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