17-09-2009: Large White Ball UFO Seen Travelling Over
Worthing, Sussex, UK
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security]
Time: 21:40 &
21:45
Location: Findon
Valley,
Worthing, West
Sussex
Message:
Unidentified Flying
Object Aviation
Report
Firstly, I am not
simply an uneducated
member of the
public with
little understanding of aviation,
I
am a former Member of XXXXXX
Aircrew and flew
as a
Flight
Loadmaster and Flight Mechanic operating from the
flight
deck from
1989 to 1991 and briefly continued flying
freelance as a
Flight Loadmaster
&
Flight Mechanic. Additionally I
trained as a pilot in 1990 at RAF XXXXXX USAF's
XXXXXX.
I am also a former Flight Lieutenant in
the RAF
VR(T) and was a
member
of XXXXXX Sqn at RAF
XXXX and
lastly commanded the
RAF
Section
CCF XXXXXX College.
I
have gained a total of 3000 hours in the air in one
capacity or another.
On the evening of the
seventeenth September 2009, I
was
standing on the patio of
my back
garden with two friends
having a cigarette
brake.
The area I
live in is on the edge of town and is semi rural and is
not
particularly affected by light pollution as I live in
Findon Valley, Worthing,
West
Sussex XXXXXX
At around
21:40 I noticed an
extremely bright
star-
like light in
the sky; it looked like a bright star and was the
brightest
light in the sky. The single white light was
travelling at
the sort of speed I
would expect a
commercial aircraft
travelling below FL100 and I estimated
that
its altitude
was between 6000ft
and FL100 but no
higher than that.
The heading was
around 120 to
140 and it's speed was between 180 kts and
no
faster than 250knts;
at the time
it was flying straight and
level.
The 'aircraft' made no
sound whatsoever; there were
no high
bypass gas turbine jet engines or the sound of
helicopter blades turning which I would
normally
expect to
hear from a
helicopter. We
regularly get the
local police
helicopter flying over the
house
at night time and it was
not
making the sound of a twin
squirrel helicopter,
which
is the
local aircraft type used by Sussex police.
I
am
always
sceptical about such things as 'UFOs', however,
there was no
anti collision beacon
lights no strobe lights or
navigation lights, just a single ball of brilliant
white
high candela, large ball of
light; it was not any form of commercial
aircraft or
conventional military
aircraft.
Having
established in my
mind that
this was not a normal type
of
aircraft whatsoever and did not display any
normal forms
of required navigation
lighting or had an visible fuselage... all three of
us then
witnessed the
following:
The aircraft
continued to
fly at about
180knts along the
heading of
about 120 and then started to climb vertically;
there was
no visible attitude change
of the aircraft, it simply climbed
upwards at a tremendous
speed, way
beyond any military
aircraft, and within less
than 10 seconds or so the white
ball
of light which had shone so brightly in the
night sky
was at an altitude well
above that of any commercial
aircraft or UK
military aircraft, in fact it disappeared;
at that point it
was now a dim
moving
light which disappeared in to a faint
light and was gone. I'm no astronaut but I
am interested
in space travel and I
would have said that the light was leaving
the atmosphere
of our
planet.
All three of us
witnessed this first
light
and within the next three to
five minutes at around 21:45, a second ball of light
appeared again on a heading of around 130 degrees
and
behaved in a the same way
as the
first; again it had no
navigation lights or anti collision
beacon or
strobes, just
a single
ball of white light; this
seemed to be flying at around
6,000ft and was
steadily climbing at a more conventional
air speed one
would
expect from a
commercial
aircraft. A
s it reached around FL100 the
aircraft
'craft' made an
abrupt turn
which was completed much
quicker than could be
achieved in
a
commercial or military aircraft and seemed
to be on a
new heading
of roughly 160 to 180
degrees; and
then like the other craft it rapidly climbed
tens
of
thousands of feet in around
fifteen seconds.
The sky was cavok and the light
ended up
getting fainter and fainter
until it appeared to
have
reached
space.
I have seen a similar bright
light before however the last time I saw
such a light was
in the summer of
2005; it travelled directly over my home and
passed over
my neighbours roof and
when I looked up again
realising
that it made
no sound and had no
navigation
lights, (which was seconds later), I looked for
it
expecting
to see it as I placed
myself in a clear view to view the craft,
yet only
seconds later it was gone.
Now I
have no idea what
you plan to do with
this report if
anything at all but I
state for the records that the
information
I have provided
is the
truth.
Kind
regards
