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UFO photographed over Hampshire
10:21am Saturday 28th June 2008
By Peter Law »
REMARKABLE new evidence of UFOs in the skies over Hampshire can be revealed today.
Daily Echo readers captured these bizarre images of what appear to be flying saucers zooming through our skies.
The UFOs were snapped over Beaulieu and Woolston by pure accident and only noticed days later by the photographers.
Hampshire has been in the grip of an X Files-style UFO mystery after black triangles were seen flying over Millbrook and Shirley in recent months.
Last week the Echo thought it had explained the phenomenon - a mini-hot air balloon made out of four black bin bags. But the latest sightings are clearly something completely different - and remain a mystery.
It's behind you!Keen amateur photographer Richard Branch was in the garden of his Brockenhurst home when he photographed an American Heuy Helicopter on display at Beaulieu on May 26.
It was not until he later checked his photographs that he noticed there was a strange flying object in one of them.
"I took the photo from quite a distance and at the time was only interested in catching the helicopter, I didn't notice the object until I looked at the photos on my computer some days later," he said.
"I can't explain what it is. Others have said balloon, drone or bird, but if this was the case it would have shown up in the first photo taken one minute earlier. The light reflecting from the object looks to me as though it's metallic and moving quite fast.
"I cannot believe that we are the only life form in the entire universe. Many of the pictures that I have seen of so-called UFOs can be explained as hoaxes, some cannot."
University of Southampton student Loiza Loizou also received a shock after searching through photographs she had taken of the night sky over Weston Shore.
Her brother, Yiannkai, said: "She had no idea an object was in front of her but it was clearly visible in the photo when the flash illuminated it, as can be seen from zooming in on the object and noticing the glass reflecting the light," he said.
"Maybe there's an obvious explanation we're missing but she assures me there were no lights near by and that it was totally dark.
"I am one of the most sceptical people there are but, because I know the person who took this photograph, I am puzzled."
Meanwhile, Daily Echo reader Leon Gill also had a close encounter when he spotted a UFO while on a tea break at his work in Chandler's Ford industrial estate on June 13.
"It was 10am and we were outside on our tea break. One guy looked up and said What's that?' We looked up and there was something moving across the sky, white in colour at a very high speed.
"It was a clear day but there was no jet stream behind it. As we watched, it then began a kind of S-shaped manoeuvre which is also something that cannot be done at that speed.
"As it passed in front of a white cloud, the object turned black and was then instantly, from out of nowhere joined by a second black object.
"They both then darted across the sky. As we followed them, they all of a sudden disappeared."
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John, says...
11:17am Sat 28 Jun 08
vanessa, eastleigh says...
11:27am Sat 28 Jun 08
Sceptic, Waterside says...
11:50am Sat 28 Jun 08
Is it just me or does it strike anyone else as strange to be taking a photo of an object and then stick it in the extreme left hand side of the picture? Moving objects should generally be photographed with a large expanse in front of them (to be moving into) for it to be aesthetically pleasing!
regards
Sceptic
Waterside
CSE Photography
Snap shot, Locks Heathen says...
11:59am Sat 28 Jun 08
southy, redbridge says...
12:06pm Sat 28 Jun 08
John wrote:ah maybe they know where the real intelligent people are located.
i believe in aliens and ufos etc but one thing puzzles me...why would they fly billions of miles to find intelligent life then hover over Weston and Millbrook
the picture with the heuy that looks like it might be the goodyear or the swan passager ballon,it would seem if it traveling fast,when you focusing on the helicoper,has for the planes cant do s movements, then you not seen what the harrier jump jet can do in the air,that plane can do things in the air what no other planes can do
Spock, says...
12:06pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Bambi, says...
12:16pm Sat 28 Jun 08
K, Southampton says...
12:25pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Try harder next time.
Wewullywinky, says...
12:32pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Next people will be claiming they have seen christ walking in the general.
southy, redbridge says...
1:04pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Wewullywinky wrote:sorry that was me walking on water again
The echo must be short on news lately. What a load of tosh.
