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UFO Reports from the UK [ Updated: 18/05/2008 ] |
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10 November 2000 - Shepperton A very good observation from the witness: "I was Dockett Eddy Lane in Shepperton, Middlesex to look at the state of the river near a house we were considering - we were concerned because of the sustained rain preceding this period. While doing so I happened to look up as some lights caught my eye. It was 10.40pm, and I witnessed a circular to elliptic formation of lights as if projected on to low cloud, they were moving slowly, oscillating and in a mathematical symmetry that I found very peculiar and frankly amazing as some lights appeared to be going clockwise others anticlockwise. It was totally silent. It was late at night and no one was around. I had not been drinking and I am no crank. It lasted about 5 or 6 minutes in the sense I got out my car with incredulity, watched for about a minute or so, became a little uneasy and I got back in my Range Rover and called 999 while still looking up at it . I could see it for at least a 4 of 5 minutes as I drove away back to my parents home a mile away. The police took my details. I told some friends and colleagues who thought I was mad. " The witness had an unusual visit, more unusual given the general position by the MoD 'UFO Desk' to such sightings: "A few days later the MOD contacted me and came to see me in my offices in central London. It was the MOD Directorate of Air Staff UFO Section, Kerry Phillpot Section Sec 4a; and a Mr S Fowler of Main Building, Whitehall SW1A 2HB." From the witness's observation and description, it seems 99% logical and certain that this was yet another of the increasingly common (and frustrating to prove!) laser show display, but as the witness commented to us - who and why had such a display on such a dreadful, filthy wet night? The interest and involvement of the Mod UFO Desk was unusual, perhaps we can surmise that this display - probably unauthorized/un-licensed - has caused a hazard or danger to aircraft? |
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