Our first UFO sighting (and possibly another…)
In 2001, sitting on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland, my husband and I hatched a plan to sell our house and buy a motorhome. The finance side of things seemed doable, we’d juggle work commitments, where we would stay, plus we liked the idea of taking our house with us. Loch Ness could be visited on a regular basis; a few times a year. It constituted some kind of freedom.
Deciding to cut our vacation short, we parked in a layby to get some shut eye before heading home. We were still in Scotland at the time, somewhere near Fort William. Snuggled under duvets in the front seats, we giggled nervously as if we were doing something illegal and dreamed of sleeping under the stars again in the near future. Turning off the engine, we remarked on how clear the night sky was.
My husband, proficient in Astronomy, noticed a stationary bright light; really bright. While he was trying to work out what it was, it suddenly shot upward — and it was fast, surely faster than anything man-made. He still had his pilot’s licence and worked in Air Traffic, Gatwick, so he knew about these things…
It was odd, because this bright light really was blazing, way brighter than all the other stars or planets. What else could it have been but a UFO? What else shoots up vertically and then disappears?
This 0:26 sec YouTube video of an object shooting upwards in Jerusalem is very similar, except our object was at first stationary:
Watch it HERE
The 2nd time I encountered something strange in the sky was in 2023, this is a little more complex, so bear with me.
I’m standing at my living room window, enjoying the cloudscape. From my living room window, past our small back garden there’s a fenced in flat field, only a couple of acres, this drops down into a burn, then a steep bank leads out to a much larger field on a gradient grazed by sheep. On this occasion, the sheep had been moved so the field was empty.
The cloud shapes were very definite, the contrast of the afternoon sun assisting, so I watched their shadows move across the field, to the left by a gentle breeze. Then this round cloud or shadow of a round object joined them, it wasn’t cloud shaped, it was a perfect circle and it was bigger than the shadow clouds around it and moving at a different rate to the clouds, at least 3 times the speed, in fact, it overlapped, crossing the path of the cloud shadows. This proved to me that it was not part of the cloudscape. I followed the circle across from the far right to the left until it disappeared from my field of view.
I think I’m right in assuming that the shape of the shadow on the ground reflects the shape passing through the sky. What could the circle be? And it must have been big to be bigger than the clouds…
