Pictures of ‘UFOs’ over Bournemouth
DORSET has long been a hotbed for UFO sightings, and what better day to look into our own X-Files than on Halloween.
Sightings in the county aren’t a new thing, but only since the advent of camera phones has it become easy for spotters to get a snap.
The following are accounts of sightings, details and photographic ‘evidence.’
The truth is out there!
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2007
A video was sent in by Echo reader Tina Pope and it quickly became an online sensation as viewers could hardly believe what they were seeing.
Sadly, or maybe thankfully, the lights were a prank organised by students at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth with Chinese lanterns.
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2009
Southbourne man Chris captured a video of what he thought could have been of a UFO.
Mysterious lights are often seen over the town, but they usually turn out to be Chinese Lanterns or the SBS on late night training.
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2010
Reader Joe Weil saw the object in the skies above Parley Manor. He says: “This object was in the sky for more than four hours.
“Although it moved up and down the object never changed position in every photo so it could not have been a balloon or any other object flying on a cord.
“I phoned Hurn airport, the general manger got the tower to have a look and they could see nothing on radar.”
Joe later discovered after a friend investigated further that it was in fact a crow-scaring device used by farmers.
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2012
An 11-year-old boy sparked debate between sky-gazers after snapping a UFO hovering over Epping Forest.
Jack Brody was playing in the garden of his family home in Loughton, when he noticed a tiny silver object glittering in the clear blue sky far above.
Jack ran inside, grabbed a camera and took a photograph of the object.
Jack’s father Simon, 39, said: “I got back from a walk and Jack ran up to me and said ‘you will not believe what I got a picture of.
“He pointed at this thing that was so small that you could barely see it. It was up there glimmering in the sun.
“When we zoomed in and looked at the picture closer I said to my friend, who was visiting, ‘you have to come and see this.’ “ “We just could not work out what it was. It is a kind of silver circular thing. It is very odd.
“We have heard some people say that it must be a weather balloon, but the way it moved I just don’t think it could have been.
“When a plane came close to it it was there one minute and the next minute it was not, you could not hear it fly off, you just could not see it again.
“It is funny, committed UFO spotters who spend years trying to get pictures would not be able to get one that is that good.”
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2014
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This mysterious light was captured by a Daily Echo reader.
There was lightning on the horizon at the time, but the reader said he did not think it was a Chinese Lantern – it could have been a lightning ball.
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