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UFO sighting over Islington (UK)
http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk ^ | 02 February 2007

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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; UFO's; Weird Stuff
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To: maquiladora

Looks like an ELO concert to me ...


41 posted on 02/03/2007 8:41:05 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: snarks_when_bored

Uhhhhhh, is that a derisive chuckle or

an

Yeah, I bet so, chuckle?


42 posted on 02/03/2007 11:06:22 PM PST by Quix (WHEN IT COMES TO UFO'S TRY ABOVETOPSECRET.COM TO LEARN A LITTLE 1ST THEN POST)
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To: Quix

A 'yeah, I bet so' chuckle, Quix...


43 posted on 02/03/2007 11:14:18 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

Ahhhh.

Thanks Big.


44 posted on 02/03/2007 11:26:56 PM PST by Quix (WHEN IT COMES TO UFO'S TRY ABOVETOPSECRET.COM TO LEARN A LITTLE 1ST THEN POST)
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To: maquiladora

Am a bit reluctant to post the following link. But the doc is more than a little sobering and likely more than a little true given all the other stuff I've read.

It's SOMEWHAT tangentially and somewhat smack center of the UFO/ET stuff.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread60572/pg1

Read only if your optimism is resilient and your patriotism fierce.


45 posted on 02/04/2007 10:31:44 AM PST by Quix (WHEN IT COMES TO UFO'S TRY ABOVETOPSECRET.COM TO LEARN A LITTLE 1ST THEN POST)
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Here's an interesting narrative via ATS:

From:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread265835/pg1

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Fighter Jet UFO Footage: The Real Deal
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posted on 4/2/2007 at 04:31 (post id: 2926921) - single - this post REPLYQUOTE


Fighter Jet UFO Footage: The Real Deal

As promised this story is the real deal. So go on and make your own thoughts and decisions about this.

The video you are about to see seems to be a FLIR-hud-vision captured by one of the jets, that were sent out to intercept the unknown object. The materials we (me and one other ATS member who wished to remain nameless) used for this analysis/post were this video, an event-log and a power-point-presentation, but the information included in there has not been worked out yet.The files we have can be released on demand.


RECALL OF AN EVENT LOG OF A SHIP OF THE US-NAVY FLEET
This is the video here and these are the events happened.

Date 14 November 2004

Two interceptor fighters were directed to a certain location, where an unknown object has been spotted at 160@40NM (N3050.8 W11746.9). The fleet informed the intercepting jets that the object was moving at 100 KTS @ 25 KFT ASL.

The jets could not find any object at that location. While the jets were searching for the air contact, they spotted a large object in the water at 1430L. The pilots saw steam/smoke/churning around the object. The pilot described the object initially as resembling a downed airliner, he also stated that it was much larger than a submarine.

A jet descended down from 24KFT to gain a better view of the object in the water. The jet then spotted an air contact, it appeared to be a capsule shaped (wingless, mobile, white, oblong pill shaped, 25-30 feet in length, no visible markings and no glass) 5 NM west from the object in the water.

The capsule passed under the jet at 4KFT at course 300. the jet turned to acquire the capsule.
While the jet was descending and turning the capsule began climbing and turned inside of the jets turn radius. The pilot estimated that the capsule achieved 600-700 KTS. The jet could not keep up with the rate of turn and the gain of altitude by the capsule. The jet then lost visual on the capsule in haze. Last visual contact was at 14KFT, capsule heading due east.

Neither of the two jets could achieve radar lock or any other means of positive id.
The other jet was flying high cover and saw the engagement by the other jet, this jet confirms visual id of the capsule and the other jet chasing it. Both jets lost contact in haze.

The time has come for the truth to be revealed. There is a saying which goes like this:

3 THINGS CANT BE HIDDEN FOR LONG. THE SUN, THE MOON AND THE TRUTH - ~UNID~

[edit on 4-2-2007 by thefinaltheory]


46 posted on 02/04/2007 11:10:56 AM PST by Quix (WHEN IT COMES TO UFO'S TRY ABOVETOPSECRET.COM TO LEARN A LITTLE 1ST THEN POST)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Please get real. No type of testing would be conducted over a populated area and certainly not with UAVs.


47 posted on 02/07/2007 2:56:27 PM PST by Tommyjo
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To: maquiladora

UFO Balloons and Sky Lanterns have been fooling people. Pranksters in the North of England set some off and caused similar interest and claims of sightings of UFOs.

http://www.ufoballoons.co.uk/

http://www.sunderland-echo.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=1107&ArticleID=1683317

http://www.skylanterns.com/entertainment.php


48 posted on 02/07/2007 3:22:07 PM PST by Tommyjo
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To: Tommyjo

Uh, okay.


49 posted on 02/07/2007 9:42:16 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: Quix; snarks_when_bored; All
Video footage of this incident is now online.
50 posted on 02/09/2007 6:00:47 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora
Thanks for that video link, maquiladora. Hard to make out what's happening there. The lights appear to maintain their relative positions and drift slightly to the right at a slow speed. The larger white light that appears to move around looks like a reflection in the camera lens.

I don't see anything too significant there...

51 posted on 02/09/2007 6:08:04 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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