I saw a UFO on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\nLet me explain: it was an object (four of us saw it) so not a product of my fevered imagination (a mass hallucination can not, however, be ruled out at this stage); it was in the sky (therefore ‘flying’, for some value thereof); and I couldn’t tell what it is (yet).<\/p>\n
\nIt was possibly slightly east of due north, about thirty to forty degrees off the zenith, and gave the impression of being a long, long way away. The time was 11.35 UTC and we were stood about half a mile north east of Canada Water tube station. It shone brightly — like the sun glinting off a cruising airliner — and my first thought was that it could be an iridium flare<\/a> but it did not perceptibly move, and did not fade. I then thought it might be a weather balloon. The brightness seemed to vary irregularly, although that was possibly an effect of our eyes trying to focus. We walked about fifty yards to the station and we couldn’t see it any more.<\/p>\n \nThen yesterday (Sunday) I was walking by Redriff Primary school, about half a mile I guess NE of where we had stood the day before, and looked to the north. There it was again. No flare, then; and probably no weather balloon either. It was 12.30 UTC, and as far as I could tell the object was in the same place.<\/p>\n \nMy other hypothesis, that of geostationary satellite, does not hold because the object was polar rather than equatorial (and could one even see<\/em> a geostationary from twenty five thousand miles away?).<\/p>\n \nSo. Over to you. What the hell was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw a UFO on Saturday. Let me explain: it was an object (four of us saw it) so not a product of my fevered imagination (a mass hallucination can not, however, be ruled out at this stage); it was … Continue reading