Unidentified Flying Object Captured Sunday 24th May 2015,
8.09pm,
Looking South over central London from Parliament Hill.
Camera used: Canon Ixus 265 HS with 48x super zoom
Witness comments and statement: Very obviously this is NOT a Chinese
lantern.
Lanterns
are lit from the bottom so the light dissipates towards the top. Who
would fly a lantern in the daylight? and has anyone ever seen a lantern
this bright?
A police helicopter was in the immediate vicinity before and after the sighting,
The object is going down and it appears out of nowhere.
I started
filming at 8.08pm according to the camera, the clip is cut from 2 mins
into filming, am just looking at it on a bigger monitor and the object
appears suddenly about 20 seconds before though it is very far away. My
camera work is pretty shaky for most of the 5 mins, am going to get a
mono pod with a ball-head. The camera does a good job of dealing with
the shake though.
the
object was there before I spotted it.
I
have also filed this report
to BUFORA, but I have just realized something else that I wanted to add.
'In
the last 2 weeks there have been no military helicopters over London
that I have seen. I spend my whole day outdoors in London and i haven't
been listening to music as I walk around so
I would have heard them and looked to see.
Over the past few years I have seen a massive increase in military helicopters flying up and down the Thames and I live near Battersea Heliport which can accommodate a Chinook, although I haven't heard one land there yet. I can usually tell if it's a military helicopter approaching by the sound, obviously is easy to tell a Chinook but
I frequently see Apaches and Merlin's and have filmed them on many occasions.
A
few weeks ago I saw a formation consisting of a Chinook, an Apache, a
Merlin and a Sea King flying in single file up the Thames.
On other occasions I have seen a pair of Apaches flying an "S" shaped search pattern. A few weeks ago I saw three Apaches in a line, another time it was Apaches 3 times in a single morning.
Sometimes they fly-by in the
middle of the night. On one occasion when I first had a video camera, I
was filming from Westminster Bridge as a pair of apaches flew up the
Thames and one of them peeled off to fly a circle around my position. I
later learned that the tech on board is so advanced they can see what
is being filmed by an observer.
Since the sighting on May 24th there has been nothing.'
