Walkers baffled by ball of light
10:27am Friday 4th January 2008
Comments (17)BAFFLED walkers watched in amazement as an unidentified flying object in the shape of a jellyfish rose above Weymouth Bay.
The four people were outside the Prince Regent Hotel on the Esplanade when they saw an unusual orange light appear in the sky.
Linda Brabrook, 59, said: "We were standing at about 9.45pm just looking out as you do when all of a sudden, over the bay on the right hand side between Alexandra Gardens and the bay, we saw an orange ball of light.
"At first we thought it was a firework.
"It had a straggling tail like a jellyfish and we watched as it slowly rose and we followed it as far as the eye can see.
"It veered left towards Bowleaze Coveway and disappeared into the outline of a triangle."
She added: "It lasted about 10 minutes and was more transparent than solid. Whether it rose out of the sea or the beach I don't have a clue. I was with my husband Victor and my brother Philip and his wife Jean and we all saw it.
"None of us had touched a drop of alcohol - I don't drink. My husband didn't believe in things like that but he does now."
The group were staying in the town over New Year when they spotted the mysterious X-Files-style object.
Mrs Brabrook's sister-in-law Jean Palmer added that other passers-by on the night had also stopped to watch the baffling sight and they wanted to know if anyone else knew what it could be.
She said: "I just wish I had had my phone with me so I could have photographed or filmed it.
"Unfortunately I had left it in my room at the Prince Regent.
"I've seen strange sights before but never anything like this."
Portland Coastguard watch assistant Simon Palmer said nothing had been reported to them about unusual lights in the sky and there had been no emergency flares set off that he knew about.
He said: "Occasionally you get a high intensity of flying meteorites - shooting stars - so perhaps it was that. Otherwise I couldn't say."
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free wessex, drset says...
1:06pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Mounts Bay wrote:Got proof?
Another non story of the echo ho ho. This object was a flame kite. A small candle is suspended inside a very light canopy. When the candle is ignited the kite is released. After about ten minutes the flame dies and so does the kite.X files..I don\'t think so.
interesting UFO photo taken on Dec 27th 2007 off Cornwall
worth a google!
Albo, Wyke Regis says...
1:28pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Princess, weymouth says...
1:29pm Fri 4 Jan 08
free wessex wrote:Yer, an interesting picture of a seagull!! http://www.ufo-blog.
Mounts Bay wrote: Another non story of the echo ho ho. This object was a flame kite. A small candle is suspended inside a very light canopy. When the candle is ignited the kite is released. After about ten minutes the flame dies and so does the kite.X files..I don\\\'t think so.Got proof? interesting UFO photo taken on Dec 27th 2007 off Cornwall worth a google!
com/ufo-blog/
Albo, Wyke Regis says...
1:45pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Guaranteed to fill the local paper with UFO reports, and I'm glad to see that this tradition still continues.
wayitis, Dorset says...
2:18pm Fri 4 Jan 08
HA HA!
george opticalil, In a flying jelly fish says...
4:15pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Biggus Diccus, Nearby says...
4:56pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Jerry Lee Lewis, says...
6:54pm Fri 4 Jan 08
'Well goodness gracious great balls of fire'
chinese paper lantern with candle inside
Well stamp yer feet, I only said perhaps
wayitis, dorset says...
7:59pm Fri 4 Jan 08
They are pretty those lanterns though.
Xano, says...
8:57pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Manfred Mann pt 2, says...
9:18pm Fri 4 Jan 08
we were blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce'
another runner in the light
And little early pearly came by in his
curly whirly, and asked if I needed a ride!
wayitis, Just anded in dorset via Uranus says...
9:27pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Manfred Mann pt 2 wrote:Taling of dope smokers are you alright mate, with lyrics like that last bit I think you just landed in that thing :-)
we were blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce' another runner in the light And little early pearly came by in his curly whirly, and asked if I needed a ride!
Manfred Mann pt 2, says...
9:38pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Xano wrote:
Oh c'mon. Justlook at the picture. I've never seen such a bunch of dope smokers in my life.
Go with the flow,Wayitis!!
amazing lyrical rythm, the song is perfect for the subject that has conceived all of these wonderful comments !!!
wayitis on the ceiling, dorset says...
11:56pm Fri 4 Jan 08
Manfred Mann pt 2 wrote:Pass the Shrrooooms dude!
Xano wrote: Oh c\\\'mon. Justlook at the picture. I\\\'ve never seen such a bunch of dope smokers in my life.Go with the flow,Wayitis!! amazing lyrical rythm, the song is perfect for the subject that has conceived all of these wonderful comments !!!
I is at where it is!
WooRRDDD!
Aukana, Dorset says...
6:44pm Sat 5 Jan 08
Tom, says...
4:24am Sun 6 Jan 08
co.uk - it's a website we found after we watched about 50-70 of these lanterns over Portland a few months ago - eerie, but quite beautiful in large numbers against the night sky, drifting with the wind. The pictures on the website will explain what the people saw.
CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Victor Brabrook, Linda Brabrook and Jean and Philip Palmer saw an orange ball of light with a straggling tail resembling a jellyfish rising over Weymouth Bay
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Mounts Bay, says...
11:32am Fri 4 Jan 08