Wave of Red Flying Objects or Chinese Lanterns

The first report to come to my attention came from UFO Casebook Forum member, MikeyBlitz of Great Notley, Essex, who, along with a friend, reported a fleet of unidentified flying objects. Below is a photograph of the objects taken by MikeyBlitz.

 

Essex, U.K. UFO

 

The very next day, I received a report from Richard from the Netherlands, who reported that "The same objects were seen over Hoogkerk in the Netherlands on the evening of Sunday, August 26, at 21:40. We got the report from a man via a newspaper from Groningen.

I just put the report on the website www.niburu.nl and saw the Essex report on Ufocasebook when I was checking some facts. I was shocked. This is no coincidence. Compare the pictures… they are the same objects. Below find the photograph of this sighting."

Netherlands UFO

 

The Casebook Forum began investigating the sighting, and I received the following information from Forum member castles4me. I found these other sightings that were similar to the Essex and Netherland sighting -- also on Mikey's thread, check it out, we have pretty much proved that the Netherland photo is identical to the Essex photo.

I was checking some other UFO sites for corroborating sightings. Found these that were interesting all at ufoinfo.com

 

August 26th 2007 : Capel, Western Australia
http://ufoinfo.com/sightings/australia/070826.shtml
UFOINFO Sighting Form Report
Location: Capel Western Australia
Date: 1:20am 26/08/2007
Approach Direction: west
Departure Direction: west
Witness Direction: south east
Description: saw a bright star like object moving ahead of a pack of other star like 
objects all moving together approx 20 in total was not satellites looked like swarm of 
birds flying together
Color/Shape: bright star like leader with other more faint star like
Height & Speed: out of atmosphere

August 24th 2007 : Lausanne, Lake Geneva
UFOINFO Sighting Form Report
Location: Lausanne, Lake Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 08/24/2007 11:55pm local time
Approach Direction: moving slightly from west to south southeast
Departure Direction: south southeast
Witness Direction: south
Description: From within Lausanne, watched 10-17 
(depends on which photo I'm post-checking on) 
round orange lights move in sky - movement was not synchronized - from west to, 
what at the moment was east. Appeared to initially be over Lake Geneva in the direction 
of the moon. Objects faded from view, presumably moving to the south southeast. Total 
sighting time was at least 20 minutes, but objects left view one by one. 
This seems very similar to the sighting dated July 22, 2006 reported by another eyewitness.
Color/Shape: orange lights, round
Height & Speed: at minimum 3000 meters above seas level, as they were over Chablais Alps 
across Lake Geneva TV/Radio/Press: no, but many on the street also saw this... I will keep up 
to date if in the news on Monday.
See Switzerland photo below:

 

Geneva, Switzerland

 

 
August 26th 2007 : Benfleet, Essex, England
UFOINFO Sighting Form Report
Location: benfleet essex south east england
Date: 26/08/2007 21:00 - 22:00
Approach Direction: from southend to the north
Departure Direction: benfleet to north
Witness Direction: facing southend
Description: 50 plus bright orange objects/lights slow moving. groups of 10-14 at a time. 
Looking like the objects were moving upwards.
Color/Shape: orange objects (we have photos)
Height & Speed: 2000 feet
TV/Radio/Press: dont know
 
August 27th 2007 : Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
UFOINFO Sighting Form Report
Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK
Date: 08/27/07 22.05 GMT
Approach Direction: From North East
Departure Direction: To South West
Witness Direction: South
Description: Whilst sitting in my back garden star watching after a BBQ, I saw 
approximately 20 small mettalic grey objects in V formation moving quickly across 
the sky silently. They had a very feint glow. This could have been caused by 
moonlight as it was practically a full moon. My first impression was they were a 
flock of migrating birds but the objects were not moving relative to each other 
and held a straight V formation, and didnt see any flapping of wings. More significantly 
these "birds" were very quick and had straight edges. I called my partner out from the
 conservatory to see them, pointing at them, and she confirmed the sighting, describing 
them as approx 15 to 20 small silent planes in formation.
The Duration of the sighting was approximately 4 seconds, the objects covering 
approximately a third of the night sky in that time. My garden has tall trees either 
side so the rest of the night sky is obscured. We have had many reports of UFOs in 
south bucks local press recently which I had put down to UFO balloons or sky lanterns, 
but having released these personally in the past, I can confirm these objects were 
quicker a different colour and shape, and nothing like them.
I would be very interested if any one else saw something similar.
Color/Shape: Grey Mettalic, Slight glow.
Height & Speed: Difficult to judge, Would say low below 1 mile in height, speed faster than a plane.

 

Then, on August 31, I received another report from Essex with photograph, from my good friend, Sam, of www.alienationsam.com, who supplied this report.

Second Witness to Essex Sighting Comes Forward Written by Sam Willey

You may remember our report on the Essex Fleet Sighting well it seems that there was a second witness to this extraordinary event. I had not checked my emails for around 4 days and when I looked I noticed a message sent to me on August 27th 2007 by someone from Essex who saw presumably the exact same fleet of objects witnessed by Mike Blitz. Here is the message I received from Stan Redman about what he and his wife Denise saw:

"At 9:05 on Sunday 27th August (yesterday) my wife looked out of the window and saw a couple of orange balls in the sky. She called me to look at them. By the time I got to the window I could see about a dozen and counting. We ran outside to get a better look and by the time we got outside the sky was full of them moving south to north in a wide band before gathering at a point in the sky and then ascending at a phenomenal speed out of the atmosphere. Over a twenty five minute period there must have been hundreds of them in a constant stream.

I have a Minolta Dimage Z3 camera with 10xOptical zoom and I took a lot of pictures which I am having analysed at the moment. I have attached one of them to this mail. This picture shows my hedge and lamppost in the foreground and the formation of orange globes ascending. I have some camera shake as I was excited and nervous but I hope I can have them authenticated in the near future. I have some unbelievable shots but I am having them watermarked before posting them to newsrooms."

I would like to thank Mr. Redman for kindly emailing me his report along with a photograph Alienationsam.com will try to gain more photographs for posting.

http://www.alienationsam.com/news/2007/essexsighting2.html

See photograph below:

 

Essex, U.K. UFO

Here is an enhanced, close-up comparison of the four photographs...

 

 

Essex, Switzerland, Netherlands

Keep in mind, that there are factors that alter the photographs as far as being compared: distance from objects, atmospheric conditions such as clarity, and moonlight, type of camera used, and its settings.

 

 

source and references:

UFO Casebook Forum member-MikeyBlitz

UFO Casebook Forum member-castles4me

Richard-www.niburu.nl

www.ufoinfo.com

www.alienationsam.com

www.ufocasebook.com

 

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