Godalming, Surrey, 25-03-09
Time: : 20.25pm
Location: Approximately 2000ft,
size of full moon in
sky
Message: At 20.25pm on Wed
25th March 2009, whilst walking along the
A3100 near
Hallam Road ( toward Guildford ), a very bright spherical object
passed overhead, travelling on a course of approximately
130 degrees (
south-east ). The object was yellow/orange
in colour with just-discernable
flashing lights, which I
initially took to be the anti-collision beacons and
navigation lights of a small aircraft. As it was heading
roughly toward Dunsfold
Aerodrome, I thought perhaps the
pilot had turned on his landing lights, or was
maybe
flying some kind of aircraft that was highly illuminated for some reason (
Top Gear is filmed at Dunsfold, and they get up to all
sorts ). However, there
was no noise from the 'aircraft'
whatsoever and it looked strange - the light
was very
vivid and yet changed as the object moved, as though wrapped in a
bright glowing cloud of something.
It continued on
its heading for
roughly 90 seconds, moving toward
Hascombe. I kept watching it whilst walking,
and saw it
suddenly plunge out of the sky. My best estimate is an altitude loss
of around 1500 ft in perhaps five seconds. At this point,
just above the
treeline in the distance and somewhere over
Hascombe, the object abruptly
arrested its dive and
hovered. ( It was here that I was finally convinced that
the object was not an aircraft, as no aircraft can
manoeuvre in this way
).
Ater hovering for
perhaps 30 seconds, the object drifted slowly to the
right, then climbed before performing a very erratic
series of dives, dips and
turns, movements completely
beyond the capability of any conventional aircraft.
It
returned to around 2000ft after about 30 seconds, before slowly fading from
view.
I have never before seen something that
could not ultimately be
explained to my satisfaction with
a bit of thought an analysis. My only regret
in having
seen something like this is that there were no other witnesses - by
the time I managed to get a grip on myself and phone my
girlfriend on her mobile
to look out of her window ( her
living room faces out over Lammas Land toward
Hascombe )
the object was already fading from view. I tried to stop a passing
jogger, but he just kept on moving. However, given the
sheer size and brightness
of the object, and its passing
over Farncombe, Godalming, Hascombe and most
likely
Dunsfold Aerodrome, I can't believe that I'm the only person who saw
it.
Please do let me know if anyone else reports
this object
here.
Dean
