Mystery sightings of orange orbs floating across evening sky (From Dorset Echo)
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Mystery sightings of orange orbs floating across evening sky
11:00am Wednesday 6th May 2009 in News By Echo Reporter
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David Haigh of Chickerell, who spotted a possible UFO
PUZZLED residents are trying to solve the mystery of orange ‘flame-like’ orbs spotted floating across the sky.
Several sightings of the strange spherical objects have been reported in recent days.
Nina Seymour said she saw the object travelling north-west to south-east over the Haylands Estate on Portland at around 9.20pm on Saturday night.
“It was silent and rapidly disappeared into the clouds,” she said.
Peter Hunt then spotted an almost identical sight on Sunday evening as he was watching the kite festival firework display from his house on Bincleaves Road, Weymouth.
He said: “I noticed what looked like a circular orange light in a clear bit of sky.
“I thought it was a helicopter but it didn’t change at all as it came over.
“It was travelling quite fast and disappeared towards Portland.
“It travelled very steadily in a straight line and moved rapidly.”
Similar sightings have also been reported across the area.
David Haigh was among those to spot the unusual lights when he was heading home on the bus from Weymouth town centre to his home in Chickerell.
He said: “We could see these orange lights about the size of a football travelling across the sky.
“There were no navigational lights or anything so it couldn’t have been an aircraft or anything like that.
“They were about a quarter of a mile high and travelling too fast for the wind to be blowing them.”
Mr Haigh said that he and his fellow bus passengers could not come up with an explanation for what they were seeing.
He said: “It was quite strange, I have never seen anything like it. It really spooked us.
“Nobody had any idea what it could have been. UFOs are all we can think they are.”
Kevin Smith, 49, spotted the lights from his home in Vanguard Avenue.
He said: “It was about half ten at night and I just looked out the window and saw this orange light moving across the sky and then about another six or seven of them.
“I opened the window and there was no noise.”
Mr Smith added: “I counted 12 lights in all, it was really peculiar. They were all moving right across the sky more slowly than a helicopter or anything like that.
“They seemed to be coming over the Ridgeway and floating over towards Weymouth, they weren’t in any particular formation.
A Portland Coastguard spokesman said they received no reports of any strange sightings, but said Chinese lanterns or meteors could be the explanation.
He said: “We have had numerous calls of sightings of lanterns in the past.
“All the way along the coastline people have parties that include these items.
“You also have to consider meteor showers, which can be mistaken for distress flares.”
A Dorset Police spokesman also said they had not been alerted to anything unusual in the sky over the weekend.
He said: “We found nothing related to UFOs, orange lights, unidentified objects or anything similar.”
Over the years, there have been many reports of UFO sightings above the Ridgeway between Weymouth and Dorchester and above the A35.
Can you solve the mystery? Anyone who can explain the lights is asked to contact the Dorset Echo newsdesk on 01305 830999.
Comments(25)
Dorsetdumpling
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12:53pm Wed 6 May 09
Ask Archie
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1:20pm Wed 6 May 09
klax
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1:50pm Wed 6 May 09
This was flying over Melbourne Australia. I also have several other pieces of footage of strange craft that do not resemble planes, jets, helicopters or swamp gas.
bungy
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2:03pm Wed 6 May 09
free wessex
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3:58pm Wed 6 May 09
dopey
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6:06pm Wed 6 May 09
I like the caption under the photo..
Buy this photo » David Haigh of Chickerell, who spotted a possible UFO
This raises 2 questions:-
Have they sold out of this photo yet?
When can we buy a photo of the UFO?
X Old Bill
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6:57pm Wed 6 May 09
Unidentified - The person who saw it did not know what it was at the time they saw it.
Flying - It was in the sky.
Object - It appeared to be solid.
This is the late Professor Karl Sagan's definition. He pointed out that it includes Birds, Airliners and party balloons. He didn't mention Chinese lanterns but I suspect he would have done nowadays.
mikeh62
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10:44pm Wed 6 May 09
Could someone please explain what a Chinese Lantern is?
weymouthfox
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11:42pm Wed 6 May 09
weymouthfox
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11:42pm Wed 6 May 09
mikeh62
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9:23am Thu 7 May 09
patregan
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9:32am Thu 7 May 09
We have reported on the same phenomena in Cumbria of late, which was followed recently by an earthquake of 3.7 magnitudes
Pat Regan, Founder of North West UFO Research
patregan
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9:45am Thu 7 May 09
http://www.ssgb.brav
ehost.com/cumbrian_o
rbls.htm
Best wishes
Pat Regan, Founder of North West UFO Research
Atalanta
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10:51am Thu 7 May 09
Now let's see if we get some breakthrough news that our Police force have solved the mystery ;-)
Atalanta
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10:53am Thu 7 May 09
Now let's see if we get some breakthrough news that our Police force have solved the mystery ;-)
Atalanta
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11:05am Thu 7 May 09
Now let's see if we get some breakthrough news that our Police force have solved the mystery ;-)
Dorsetdumpling
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11:26am Thu 7 May 09
Allright I confess - I am in fact an alien from the planet Sreggubyllis-gniyalp
, planted on your planet to deal with any sightings of the advance scouts from our invasion fleet - a fleet which has now been recalled since we no longer have the element of surprise with the likes of the great DavidHaigh scanning the skies so resolutely for our presence..
