Bird, plane… or UFO? Woman spots illuminous ‘Tic-Tac’ shaped object
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Yet another woman has spotted a bizarre Tic Tac shaped object in UK skies – the second in as many months.
Karen Brown, from Stockport, was looking out of her kitchen window when she spotted the unidentified flying object (UFO).
Her photos show the illuminous oblong object – which, at first glance, looks similar to the famous white breath mint – bobbing around over the trees at night in September.
A similar UFO – possibly the same one – was seen by another Stockport resident the following month.
Experts are intrigued by the presence of aerial entities that look like the original ‘Tic Tac’ UFO seen in 2004 – but there could be a simple explanation.
Mrs Brown said she was ‘really intrigued’ by the mysterious phenomena which she spotted on September 6.
‘I was looking out of my kitchen window and I noticed what I thought was a star,’ she told MailOnline.
‘But when I really looked it was round with little circles around the outer edge.
‘I took these pictures but the shapes were changing.’
It was back in September that another Stockport resident who preferred to remain anonymous spotted two bizarre objects in the night’s sky.
The first, described as looking like a square or triangle, had a hazy appearance and was changing shape and ‘darting around the sky’.
Meanwhile, the second object – a much brighter white in colour and ‘shaped like a Tic Tac’ – kept vanishing and reappearing.
It’s unclear if the ‘Tic Tac’ sightings by two different people in the same town are of the same object.
Mrs Brown told MailOnline: ‘It was very strange that a lady in Stockport saw something at the beginning of October and I saw a similar sighting the beginning of September.’
According to the Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Committee, the matter falls under the remit of UK Space Command, who MailOnline has contacted for comment.
Nick Pope, a UFO expert formerly with the UK’s Ministry of Defence, has called the presence of Tic Tac shaped objects in UK skies ‘intriguing’.
‘Any mention of a Tic Tac-shaped object performing unusual manoeuvres is particularly intriguing given the US Navy sightings of such objects,’ he told MailOnline.
Another British UFO researcher, Philip Mantle, said: ‘I see no reason why these photos are not of an aircraft or drone’.
‘It’s basically a light in the distance and the elongated shape is made by the unsteady hand of the photographer,’ he told MailOnline.
‘Why would two people in consecutive months spot the same thing? Well maybe aircraft are scheduled to take off at certain times and this is the flight path they take.’
When the original Tic Tac UFO was spotted nearly 20 years ago, it marked a seismic shift away from the entities being perceived as simply ‘flying saucers’.
US Navy pilots were conducting a routine training mission with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the Southern California coast in November 2004.
Aboard was US Navy Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich, who first noticed an unusual ‘churning’ of the ocean surface before seeing the Tic Tac UFO.
The smooth, white oblong object flew at high speed over the water, maneuvering and accelerating in ways which seemed to defy the laws of physics.
‘It appeared to respond in a way that we didn’t recognise’, Dietrich told Reuters in 2021, and seemed to lack ‘any visible flight control surfaces or means of propulsion’.
‘We don’t know what it was, but it could have been a natural phenomenon in human activity,’ she said. ‘But the point was that it was weird, and we couldn’t recognise it.’
US Department of Defense – otherwise known as the Pentagon – declined to comment on the recent Tic Tac images in the UK.
However, the usually secretive government branch has been more transparent about what it knows regarding UFOs in recent months.
A Pentagon document published in the summer revealed that the typical UFO has a round shape, usually spherical or an orb, with a white or silver colour.
The world’s UFO hotspots are revealed – as Pentagon admits hundreds of objects have been spotted ‘all over the world’
The US government is notoriously secretive when it comes to sharing what it knows about extraterrestrial life.
But in a possible bid for transparency, the Department of Defense has released a new document disclosing the ‘world’s UFO hotspots’.
It includes a map disclosing where the most sightings of unidentified objects have been recorded, based on reports between 1996 and 2023.
Among them Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, the east and west coasts of the US including California, as well as parts of the Middle East.
Another remote mountain village in Japan has already been described as a hotspot for mysterious sightings.
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