weird??

flossy · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 3:59 am Post subject: weird??

i saw something weird lastnight Confused

it was after midnight and i let the dog out before i went to bed, i looked up at the stars and i saw 2 orange flashes, i thought a plane but then nothing
i kept looking didnt see any plane
then as i was looking at the stars one began to move, pretty fast too then disapeared
i was pretty stunned and havent a clue what i saw
it was pretty high up so couldnt see any shape, well like i said i thought it was a star as it was still untill it started moving Confused

Agentscott · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 1042 Location: Essex

Great news Flossy,
that sounds like a decent sighting and I have read many times that UFO's do like to hide and mimic stars, pop out of clouds ect.
Orange is also the colour of whats being mostly reported at the moment so this certenly is intriging, so now we do have more odd things appearing in the sky.
So it was stationary and then moved off? A white star?After orange flashes.

Agentscott · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 1042 Location: Essex

I found these simular sighting reported near you...

http://www.uk-ufo.co.uk/2011/05/south-shields-29th-april-2011/

More orbs here but grey..
http://www.uk-ufo.co.uk/2011/04/newcastle-upon-tyne-october-2008/

If you take a look there has been some other really odd sightings but from what I can tell it's mostly orb type sightings.

I am still ploughing through to see if anyone else reports flashes like that.

flossy · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 7:21 am Post subject:

the flashes i saw were not in the same place as the moving star, i,ll have a look at the links you put up and see if its simular Wink

flossy · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 7:31 am Post subject:

those links dont sound simular
what i saw looked like a star, it wasnt bright, quite dull but did move very fast and seemed very high
what got to me was that it just disapeared Confused

Agentscott · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 1042 Location: Essex

There is a possibility you spotted a satelite flossy but personaly i'm ruling that out as satelites or the ISS don't stop and then move of so I think thats that ruled out.
Strangly I have had the odd minor sighting like this one where I spotted a satelite but then a second catch up and then they went behind cloud, interesting.
Take a good look at the sightings because then you can take you time to see where they are commonly showing up near you and know in advance what potentualy to look for.

flossy · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 7:42 am Post subject:

i thought maybe a satalite or a shooting start out in space, but it set off from a stand still moved very fast then vanished Confused

im thinking the flashes might of been trick of the eye??
i dont know?
its got me very intrigued, so im gonna go out tonight for a bit and just sit and watch the sky lol

Agentscott · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 1042 Location: Essex

Good idea Flossy, sounds fun, It's adictive once you get bitten by the bug! sometimes people do get repeat sightings and see things return back the second night and this sounds to odd to be a satelite, high ufo's will look almost the same so if this thing suddenly moved off then it couldn't have been a satelite.

I'm not sure about the flashes although I have heard others mention them, I think one possible reason is iridium flashes where light is reflected off of a object and we see a flash, not orange though. I dont beleive thats what you spotted though, a coincedence that a satelite decides to go off on it's own course from a standstill. , Perhaps they were connected somehow, that depends how far away the flashes were from the what ever it was.

Well spoted Flossy.

Agentscott · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 1042 Location: Essex

Heres another discribing exactly that you spotted and near you too.
Here it is.....
http://www.uk-ufo.co.uk/2011/04/gateshead-tyne-and-wear-3rd-4th-of-april-2011/

Still can't find anything on orange flashes though........orange balls but not flashes.

D B Sweeney · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:03 am Post subject:

The orange flashes could have been an aircraft or maybe an eye aberration. The Bright light that moved fast then vanished could have been a satellite or the ISS moving out of sunlight.

DB

flossy · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:31 am Post subject:

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

If you looked at the 'star' and it was stationary then started to move - it coul not be the ISS or a satelite or star/planet.

The two flashes remind me of this:

http://www.worldofghosts.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4054

I'm not saying this is what it was; it just reminded me of it.

The object I saw also looked like a star.

Do you think there is any chance it was a chinese lantern?

flossy · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 1:13 pm Post subject:

no i dont think it was a lanten, it moved too fast

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

when you looked up to see a plane; how long were you looking at the stars before one started moving?

flossy · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 1:27 pm Post subject:

after i saw the flash's i was stood for a couple of minutes when i saw it move, i couldnt take my eyes off it lol