(Although I would point out, that he is in fact, looking IN TOTALLY THE WRONG DIRECTION - so there!)
Pesky humans.
Goodbye.
Oh, and don't bother reporting any sightings of my craft as I return home 'cos I have now told everyone about it and it won't be news (- although that's never stopped you in the past.)
PS - anyone know of any offies or farmers' markets in the Alpha Cenatauri region where I can buy some decent farmhouse cider? - I seem to have developed a rather worrying dependency on the stuff since I've been here....
Genghis
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12:23pm Thu 7 May 09
Dorsetdumpling wrote:Look us Alpha Centaurians as these monkey-based lifeforms call us(it's Psychosia in our language) have been down on this backward planet conducting research far longer than you Sreggubyllis-gniyalp
Curses! - the Patregan has demolished the cover story in my earlier posting with his flawless scientific argument. Allright I confess - I am in fact an alien from the planet Sreggubyllis-gniyalp , planted on your planet to deal with any sightings of the advance scouts from our invasion fleet - a fleet which has now been recalled since we no longer have the element of surprise with the likes of the great DavidHaigh scanning the skies so resolutely for our presence.. (Although I would point out, that he is in fact, looking IN TOTALLY THE WRONG DIRECTION - so there!) Pesky humans. Goodbye. Oh, and don't bother reporting any sightings of my craft as I return home 'cos I have now told everyone about it and it won't be news (- although that's never stopped you in the past.) PS - anyone know of any offies or farmers' markets in the Alpha Cenatauri region where I can buy some decent farmhouse cider? - I seem to have developed a rather worrying dependency on the stuff since I've been here....
ians. Why don't you try Jupiter instead?
PS: not sure about offies but there's a really good Thlurgobbian Lungfish and Chip shop on Aldabaran IV.
Albo
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1:02pm Thu 7 May 09
patregan wrote:It's fine, pal. Keep wearing the tin-foil helmet and The Man won't be able to find your brain waves
I may add: similar reports have also arrived at our desk from other UK regions. NWUR welcome any public feedback on these phenomena. “Chinese lanterns”, mentioned as a potential cause of these lights, have in fact been dismissed by our research in many instances too as the lights moved against the wind and something erratically in windless conditions. http://www.ssgb.brav ehost.com/cumbrian_o rbls.htm Best wishes Pat Regan, Founder of North West UFO Research
boxfile
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3:44pm Thu 7 May 09
Oh, hang on that, was episode of Dr Who wasn't it? Sory!!!!
X Old Bill
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6:58pm Thu 7 May 09
I bet the bloke from Southport wears a tank-top and speaks with a squeaky voice.
He could do with chatting to a meteorologist about 'crossing winds'. Farmers and Fisherman have been using them for years to predict weather.
I Don't Like The New Echo Website
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7:23pm Thu 7 May 09
I bet he is sat at his desk with a pencil in each nostril as I type this.
Wibble
Dorsetdumpling
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10:37am Fri 8 May 09
Me again
- still here as you can see....
Anyone got any jump leads for a 1959 Starblaster Mk II flying saucer??? (the one with the chromed cosmic dust filters)
PS thanks for all the leads about the cider - so Castle cider is actually rocket fuel brewed just south of Alpha Centauri eh?
- who knew??
UFOwga
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7:25pm Sun 10 May 09
http://www.UFOdc.com
UFO anomalies on National Geographic Magazine: http://ngm.nationalg
eographic.com/myshot
/gallery/26800
UFO's on AVID.com: http://community.avi
d.com/media/all/defa
ult.aspx?Sort=Views
I Don't Like The New Echo Website says...
12:32pm Wed 6 May 09
This has been covered count less times before by the Dorset Echo, and they act as if they have heard it for the first time.
http://www.dorsetech
o.co.uk/search/40668
55.Weymouth_UFO_myst
ery_solved/
The Dorset Echo want you to call them and help solve the mystery- just as they have asked before!
IT WAS CHINESE LANTERNS! JUST LIKE LAST TIME, AND THE TIME BEFORE...