UFO's. What's your take on them?

Hi Folks.

We have returned from our holidays in the lakes, where we had a really god time. Weather was quite good. I took nearly 2,500. photos. Some pictures I have already submitted. I really put the new camera through its paces.

I am now able, if anyone really wishes to know, to provide further information about the photographs that started this thread.

If there is no further response on the thread, then I will take it that no one is really interested and leave things as they stand.

Regards to all.

Roy J.

We're interested too Roy! Welcome back. It's great to hear you had a good time.

Hi Folks

Before I give some more info about the pictures, there is something else that I would like to mention.

Ray Spears tale about seeing bright, silent lights, in the sky while on night shift, reminded me of an incident that occurred to me about 20 years ago.

About 1.30am, one cold winter morning, I was driving north from Hexham, Northumberland, towards the Scottish border. If you don't know the area, this is a very rural area with no towns, villages or similar. There maybe the occasional isolated farm house, but no real source of artificial illumination. Here you will find the darkest night skies in England. There was no moon light, it having set some time earlier.

At that time in the morning there was no other traffic on the roads, if there had been you would have seen their lights from miles away.

As we travelled my companion, pointed out a pulsating blue/green light that appeared low in the sky ahead of us. As we watched it became surrounded by a faint haze, it then started to change shape from a sphere to rod shaped and then back again.

The light appeared to be only a short distance ahead of us so we tried to get closer. No matter how hard we tried we could not get any nearer to it.

I pulled into the first lay-by to try and get a better look at the thing. It was only as I switched off the car lights and got out of the car that we realised just how dark it really was. You could not even see the ground that we were stood on, but as our eyes adjusted to the dark we notice the stars starting to appear. At first the brighter stars and then the fainter ones came into view. Eventually the whole of the sky was like a black velvet cloth sprinkled with minute diamonds, the milky way was a misty arch spreading across the heavens.

The light stayed low in the sky, pulsating as it changing its shape and colour. Sometimes it seemed to head towards us and then dash away at great speed.

One thing really struck me was just how quiet things were. All you could hear was the occasional cry of some night bird, the rustle of a small animal in the hedge row and the ting from the engine as it cooled in the chilly morning air. There was no sound at all from the direction of the light.

After a while we got back in the car and continued to head north with the light always preceding us. After about 20 minutes, when we were nearly reached Otterburn, we came across a police motor patrol vehicle. We spoke to the officers who had also seen the light and they had already reported the matter to their control room.

As we were talking to them, they received a message to say that the light could be seen all over the north of the country, but only in areas where the sky was very dark. Reports had been received from Scottish forces where the lights were even more prominent.

It turned out that what we had seen was the very southern edge of a spectacular display of the Aurora Borealis, the northern lights. People in Norway and Lapland were witness to a wonderful display of the lights.

One thing did occur to me and that was, when we first saw the light we were very close to the Roman Wall and I wondered what a Roman solider, doing a night shift patrol along the wall, two thousand years ago, would have thought if these lights had appeared to him. My guess is that he would believe all the devils in hell were after him.

It goes too show that things are not exactly what you expect them to be.

Any way that's enough for now, I will tell more about the pictures next time.

Regards Roy J.