UFO (Unidentified Flashing Object)

RE: UFO (Unidentified Flashing Object)

I think you’ve sighted a star, whose light is being diffracted different colours in the atmosphere. I’m afraid all sightings which are explained by common misidenitfication form about 85% of all UF sightings.

Two years ago,at night in July, I saw a very bright purple luminous sphere hovering in a stationary position at an altitude of less than 1500 feet, in very close proximity (less than 1/4mile) to Woodford Aerodrome, in Cheshire.

The same object was apparently sighted by more than 100 people, and it got in the Manchester Evening News.

The sphere stayed stationary for about 20 seconds, before changing bright orange, then purple again, and shrinking very quickly to a tiny sphere which then dissapeared.

Within seconds, myself and oeone of the people I with sightied a second luminous sphere on the near horizon, shining bright orange which dissapeared over the vicinity of Lime Park, Cheshire about 8 seconds later.

I also have another serious UFO sighting from childhood, but I also have about 20 sightings which I later found out were something else, so don’t worry too much about mis-sightings.

When I was 11 years old, driving home with my parents from Bradford, I saw a circle of yellow lights hovering at an altitude of about 150-200 feet over a small school in Bramhall, Cheshire called Nevil Road Primary School.

This is the only one of the two sightings that I consider seeing an actual vehicle, as the first sighting of light spheres may have been unknown atmospheric phenomenon.

Twi.

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RE: UFO (Unidentified Flashing Object)

all stars do it if you look closely enough (all the light must come through the atmosphere!)

coanda

RE: UFO (Unidentified Flashing Object)

Thanks guys,either the light refraction or the Venus explaination would make sense,although I’m inclined to think it’s the light refraction as there was another one not too far away doing exactly the same thing.
Thanks again…:)

RE: UFO (Unidentified Flashing Object)

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 07-12-02 AT 07:28 PM (GMT)]It was not necessarily a star,

Jupiter , Mars or Venus is on view this time of year.

but I’m pretty sure its Venus.

(I think the word you’re looking for Gary is refract}

Dave

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If it wasn’t moving, then what you witnessed was as has been mentioned before, a star.

The light (coincidentally travelling at the speed of light but slowing down gradually as it hits the Earth’s atmosphere) was being defracted by all the dust in our atmosphere thus giving the impression of changing colour rapidly.

I think.

Cheers

Gary

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A firework maybe??

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How many beers did you drink before? 😉

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I think that its starlight being split into the colours of the rainbow..by the atmosphere….defraction.

coanda