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New and historic Uk sightings of unknown airborne objects
28/11/206
Bempton cliffs
Got a phone call at 6.45 from a guy out lamping
those who dont no. He told me that he and 3 others were watching orange balls of light hovering above the sea as he spoke. I had things to do so could not get up there arrrr. Thats all i have at the moment, will keep you posted if i hear anything else. This may sound odd but i think there will more to report and see.
29th July 2006
Seabrook, Hythe,Kent Saturday evening,
three elliptical shaped lights in the sky around 9:45 p.m.
16/4/06
Time 11.45 to 12pm
Location Over bridlington town
Dark red glowing object
oval in shape
Silent and stationary in sky
Remained in view long enough to take 2 pictures
P.Sinclair.
Note that the sighting on the 12th came in after my own sighting on the 16th in response to my article and pictures in the press.
12/4/06
time 8.45pm
Location Over Bridlington town
Dark red glowing object
oval in shape
Made a humming sound
Made witness frightened
It moved fast towards house
23/2/06
Time7.45
Location Woldgate
Band of gold lights joined or very close
Lasted about 8 seconds
P. Sinclair
16/2/2006
Time 7.20pm
Location woldgate
long thin diagonal band of gold light
Lasted about 3 seconds then disappeared
P. Sinclair
Date26/1/06
Time 5.30am
Location Garton on the wolds
Football sized bright light
Ground level
witness lorry driver
Date14/1/06
time7.10pm
location Swansea
3 Star like spheres
Turned Pink and began to spin
Here i think ILF has a great sighting that can be read on the main sightings page, 3 objects each moving and performing unlike any plane that the witness has ever seen. This persons skeptical background makes the sighting even more interesting, view sightings page for more info...in a few days
Date10/1/06
time11.30pm
location Rudston
Blue star light in sky
Low in sky
Same witness as above, tells me of blue light in sky, also military planes flying around location. this man was watching the object as he spoke on the phone to me. All i have is what is in the text here so you the reader now know as much as me.
Date 3/1/06
Time 11.10
Location Rudston
Sighting Yellow light still in sky
Witness viewing object as he spoke to me on phone. Tells me that it was bigger than a star and blinked out completely then reappeared in same position seconds later.
Historic UK sightings
1290 Yorkshire, UK An ancient manuscript found in Byland Abbey and belonging to the ancestors of Henry, the Abbott, reads, "There was a great portent outside. A large round silver thing like a disc flew slowly over them and excited the greatest terror." People, partaking in the feast commemorating the Saints of Simon and Jude, rushed out into the night to witness this mysterious phenomenon. Monks at Byland Abbey observed a slow saucer shaped object fly over their compound in the night sky.
8.18.1783; London
"Northeast of the Terrace, in clear sky and warm weather, I saw appear suddenly an oblong cloud nearly parallel to the horizon. Below the cloud was seen a luminous body, brightly lit up and almost stationary.. This strange ball at first appeared bluish and faint, but its light increased, and it soon began to move. At first, it ascended above the horizon, obliquely toward the east. Then it changed its direction and moved parallel to the horizon. It vanished in the southeast. I saw it for half a minute, and the light it gave out was prodigious. It lit up every object on the face of the country. It changed shape to oblong, acquired a tail, and seemed to split up into two bodies of small size. About two minutes later came a rumble like an explosion," wrote Tiberius Cavallo, Fellow of the Royal Society, in his memoirs.
1783.08.30; Greenwich, UK
Farmers watched in amazement as a brightly lit, strange object hovered in the night sky. They were even more amazed when the object seemed to release many smaller luminous craft which floated around the larger craft. After a time, all seemed to disappear in an instant.
