SIGHTINGS 2007

Aine rang on 5th November to say that on 1st November 2007 she was awoken at 3 a.m. by a very loud noise over her house – she lives in the Cabinteely area of Dublin. Looking out of the window she saw a big red ball which was going round and round in a circle.  It was at about 9,000 ft. high  and at first she though that it was an aircraft  which was on fire and  was jettisoning fuel. This went on for about 15 minutes. Then suddenly the ball of fire seemed to be extinguished, the noise stopped and what appeared to be a craft, triangular in shape, with windows that were lit up, just shot over her house at tremendous speed, travelling in a westerly direction.
Aine first phoned Dublin Air Traffic Control, who told her that they had no reports of any aircraft in distress; she then phoned Astronomy Ireland who put her on to us – has anyone any ideas as to what this could have been – other than an ‘Unidentified Flying Object’?
 

Andre, aged 9, reported that one night at the beginning of October 2007 around 9 pm whilst travelling in a car in the Knockarush area along the N61, heading towards Roscommon town he saw a ‘craft’ – it had four white lights in a row with two more below it on either side and there was a big red light on the top.  It was about a mile away in the direction of the Boyle Golf course.  There was no noise.
It is interesting to note that this is in the area of the Mound of Knockadoobrusna where on 2nd December 2000 a very big craft with beams of light emanating from it was sighted.  I believe it is a UFO ‘hangar’, for want of a better description. There have been quite a few sightings along this particular stretch of road.

Niall  who lives in Knocknagoshel West, Tralee, Co.Kerry, reported that on the morning of 8th September ‘07 at 05.55 he noticed two very bright lights in the west, moving in a south-westerly direction. They were very high up and when seen through binoculars, appeared as circular lights.  They did not display flashing strobe lights, nor were they emitting any lights.  They appeared to be moving slower than aircraft, and one was following the other.  Niall remarked that as they passed overhead the atmosphere all around became distorted for some reason and it was no longer possible to see anything clearly.  By 0600 the sun had risen a little more and the two objects were no longer visible at all.

Eoin reported that on the night of 10th January 2007 he observed a very bright light moving from west to east. It started off very high in the sky and then travelled down, and as soon as it disappeared another one would show up in the sky.  He saw 15 of them altogether, between the hours of 7 pm and 9.30 pm.  He said they were 3 to 4 times the size of Venus.  This was in the Leixlip area of Co. Dublin.  These lights were also seen by his mother and brother, who first observed them when they got off the train at Leixlip station.  Eoin said that there was no noise and he was quite certain that they were not aircraft.

Clodagh from Navan rang to say that her sister reported seeing some very strange lights at about 10.30 pm.on the night of 12th July ’07.  She described them as being ‘the length of a bungalow’. She said that they would shoot across the sky, then stop and zoom back to where they came from.  They were high up in the sky and were pulsating. These lights were seen in the outskirts of the Navan town area and they seemed to be travelling in the direction of the Hill of Tara.

Claire from the Dublin area reported that on Saturday 21st July 2007 she and her husband saw a very large circular object hovering quite low. It was extremely large, much bigger than any plane and it was spinning very fast with what appeared to be square lights, like windows, evenly spaced within its shape.. She said that when you looked directly at the movement it was blurred, but if you focused beside it, it was very clear and it kept spinning, moving a little just from right to left.    The movement didn’t change, it just seemed to recede and become less clear and eventually they couldn’t see it any more.  The sighting lasted for about 20 minutes to half an hour.

Kenneth rang to report that on Friday 1st June 2007 he was out flying in a small private aircraft. He had taken off from a small private airfield in Kilrush, Co.Laois and was flying at 2000 feet when he saw a fairly big bright object, roundish in shape, not too far away, flying at approximately 3000 feet. It was proceeding in a straight line and the light from the object was at first blue, then it turned red and then yellow, and it would start to fade and then it would get brighter again. He tried to catch up with it, when before his very eyes it just vanished.  It was a very clear evening, with not a cloud in the sky.  Both he and the object were flying between the towns of Durrow and Roscrea, heading towards Birr (all these are in Co.Laoise. Being a pilot himself, he was very well qualified to know that what he had seen was neither a helicopter nor was it a plane, and the fact that it just suddenly vanished unnerved him somewhat.  He said he have never witnessed anything like that before.

John K. reported that one morning at the end of May 2007 abut 10.40 am whilst driving into Limerick city he saw a metallic looking object in the sky.  It looked triangular, pointed at the front with a bright white light at the back of it. It was high in the sky and was moving at a speed similar to an aircraft, but he did not think it was an aircraft.

John M. reported that while out walking at 11 pm on 7th June 2007 in a dark area of Hurlers Cross, Shannon, Co.Clare, his neighbour saw a very bright light in the sky, twice as bright as Venus.  He saw it moving across the sky above him and was amazed to see that the light was moving slowly and from side to side and then in a circle. After a moment the one light then separated and became two, he saw the two lights side by side and then suddenly they disappeared out of sight.

Brendan who lived in the Dundalk area of Co.Louth, reported that on 22nd May 2007 around midnight he was looking out over Dundalk Bay towards Dublin when he saw some very big round white, reddish and blue flashing lights. There seemed to be three big ‘craft’ with dozens of smaller ones flashing on and off and zigzagging at tremendous speed, some going east to west and some west to east. They then seemed to disappear slowly over the mountains, going in the direction of Carling.

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