UFO last night?

[birthofanorange]

Just had a phone call from my dad (who lives in Southwick), telling me about a very strange object in the sky - towards Brighton - around 11.30pm last night.

He went outside to put out some rubbish before going to bed and saw an odd light in the sky, travelling slowly towards the east. He watched it for a while until it remained stationary. He went and got some binoculars and could clearly see that it was quite large, spherical in shape and had beams of light inside it.

He described the surface as 'brain-like'. He fetched my mother and a next door neighbour and they watched it for about an hour, before it slowly disappeared into the sky as a fading point of light.

It was reported to the police who took the details. A while later, he looked out again and noticed several plane (or maybe helicopter) lights in the same area and wondered if they were searching for it.

Anyone else see it?

 

[Notters]

 

[birthofanorange]

No, he knows about them and this was something else - besides, it remained stationary for an hour, not many lanterns are capable of that.

 

[pwlr1966]

Jupiter, someone in the east called the lifeboat out thinking it was a flare.

 

[dannyboy]

i live in ardingly and i drove past the showground last saturday, they had these kite things up which were all lit up with flashing lights . looked brilliant . i suppose if you were pissed or on microdots youd think it could be a ufo . maybe it was one of these

 

[Sausage]

Was it a brain?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Jupiter, someone in the east called the lifeboat out thinking it was a flare.

I saw that headline, how can people be so stupid. Jupiter is v.bright at the mo, but a flare ?? Jeez.

I think if aliens came here and visited Southwick first, they'd soo turn around and go back whence they came.

 

[birthofanorange]

Ah....so Jupiter moves across the sky in a few moments, then remains stationary for an hour before heading upwards until it disappears? Does it also appear to be large and have what appeared to be a 'brain-like' surface with light beams inside it - all seen clearly through a pair of average magnification binoculars?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

There was a fierce ball of light high in the sky a few evenings back towards Worthing (viewed from Brighton) that held it's position for ages then vanished. I'm a bit thick when it comes to the night sky, but our guess was that it was the window of an aeroplane reflecting the sun sinking on the horizon. Certainly wasn't a Chinese lantern.

 

[birthofanorange]

I think if aliens came here and visited Southwick first, they'd soo turn around and go back whence they came.

Agree with that, though!

 

[Cullip4]

I saw that headline, how can people be so stupid. Jupiter is v.bright at the mo, but a flare ?? Jeez.

I think if aliens came here and visited Southwick first, they'd soo turn around and go back whence they came.

Your forgetting about the secret base under the Southwick Tunnel

 

[ees complicated no?]

and none of this was filmed ? had over an hour just to get a 10 second clip !!!

 

[birthofanorange]

and none of this was filmed ? had over an hour just to get a 10 second clip !!!

Sadly, he's of the ilk that can't even use a VCR without visual instruction, let alone manage to film something himself.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Your forgetting about the secret base under the Southwick Tunnel

No, I never forget that, but they'd obviously have a tractor beam making them invisible and guiding them straight into the tunnel.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[magoo]

Did he get a fuzzy, out of focus photo as is the norm?

 

[Return of the Rev]

i think you will find it was defo a ufo
no doubt about that.

 

[birthofanorange]

Would that have been flying at 11.30pm yesterday?

 

[FalmerforAll!**]

Ah....so Jupiter moves across the sky in a few moments, then remains stationary for an hour before heading upwards until it disappears? Does it also appear to be large and have what appeared to be a 'brain-like' surface with light beams inside it - all seen clearly through a pair of average magnification binoculars?

You're right - it MUST have been aliens.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

You're right - it MUST have been aliens.

To be fair, he never said it was aliens. Technically, of course, if was "Unidentified", it was "flying" and presumably it was an "object", so by definition a UFO.

But, who phones the police because they've seen something they can't identify in the sky ? What a waste of time.