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Irish UFO Sightings / Incidents / Etc.

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Read this on BT Yahoo news and thought others might find it interesting too:

Irish defence forces eyed UFOs for 37 years

AFP - Thursday, September 20 10:43 amDUBLIN (AFP) - Ireland's defence forces maintained a dossier on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) for 37 years, according to details released Thursday under the country's freedom of information laws.

The documents dating back to 1947 that were released to the Irish Times newspaper log a range of strange sightings.

Descriptions of UFOs that were reported range from being like fried eggs to a household iron with fins at the back, according to the newspaper.

An early entry in the file from a shopkeeper and farmer in County Kerry in the southwest of the country in 1947 says he told police he saw a circular object moving "faster than a motor car" through the sky.

"It was flat and was like a big wheel or large plate... the rim was white and it was hollow in the centre."

A spokesman for the defence ministry told the newspaper that since 1984 the UFO dossier was no longer maintained.

The dossier is similar to one compiled by Britain's defence ministry on reports of UFO sightings. Declassified last May, *it found that none of the recorded incidents in the last 30 years was actually a flying saucer.

In March this year, France opened its files on UFOS, revealing 1,600 alleged sightings over five decades.

*As an aside, I hadn't heard that statement before. Is it well known and I just missed it?!
 
akaWiintermoon said:
*As an aside, I hadn't heard that statement before. Is it well known and I just missed it?!

You might have, there have been articles running about it in the FT since last year.
 
tony_carson said:
"An household iron with fins"

- We're in trouble now!!

If you think about it, it might fit a rough description of the early cRuise missiles.
 
gncxx said:
akaWiintermoon said:
*As an aside, I hadn't heard that statement before. Is it well known and I just missed it?!

You might have, there have been articles running about it in the FT since last year.

Speaking as an Irish man, It's not a wonder that the Irish Defense forces came to this conclusion. As their is no country more cynical than Ireland (well maybe there is, but if we base it on a per capita level, Ireland wins, at least we can win at something.). There is nothing more rewarding for an Irish person to take the piss, all be it in the name of fun and humour, out of each other. And Nothing could be better, than some crazy crackpot, shouting about aliens and flying saucers. Oh! The lads would queuing up and lining up the quips, " Ah haa haa! Would ya go home and sleep it off, ya feckin' crazy Langer!". ('Langer', comes courtesy of the local Cork vernacular').

It's a wonder at all that the Irish defense forces kept a dossier at all, be it with a straight face or not ;). "Hee hee, Did'ja here yer man, ahh jay'sus". It is indeed perhaps, the reason why aliens have not bothered to frequent Ireland with visitations. For fear of the awful slaggin they may get, per chance they are happened upon. "Jay'sus look Moyira, Sure he's no bigger than a leprechaun, And look at the state of him, with his silly space boppers, ah! Sure is that sopposed to be some sort of space blaster, what ya gonna do with that, huh, sure that wouldn't poach an egg for chris'sake.......".

On the other hand, Ireland has always been blessed with the fact that not much happens around here. Well nothing of real interest anyway, and when it does, it usually happens in what is normally called "...the back arse of nowhere...". Which of course reminds me of the old expression "If a tree falls in the forest would anyone hear it?", and yes trees have been known to fall here in the Irish forests, and strangely enough no one has ever reported hearing any do so, owing mainly to the fact that most of the forested areas in Ireland are located in the aforementioned *'back arse of nowhere'.

Although Ireland is not vast on geographical area, it does contain a surprising amount of *area as earlier describe. This tends to be areas made remote, by the fact that 'You just wouldn't want to live there', areas such as Bogs and rocky granite strewn plains. These are hostile environments, weather battered, and inhabited by only the most hardiest of plants and insects, and super tough rabbits, with claws of steel, to aid burrowing in tough ground.

Occasionally these areas are graced with the presence of lunatics, bent on making something of the land, but owing to the remoteness soon become hermitic, become disillusioned and insane, and can be heard of running into local towns, screaming wild tales of Tornados, Fairies, Pixies, and even the occasional UFO. But of course they're just Crackpots, and are just in need of a good drink, some warm company and of course a good aul'dose of dry Irish wit and a good ribbing too... as you just can't get away with saying crazy things, not round these parts.

Chance sightings are ruled out too. People traveling through the 'back arse of nowhere', tends to be a very occasional event, and coupled with the rare occurrence of paranormal activity anyway, lends to a low yield of reports of the strange and interesting events.

So it's a wonder someone had anything to say at all about anyting, let alone keep a report on it. ;)
 
Being called the Irish 1997 “ Phoenix Lights “, the “ V” shaped UFO that was seen by several dozens in the cities of Sligo, Donegal, Leitrim, and Limerick produced many inquiries to the authorities.

Usually a UFO sighting has one or two witnesses, but to have many dozens of witnesses is very rare indeed.
 
So where are the photos? The images in that report are stock photos and artists' impressions.
Given a good, non-faked photo perhaps we could see if these were Chinese Lanterns or formations of aircraft.
 
Well eburacum,

According to the article people outside were smoking or walking and were taken by surprise at about 8 P.M. at night.

I don’t know if these areas of Ireland are rural or not.
 
Donegal is fairly remote other than a few small towns. Leitrim is pretty much empty, they had a campaign to try and get people to move there not so long ago.
 
Being called the Irish 1997 “ Phoenix Lights “, the “ V” shaped UFO that was seen by several dozens in the cities of Sligo, Donegal, Leitrim, and Limerick produced many inquiries to the authorities.

Usually a UFO sighting has one or two witnesses, but to have many dozens of witnesses is very rare indeed.
Wouldn't matter if there were hundreds of witnesses, the skeptics manage to find some silly and comical explanation - swamp gas, the planet Mars, comets, a meteor, ordinary planes, earthquake lights, not to forget the infamous 'weather balloon'.
 
Most UFOlogists accept that at least 95% of all UFO reports are caused by "swamp gas, the planet Mars, comets, a meteor, ordinary planes, earthquake lights, not to forget the infamous 'weather balloons'".

The 5% that remains is probably also caused by other similar phenomena, leaving no aliens whatsoever, but we don't know for certain; which is what makes it interesting.
 
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It's even more interesting as some of the things in the mix, like earthquake lights, ball lightning or possible plasma phenomena, are themselves very little understood and might still not exist at all, though ball lightning seems fairly generally accepted these days.
 
Being called the Irish 1997 “ Phoenix Lights “, the “ V” shaped UFO that was seen by several dozens in the cities of Sligo, Donegal, Leitrim, and Limerick produced many inquiries to the authorities.
Unfortunately, there's not that much to it, just some fragmented reports and not consistent.

Wish it were otherwise... would be far more fascinating!
 
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