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28 July
2007 - High Wycombe
"As BEAMS
was notified of the sighting in Stratford in Warwickshire, I decided
to email you to tell you of an unexplained sighting of lights in the
sky over High Wycombe at about 11pm on Saturday 28th July 2007.
We were just
leaving our friends house when we all saw a formation of lights
above the rooftops of the houses opposite. It was pouring with rain
at the time and there were no stars or moon on view. The formation
was shaped like a kite (a diamond formation with a tail coming off
one of the points). We were trying to work out what these lights
might be when we realised they had started to move. The diamond
formation gradually became a curve with attached to the tail (like a
laid down S)
The lights
were moving fairly slowly to our right and the lights gradually
disappeared from the beginning of the formation as they moved right.
As the last but one light disappeared, the last one went quickly
backwards to the left. There were approx. 11 lights in the original
formation and we could not hear any noise from them. They appeared
to be too close together to be aircraft of any sort and it seemed
unlikely to be lanterns or anything similar because of the change in
the formation and the way the last one went in completely the
opposite
direction.
We were looking in a NNE direction when we saw them."
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November 1997 - Princes Risborough,
Bucks
One evening in mid-November, the witness - Linda
Blackwell, was able to view a prominent symmetrical formation of 10
spherical-looking lights almost directly overhead in low cloud cover.
All lights were white/yellow in colour, perhaps 18 inches in diameter, and the
whole formation remained static for at least 30 minutes, although Mrs Blackwood
did not observe their disappearance. Mrs Blackwood called her husband to
look at the spectacle, but he viewed it without curiosity!
It should be remembered that there were a number of
such formations seen in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire in late 1997, some of
which were highly likely to have been laser displays. The low cloud noted
by the witness would have been ideal for lasers to shine against for a display,
although no beams were obvious for something which was overhead, and it is
unusual that the 'formation' didn't alter, as some of the others were very
dynamic in movement. There were also known laser displays at Vauxhall
dealers in Oxfordshire in this time span, but they tended to have single green
beams shining up into the sky. Investigations will have to establish
whether any company was using or demonstrating lasers at some sort of function.
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