the time thinking it must have been a reflection or a firework, but thought it unusual in that it was travelling horizontally around the same height but in a south to north direction. When he stopped to look - it had vanished. Have been checking the news tonight but there has been no mention, but when I googled UK UFO sightings I came across this website which has multiple sightings all over the UK in recent days. Calling family in Scotland this evening to relate the tale and we are surprised to hear one family member in Fife had a similar experience shortly after 6.30pm this evening too - same characteristics. About 250 miles away.

    Now thank you for your concerns and I am still relatively sane and I know what a Chinese lantern looks like, but if anyone else seen anything unusual in the last few days I would very much like to hear from them.

    http://www.uk-ufo.co.uk/

    All the best

    Mark Russell
     
  2. Ian Linane

    Ian Linane Well-Known Member

    Hi Mark

    Similar sighting last night here is Sussex. Alss a very cold and clear night sky. I live near a small local airport and within 10 miles of Gatwick. Similarly used to seeing aircraft lights and hearing aircraft noises. We also get the Police helicopter hovering around at times with their spotlight blazing. What struck me about this sighting (I was driving at the tme) was that it seemed simply like a large orange glow (bit like you get fom a street lamp from a distance) but a couple of thousand feet up. It was relatively large for a sky light at night, imagane a whole underside of an aircraft in orange glow. Quite strange. Certainly not seen anything like it around here over the last 8 years.

    Ian
     
  3. Weird, huh? First thought was Chinese lanterns but the "flight path" was at the same altitude i.e. horizontal flight - and quite fast circa 100 kts. There was no wind last night - very calm and clear and it certainly looked to have its own propulsion. Haven't seen any lanterns that are 10-15m long anyway. If it's a hoax, then it's a good one!
     
  4. peterjluce

    peterjluce Member

    I saw lights over Plymouth when I looked outside just after midnight on New Years Day. There seemed to be a wave of them- at least four I should think, proceeding slowly over the city in a more or less north to south direction. They were red, not especially bright, moving at the apparent speed of helicopters, however they did not resemble helicopters otherwise- no searchlights, and besides there were far too many, the cops never launch that many at once, and the Navy surely wouldn't hold an exercise at 00.00 hrs on New Years Eve. The lights remained at the same height throughout so they weren't fireworks.

    My sister, whom I phoned to give New Year greetings, noticed the exact same phenomenon over Teignmouth, simultaneously.

    In answer to the obvious question- I had consumed no more than 1.5 units that night!
     
  5. Belfast 26th December. Have had several emails with similar sightings.... :confused:

     
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  6. I saw a cow in a field yesterday. Today he was in the same place but FACING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION with no obvious human intervention!

    Could be the end of days....

    What do you think these lights are? It's a bugger that they only happen at night when they can't be clearly visible! Weird that.
     
  7. Mark:

    I'm sending a few of my American friends over to investigate......
     

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  8. ...but I don't think I'll send this one over.....:rolleyes:
     

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  9. David Smith

    David Smith Well-Known Member

    Mark

    These sound just like Chinese lanterns http://www.chineselanterns.co.uk/skylanterns/chinese-lanterns.html
    even tho you have indicated you thought that they were not.

    There were loads let off from the hills around Folkestone (I think the Nepalese community use them) and they travel quite fast across the sky even when the wind speed at ground level is very low once up a few hundred feet it can be much faster. Also the darkness skews perspective in relation height, size and relative land speed. A couple crashed into trees nearby the house which is on an opposite hill, but before they crashed they appeared to be miles away, large and travelling really fast but as they approached the trees, which changed the perspective, they were travelling much slower than previously appeared and of course were only a few feet tall.

    Happy New Year
    Dave:drinks
     
  10. Think Mulder and Scully would be having a fabulous time with all these sightings. Plenty more across the country....

     
  11. Always lights at night. Never F*****g great objects in daytime. Why is that?

    I see two possibilities. One is that they are only there at night, the other that they are there in daytime too at which time they are IFOs (identified flying objects).

    And honestly, if little green men have crossed the vast gulf of interstellar space and are cruising around at low altitude at night (to avoid detection) in vessels which cannot be picked up on commercial radar for every military base, air traffic control tower and hobbiest, they would have developed ships which don't light up like... well like chinese lanterns, in the dark.

    Unidentified, yes. But lets be clear, its lights in the sky which are not identified by the people seeing them. Odd, certainly. But to me only in the same way as people getting better with acupuncture or watching the x factor. I can't explain those things either but just because I can't does'nt mean there is no pragmatic explanation.

    But then again I believe a guy who'd been dead 3 days got better, so who am I to throw stones?;)

    Happy new year to all.
     
  12. Yep, I would go along with that. Never saw any green men either. It might be they were some sort of drone or model aircraft. Could've been some low flying geese that feated on some discarded vindaloo. Whatever they were, there's sure to be a rational explanation - not for a minute suggesting they were supernatural. But a weird phenomenon, especially with multiple sightings and yes I agree that many of these would be chinese lanterns, but I would be really surprised if our sighting turned out to be that. But hey, who knows? Not the local cops - who said they had literally hundreds of calls Friday night but could offer no explanation - as yet. I've a hunch that Rothbart's behind it....

    May the force be with you....



     
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  13. Paul Bowles

    Paul Bowles Well-Known Member

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  14. fatboy

    fatboy Active Member

    If there are UFO's, why would they be going to Blackpool?

    Stag do?
     
  15. More unexplained sightings.....

    ....and for an international flavour....
     
  16. And for those who enjoy Irvine Welsh....

     
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