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A close encounter of the M27 kind?
5:23am Friday 15th February 2008
Comments (40)THIS is the bizarre UFO sighting which stunned a Southampton family when it loomed above the motorway.
The Daily Echo has recreated above what they say appeared before them on the M27 near the city. The family of four was travelling west on the motorway near junction 3 when the strange shape came into view. They then followed it on the A31 before it disappeared.
The family wishes to remain anonymous for fear of being ridiculed, but the mother said: "This large dark object was becoming more visible. It appeared to have a triangular shape to it but with our movement and the object's movement it was hard to say a shape for sure."
Her partner, and two children aged eight and 12, all saw the object on Saturday at 6.20pm and described it as triangular from one direction and oval from another with no distinct outline. The 30-year-old said: "It could have been the size of a jumbo jet but it was not moving fast, more hovering. As we went past Rownhams we could see it to our left. I did not feel scared.
"You try to put it down to rational things. It could have been a cloud but when we saw a helicopter beaming its lights down we knew it was something strange. She said: "It was unmissable and with the amount of traffic on the road I refuse to believe thousands of people on the road did not see it. I don't want people to think I am a raving lunatic.
"We saw what we are certain to be a helicopter dwarfed by this large object. The helicopter was quite a bit higher up than the UFO and it was aiming its lights down towards the object.
Your Say YourDaily Echo
Close encounters of the mind, says...
7:28am Fri 15 Feb 08
annabelle, says...
8:03am Fri 15 Feb 08
Raving loony~~~~~nooooo
Cynic, Southampton says...
8:42am Fri 15 Feb 08
up up and, away says...
9:23am Fri 15 Feb 08
flight of fantasy, in the clouds says...
9:27am Fri 15 Feb 08
,F,A,O.
Bob, Southampton says...
9:32am Fri 15 Feb 08
Shazza, says...
9:32am Fri 15 Feb 08
peter, southampton says...
9:36am Fri 15 Feb 08
JB Soton, Gosport says...
9:47am Fri 15 Feb 08
paper chase owner, utensil drawer says...
9:50am Fri 15 Feb 08
Neil armstrong, Sea of Tranquility says...
10:06am Fri 15 Feb 08
Forum administrator, says...
10:20am Fri 15 Feb 08
Cynic wrote:Post of the day (and it's only 10:20am!)
Perhaps it was our City Councillors going home to their own planet at the end of another hard day.
lymocherry, says...
10:45am Fri 15 Feb 08
annabelle wrote:I saw a monster munchie last week!!! then 6 hula hoops went flying past!!
Looks like a dorito to me but what flavour is it? Raving loony~~~~~nooooo
JR, Soton says...
11:36am Fri 15 Feb 08
Christoff, says...
12:15pm Fri 15 Feb 08
*_*, Take me to your leader says...
12:59pm Fri 15 Feb 08
bemused onlooker, Southampton says...
3:25pm Fri 15 Feb 08
*_* wrote:Looking for the "WOW" factor ?
They came from Uranus
Test Resident, Southampton Outsider says...
3:40pm Fri 15 Feb 08
This might explain the Echos' frequent difficulties with English Grammar.
Bertie, Totton in a galaxy far, far away says...
4:21pm Fri 15 Feb 08
triquetra, says...
5:37pm Fri 15 Feb 08
Mulder and/or Scully, says...
6:06pm Fri 15 Feb 08
triquetra wrote:Quite, the truth is out there, after all...
is it so hard to believe ?? if you look into history they have been visiting our planet for thousands of years and they are comming back look into the sumarian people the first civilisation they lived with alien beings and they beings came from planet X if you really want to know the truth you will find it
Captain Chaos, Bluestar Headquaters says...
6:30pm Fri 15 Feb 08
Mothman, Lyndhurst says...
9:37pm Fri 15 Feb 08
King Mush, Woolston says...
11:28pm Fri 15 Feb 08
Test Resident wrote:This could be deemed a slightly racist comment?
Has anyone noted the reporter\'s name. This might explain the Echos\' frequent difficulties with English Grammar.
The reporter's name is of Asian origin and I think you'll find that many of 'these people' speak a hell of a lot more languages and dialects that Testes Resident could ever dream of. That takes brains and a good education - sadly lacking in some quarters over here
Real Earthling, Grinnell Iowa says...
