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UFO spotted over Bristol
A man in Bristol has captured video footage of what he believes to be a UFO flying over Britain.
Last Updated: 7:54AM BST 14 May 2009

Andy Hadlington saw the mysterious blob silently hovering around and filmed it from the window of his office.

The mysterious grey object glided around the residential area of Knowle, Bristol, at 5.30pm on Sunday without making a sound.

UFO experts have been trying to verify the sighting and are hoping to speak to more witnesses and views of the eerie episode.

Computer game writer Andy, 36, said: "It was the freakiest thing I have ever seen in my life. I was sitting in my office and saw it out of the corner of my eye.

"We're not far from the airport so I thought it could even have been a low-flying plane, so I was quite alarmed.

"It was quite exciting – it sort of hovered past the houses. There was no sound. I ran downstairs and out of the garden to see where it went but I couldn't see anything.

"My fiancée was out at the time but I'm sure other people must have seen it. It was so clear."

Denis Plunkett, of the British Flying Saucer Bureau, based in Winterbourne, near Bristol, was unable to comment on the video but said there were ways to verify its authenticity.

Mr Plunkett, 78, said: "There are ways to sort out good from bad. Firstly they are silent, there will be no noise.

"They can also become invisible. They can go in and out of MoD radar. They can change speed, direction and height in seconds.

"The best thing is if there are multiple witnesses to the sighting. If more people saw this I'd be very interested."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/ ... istol.html

(The videao is quite short, just 9 seconds, but still intriguing.)
 
Looks like a black triangle seen from almost side on, rotating horizontally. It's not doing anything in this clip that a remote control toy couldn't do, although it would be a rather good toy, can anyone think of where you could buy something like this? If there were some other witnesses who saw it vanish or zip off, that would be good!
 
It's quite impressive, the rotating motion is very effective. It's hard to judge the size but the mere fact it goes behind the house tops suggests it would have to be a very large kids toy.

The one statement that starts alarm bells in my head is "Computer game writer Andy, 36." I'm picturing a guy sat in an office surrounded by pretty advanced CGI software and the colleagues to make it work.
 
Yea I am starting to lean towards the CGI theory, looks like a publicity stunt for his 3d graphics company.

About Mr Andrew E. Hadlington

Interactive Designer / Graphic Artist / Programmer with 7 years experience creating gaming content for the internet and casino / SWP / Gambling industry. 10+ years experience in 3D animation and motion graphics, web and digital graphic design and 15+ years experience in computer programming (including Flash Actionscript 2/3,VB, PHP, HTML, CSS)
 
azuredoor said:
Yea I am starting to lean towards the CGI theory, looks like a publicity stunt for his 3d graphics company.
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Except that you'd really expect something a bit more classy in that case, something that's going to make the whole world sit up and take notice.

I don't think a shaky 9 sec video clip will win him many customers!
 
rynner2 said:
I don't think a shaky 9 sec video clip will win him many customers!
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It's perfect, makes it more believable, shaky short footage that you can't really analyse. It will have a longer period of discussion and investigation while people try to debunk it, or hold it up as proof positive; which will keep this guys name in the papers and on forums and in the news for a long time.

You know when you finally get to see the monster in the horror movies, and then the whole film just loses it's scare tension; cause it's so obviously a man in a rubber suit or somesuch.

I'd say he's done a nice piece of work there, simple, short and sweet.

Guess this guy works from home, no fellow employees over his shoulder, has all the time to himself... needs some work coming in... nothing to do... Fiancé out of the house... Plenty of time to check out some software and take a quick vid of the houses outside his office bedroom window, and work on his camera tracking, masking and focus blurring techniques. Oh yeah! I can see it clearly.
 
The Currant Bun also posted this:

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2427508.ece

They have quite a few comments there including ones from locals who say that it was blowing a gale at the time and it is likely to be some kind of debris. Given that it is behind the houses wouldn't that make it rather large?

This comment also shoots itslef in the foot rather:

This is utterly rubish! do you know why? on this day it was blowing an absolute gail and that is something ie; tarpolin, giant popped ballon, motorcycle cover it could be anything but its something that was whipped up in the gail!
anyone who believes in UFO's are mad. why would they keep coming here and pick up morons if they are that intelligent.
the alien thing was only dreamt up to confuse people about the creation and GO
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Any Bristollians want to confirm the weather that day? Would Stu like to confirm if he was eating curried eggs and drinking fizzy pop that day? The public need to know!!
 
