12/11/2013 – Banbury – Curved Rectangular UFO Sighting
Forwarded by UFO Info
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 12/01/2013
Sighting
Details
At approximately 10.25pm on the evening of
12th November 2013 Benjamin was letting his pet dog out into the garden of his
house in the North East of Banbury, Oxfordshire. It was a clea, cold and still night
with the moon and stars visible. He noticed an object in the sky out of the
corner of his eye. To the North East, at an angle of about 45-55 degrees, was
an object which he initially assumed to be an aeroplane. However he soon
realised that the object had no navigation lights visible on it. He looked
harder at the object and was amazed by what he saw.
The main body of the object was a curved rectangular shape. But on one side of the object was what looked like a large
shark fin shaped triangular protrusion which was sloped downward at an angle of
about 45 degrees. Both the main body and the fin-shaped protrusion appeared to
be metallic silver in colour. There was a bright orange coloured aura around
the object. This glow appeared to be emanating from the entire object and did
not change in brightness at any point. Benjamin ruled out reflection from
street lights as it was glowing for the duration of the sighting, even when far
away from any street lighting on the ground.
There was a short orange trail behind the
object which was about twice the length of the object itself. This trail
appeared to be light dispersion rather than actual vapour or material coming
off the object.
Witness
drawing of the UFO and location:
It appeared to be between 500-1000 yards
from his location. If it was indeed this far away then Benjamin estimates it
was quite large in size, perhaps 2-3 times as big as a commercial airline
passenger plane. There was no sound coming from the UFO, and Bejamin believes
that if it had been making a noise he would have been close enough to have
heard it.
The M40 motorway passes close to Benjamin’s
house, and it was over this that the object was situated. It seemed to be
moving in parallel to the motorway, travelling in a Southern directiuon. It
seemed to be moving nearly twice as fast as a passenger aircraft would cross
the sky.
Aerial
map of junction 11 of the M40, over which the UFOwas situated:
Benjamin watched the object travel on a
straight path until it reached the boundary of the town. Then suddenly without
warning it greatly increased in speed. It pitched up and to the left, then down
to the right in an elongated S shape. After about 2 seconds he lost sight of it
behind the house adjacent to the garden.
He was quite puzzled by what he had just
witnessed and could not explain it logically. The appearance of the object, its
sudden increase in speed and manoeuvres were very hard to explain.
Sighting
Analysis
This is a very interesting sighting indeed.
The appearance of the object is certainly highly unusual, and I cannot think of
any other case where something similar has been reported. It was clearly not a
conventional aircraft of any kind. Neither its appearance or the unusual
manoeuvres it performed would fit this explanation.
Could the object have been an odd-shaped
Chinese lantern? Obviously lanterns are quite small in size, so if this was
indeed what was seen then the object would have had to have been much closer to
the witness than it appeared to be. As there is no point of reference in the
sky this can sometimes happen. If it was indeed a lantern this would explain
the orange glow around it. Perhaps it was travelling on a particular air
current, and then suddenly got blown around by another gust of wind. This could
possibly explain the sudden increase in speed and unusual curving manoeuvres
which it performed before it vanished from sight.
However lanterns do not tend to leave a
trail behind them at all. Also the shape is extremely unusual - Most lanterns
are cylindrical or rounded in shape. Most aspects of the sighting do not fit in
with a lantern explanation, and I feel it would be clutching at straws to say
that it did. If it was not a lantern, then what else could it have been? A
novelty shaped inflatable would not have had any glow coming from it. A hand
glider or hot air balloon would have moved slower and would not have performed
the highly unusual movement patterns observed at the end of the sighting.
After looking into the aspects of the case
I cannot provide an answer for what was seen at present, meaning that this
object remains unidentified. If you have any further information on this incident
please get in touch.
Copyright
Dave Hodrien 2014