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.
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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
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