My first thought was a viral.
Then when I read the description of the guy working in the games industry I thought 'Too much time on their hands'.
This is stuff that any games company setup could do. The model is pretty simple. The edit application will have the capability to do the pulls, zoom and blur effects to comp the scene with the original UFOless footage.

We've just done the same thing to REMOVE a rogue element and put normal sky back instead.

In this case, I'd say the opposite to a UFO sighting is true. The chimney possibly is the reference point and the anchor to do the edit and the mask behind. To someone with a rudiment of AfterEffects skills, it's basic stuff.
The fact that it's in a bite-size chunk of well under a minute could show a cute savvy of net attention span.

Hence my suspicion. Added to which there are not 15,000 reports of people seeing the same object over the area, You'd think THAT would make the main news even in that event-strewn city.
 
Typical! I live in Knowle, just off the Wells Road, but was in Gloucestershire that afternoon!! :roll:
It's a densly populated area and it was a bright pleasant evening so surely there would have been many other witnesses as it floated over their barbecues!!
 
paulsamfreya said:
It's a densly populated area and it was a bright pleasant evening so surely there would have been many other witnesses as it floated over their barbecues!!
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What! No 'gail' blowing?
 
Emps said:
Would Stu like to confirm if he was eating curried eggs and drinking fizzy pop that day?
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I may well have been, but I'm out of the frame because..
paulsamfreya said:
Typical! I live in Knowle, just off the Wells Road, but was in Gloucestershire that afternoon!! :roll:
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..and I live in Brislington, directly adjacent to Knowle, but was in flippin' Lancashire last Sunday.

Sod's Law, innit?
 
rynner2 said:
paulsamfreya said:
It's a densly populated area and it was a bright pleasant evening so surely there would have been many other witnesses as it floated over their barbecues!!
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What! No 'gail' blowing?
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I don't recall it being windy! We'd been in Gloucestershire trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to fly kites that afternoon!
 
The way it wobbles up and down looks like CG-work. Nothing that flies could move like that, not would it want to.
 
eburacum said:
The way it wobbles up and down looks like CG-work. Nothing that flies could move like that, not would it want to.
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Seems to have a smooth linear aerial transit! It's the bloke with the camera thats got the jitters. :) Maybe I'll have a go at stabilizing it later.
 
Pictured: UFO spotted over theme park in Virginia
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 7:48 AM on 04th July 2009

Is it or isn't it? Look closely at these pictures and video to make up your own mind.

But Denna Smith, a writer in the U.S., says she knows what she saw.
She believes that the circle she caught on camera floating in the sky above the Kings Dominion theme park in Virginia is a space ship.

Officials at the park insisted the ring was simply smoke from the nearby Volcano ride.
But Ms Smith was not buying it.
The ring is well-formed and is not smoky, she pointed out. 'We were like what is that, we were all stopped and we were astonished.'

Ms Smith posted her video on YouTube, where it has received nearly 300,000 hits in one week. American cable news channel CNN also picked up the story.
UFO investigator Cameron Pack said Ms Smith's story has a ring of truth. 8)

Her video is similar to two other recorded incidents, he said - one from Florida in 1999, and one from Fort Belvoir, also in Virginia, in the 1950s.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... ginia.html

Should be easy enough to confirm whether the Volcano does produce smoke rings... :roll: And the witness is rather near the fluffy woo-woo end of the spectrum, methinks. Cameron Pack's input is interesting, however.
 
I found this description of the Volcano:
Destinations North America United States Virginia Richmond
Kings Dominion - A Thrill A Minute
.....

Kings Dominion
Attraction | "The Volcano – You’re the Sacrifice!"

You can hear the rumblings throughout the park. You can see the smoke rings float in the sky from atop other rides. And you can hear everyone discussing probably the most popular coaster at the park – the Volcano.

http://www.igougo.com/journal-j45539-Ri ... ID:1174939
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Case closed...? ;)
 
I grabbed the pic and zoomed in on it and it did indeed have tendrils of an ectoplasmic nature...wait...zooming in further..wait....

Oh it's smoke.

Why didn't she wait around and get a nice photo of the "Volcano Ride's" smoke ring floating by in the sky so we could compare. She's a dab hand at taking photties. Instant proof! I'd like to see a photo of a smoke ring.

Never inspected a ring!

And CNN have coughed up cash for this? (smoke, cough...too subtle?)
Quick Ryn, fire up yer pipe, I'll grab me camera.

mooks out
 
Yes, this story annoys me. The 'witness' is at best an attention-seeker, at worst an outright hoaxer.

