UFO seen and photographed over Budapest, Hungary

An account, along with a photograph (above), of a UFO event that occurred in the skies above Budapest, the capital city of the Central European nation of Hungary, has been doing the rounds of the various related internet forums popular with UFO enthusiasts and researchers. The sighting took place on 4 february at 10:45. The witness, who managed to get a photo of the object, worte in relation to their experience:

I was having trouble sleeping and went onto my balcony to get some fresh air when I heard an odd sound. It was like magnetic pulsations rather than a standard engine noise. All the sudden I saw this object, or UFO about 500 meters away. It went silent and hovered for a while. Then the pulsating resumed and the object just disappeared. I managed to get a photo, it is not that great but was the best I could get. I talked to some neighbours in the morning and none of them saw anything at all but they did concede that they heard the odd noise and had problems sleeping.

'I cannot believe myself that with so many events like this happening around the world there are still people that our skeptical about UFOs and alien visitation. I realise that on publicizing my UFO experience people will call me mad and tell me that I imagined the whole thing.'

I’m an astronomy buff. I’ve been building and using telescopes for decades. I’ve spend hundreds of nights on top of mountains and in the desert observing the sky, so I often get asked the question “have you ever seen a UFO?”

And my answer is invariably “YES!” At first people get excited like they’re about to hear insider information, and then they’re brought down to Earth when I tell them I have seen many things in the sky that I couldn’t identify. That’s the definition of UFO. On several occasions I was later able to identify what the UFO actually was, such as a barium canister exploded by NASA in low Earth orbit, or a rocket launched from Vandenberg that we saw refracted through the inversion layer above Los Angeles. Lots of things look funny in the sky if you look long enough.

My first instinct when I see something is to figure out a way that it can be explained through natural reproducible means. Then I investigate if there was an occurrence reported by others. Using the scientific method you can usually figure it out.

But it seems that many people don’t find it “fun” to try to figure out how things happen. They find it fun to be in the spotlight. The easiest thing in the world for a man to do is to pretend he has a great secret.

I have to think the same thing. I think you have to have a UFO mindset to see UFO’s. I have to say that I have seen strange things but I don’t think I have seen anything strange enough to immediately go to the UFO explanation.

I believe in UFOs, mainly because of the lame excuses the scientists/government come up with when something REALLY weird is spotted.

That being said, a couple of times I THOUGHT I saw one but then realized it was just some trick of light. One night I was up in an Alberta campground just at dusk and saw a bright light moving rapidly across the sky - less than 10 seconds from horizon to horizon - very businesslike. I was flummoxed for a momeny until I remembered reading that under certain light conditions, one could see a satellite passing overhead if the light was right.

The other time I was a Camp Pendleton, looked up, and saw something that made the hair on the back of my head stand up - absolutely freaking weird. I went through the usual identification scenario, "it's a bird, it's a plane, it's . . ." to no avail.

The damned thing looked like the upper part of a "#" sign lying horizontally, with the upper bar a tad shorter than the lower. The sky was clear blue and the "thing" just hung there, pitch black, like someone had written on the sky in India ink.

I watched, slack-jawed, for some seconds. Then the "thing" turned silver and began to move. It turned out it was one of those small radar-domed aircraft with a twin tail that was making a slow turn and the light just played tricks. The lower bar of the "#" was the wings, the upper the dome and the verticals the rudders. Jesu, - I then knew what people who saw a UFO felt like and never mocked anyone reporting a sighting again.

The autofocus camera has the worst problems with nightime focusing. However, this is not an autofocus camera because they need the subject centered. Notice the stong side lighting of the photo. It looks as if the camera shutter was opened long enough for a off camera flash to be triggered; perhaps from a nearby balcony. The nature of the strong side lighting gives their trick shot away.

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