Derby, South Derbyshire, 01/11/08, 0000hrs
Message:
Dull orange star like object seen to south east just after
midnight. Sky
completely overcast
and object travelled
easterly direction under the cloud
flickering exactly like
a star.
First suspected it to be a firework or a flare
but
object continued course and was visible for over 15
minutes as it headed NE
and disappeared into low
haze.
Details of your
organization was passed to myself to report sky
phenomena.
I`ve noticed a high
frequency of orange light type object reports. What
credibility do you give to
these
observations?
As an amateur
astronomer for 30 plus years, keen aviator, environmental
professional and time
served in the
military I`ve had a
good background to offset most reports
where
they belong
based on natural
and artificial explanations (although still
assumptions)
but I am struggling to interpret some of the
orange
phenomena.
Some of the
observations are of birds reflecting sodium lighting off
white plumage for
example. I`ve
frequently seen this
effect with
gulls.
I`d be grateful for
your opinion on the sighting I sent you particularly as I
cannot understand what
it was. It
has been suggested it
might be a Chinese lantern type
balloon or
someone is
releasing
“Floating lights”.
The few reports
of an orange object looking oval or as described
like a
“Squashed donut”
accelerating
away, leaving a trail of
orange and disappearing
completely are the
ones I`m
particularly interested to find out about. One was widely
observed
exhibit this flight in August 1978. Some initial
evidence
I found suggested it
(or
something like it) was tracked by
radar and successfully
evaded aircraft
interception on
more
than one attempt by more than one air
force.
I`m not able to find
out anything about it now.
Have you any idea what
the accelerating orange objects might be?. This and the
report I sent are
totally unrelated
in my opinion.
Ian
