Forest of Dean nightime 'UFO' sightings
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Forest of Dean nightime 'UFO' sightings
Hello chaps and chapesses.
My local rag [Forest of Dean Review] is under the impression, judging from their mailbag, that recently the FOD has been inundated with many unexplained 'light' sightings that vary in their size and trajectory.
One set of lights passed over me on a saturday night several weeks ago and appeared to consist of several copters at varying heights heading due south over the river Severn.
Without giving any ops info out over the air...has the training budjet materialised???
My local rag [Forest of Dean Review] is under the impression, judging from their mailbag, that recently the FOD has been inundated with many unexplained 'light' sightings that vary in their size and trajectory.
One set of lights passed over me on a saturday night several weeks ago and appeared to consist of several copters at varying heights heading due south over the river Severn.
Without giving any ops info out over the air...has the training budjet materialised???
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I saw them in E Anglia too! Frit the life out of me. A dozen or so white landing lights all in a big loose gaggle travelling and weaving independantly at impossible speed across two thirds of the sky over some 10 long seconds. It was very, very scary to see something that all your senses told you was impossible, but that's what I saw. I went home feeling very unsettled.
Next time I drove that road I saw the electric cables of a main railway line above, all shiny and polished...
Next time I drove that road I saw the electric cables of a main railway line above, all shiny and polished...
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I saw them in E Anglia too! Frit the life out of me. A dozen or so white landing lights all in a big loose gaggle travelling and weaving independantly at impossible speed across two thirds of the sky over some 10 long seconds. It was very, very scary to see something that all your senses told you was impossible, but that's what I saw. I went home feeling very unsettled.
Next time I drove that road I saw the electric cables of a main railway line above, all shiny and polished...
Next time I drove that road I saw the electric cables of a main railway line above, all shiny and polished...
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OK, I confess, I'm the guilty party. I took a C152 up over there with lots and lots of those balloons attached - you know the ones - those with the shiny little lights inside. I even put a string of fairy lights along the leading edges - it all looked very pretty.You should have seen the look on the faces of those lads outside the pub when I floated quietly overhead. You can glide quite a decent distance with the power off and the helium in the ballon added a little more lift. It was even funnier doing steepish turns over the open fields near to that village, Plod nearly drove his Panda car into the hedge - shades of Last of the Summer Wine. 
Coffee eh?!
Does anyone else find it very strange that so many PPruners apparently have mouthfuls of coffee whilst they read posts?!
That just sounds like an accident waiting to happen!
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That just sounds like an accident waiting to happen!
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If you want to get picky, then it was esspresso!
This thread is of much interest to me, as I will be spending several weekends in the FOD over the next few months doing various outdoor first aid courses.
Although I have never seen any UFO activity there, I was once doing some night navigation (walking) and came across about thirty naked individuals dancing around a large fire, and chanting, as though practising some form of witchcraft. It was one of those odd occasions where you can suddenly see very well in the dark, and can run very very fast despite carrying a heavy bergen!.
After all is said and done, I still find that pic very funny. As my first thought was this must be how Wigan Warrior visualises Agaricus Bisporus.
This thread is of much interest to me, as I will be spending several weekends in the FOD over the next few months doing various outdoor first aid courses.
Although I have never seen any UFO activity there, I was once doing some night navigation (walking) and came across about thirty naked individuals dancing around a large fire, and chanting, as though practising some form of witchcraft. It was one of those odd occasions where you can suddenly see very well in the dark, and can run very very fast despite carrying a heavy bergen!.
After all is said and done, I still find that pic very funny. As my first thought was this must be how Wigan Warrior visualises Agaricus Bisporus.
I think if the FOD Review actually bothers to do some investigating (if its anything to do with the Gloucester Citizen, it won't) it may find out it was the local Copper Chopper and Air Ambulance's .
But I suppose Forrester's are more likely to believe in UFOs than the existence of new fangled 'hell-an-copper' gizmo machines.
But I suppose Forrester's are more likely to believe in UFOs than the existence of new fangled 'hell-an-copper' gizmo machines.
