UFO spotted over Hampshire (From This is Hampshire)
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UFO spotted over the New Forest
9:40am Monday 28th February 2011 in News
By Martyn Hannah, Reporter
UFO SPOTTER: From left – Deano Price with Ria Harding and Marc Price. Echo picture by Stuart Martin. Order no: 12004053
IT was like a scene from the latest Hollywood science fiction film – a mysterious and unidentifiable object seen flashing and darting across the Hampshire night sky.
As Deano Price, 30, lit a cigarette in the back garden of his dad’s Lyndhurst home, something strange and alien caught his eye.
When he looked up to see what it was he was shocked to find a bright white light zipping across the horizon.
It comes as the latest comedy sci-fi adventure film Paul has filled cinemas across the south. The hit film follows two sci-fi geeks Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on a pilgrimage to America’s UFO heartland where they accidentally meet funny alien Paul.
“I knew straight away it wasn’t normal,” said dad of one Deano.
“I dropped my cigarette and ran inside to phone my brother in Totton to see if he could see it too.
“When he said he could I ran back outside to see if it was still there.”
As soon as Deano first spotted the UFO he managed to capture its high-speed movements on his mobile phone.
The grainy footage shows a small white dot moving quickly across the frame before disappearing and then reappearing again.
“It started off as a white light but then turned red for a couple of minutes before going back to white again,” said Deano.
“It was moving backwards and forwards but not really up and down. I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
Deano posted the video on the Internet where other people claimed to have seen the mysterious object as far away as Hythe and Salisbury.
One woman said: “I saw it too when I was driving home through the forest. Lots of cars were parked up and people were watching it.
“It was flashing white and red, hovering then darting up and down and left and right.”
Another man said: “It was over in Salisbury too. It was white and was buzzing all over the place. It’s definitely not a comet or a drone.”
A spokesperson from Southampton airport said: “It was business as usual at the airport that night so we can’t shed any light on the sightings.”
But Deano is adamant it was not a plane.
“It definitely wasn’t a plane. I do believe in aliens — we can’t be the only thing out there. The New Forest is known as a bit of a hotspot for things like this but it’s definitely the weirdest thing I have ever seen,” he said.
Comments(25)
hulla baloo
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10:00am Mon 28 Feb 11
BMWDellboy
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10:25am Mon 28 Feb 11
OSPREYSAINT
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10:43am Mon 28 Feb 11
Block 42
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11:22am Mon 28 Feb 11
Common sense would tell you this.
hythe knights
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11:39am Mon 28 Feb 11
long memory
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12:10pm Mon 28 Feb 11
Get them over the Hampton Ridge area in the New Forest all times of day and night, flying up to a 500 metres, then dropping down to 30 metres above the ground,moving sideways, etc etc,and all done over SSSi, SPI, and SAC land,it is a disgrace.
Westsidestory
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12:38pm Mon 28 Feb 11
hulla baloo wrote:Wacky Backy no doubt.
Wonder if it was a cigarette he was smoking?
The Wickham Man
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1:26pm Mon 28 Feb 11
southy
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1:40pm Mon 28 Feb 11
Forestdweller
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1:49pm Mon 28 Feb 11
Fatcyclist
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2:07pm Mon 28 Feb 11
X Old Bill
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2:07pm Mon 28 Feb 11
But of course it couldn't be a helicopter because the witness says that it was not an aeroplane.
Unidentified means YOU don't know what it is!
X Old Bill
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2:16pm Mon 28 Feb 11
southy wrote:One is a science fiction action film which will not be released until next year.
better film than paul is battleship.
One is a science fiction comedy which has just been released.
Some comparison......
Family Bloke
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3:01pm Mon 28 Feb 11
"it's life Jim, but not as we know it"
mrx884
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4:52pm Mon 28 Feb 11
MGRA
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5:12pm Mon 28 Feb 11
The boy G
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5:39pm Mon 28 Feb 11
The object stayed in one place, just hovering with no left,right,up or down movements,i think i watched it for about 30 mins before i got bored and went indoors, to me this was certainly one Unidentified Flying Object.
mrx884
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12:40am Tue 1 Mar 11
mrx884
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12:40am Tue 1 Mar 11
downfader
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9:05am Tue 1 Mar 11
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Anyone can see a real spaceship, just look at the NASA website and it tells you when it will fly past next.
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If we do get "visitors" it will be very much like our early efforts. Unmanned, unlit and too small to see, just to take basic images on a fly-by. Our radio signals have reached out several million light years into the galaxy, but we have yet to hear one back. It suggests there is no intelligent, technologically capable life near us.
egghead65
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9:36am Tue 1 Mar 11
egghead65
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9:41am Tue 1 Mar 11
sarfhamton
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1:20pm Tue 1 Mar 11
X Old Bill
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2:47pm Tue 1 Mar 11
sarfhamton wrote:No, I think that you find that it is Alki Ada putting hallucinogenic drugs in their coffee.
i am suprised some of the idiots on here have not blamed the flouride or the Muslims yet
Well it works for Gaddafi...Allegedly.
Dasal says...
10:00am Mon 28 Feb 11
Hmmmmmm........I've had cigarettes like that before !!!!!!