at half ten just (3/4hr ago) I realised I was out of fags so told the wife I was just nipping out to the late shop. After nearly breaking my neck on the sodding cat who was hiding behind the kitchen door, I looked up and noticed this big orange ball moving silently across the sky over the marsh. What the fook is that? methinks. After all, we have a fairly uninterrupted view over the marsh to the south, no street lights or any of that malarkey.
It looked like a halloween lantern moving horizontally. No sound at all. Glowing orange. I shouted the mrs to come outside and have alook and as we watched over the next couple of minutes it began to climb a bit, then a bit more, got brighter, then turned through about 30 degrees to starboard and disappaered very quickly, in about 15 seconds it was just a tiny dot and then went striaght up and vanished. No clouds nearby, fairly clear night sky, Sirius well over the horizon.
It weren't no plane that I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. No running lights, no illuminated tailplane like a lot of airliners have these days, and of course silent. No whine of jet engines, after all you can hear the stuff high up at 30'000 feet from the ground if there's not much other noise around, and it didn't move like a plane or helicopter.
I've seen some weird stuff before, but always suspected that they were likely as not just military stuff being sneaky, like those black triangles I saw over the Atlantic in the early 80s which years later turned out to be Stealth bombers. this wasn't anything like that. But as this thing whatever it was disappeared off to the south-east, from the west where it had come from we did hear some jet engines and two small fast moving sets of navigation lights came steaming after it. Presumably the RAF chasing it, they disappeared pronto too but they behaved like planes should.
Mrs Taw is totally convinced it was aliens and was waving at them to come back and be friendly, for which I chided her as if it was aliens they might be fookin hostile! We aint having those women-stealing larva-laying alien horrors in Tawakalnistan, no way.
no idea what it was, but it was bl**dy bizarre. never thought I'd see the day!
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