Next people will be claiming they have seen christ walking in the general.
Rock and roll, says...
1:09pm Sat 28 Jun 08
If you look close you can see the soup dragon.
Fools!
George, rattlin' chains says...
2:02pm Sat 28 Jun 08
fooxie, United States of America says...
2:26pm Sat 28 Jun 08
anon, everywhere says...
3:20pm Sat 28 Jun 08
/b/
Huge sigh-what next?, Chandlers Ford says...
3:29pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Wewullywinky, says...
4:41pm Sat 28 Jun 08
southy wrote:I'm good at turning wine into water do i qualify for the position!
Wewullywinky wrote: The echo must be short on news lately. What a load of tosh. Next people will be claiming they have seen christ walking in the general.sorry that was me walking on water again
ann m. taylor, vancouver b.c. says...
4:46pm Sat 28 Jun 08
UFOlogist, Soton says...
4:56pm Sat 28 Jun 08
the photo of the helicopter is very interesting and i shall be doing a follow up study.
the picture allegedly taken at western shore however, is of a slotted pan head woodscrew and a washer. try turning the image upside down..
modernist, blighty says...
5:50pm Sat 28 Jun 08
ann m. taylor wrote:wow! i thought the Echo lived in the dark ages. but you take the biscuit. Vancouver bc, and we've been AD for years.
Just love the comments ! don't know which to take more seriously,them or the u.f.o's.
Oh, and for the record. I believe.
eeeeeennnnnnniiiiiii weeeeennnnnniiiiii ooooonnnnnnaaahhhhhh
hhh
Waddi El Izgowinon, soton says...
6:09pm Sat 28 Jun 08
sarcastic hillbilly, somewhere nice says...
6:09pm Sat 28 Jun 08
hmm, says...
6:11pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Right way up it looks like something out of Button Moon.
There's even a bit of wire coming from the top of the pic making it 'float'.
It certainly is remarkable but not in a good way.
Newb, says...
7:21pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Sceptic wrote:Umm - it's been cropped. Surely that's obvious given the noise? You're a pro - right?
Hello 'Big Boy'!
Is it just me or does it strike anyone else as strange to be taking a photo of an object and then stick it in the extreme left hand side of the picture? Moving objects should generally be photographed with a large expanse in front of them (to be moving into) for it to be aesthetically pleasing!
regards
Sceptic
Waterside
CSE Photography
;0)
Impartial, says...
7:46pm Sat 28 Jun 08
"Whereas you're a horrendously insecure moron" and "insult strangers on the Internet and thinks he can map out someones entire life based on one message".
Errrrr, haven't you just done that to him?
As self induced slap round the face me thinks.
Te he!
Big Vern, says...
7:57pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Impartial wrote:Not really. Well, I called him a moron I suppose, which is not strictly true, but everything else is based on facts presented here, so, no, not the same thing at all. Only the insecure feel the need to rip into someone like that for having a perceived boring hobby. It's not normal to unload that amount of hatred on a total stranger just because they choose to be interested in a load of mumb-jumbo. The real hatred is inward-bound. The name-calling amplifies it. It's all textbook really.
"Whereas you're a horrendously insecure moron" and "insult strangers on the Internet and thinks he can map out someones entire life based on one message".
Errrrr, haven't you just done that to him?
As self induced slap round the face me thinks.
Te he!
I'll slap meself anyway, for the moron part :-)
Robert, says...
8:21pm Sat 28 Jun 08
Quite frankly...., Orbiting Planet Idiot says...
9:25pm Sat 28 Jun 08
sotonian, southampton says...
9:28pm Sat 28 Jun 08
vanessa wrote:if you were an alien would you want to have anything to do with humans?
I also saw the silver spear type object zooming across the skies from the airport area towards southampton from a garden in wide lane on a clear and very sunny day about three weeks ago and put it down to maybe a new type of aircraft from the military? I didnt want to tell the papers and look stupid when someone came forward to explain it.!!If they are UFO's then why dont they try and communicate instead of just zooming along in the skies?
