Go Back  PPRuNe Forums > Ground & Other Ops Forums > Questions
Reload this Page >

UFO over Brighton?

Wikiposts
Search
Questions If you are a professional pilot or your work involves professional aviation please use this forum for questions. Enthusiasts, please use the 'Spectators Balcony' forum.

UFO over Brighton?

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 2nd Sep 2002, 20:54
  #1 (permalink)  

Helicopter Pilots Get It Up Quicker
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location:
Posts: 885
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
UFO over Brighton?

Having been out of the country for the last week or so I may have missed this, (no luck with pprune search), but...

According to the News of The Screws - a quality paper I know! - Sussex Police helicopter was buzzed by a UFO which then out ran them at high speed. Complete with a still picture of the FLIR image and the observer, (one of the original and well respected observers if my memory is right).

Apparently this happened sometime last week but it has only just come to light!

Any more info anyone? True or a late/early April Fool?
pilotwolf is offline  
Old 3rd Sep 2002, 07:35
  #2 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
Age: 79
Posts: 8,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Being a UFO freak I watched the clips with great interest. Unfortunately, I think I can explain them as nothing too exciting.. My son bought me a home-brew hot air balloon... a huge thing made of tissue paper which is launched by suspending a night light in the bottom. The clips looked to me exactly like such a device, even to the extent that you could see the flames flickering inside.
HEATHROW DIRECTOR is offline  
Old 3rd Sep 2002, 09:51
  #3 (permalink)  

Helicopter Pilots Get It Up Quicker
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location:
Posts: 885
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Assumed there probably was a rational explantion as that was the only news coverage I saw...
pilotwolf is offline  
Old 3rd Sep 2002, 10:33
  #4 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Up north
Posts: 1,657
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
We are under attack!!!!
CaptainProp is offline  
Old 3rd Sep 2002, 17:14
  #5 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: preston
Posts: 433
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
ufos

one sunday the news of the screws had an article about a ufo near balmoral. article said that a harrier from leuchars had been sent to intercept it. i saw the item and immediatley thought "oh $hit some nutters going to ring up about this" lo and behold some nutter does ring up! not only that but hes a ufo buff and hes from burnley(we in preston regard burnley as being full of inbred mutants), he went on to tell me he had 300 hours of video tapes of tv programmes on ufo's!!!!
canberra is offline  
Old 3rd Sep 2002, 17:26
  #6 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: USA
Age: 66
Posts: 2,183
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
UFOs SIGHTED OVER LOUGH NEAGH IN ULSTER
At 11 p.m. on Wednesday, August 15, 1999, telephones at the Armagh Planetarium and police stations in Northern Ireland, as residents reported UFOs and strange phenomena over nearby Lough (Lake) Neagh. According to Miles Johnston, the flap continued for five straight days, ending on Monday, August 22, 1999 at 4 a.m. Each UFO overflight began at 11 p.m. each night and ended at 4 o'clock the following morning. "Sightings included large rings of light, with inner rings, over a several-hundred-square- mile area," plus "groups of flying discs flying in formation." Witnesses also reported seeing "a U.S. Air Force AWACS plane accompanied by two red triangular aircraft," Johnston added, "They flew over Northern Ireland at only 4,000 feet." Strangest of all were the reports of "rays of black light" streaming down from the night sky and "some illuminations identical to the Aurora Borealis but due south" of Lough Neagh. Armagh is 42 miles (70 kilometers) southwest of Belfast. (Many thanks to Miles Johnston for this report.)

saw this in a ufo web site....as someone with more than a passing interest in things ATC at Belfast I was surprised that none of my colleagues had even heard of it!

AWACS WITH TWO RED TRIANGULAR AIRCRAFT AT 4000 FEET even the spotters seemed to miss those!!
RAYS OF BLACK LIGHT FROM A NIGHT SKY more Guiness vicar?
eastern wiseguy is offline  
Old 3rd Sep 2002, 17:43
  #7 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
Age: 79
Posts: 8,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
To those taking the Mickey.... believe me, guys, when you get seriously involved in one of these things you'll laugh on the other sides of your faces..
HEATHROW DIRECTOR is offline  
Old 4th Sep 2002, 22:13
  #8 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: EGTE / EHAM
Posts: 42
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Well said, HD. From personal experience I recognise that there is a potentially high 'WTF' factor in such things. Stuck here at FL3.9 my opinions will count for little, but I'm intrigued by an ATC who is prepared to describe himself as a 'UFO freak'... goes with the job, I suppose

Cheers,

m.
msmorley is offline  
Old 5th Sep 2002, 15:46
  #9 (permalink)  
Everything is under control.
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Washington, D.C.
Posts: 435
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
BBC story and footage . . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/news/200209/02/ufo.shtml
Eboy is offline  
Old 5th Sep 2002, 19:20
  #10 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: EU
Posts: 413
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Now that is very strange.....
1261 is offline  
Old 5th Sep 2002, 23:59
  #11 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Planet Wibble
Posts: 59
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I saw the same article about the UFO over Brighton - allthough the incident happend almost a year ago according to the papers.

How ever I must confess that it was Me. I was just trying out my new Intergalactic Super Cruiser with built in spinny thing and extra flashing lights. With go faster stripes.

canberra

Just for your info, Harriers are not based at leuchars. And yes I totally agree that those from Burnley are inbread mutants!
MR WIBBLE is offline  
Old 19th Nov 2002, 18:21
  #12 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: London
Posts: 14
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I would be very interested in hearing any stories of UFO's
If any of you guys have seen one, then don't be afraid to come forward.

No cheap jokes

email me if you want to chat in total confidence.
SKYWOLF is offline  
Old 19th Nov 2002, 18:30
  #13 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Not a huge sand box but very nice winters anymore
Age: 57
Posts: 548
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
UFO's over Phoenix AZ

Don't know if anyone remembers the UFO sightings over Phoenix AZ about 6 years ago. They showed 5 lights in a V formation. Well that was me
I was in a five-ship flying in formation at night from LAS to Davis-Mothan AFB.
I have to say everytime I see it on Discovery channel I burst out laughing.
saudipc-9 is offline  
Old 19th Nov 2002, 18:56
  #14 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: united kingdom
Posts: 26
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Ref the Irish thing, and probably many others.

Two words guys; Aurora / Machrahanish.
martinbakerfanclub is offline  

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off



Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.