8.10.1809 Hatton Garden, London
UK, London, Hatton Garden, 08/10/1809, "I saw many meteors moving around the edge of a black cloud from which lightning flashed. They were like dazzling specks of light, dancing and traipsing through' the clouds. One increased size till it became of the brilliancy and magnitude of Venus, on a clear evening. But I could see no body in the light. It moved with great rapidity, and coasted the edge of the cloud. Then it became stationary, dimmed its splendor, and vanished. I saw these strange lights for minutes, not seconds. For at least an hour, these lights, so strange, and in innumerable points, played in and out of this black cloud. No lightning came from the clouds where these lights were playing," wrote Astronomer John Staveley in the "Journal of Natural History and Philosophy and Chemistry."
1845 London
Several Londoners, walking back to their flats after a night at the theatre, watch the flight of a glowing red craft as it climbed into a bank of clouds.
1864 UK
A large, cigar shaped object overflies the south of England, and is observed by the farming communities located there.
1868.06.08 Oxford
Astronomers at Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford noticed that Venus had a large red spot floating above the misty atmosphere of the planet. Upon further investigation, the spot was in fact in the atmosphere of Earth. The UFO changed course several times, heading west, north, then south. After four minutes, the astronomers lost sight of the object.
1877 Wales
Formations of UFOs were observed flying over the Welsh coast for as much as a week. Eight craft would appear and fly in a triangle configuration almost as if on a reconnaissance mission.
1895
Country folk in the green hills of England found themselves transfixed by a luminous, star-like object that rose over a forest and moved off to the east at high speed.
1895.08.31 Oxford
Students at a men's college watched as a metallic disc rose above the trees lining the campus. After a few seconds of stable hovering, the disc shot off at incredible speed towards the east.
1905.03.2 Cardiff
A large cylindrical object floated over Cardiff, Wales. Witnesses described the object "like a hot, red-orange iron rod."
1907
Mr. David Packer observed a strange luminous body in the daylight sky and managed to get a photograph of it.
1909 Caerphilly
Leaving a depression in the ground where the craft had lain, a torpedo shaped UFO crossed over the road and shot up into the sky at the approach of a curious Cardiff man. The man claimed to have seen two "peculiar-looking" men on the inside wearing fur coats. As soon as they noticed him, they activated their craft and were gone.
1909.05.09 Sanford
The people of Sanford watched the curious luminous ball hover over their town. Just minutes earlier, a similar object had been reported in Southend.
1909.05.09
Southend, UK The "Weekly Dispatch," of London, reported that the people of Southend had seen a luminous object cross the night sky. About 20 minutes after the object disappeared, a similar light was seen flying over Sanford.
1909.05.18
Caerphilly, UK Mr. Lethbridge stumbled across two men wearing fur coats and speaking in a strange accent. Parked near the road where he took his customary evening walk was a strange metallic cylinder. Once the two men noticed him, they climbed into the cylinder and took off into the night sky,
1913. 01.04
Dover, UK Fishermen noticed a large luminous flying craft fly out from the mainland towards the Atlantic.
1913.01.17Cardiff
UK Chief constable for the town of Cardiff, Captain Lindsay, and a friend were witness to a large, fast moving airship that left black clouds of smoke behind as it went forward.
Older but no less important reports
216 B.C. Things like ships were seen in the sky over Italy.
.. At Arpi (180 Roman miles, east of Rome, in Apulia) a round shield was seen in the sky. At Capua, the sky was all on fire, and one saw figures like ships...
99 B.C. When C. Murius and L. Valerius were consuls, in Tarquinia, there fell in different places.... a thing like a flaming torch, and it came suddenly from the sky. Towards sunset, a round object like a globe, or round or circular shield took its path in the sky, from west to east.
