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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 16:27:10 GMT
Hi All, Myself and two of my friends each independently observed some very strange lights in the sky last night. Of course, by the time I got the camera set up they had disappeared, but I did get a look at them through the binoculars. According to one of my friends there was originally 6 objects in the northern sky which slowly moved and faded away. I did not see these six. Not long after they returned in the south western sky, this time there was only three. They were distinctly orange in colour, about magnitude 0 in brightness. First of all they were in a line but then they slowly moved into a sort of L formation and then disappeared one at a time. Through the binoculars all that could be seen were three orange lights. Akin to the colour of a flame. The three lights covered an area of sky of about the width of the W of Cassiopeia. I've never seen anything like it in my life, truly strange. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6651121.stm
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Post by Paul Evans on May 13, 2007 16:56:08 GMT
That's quite extraordinary Robert. I didn't see anything in Larne. Was there any sound associated with the lights?
P.
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Post by martinastro on May 13, 2007 17:28:08 GMT
Thanks for sharing your sighting with us Robert! I am very interested in hearing any more information you come across about this sighting. What time was the sighting?
I am going to keep a more vigilant eye on the sky tonight incase there is a repeat show (Major UFO sightings usually do repeat) hopefully closer to my location. The witnesses including yourself are completely credible so I will be hoping to hear more on this.
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Post by jonathan on May 13, 2007 17:59:16 GMT
Many thanks Robert i didn't see anything from my location but i did hear about it in the news there seem to have been many sightings reported to the coast guard and the international airport which i live close to, i hope some one got an image of the event and sends it in to the press it would be worth seeing!
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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 18:13:25 GMT
Hi all, I think the following image is of one of the UFOs, As you can see, it is no more than an orange light. Which is what I saw in binoculars. I t was my friend who a originally alerted me and said that he had just seen 6 very strange orange lights which had disappeared. I was of course annoyed because I had missed them, but shortly after he phoned to say they had reappeared in the South. I rushed outside and immediately noticed three orange lights in horizontal line in the South west. The elevation was low at about 20 degrees. They were about magnitude 0 to maybe -1 and they were orange like betelguese, more orange I suppose. My first reaction was to set up the camera, but first I had to look at them through binoculars. Through binoculars 7x50s, the view was the same, they were flickering slightly, not steady, but not flickering a huge amount. The time was about 22:30 - 23:00 I will need to check my mobile phone call records though. Robert.
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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 18:29:20 GMT
5 of the lights from one of my friends, there is some hand movement due to being at 10x zoom.
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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 18:33:34 GMT
Strange shape due to hand movements probably
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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 18:43:51 GMT
There is one minute betwee the photos. The second photo I posted is the first in terms of the chronology
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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 18:50:23 GMT
Actually these two photos where not at 10x zoom, they were at 10mm focal length on the camera which is going to be pretty wide angle
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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 18:52:03 GMT
Exposure times where 1/6 and 1/2 a second, handheld
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Post by Administrator on May 13, 2007 19:10:04 GMT
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Post by martinastro on May 13, 2007 22:09:08 GMT
Thanks for that clip Robert and for the images. Going by yours and other visual descriptions, any astronomical and meteorological phenomena can be ruled out. It is either man made or it isn't - then things get even more interesting. I will be watching the news tomorow for more info. It certainly is not conventional in any case. It was not a known aircraft so either the military are doing very obvious 'secret work' or it is a genuine UFO. Interesting because in Nov 06 there was another very credible sighting near Ballymena and the BBC reporter who investigated the witnesses and video footage was convinced it was genuine and he did ask me to let him know about other credible sightings. I must email him for further info.
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Post by Administrator on May 14, 2007 18:24:19 GMT
Hi all,
I have as accurately as I can calculated the position of these objects based on two separate observations by three people (including me). The height based on two observations I worked out to be 2250m +/- 750m i.e between 1500m and 3000m
This is a fairly large margin of error, but that doesn't surprise me
Latern max height = 1000m
The next step is to set up a latern 4.8 km away and see how bright it appears to the naked eye, prob a tad faint.
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Post by Administrator on May 14, 2007 21:05:56 GMT
Hi All, There is a bit of a clue in these things, www.ufoballoons.co.uk/ which come in packets of six. According to the Armagh weather station (I know it's good bit away) the wind speed (at ground level) that evening was basically zero. This might allow any balloons to simply rise up and 'hang there' Maybe also it would allow them to rise higher than normal. There seems to have been two events, each with 6 objects. The first was perhaps 6 lanterns released from Ballymacormick point which had the benefit of the slight coastal breeze so that they drifted for a while before reaching still air North of Bangor. The second group of six may have been released south of Bangor and rose up barely moving at all. There was some flickering visible also which would be consistent with a flame. The fading away one at a time also suggests the lighting of lanterns one after the other. The length of time that they were visible for also would fit with the lifespan of these UFO lanterns. Starting to look like a well coordinated hoax I think. I still have my doubts though, these objects behaved in an extremely strange way.
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Post by Administrator on May 14, 2007 21:13:21 GMT
Quote from the website, "should only be released when there is no wind",
another quote, " there should be 100m clearance"
there are playing fields directly under the triangulated position of the second group. Ballymacormick point is the only place that might explain the first group.
hmm, case is closing on this one I think...
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