UFO update – many theories about origin of ‘strange’ lights – Campbeltown Courier

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The unidentified flying object (UFO) featured in last week’s Courier and shared on our Facebook page has caused a bit of a stir, with many suggestions as to what the lights in the photograph could have been.

Some people, including a couple from Campbeltown, claim to have seen similar ‘strange’ lights over Kintyre, some recently and some as long ago as a decade.

The Campbeltown couple, who wished to remain anonymous, sent in photographs of the lights they spotted in the sky while standing on a Kinloch Green path, facing south west, at 1.40am on November 25 2018, which look similar to those spotted from Southend just a few weeks ago.

They said: ‘We saw motionless lights in the distance, in the direction of Drumlemble and Machrihanish. We watched for about five minutes until cloud obscured them.’

This second sighting doesn’t help to explain the origin of the lights, but many people have their own theory.

While many believe there is a perfectly reasonable explanation – Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, for example – some believe they could, in fact, be of extraterrestrial origin.

While the Starlink satellite theory seems plausible, some of the sightings took place before the billionaire businessman’s SpaceX aerospace company launched its satellite internet constellation.

One person quipped that perhaps it was an ‘experimental aircraft’ flying out of the ‘secret airbase’ at Macrahanish, while another suggested Santa on a pre-Christmas test-flight!

A Southend resident, however, provided perhaps the most logical explanation for the most recent sighting.

The woman, who also wished to remain anonymous, believes the lights came from a film set ‘very, very brightly lit’ in Northern Ireland, which she admits did look ‘suspicious’ in the dark.

She said her home looks across to the Antrim coast, roughly in line with the Torr Head area, which is where scenes for an upcoming film, The Northman, were being recorded.

‘I noticed that there was a building of some kind I had never seen before, which turns out to be the movie set,’ she explained. ‘Some nights the lights came on later than others, sometimes it was 11pm before they came on, but it was really bright. This went on from about October 11 to October 15.’