90 B.C. In the territory of Spoletium (65 Roman miles north of Rome, in Umbria) a globe of fire, of golden colour, fell to the earth, gyrating. It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth, and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the disc of the sun, with its brilliance. It revolved towards the eastern quadrant of the sky. [Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, pp.164-69] A later chronicler of inexplicable phenomena, one Conrad Wolffhart (a professor of grammar and dialectics who under the pen name of Lycosthenes wrote the compendium Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon, published in 1567), mentions the following events:
393 A.D. Strange lights were seen in the sky in the days of the Emperor Theodosius. On a sudden, a bright globe appeared at midnight. It shone brilliantly near the day star (planet, Venus), about the circle of the Zodiac. This globe shone little less brilliantly than the planet, and little by little, a great number of other glowing orbs drew near the first globe. The spectacle was like a swarm of bees flying around the bee-keeper, and the light of these orbs was as if they were dashing violently against each other. Soon, they blended together into one awful flame, and bodied forth to the eye as a horrible two-edged sword. The strange globe which was first seen now appeared like the pommel to a handle, and all the little orbs, fused with the first, shone as brilliantly as the first globe. [This report is similar to modern accounts of UFO formations.] [Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, pp.174, 177]
A rare typeset book from 1493, now preserved in a museum at Verdun, France, contains what may be the earliest pictorial representation of a UFO in Europe. Hartmann Schedel, author of the book Liber Chronicarum, describes a strange fiery sphere - seen in 1034 - soaring through the sky in a straight course from south to east and then veering toward the setting sun. The illustration accompanying the account shows a cigar-shaped form haloed by flames, sailing through a blue sky over a green, rolling countryside. (Jacques Vallee, UFO's in Space: Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p.9)
A term equivalent to our "flying saucer" was actually used by the Japanese approximately 700 years before it came into use in the West. Ancient documents describe an unusual shining object seen the night of October 27, 1180, as a flying "earthenware vessel." After a while the object, which had been heading northeast from a mountain in Kii province, changed its direction and vanished below the horizon, leaving a luminous trail. (Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia pp.4-5)
Here is a classical description from William of Newburgh's Chronicle of a flying saucer seen in England toward the end of the 12th century: At Byland or Begland Abbey (the largest Cistercian abbey in England), in the North Yorkshire Riding, while the abbot and monks were in the refectorium, a flat, round, shining silvery object ["discus" is the word used in the Latin account] flew over the abbey and caused the utmost terror. [Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p.185]
What might be called the first official investigation of a UFO sighting occurred in Japan in 1235. During the night of September 24, while General Yoritsume and his army were encamped, they observed mysterious lights in the heavens. The lights were seen in the southwest for many hours, winging, circling and moving in loops. The general ordered a "full-scale scientific investigation" of these strange events. The report finally submitted to him has the "soothing" ring of many contemporary explanations offered for UFO phenomena. In essence it read: "the whole thing is completely natural, General. It is... only the wind making the stars sway." (Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia p.5) Many unusual celestial events were recorded in Japanese chronicles during the Middle Ages. As in Western society, such occurrences were usually considered "portents," often resulting in panics and other social disturbances.
On September 12, 1271, the famous priest Nichiren was about to be beheaded at Tatsunokuchi, Kamakura, when there appeared in the sky an object like a full moon, shiny and bright. Needless to say, the officials panicked and the execution was not carried out.
In 1361, a flying object described as being "shaped like a drum, about twenty feet in diameter" emerged from the inland sea off western Japan... ...
on March 8, 1468, a dark object, which made a "sound like a wheel," flew from Mt. Kasuag toward the west at midnight. [Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp.5-6]
The European record of possible UFO sightings continued throughout the 14th and 15th centuries: 1322 A.D. In the first hour of the night of Novr. 4... there was seen in the sky over Uxbridge, England, a pile (pillar) of fire the size of a small boat, pallid and livid in colour. It rose from the south, crossed the sky with a slow and grave motion, and went north. Out of the front of the pile, a fervent red flame burst forth with great beams of light. Its speed increased, and it flew thro' the air....
1387 A.D. In Novr. and Decr. of this year, a fire in the sky, like a burning and revolving wheel, or round barrel of flame, emitting fire from above, and others in the shape of a long fiery beam, were seen through a great deal of the winter, in the county of Leicester, Eng., and in Northamptonshire. 1461 A.D. On November 1, a fiery thing like an iron rod of good length and as large as one half of the moon was seen in the sky, over.... Arras, France for less than a quarter of an hour. This object was also described as being "shaped like a ship from which fire was seen flowing." [Jacques Vallee, UFO's in Space: Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p.9; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, pp.187, 188]