2:10am Sat 16 Feb 08
T, Reality says...
2:48am Sat 16 Feb 08
flight of fantasy wrote:A round of applause for this one, please. They failed, somehow, to make it to the SECOND SENTENCE. Bravo, dipshit. And no. Its not a kite. Its a picture with a fake shape, representing what a family was ashamed to admit they saw because people are so ignorant. They felt strong enough about their experience to share it nonetheless. If everybody who mocked this story took one hour to study the depth of this phenomenon, they'd shut their ill-informed mouths. The evidence is overwhelming if you're willing to look into it.
Its a two stringed stunt kite....U,F,O,...L,M ,F,A,O.
Robin, Gotham says...
8:00am Sat 16 Feb 08
nah,
nah,nah,......BATMAN
!!!
Test Resident, Southampton Outsider says...
10:57am Sat 16 Feb 08
King Mush wrote:Sorry to disappoint you Kingmush but Asian reference was not intended. The name of the reporter just seemed apt in the context of the news item, but you are aware of that. I suspect that you like fanning possible smouldering embers into raging infernos of argument in order to brighten up an otherwise dull life. However that is excusable considering that you live in Woolston.
Test Resident wrote: Has anyone noted the reporter\'s name. This might explain the Echos\' frequent difficulties with English Grammar.This could be deemed a slightly racist comment? The reporter's name is of Asian origin and I think you'll find that many of 'these people' speak a hell of a lot more languages and dialects that Testes Resident could ever dream of. That takes brains and a good education - sadly lacking in some quarters over here
jake leek, The Ridgway says...
11:20am Sat 16 Feb 08
I have seen UFOs, closest I ever got was Hartlebury common. october 1969 lots of police about because it had landed It was cordoned off, the police let me through because I was wearing my lucky hat, I walked up to this shiny alien with big eyes and thanked him very much for stopping by.
anyomous, bursledon-near m27 says...
12:18pm Sat 16 Feb 08
Anyomous.
Family who saw this, southampton says...
3:19pm Sat 16 Feb 08
Thanks
Drabik, Southampton says...
12:24pm Mon 18 Feb 08
The chances of intelligence are very slim, also. For example, there are millions of organisms on this planet and only one is intelligent enough to design machines to go into space, so why should another planet also have an organism capable of doing so?
Also, if aliens are real (which I myself do not believe), then surely the vast technology of astronomers would have spotted it. Certainly Southampton airport would have noticed an unidentified flying object approaching the nearby area.
Thanks, Drabik
Rachel, Southampton says...
4:12pm Mon 18 Feb 08
The fact is we just don't know what's out there???? Just as we cannot say for certain Aliens do exist we cannot say for sure that they don't.
If you do your research you will find information on numerous reports of pilots seeing unidentified objects. Airports picking up objects on radar, that were not known to be out there.
I personally think most people are too afraid to allow themselves to beleive in other life forms that could possibly be more intelligent than ourselves.
I think you'll find too our goverment knows far more than they are willing to let on. How inferior this could make them! Everyone knows the goverment twist things to justify their actions.
In the bible the 3 wise men followed a bright star, was this really a bright star? or a ufo?. What about the Virgin Mary, imaculate conception or artificial insemination? Who really knows?
jake leek, The Ridgway says...
10:26pm Mon 18 Feb 08
om/watch?v=YdyQu5Zx8
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Spot on Rachel you are clever ,
take a look Drabik please! now what you think i seen this one also 3miles from stonehenge 2001 december 2nd also 2days later again Im a vagabond i live under the stars,I log my sightings.
jake leek, The Ridgway says...
10:39pm Mon 18 Feb 08
om/watch?v=YdyQu5Zx8
xw&feature=related
toniwestie, Hythe says...
7:24am Tue 19 Feb 08
Elaine, Canada says...
4:19am Sat 23 Feb 08
Lee Broadstock, Tipton,UK says...
10:20am Mon 25 Feb 08
jay, says...
12:05am Thu 28 Feb 08
UFO?
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Adrian Smith, says...
6:20am Fri 15 Feb 08
And the Echo's "photoshopped" image is neither.