The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society

 

Date: July 24th 2015

 

Witness statement: I was heading off to bed at 01:40 hours on the morning of July 24th 2015 and as is my habit, glanced towards distant Magdalen Hill, which lays two and one half miles from my observation point at Stanmore, Winchester and saw a brilliant single point of light, which resembled the glare from an arc welder. It was a uniform white, of considerable size (relative to my point of reference and apparent distance) and was motionless in the sky just above the skyline, which in this case were the slopes of Magdalen Hill.

 

I immediately attempted observation of the light with binoculars while simultaneously using a Canon EOS 1200D DLSR Camera with a 77m-300mm telephoto lens (manual) to take photographs and although I was using a tri-pod it was hard to center the light in frame due to it being difficult to make small movement changes on the tripod itself. I also shot several minutes of footage (manual zoom) with a Canon LEGRIA HF R506 Video Camera although these did not come out as well as I might like due to there being considerable foliage in the way from nearby trees which the light was visible through.

 

 Enlargement of IMG_0023 with gamma (luminance) increased

 

Observation conditions were absolute darkness with no Moon in the sky. No visible stars and during the course of the observation (just over three hours) the light source remained fixed in position in the sky and did not move relative to the movement of the Earth suggesting it was not an astronomical object, and I find it hard to believe that any man-made aircraft would remain so perfectly positioned for that period. I've checked into the area in which these lights are being seen and there are no lighting gantries, no sources, which could be creating the lights; so have to suggest that it is in fact a UFO. No additional lights were witnessed, no colors other than white and towards dawn the lights simply seemed to vanish abruptly (03:57) as if a switch was flipped.