- HBCC UFO Research Note: At the end of this report you
will find a link to the video footage. Also, many upon many people witnessed
this event, news reporters are checking into the sighting, plus police
supposedly were taking calls from other folks who watched the amazing light
show. Mr. John hays at UFOINFO and myself area receiving a few reports,
but we are looking for anyone else who witnessed this sighting on September
10, 2005 to either write to myself at <http://www.hbccufo.org>http://www.hbccufo.org
or John Hayes at UFOINFO at: <http://ufoinfo.com/>http://ufoinfo.com/
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- Thank you very much, Brian Director of HBCC UFO Research.
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- Date: September 10, 2005 Time: Approx: 10:00 p.m.
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- Approach_Direction: from the Northwest Departure_Direction:
to the Southeast Witness_Direction: East
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- Description: After a call from a friend telling of strange
lights at around 9.30pm I went into my garden (block of flats, ground floor
garden facing east) to look and saw a triangular formation of reddish/orange
lights that were quite faint. I thought they were strange but as the weather
was cloudy with clear patches and there was a low reddish cloud as you
often get in the evenings I assumed they were bright stars and the cloud
was somehow coloring them red. It was a bit weird however as I noted that
no other stars that I could see through several gaps in the cloud were
similarly colored.
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- They appeared to be fading too but as the clouds moved
over the sky they were slowly covered.They did briefly shine through this
cloud though and I thought this a bit odd too as again no other stars were
so bright and were dimmed out completely by, even the thinner clouds.
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- I grabbed a small digital camera and I was ready to film
the sky where they disappeared the moment that part of the cloudy sky cleared
but after about 15 minutes or so it didn't seem I was likely to see that
part of the sky cleared again (pretty much the whole of the sky to my front
and left (from NE to ESE)was low orange cloud and to my right and some
directly above was patchy clear sky)
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- There wasn't anything else I could do once the clouds
covered the lights and I was about to give up and was heading inside when
suddenly from behind where I had been looking at the light they reappeared!
VERY much lower and very bright! they were also IN FRONT of the low orange
cloud and moving rapidly across the sky! I switched on my camera and started
filming and I was suddenly aware I was going to witness this and no one
else might see it. I then shouted out loud "Everyone in the Flats
Look out your windows into the sky! Look at the lights!!" as you can
imagine I was delighted when at least 5 or 6 heads popped out of the windows
and they too were startled by the lights. As we all watched the orange
orb like lights proceeded to fly into a position EXACTLY where the other
star-like lights had been earlier(to the southeast and about 60 degrees
above the horizon)
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- I had to film by hope alone,aiming by pointing, as I
could only see a black screen on my cameras LCD screen but they were so
very bright and orange/yellow that I was sure something would show up.
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- There was absolutely no sound either as far as I could
hear and everyone was agreeing (a flat above had the whole family looking
out,2 adults and kids)and we were trying to think of an explanation for
these weird lights and no one could come up with anything they could relate
these lights to.
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- There are many aircraft in the sky around my area as
its part of the landing patterns airspace for the major airports close
by (Stanstead to the North somewhere and Gatwick and London airport to
the south), and we are well used to seeing them with their landing lights
on but the thing is you can always hear them. There were no jet sounds
or propeller or rotor blade sounds that would suggest a smaller aircraft
either. There were no visible trails or an appearance of something burning
etc, they were traveling far too fast for anything floating low without
power like a glider, balloon or perhaps model aircraft or similar.
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- The fact it was below the clouds ruled out meteorite/micro
meteorite and besides they don't fly in formation do they?
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- The one thing which might have some bearing is that we
have seen a lot of rain today and several flashes of lightning followed
by thunder but it was always well and truly in the distance. (Lightning-the
flash type, not the bolt to the ground type- was followed several moments
later by thunder indicating distance of course) from what I've seen before
when they try to explain lights there is the possibility of a strange phenomenon
called ball lightning?, (I have to say if anything looked ball-like it
was definitely these lights!)
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- I am totally unable to explain these lights in terms
of something simply explained and I have been an avid follower of airshows,
aircraft books, documentaries etc so I'm well used to the behavior of aircraft,
even those maneuvering in unusual ways and when I was younger I did a lot
of astronomy and I would say I have had a lot of experience studying stars,
planets, moons etc. and so I'm far less likely to make a mis-identification
of anything celestial.It really is bizarre.
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- P.S. I reported the sighting to my local police about
11:00 pm and I was told by the lady on the desk that the police had already
been called out to see these lights and they had confirmed they saw them
!! It would seem a whole load of different people saw these lights too!.
They could offer no explanation either and said they had checked with local
airports too.
