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4 November
2007 - Southampton
A very
unusual daylight UFO sighting:
"The sighting
was over Southampton on what was a sunny crystal CLEAR day, about 3
or 4pm.
I was getting
the washing in when a very bright white light caught my eye. It was
above me and VERY high in the sky - too high to be a civilian
aircraft. At first I thought it was something entering the
atmosphere and burning up and sure enough it disappeared, then it
flashed again and remained almost pulsing but with no great
regularity. when the the light would disappear there was no object
to be seen. sometimes the light seemed to last longer than bursts.
I have heard
about pulsing propulsion system, or even explosions being detonated
to propel craft. I would be very surprised for it to be an
afterburner as it was just a bright white light. If it was sunlight
reflecting off of metal it would have had to have been highly
polished and unpainted. I watched it travel across the sky until it
went out of sight. It travelled at roughly the same speed as a
satellite would across the night sky - which for its altitude would
have been very fast.
The nature of it
the light makes me dubious of reflection, it would never not shine
for more that 10 or 15 seconds at a time, sometimes the light would
last for longer periods - and yet it flew on a straight course and
so therefore changed its angle to me. without changing its own angle
to the sun (by altering course) but changing its angle to me - why
wasn't it always reflective? I suspect it may have been a weather
balloon, maybe a satellite - but it certainly made me stand and
watch it for a few minutes until it disappeared in the distance."
At this time
of year when the sun is low it does and can create more fleeting
illuminations of aircraft, such 'flashes' tend to be short as the
respective angles of sun, aircraft and observer change rapidly - its
unusual for an aircraft to be illuminated and be flashing with such
frequency while flying normally.
There is a
supposed (as it has yet to be confirmed by the USDoD, USAF or the
likes of Boeing/Lockheed etc) pulsating propulsion known as the
Pulsed-Wave Detonation Engine (PWDE), which uses the outer surface
of the aircraft and the surrounding pressurised air as the
combustion chamber; however this is still largely conventional in
that it produces an obvious exhaust, and as it pulses/detonates it
produces a cloud of exhaust gas on the more general contrail - often
called 'doughnuts on a rope'. As it is a conventional (if exotic)
propulsion, the biggest giveaway is the boom/explosion of each
pulsing detonation - from this report neither a trail and/or sound
were evident.
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