Posted on 04/23/2009 12:27:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The Inverness woman had visitors at Burnside Cottage on Tower Brae South last Friday when she went to make a cup of coffee and saw the UFO.
"I'm not a sci-fi buff or anything like that but I just couldn't believe what I was seeing," said Mrs Morrison, a 58 year-old widow.
"I suppose it can best be described as a big square thing with a yellow and orange glow. There was no sound so it definitely wasn't a plane or a helicopter.
"It passed right across my kitchen window and went behind a holly tree in my garden.
"I called to my friends who were visiting from Aviemore and we dashed out to the patio. But by then it's shape had changed and they could only see a slim line.
"One of them suggested a Chinese lantern but I don't even know what they are."
Mrs Morrison talked about her experience to neighbours and one them recalled a story which appeared in the Highland News in January about similar sightings in the Highlands.
A sighting of an unexplained flying object was reported to the paper. In January, advertising executive Billie Wealleans from North Kessock told of a strange encounter when she spotted orange lights in the sky above her home.
Thai Balloon festival anyone? Or Loy Kratung??
THANKS.
She doesn’t glow.
She’s a galactic anomaly . . . a black hole on 2 legs . . . she sucks even light in and extinguishes it.
Wellll . . .
NOT THE LIGHT . . . but common light . . .
Well it’s easy enough to make fun of the lady, but when you read the full story, there are some similar reports from other parts of the UK. I also recall that last year, there were reports of what seemed to be ball lightning in west Yorkshire. This was not perceived to be a UFO sighting, and it did take place during a weather situation that favoured ball lightning. Ball lightning can suddenly appear as a mass of glowing electrons that in past cases have done explosive damage to homes and buildings and even killed one or two people in the past. So it’s possible that this report is a mis-diagnosed case of ball lightning.
I am of the general opinion that many UFO sightings are optical phenomena that are mistaken for moving spacecraft when in fact they are either mirages moving rapidly, or electrical phenomena in the atmosphere. Sure, some of the reports are attention-seekers who are disturbed individuals, this one doesn’t really have that kind of feel to it because there were other witnesses and it doesn’t sound contrived with the admission that she doesn’t know what a Chinese lantern looks like, etc.
In the linked newspaper report, there is a story about damage to wind turbines from similar fast-moving orange-light objects of unknown origins. This could also be ball lightning striking the wind turbines and causing explosive damage due to the electrical field set up by the collision.
Put a Koran in that picture and you may be on to something. 1/3 of the angels were swept out of heaven along with Lucifer — and isn’t that the third that’s pestering humanity now?
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