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Portsmouth UFO?

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For once, a UFO pic by the coast which doesn't seem to be a seagull!

The truth is out there: UFO sighting sparks conspiracy frenzy
A CITY has been spooked after a UFO was spotted hovering above houses.
By Jack Bellamy / Published 20th September 2014

The silver-grey object, which looks like a flying saucer, was photographed floating over Portsmouth.
Lewis Rogers, 26, saw it when he was visiting a friend in the city.
The animation director said: “My initial thought was it was an aeroplane but it was just moving too quickly.
“I was the only one who saw it who was quick enough to take the picture. I definitely believe in UFOs. I often look up at the sky in the evening wondering if there is anything or anyone else out there.”

Student Johnny Blackwell, 23, of nearby Southsea, said: “It didn’t look like a cloud and it was moving very fast.
“It was a grey, disc-like shape. I don’t know much about military craft, but this was very fast-moving.”

People took to Twitter to voice their views on the potential UFO sighting.
@MrJoshHK said: “Watching the sky and saw what looked like a UFO! Starting to believe in what people have been saying! #pompeyufo”
@Matthometown tweeted: “We’re being visited!!!! #pompeyufo”
Another tweeter, @HayleySparkle said: “So a UFO had been spotted in Portsmouth! Are aliens going to be dropping in I wonder... #pompeyufo”

Laura Young, from the Met Office, said: “After looking at the images, I can say the object is nothing to do with the weather. It is not meteorological and is not a cloud.”

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest- ... rks-frenzy

The witnesses say itwas fast-moving - the headline-writer says it was hovering... :roll:
 
Laura Young, from the Met Office, said: “After looking at the images, I can say the object is nothing to do with the weather. It is not meteorological and is not a cloud.”
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Strange, because that single image in the article makes it look exactly like a lenticular cloud. Maybe she had access to other images that were not published.

Of course a lenticular cloud wouldn't move fast, but there seems to be some confusion about the speed of the phenomenon.
 
I've been trying to identify the location. I think the camera is pointing East or NE, so the visible water would be Langstone Harbour (near high tide), and the land in the distance Hayling Island. (I also considered that the pic might have been taken from Gosport, looking towards Portsmouth, but I think there'd have been more identifiable landmarks in that case.)

Lenticular clouds are often layered (like a pile of pancakes) or associated with steep mountains, often sitting on them like a hat! But there's no topography like that near Portsmouth. (The South Downs are about 10 miles north, and can reach 200m high.) But the reported speed of the object seems to rule out a cloud anyway, or there'd have been more pics taken!

As usual, we're given very few hard facts to work on!
 
Daily Mail version of the story doesn't really add much apart from a different crop of the same photo which might enable me to pin down the position better.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -city.html

The new crop shows a street corner with a yellow box on it. Might be for road salt, in which case a local might recognise it. (But if it's just a road-sweeper's cart it may have only been briefly parked there!)
 
eburacum said:
Laura Young, from the Met Office, said: “After looking at the images, I can say the object is nothing to do with the weather. It is not meteorological and is not a cloud.”
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Strange, because that single image in the article makes it look exactly like a lenticular cloud. Maybe she had access to other images that were not published. ...
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There seem to be allusions to multiple images, but only one has been widely published. The only alternative one I've found (yet ...) appears within this blog article:

http://www.truthseekers.com/post/10453

( Image URL: http://s3.amazonaws.com/truth-prod/post ... 1411135323 )

If this is indeed a second original image, it shows something considerably less 'lenticular' and hence less impressive.

I would also note the set of quoted witnesses consists of "... a television and film production student at the University of Portsmouth ..." and an "... animation director."
 
EnolaGaia said:
There seem to be allusions to multiple images, but only one has been widely published. The only alternative one I've found (yet ...) appears within this blog article:

http://www.truthseekers.com/post/10453

( Image URL: http://s3.amazonaws.com/truth-prod/post ... 1411135323 )

If this is indeed a second original image, it shows something considerably less 'lenticular' and hence less impressive.
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That is a blurred (and hence pretty useless) version of the Mail photo, where the object does appear lenticular.

I would also note the set of quoted witnesses consists of "... a television and film production student at the University of Portsmouth ..." and an "... animation director."
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Ooh, you cynic, you! ;)
 
According to

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/ufo-sp ... -1-6307959

one of the witnesses, Johnny Blackwell, was from Trevor Road, Southsea. This is in the southern part of Portsmouth.

Assuming he was near home at the time, the road map shows several possible matches for the photographer's site (which, from the Mail photo was in an upstairs room).

For example, a main road, Fawcett Rd, runs roughly N-S through the area, with other suburban roads branching off either side. The angles of the roads to the east seem to match the one shown in the photo, and leads me to think the camera was pointed NE.

More later, maybe - MotD is on soon!
 
Waylander28 said:
All seems quite Gull'ible to me... :)
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Weird looking gulls round your way, then! ;)

(We have a thread on UFOs for the Gullible, actually.)
 
Here's crop of the Mail version of the photo, showing the road junction:



(The more I examine this, the more the yellow box looks like a roadsweeper's cart. But the junction might still be recognisable to a local...)
 
Here's a differently tweaked version (horizon levelled, etc):



And this is a slightly enlarged crop from from the Mail pic:



Can't do much more without the original pic from the camera. (The image just gets more pixellated with more enlargement.)
 
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