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Aug 1999 - Crawley, Sussex
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witnesses were in their kitchen at around 11.00pm, preparing drinks - the back
door was open due to the excessively humid evening.
Mr HC was standing at the door, and was looking at
the very clear night sky, he noticed the pattern of stars that he recognised as
'the Big Dipper' - ie part of Ursa Major. A small bright satellite-like
object was seen moving through the sky to the north. The object stopped
momentarily, then shot off a tremendous speed, darting erratically in a zig-zag
motion, occasionally stopping, but making a general arc-shaped course in the
sky, now going back from north to south, before it vanished...
No
lights or engine noise could be heard to suggest a conventional aircraft.
The witness is a former member of the armed services, and was in the ROC, so
would have been well able to recognise aspects of aircraft or other conventional
objects.
Mr
HC's brother, who lived 10 miles away, visited the family the next morning, and
during the normal chit-chat the sighting was mentioned. The brother,
without being told what had been seen, then also described the same object that
he'd watched from his home.
The object
described similar movements to those seen by Brian James twice in the mid- 1970s.
Patrick Moore also once recounted a similar sighting on TSAN
- which he explained as a piece of pollen reflecting streetlights!
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