Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, 02/03/09 15:00 +
18:30
Message: I'd like to let you
know about something I
saw on Sunday
1st March and would
like to find out if anyone else has
reported
anything
similar/relating
to it.
I live in Knaphill, a village just to
the
west of Woking, Surrey. I was looking towards the sky
in a
westerly/south
westerly direction in mid-afternoon
and saw two black "dots" in the sky, which I
thought at
first were birds. How big
they were, their altitude and distance, would
be hard to
say for sure, but I would guess an altitude of
several
thousand feet
and a distance of five miles. These
two dots were moving in a south westerly
direction in a
straight line at
about the same speed as a commercial airliner.
The two
dots then became one dot (as if one moved in front
of the
other) and
then in the distance, as they "banked"
round, I could see two dots again. I
thought this was a
bit strange. They
didn't appear to be commercial or light
aircraft (I
live under one of the main Heathrow
flightpaths and on an
approach
to
Farnborough).
Later, approximately 18:30, when it
was dark, I saw two
bright, glowing reddish/orange lights,
this time a lot
closer than before (this
time coming in the opposite
direction as before (north easterly), at a lower
altitude
(low single figure
thousands of feet) and a lot closer (approx one mile -
max). They appeared to be on a predetermined flight path
and were following
each other, at
not a particualy great
speed (normal aircraft speed). I
could not
make out any
wings and
they didn't appear to be aircraft. At first I thought
they
were satellites, but were far too low. However, they
had
what I would
describe as a "dustbin" shape and there
wasn't any audible noise.
I would
describe these as
"Unidentified
Flying Objects", because I could not ascertain
what they
were.
Are the observations linked?
I
have never witnesses
anything
like this before.
Has anyone else recently seen/reported
anything similar for this
area?