Jamie and Jessica, Lordshill says...
10:17pm Sat 28 Jun 08
aaron, says...
10:50pm Sat 28 Jun 08
pathetic
Richard, Winchester says...
6:55am Sun 29 Jun 08
OK, soton says...
8:44am Sun 29 Jun 08
Alesiter Crowley, PLANET X says...
11:20am Sun 29 Jun 08
if you were an alien would you want to have anything to do with humans?
no, i'd probably wipe you all out
hysterical, here says...
1:14pm Sun 29 Jun 08
tom smith, weston says...
2:43pm Sun 29 Jun 08
A, nyc says...
5:28pm Sun 29 Jun 08
George, says...
5:32pm Sun 29 Jun 08
A wrote:If they did that, it'd be even more obviously faked
please make the high-res original versions of those pictures available. if you're going to report on UFO's you have to make the high-res versions available if you want to be taken seriously. why do you think a thumbnail is good enough? please post the orignal pictures.
King Mush, Woolston says...
10:24pm Sun 29 Jun 08
Covers up the truth
Your conspiratorally
KM
Ian, North Baddesley says...
11:11pm Sun 29 Jun 08
darren, totton says...
11:27pm Sun 29 Jun 08
notfrommarsafterall, Southampton says...
2:55am Mon 30 Jun 08
Ian wrote:Ian, you really are on another planet.
Its nearly as much rubbish as the media hype over the supposed house price "crash". Please always remember that these guys are paid to sell newspapers, not report facts.... Did anyone else notice the official 2 line report, that showed that house prices actually ROSE by 0.7% last month? Yet all the headlines show prices falling by 30+%. What rubbish. And they tell US not to post anything unlawful!!!! Dont sell your house guys!!!
mark, USA says...
8:08am today Mon 30 Jun 08
I say, Daily Echo = RUBBISH!
I don't blame anyone but the editor.
Shame, shame shame. What drivel! My intelligence is insulted and I officially boycott the "Echo". And I want my wasted 5 minutes back!
/b/tard, /b/ says...
10:30am Mon 30 Jun 08
live local, southampton says...
12:29pm Mon 30 Jun 08
The night time UFO.
1 if photographing stars you do not use a flash! The flash range on a standard camera is about 20 feet.
If her flash illuminated the object it therefore must be within 20 feet.
2 Stars are a long way away so to take a picture of stars you set the focal length on infinity (far way, so the stars are clear) So why is the object some 20 feet away ( at the most) clear.
3 If taking photos of the night sky you need to keep the camera very still to prevent blurring, if you move the camera then the stars will appear as smears, but then the likely hood of panning at the exactly same speed as a mysterious object so that is in focus is also unlikely.
In summary a fraud / fake/ double image not a UFO.
The second photo, as the person states it was a long way off but the layout of the picture suggests it has been cropped, there is no method of confirming the amount of separation between the helicopter and the object, as for it not being in the second picture taken one minute earlier, passenger aircraft cruise at about 500 miles per hour so in one minute would have travelled about eight miles so would have not appeared near the helicopter..
Perhaps the greatest mystery is way is the echo printing such rubbish
The Watchman, The Ether says...
2:23pm Mon 30 Jun 08
Wewullywinky wrote:Now you come to mention it...
The echo must be short on news lately. What a load of tosh.
Next people will be claiming they have seen christ walking in the general.
mauricio moya, usa says...
6:07pm Sat 5 Jul 08
The second picture is just a bird.
my email is mrc_moya@yahoo.com
regards
les, brighton says...
8:25pm Sun 27 Jul 08
Ant, England says...
2:31am Sat 16 Aug 08
Maybe it's not aliens.. maybe it's a new military craft.. who knows..
Even if Aliens came, you ppl wouldn't have the imgination to believe, and wouldn't recognise one if they slapped you on the ****! Tell someone you saw they baby Jesus,and they setup a vigil on your lawn, tell them you see a UFO, and you're a nut.. Bunch of Synics the lot of you.
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Big Boy, Hythe says...
10:44am Sat 28 Jun 08