04/05/2014 – London – Lit UFO Photograph
Author: Dave Hodrien
Last Updated: 16/05/2014
Sighting Details
On the evening of 4th May 2014
Camilla was working in her flat on Barrier Point Road, central London. At
8.35pm she got up from her desk to stretch her legs and looked out of the
window which overlooks Barrier Point Park. It was a dry and relatively clear
evening with only sparse clouds. Due to the time of year the sun was just
setting, but it was not fully dark and the stars were not yet visible in the
sky.
Almost immediately her attention was suddenly drawn to three
lights in the sky to the North East-East. She initially thought the lights were over the
park, but soon realized they were further away, possibly over City Airport. Two
of the lights were a crimson/magenta colour and were extremely bright. The
third light was green in colour. At least one of the lights was pulsating, although Camilla cannot recall exactly which. The three lights were in a
triangular formation with one another. They appeared to be attached to a single
object, but were too distant to make out anything but the lights.
Aerial
map showing the sighting location (A) and City Airport (B):
Colours
of the lights as remembered by the witness:
Camilla estimates that the lights were
about 300 metres high in the air, but this was hard to judge. Initially they
were stationary, but soon began making short but extremely rapid manoeuvres in
the sky, both left and right, and up and down. When they started making these
movements Camilla realized that the lights could not be from any normal
aircraft or helicopter. The object would travel for at least a couple of
hundred metres before stopping dead in the sky. At first it appeared to
be surveying something, perhaps the airport, as this is what it seemed to be
over.
It then began to move for longer distances
of around 500 metres, using the same darting manoeuvres, and began to move away
from the airport area heading further to the North East. Camilla was transfixed
by the object, but after a minute decided to grab her Sony Cybershot camera and
try to get a photograph of it. As she looked back up and raised the camera she
realized that the lights now appeared to be descending and were close to or
beyond the electricity pylon near to Stansfeld Road. As she removed the camera
from her eye and looked back out of the window she found that the lights had
vanished.
Aerial
map showing the sighting location (A) and electricity pylon near Stanfeld Road
(B):
Photograph
of the UFO:
Zoomed
view of the UFO:
Camilla continued to look out of the window
for several minutes in the hope that the lights would reappear. When they did
not she decided to stop watching and downloaded the photograph from her camera onto her computer. She had a look on the internet but could not find any other
reports of the object she had seen, although did find some other videos showing unexplained green and red lights.
Sighting Analysis
This is a hard sighting to explain away as
something mundane. Due to the fact that the lights were initially seen close to
City Airport, some may dismiss this sighting putting it down to a distant
aircraft. However I do not believe this to be the case. The lights are not the
right colour for normal navigation lights. Aircraft lights are generally a
standard bright red colour, yet two of the three lights seen were crimson/magenta in colouration, which can be seen on the photograph. Camilla also wished to highlight that City Airport is closed on Saturday evening, and that the lights seemed far too low in the sky to be an aircraft. The object appeared to be silent, Camilla says that even distant aircraft make noise and she feels she would have been able to hear it. Due to the way in
which the object was stopping for periods of time it cannot have been an
aeroplane. And the darting movements it was performing sound much too fast to
have been a helicopter, either civilian or military. They were also much too
fast to be a lit inflatable or radio controlled model.
The distance of the object, evident from
the photograph, means it must have been quite sizeable. Camilla estimates it
was 10-15 metres across but this was hard to judge accurately.The shape of the
object was not verified, but due to the positioning of the lights it could
possibly have been triangular.
It is a shame that Camilla did not get
video footage of the lights performing the impressive manoeuvres, something she
herself admits. She says that she was so intrigued the lights that it was
only after about a minute that she decided to try and get a quick shot of the object. Luckily
she managed to capture it in time before it vanished, so at least we have a
still shot of it. Obviously this photograph would be very easy to mock up on a
computer paint program, but having spoken with Camilla about the sighting
I believe she is being genuine about what she saw. This appears to be a real
sighting, and the astounding manoeuvres observed suggest an an advanced craft
under intelligent control.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2014