Posted on 02/03/2007 3:05:05 PM PST by maquiladora
DOZENS of mysterious lights were spotted hovering in the sky above Archway - spreading panic among residents below.
Unidentified flying orange objects stopped traffic and left residents staring skyward in disbelief at around 5.30pm on Thursday.
Islington police received four calls within a matter of minutes.
Witness Alix McAlister, 34, a market stall trader from Bredgar Road, Archway, said: "I just picked up my son from nursery in Bredgar Road. I had just come out of the door when I noticed what was going on in the sky.
"There were a group of them - 10 to 15 of them moving together. My first impression was that they reminded me of a squadron of aeroplanes in formation. But they didn't have a proper formation and they were all moving at the same speed.
"I thought for a while that something was happening in the centre of London. Bombs and planes crossed my mind. But I realised very quickly that they didn't look like any aircraft I'd seen before.
"They were coming from the north and moving south. And then they kind of stopped and they were hovering. There was no sound. They seemed to fade away and I saw more coming and then they stopped. It lasted about 10 minutes."
Islington police informed Contact International UFO Research about the sightings. Soon after another witness contacted the Oxford-based organisation, which is devoted to solving the mystery of UFOs, and described what he saw.
A spokesman for Contact International said: "He told me he was picking his daughter up from school and he saw many people looking up in the air. Traffic had stopped and people were staring.
"He said he saw between 12 and 15 orange lights travelling across the sky. Then they would stop and then they went upwards.
Weird...
NOT my fault!
Wait; let me guess -- no military activity was in the area at the time and no notice was taken on any radar screen.
"Planet Earth about to be recycled. . . ."
What has got the generals excited is using C-17s as a flying aircraft carrier. Well, sort of. The C-17s would carry pallets loaded with “Dominator” UAVs. The idea behind “Dominator” is persistence, a one way UAV that carries two or more missiles, and lots of sensors for finding targets. The Dominator could cruise around for 12, 24 or more hours. After that, it would self-destruct, or dive into a target. The air force has been working on the Dominator for two years now, and there’s no guarantee that it would ever be built. It will be expensive for a disposable weapon, as it will have many of the characteristics of a UAV like the Predator, that costs over four million dollars each. The concept, apparently, is that the C-17 would get as close to the combat zone (taking enemy air defenses into account) as possible, and dump the Dominators out the back of the aircraft. Current plans call for a C-17 carrying twenty or more Dominators. Now that would be a formidable amount of ground attack air power. A dozen or more Dominators, that would cruise at about 250 kilometers an hour, could cover a huge area, which would become a no-go zone for enemy forces below.(from the article "USAF Proposes a C/B-17" at Strategypage.com)
All the rest of the article is believable but this.
ping.
Waiting for the "it was space junk burning up in the atmosphere" crowd to come in.
Interesting...but remember that this is over a district of London, would they really test such equipment in public view and in such busy airspace? Or perhaps that was the point....hmmm...
Interesting...but remember that this is over a district of London, would they really test such equipment in public view and in such busy airspace? Or perhaps that was the point....hmmm...
It was space junk burning up in the atmosphere.
Interesting...but remember that this is over a district of London, would they really test such equipment in public view and in such busy airspace? Or perhaps that was the point....hmmm...
Yep, interesting. We know that our military (which works closely with their British counterparts) is working on swarms of UAVs. The paragraph I posted even speaks of a dozen or so of the Dominators flying in a swarm. How many UFOs were sighted? 12 to 15.
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2nd Feb 2007 1730 GMT: "Can't believe what I saw today and I imagine lots of others too, as we were all looking up the sky. I came outside and this is what I saw.
About 7 or 8 bright red triangular or round lights that were hovering say just about higher than planes coming into land but seemingly higher than normal helicoptor heights. They then slowly moved away but not in any kind of formation, quickening and then disappearing. At the same time there seemed an inordinate amount of aircraft and helicoptor activity (why?) and what seemed crazy was a large jet was headed right for these lights and passed just below them. Pretty much everybody on the street was looking up like they had never seen something like this before. The light was thick, way bigger than plane tail lights and not perfectly round as I could tell.
I got on the bus and went back to my home in East Finchley and as I was walking up my road I then saw them again but they seemed to be travelling further away.
I would consider myself a sceptic but after what I saw I'm probably not now. If it was helicoptors then why no noise or flashing light and to hover and move in strange directions? Seriously off-base.
I would love to hear possible explanations for this and whether anyone else has reported this. I was right next to the Whittington Hospital and the Tube Station in Archway approx 5:30".
Good find. It would indeed seem that our folks are doing a little testing in an urban setting. I'm okay with that, especially if it will help us track and kill more jihadis.
All unexplained events spread panic... it's covered in Journalism 101.
Well, it was in England but that doesn't matter. The U.S. Air Force will claim that they have a nearby air base and those were just flares used in a routine training exercise.
Whew! Glad it wasn't near my house.
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