BS3
Abominable Showman
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I wasn't particularly interested in UFOs as a child, but can very clearly recall my first exposure to the concept - a TV report sometime in the early 80s featuring a supposedly impressive case from 28 August 1977.
This involved a series of sightings, mostly by police officers, of two large, slow-moving lights moving around the area of Lake Windermere. A paragraph is devoted to it here:
http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1977fullrep.htm
This makes it sound a bit like there were sequential sightings over a period of about 30 minutes, though a check of the locations show that the 'object' would either have had to jump around a lot in that time or been much higher than the witnesses thought. To me this suggests space debris re-entry, or similar.
Leaving aside the 'black project testing' hypothesis, the sightings sound very much like the 'Cosford incident', which was certainly proved to be a re-entry - particularly the descriptions of a "catamaran like" or "kite like" object, filled in around the lights by the witnesses through the 'airship effect'. Now the thing is I can find a couple of references suggesting that Salyut 5 re-entered the atmosphere on 28 August, but the majority say 8 August. Two questions for anyone with a longer fortean memory, or better library, than me:
- Did anything burn up on 28 August, or were any fireballs reported?
- Did anyone ever publish a solution to this case or was it eventually forgotten about?
This involved a series of sightings, mostly by police officers, of two large, slow-moving lights moving around the area of Lake Windermere. A paragraph is devoted to it here:
http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1977fullrep.htm
This makes it sound a bit like there were sequential sightings over a period of about 30 minutes, though a check of the locations show that the 'object' would either have had to jump around a lot in that time or been much higher than the witnesses thought. To me this suggests space debris re-entry, or similar.
Leaving aside the 'black project testing' hypothesis, the sightings sound very much like the 'Cosford incident', which was certainly proved to be a re-entry - particularly the descriptions of a "catamaran like" or "kite like" object, filled in around the lights by the witnesses through the 'airship effect'. Now the thing is I can find a couple of references suggesting that Salyut 5 re-entered the atmosphere on 28 August, but the majority say 8 August. Two questions for anyone with a longer fortean memory, or better library, than me:
- Did anything burn up on 28 August, or were any fireballs reported?
- Did anyone ever publish a solution to this case or was it eventually forgotten about?