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- I have the film I shot in digital jpg. format at about
4.3Megabytes in size lasting some 3 or 4 minutes with around 2 of those
minutes showing the 3 lights together. It is not very clear however as
the digital film has a very low resolution.Its still a cool film though
and better in fact than the film I saw of the Phoenix Arizona sighting
which is very very similar in that its a digital camera tracking several
lights in the dark.I never dreamed Id end up having something on film like
this when I saw that discovery documentary!! what now? do I need to send
it anywhere? Can it be enhanced somehow?
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- Color/Shape: Orange/Yellow Orb Like lights very bright
and luminous appearing the size of a garden pea held at arms length at
first but later the size of a more brightly lit star
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- Height & Speed: tricky to tell but I would have to
say they appeared to me to be lower than the landing aircraft (so maybe
1000 feet?) as they appeared from behind my flats but by the time they
had gone they appeared to be very high and almost like a satellite moving
very slowly away though and not on a steady track like they do.
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- The total time from when they appeared to my left to
the time I could no longer see sideways movement and they appeared to be
moving up was around 2 minutes but without being able to gauge distance
or even altitude very well I couldn't say how fast they were traveling.
I can say they moved faster than aircraft do that are in the holding pattern
for their landing.
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- TV/Radio/Press: As its only 12.30am and I saw them a
few hours ago I don't think its likely to be on TV/Radio yet, However the
officer from my local police control center said the news of the world
group was asking if there were any pictures to her so maybe there will
be some press related news items tomorrow.
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- UFOINFO:- http://www.ufoinfo.com Official Archives for
UFO Roundup, AUFORN Australian UFO Reports and Experiences, UFO + PSI Magazine
plus archives of Humanoid Sighting Reports (Albert Rosales), Filer's Files,
UFO News UK.
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- Additional Information: (Plus More To Come) Gathered
By HBCC UFO Research
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- Just to fill you in on what's happened today, The sun
newspaper sent a reporter to hear our story and he spoke to me and 3 of
my neighbors and to see the film I shot and he was intrigued by the whole
thing, he said he couldn't say if they would run with the story but that
it certainly sounded very interesting and most unusual. He was going to
check if there were official police reports etc and I guess we'll know
tomorrow if the story is used in the paper.
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- Then tonight on the southeast news on ITV1 there was
a report about the same lights with some footage of the very same orange
lights but it was not a very good film due to the operator trying to zoom
into the lights and missing out 2 of the lights mostly or creating a large
blur as it went right out of focus.
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- My film, although also digital and with a similar low
resolution (to the film shown on TV), is different in that I do no zooming
or attempts to isolate a single light, I just tried to keep them in frame
and keep it as steady as I possibly could, I was pretty sure the digital
camera couldn't possibly gather a perfect picture at that sort of light
level and it doesn't give anywhere near as detailed a picture as a normal
cellulose film would have and so I concentrated on trying to gather the
whole scene, some shaking at the start of my film was due to me ringing
my friend back to scream at him to look in his garden again(he had gone
back inside after he lost sight of the 3 star-like lights). I was also
calling out to my neighbors as I held the camera up.
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- I'm sending you the film in a winzipped format (from
4.3mb to 958kb) so it doesn't swamp/block up your email line but if you
have broadband like me I can send you the full 4.3mb version which is an
exact copy of what appears on the camera.
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- I took a look at the compressed film and to be honest
it doesn't seem to lose much info if any at all so you may not need the
full film. You will notice a lot of the film appears blank after the lights
fade but we could all see the faint lights by eye during the time I held
the camera up so you can gauge how long it took to totally disappear by
the length of the entire film.At the end of the film you will notice on
the right a faint view of the upstairs windows of my block of flats which
was a fully lit window and you will notice it appears very dim indeed.
This should show you the sheer intensity those strange orbs of light must
have had to appear so bright on such a poor light gathering camera.The
film just doesn't do them justice at all, showing them way dimmer than
I saw with my naked eye. My memory is of lights appearing to be very similar
in intensity to looking directly at a yellow street lamp standing across
a street from it. I got the same glowing halo like effect you can see when
you look directly at one of those bulbs in the evenings.
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- I hope this helps put the film in perspective and you
can agree I probably got the best information I could have hoped for with
the tools at hand, I'm glad I got anything at all though as it could have
been far worse and shown nothing at all.
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- If you like I can also do a daylight tracking shot later
to show how I remember I held/moved the camera and this may help you understand
the distances/ area of sky etc. Let me know if you want this.
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- I hope you like the film and I give permission to use
it on your site if you feel you need to show others. Please keep me informed
of any development as I'd love to learn of other sightings of the same
object or any news about them or your thoughts on what they may have been?
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- PS after watching the film I thought I should add the
lights appeared more round than they do on the film and I think they were
3 separate lights rather than one object with lights at the edges as you
tend to think when looking at the film.The lead light also seemed far more
steady than the trailing two.
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- The footage and photos are ©2005 R.Sloan UK
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- Video footage can be viewed at: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3181
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- Brian Vike, Director
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