Clearly anyone who visited that theme park must have heard the Vocano,
and seen its smoke rings, unless they have some severe medical disorder...

It's enough to turn mild-mannered, middle of the road Fortean rynner into a hard-nosed Skeptic! :evil:
 
rynner2 said:
and one from Fort Belvoir, also in Virginia, in the 1950s.
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Belvoir ring
1957_Fort_BelvoirWest_Virgina.jpg


And more images Here. The 1957 ring being attributed to residue from an atomic blast (nice pic!) thus earning 11 pages of explanation in the Condon Report p168 ??
Also shows the Dominion King ring from a different angle - possibly a different day - as it wafts, almost smoke like through the sky!

From Here

And a UFO investigator agreed. "I'm thinking that it might be what King's Dominion said it was, the ring of smoke," said Cameron Pack.

Pack said he'd be convinced it was just smoke if it weren't for pictures of a similar sighting at Fort Belvoir, taken sometime in the 1950s.
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And Denna Smith...

She doesn't think it was a UFO either.

"It was like a sign, God gives you signs and I just felt like that was a sign and I'm not sure what that sign meant but it meant a great deal to my family because when we got home we all got in line and prayed together. We were freaking out," Smith continued.
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So she contacted the local news with her UFO footage, that's how CNN got it, but now it's not a UFO just a sign from the Almighty!

And a picture of Dominion Kings Volcano Ride with smoke ring .
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Obviously this picture is taken on a clear sunny day, I have no idea what would happen to a smoke ring on a dull, cloudy kinda day!;)

mooks out

PS Good T-Shirt range - "I went to King's Dominion Theme Park and all I saw was this lousy ring UFO!"
 
aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, somebody please abduct Nick Pope, permanently!

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2558365/Its-Saturday-light-fever.html

http://flash.vx.roo.com/streamingVX/1041/1347/ufo_sighting_in_scotland_090727-16x9_300.flv


RESIDENTS in a Highland village were left terrified by a UFO sighting which lasted TWO hours.

The bizarre sightings began at 11pm on Saturday and the spectacular show in the sky above Muir of Ord, Ross-shire ended at 1am.

Residents watched in awe as three bright orange dome-shaped objects hovered then flew at high speed in random spirals closer and closer to the village.

Last night leading expert Nick Pope said: "This could be one of the most significant UFO events in recent history.

"Sightings like this are hugely significant because they are very rare.

"Most UFOs are seen by single witnesses so it's very difficult to get any proof. For whole streets of people to see something is almost without precedent and this sounds like one of the most significant UFO events in recent history.

"It's also very unusual for a UFO to be seen for such a long time. Most are very brief.


Care worker Sandra Robertson, 45, said: "It was weird and scary. But at the same time if they came back I'd like to watch them again.

"The whole street was out with cameras and binoculars.

"Folk were coming out the pub and telephoning home about what they were seeing in the sky.

"It's been the talk of the place ever since it happened.

"It's the sort of thing we'll remember all our lives. It's so difficult to describe because it was like nothing anyone had ever seen before.

"The objects were sort of dome shaped and bright, bright orange.


"They were hovering for up to five minutes at a time then they would move really, really fast across the sky.

"At first they seemed very far away but they got closer and closer.

Her husband, Henry, 47, who along with daughter Jolene, 23, filmed the UFOs, said: "You'd have had to see it to believe it.

"I'm 47 and I've seen a lot of things and come through a lot but this was scary.

"It was no Loch Ness monster-type sighting. People all over the village are talking about it.

"There must be some explanation and I'd love to hear what it is.

An RAF spokesman at Lossiemouth said there had been no reports that required a response on Saturday night.

He added: "Usually there are innocent explanations for these things."

[email protected].
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azuredoor said:
Very odd, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8186289.stm

Only thing I can think of is a hoaxer in the production team.
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Depending on the nature of the screen behind the presenter, it might possibly be a reflection of something being moved in the TV studio, behind the camera.

Anyone have any experience of TV studios? Would this be possible?
 
Probably a bird turned into a "streak" by the video format.
 
gncxx said:
Probably a bird turned into a "streak" by the video format.
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Well it says its a 'webcam' so its probably not technically 'video' as in interlaced, but yea its possible they have a crappy webcam, but a bird would not normally look like this in a webcam. The streak is too long and white. It also moves in an unnatural looking way, that's why I suspect hoax. I await the tapes(files)! :lol:
 
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