THE LUFOINREGISTER©

Published by The Leicestershire UFO Research Society (Est. 1971)

Edited by Graham Hall & Jeff Lord

2013

Report Review

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　51/13/03. 5 - 8 January 2013 - 21:00 - Fleckney, Leicestershire, UK - Several unusual lights in the sky were observed by male witness on three consecutive evenings. Witness stated: “For the last 3 nights (beginning on the evening of Saturday 5^th January 2013), I have witnessed lights moving over the above mentioned area. I live in a flat based on the outskirts of South Wigston with clear and open southern and westerly views of surrounding fields (designated flood land, meaning no artificial lights in most directions for a fair few miles). My flat backs directly onto the River Soar and as such has several walking paths in the area. On Saturday night just after 9 p.m. I went out for a stroll. I have an amateur interest in photography and do this quite often as the view of the night sky is fairly clear in the area. The path I was walking along faces the direction of Fleckney, Kibworth, Rutland Water etc. After 5 minutes I saw what I thought was the space station shining in brightly in the distance (almost exactly the same size as the visible stars but much brighter and rapidly flickering white/red/blue/green). I walked to the edge of a line of trees in an open field and after watching it for a minute or two my heart stopped when it moved with great speed to the right. Thinking it was my imagination or that I was simply swaying myself I watched it again, and it saw it moving tens of times in all directions, stopping for a second before rapidly (almost immediately) moving again and again. It was at this point that I ran back to the flat to get a camera (Canon DSLR 600D) to try and film it. When I got back to the tree line the light started to slowly rise and then split into three different lights, two orange, and one bright red, and then line up together and hover. Unfortunately I hadn’t even got the camera on the tripod at this point, and when I had I was unable to pick anything up whilst trying to film, but I did manage to take several long exposure timed shots which picked up the lights. After the first couple of pictures I looked up and realised that another orange ball had appeared separate the other three, and was far out in front of the orange/red/orange lights forming a sort of “T” in the air, but over a massive area, so I took another shot, only for three much smaller lights to then appear behind the first three. The objects stayed in formation moving slowly (against the wind) and at times sped up and moved at speed individually before finally disappearing. This all happened over a period of 40 minutes or so. I then went out again the next night with a friend to see if it came again, to my surprise (this time around 8 p.m.) we saw two yellow lights moving together, about the same distance apart, in unison and again very erratically in a start stop motion. However this time the lights were further away and much lower on the horizon.

　 LEFT: The Strange Aerial lights over Fleckney - (Witness photograph) © Wood 2013.

We stood and watched them for about 20 minutes zipping left/stopping/right/stopping and then rising vertically, before they dropped behind the tree line across from us and out of sight. I again went out last night (January 8^th.) at around 8:45 p.m., (this time with my flat mate), and unbelievably the original light I mistook for the space station has seemingly returned, in a slightly different area of the sky, but still flickering red/blue/white/green and moving with great speed. This time I went out with a digital camera with a bigger zoom capability, and watched it hang and then move for almost half an hour, again unable to film it because of its relatively small size and distance from us. After a short while another light (orange) then seemingly appeared out of nowhere, and began moving in the same zipping fashion as before to the now almost stationary main light. At one point it lit up and easily became the brightest object in the sky, dwarfing the light from passenger planes flying overhead (as I mentioned, the sky in this area is relatively clear at night meaning we could see all passenger planes etc. flying overhead, giving us a pretty good means of comparison to what we were seeing). The orange light in the direction of the main bright light (still moving in a small area, dimming and brightening, rising and falling) for a few minutes before evaporating/vanishing. At one point we could see the light beam from people on what I guess was a nearby farm with powerful torches, who started shining them in the sky in the direction of the objects like spotlights. This continued for over half an hour until clouds started moving in, and the remaining (flashing) main light went behind them. . . and then almost cheekily popped back out again for about ten seconds (staying in advance of the moving cloud) before moving again behind them.” (Wood). (IN-NL).

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