| ID | #1689772425 |
| Added | Wed, 19/07/2023 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | |
| Phenomena | |
| Status | Fact
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Initial data
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009
Time: 2:30 a.m.
Location: Linwood/Woolston, Christchurch, South Island
Features/Characteristics: orange/red light rotates and moves randomly
Description:
The sky is clear, visibility is excellent, the stars are bright, there is no wind. The duration of observation is about 10 minutes.
Two witnesses noticed an orange-red light in the sky, which, in their opinion, was approaching them. Their first thought was that it must be a shooting star, but now it was close to them and moving slowly. They stopped the car on the side of the road and went out to look at the light. It seemed to immediately slow down and hover for a moment before starting to move rapidly in the sky in the shape of a square/hexagon (erratic movement). Then the light became still again and began to rise higher in the sky. Now the witnesses thought it could be a helicopter, but the bright orange light was not explained by this, and there was no sound at all.
Then the light flashed several times before the light completely "went out". However, the sky was illuminated by the lights of the city, and witnesses were able to see a silver-gray object, "if you hold a pencil horizontally at arm's length, the width was very similar." witnesses claim that he could see some kind of rotation of the object, which he described as "like a ball rolling on the ground." The witnesses stated that they could clearly see the object because their eyes were fixed on the position of the light before it "turned off". They felt that any other person looking at the sky would not necessarily see this object. He began to move slowly across the sky again and disappeared from sight, passing behind the trees.
Witnesses reported that the light was approaching from Sumner, then passed over the Woolston area/Linwood (where they spotted him) and was heading south towards Kashmir when they lost sight of him.
They described the speed and motion of light/object as follows:
"When the light moved across the sky, it was very slow — slower than an airplane… but when he stopped and then started moving erratically, his movement became much faster. . He levitated very fast — it seemed like in a split second he was there, then he was further away, and then close again. He didn't move at all, like an airplane."
Original news
Date: Sunday 29 March 2009
Time: 2.30 am
Location: Linwood/Woolston, Christchurch, South Island
Features/characteristics: orange/red light rotating and moving erratically
Description:
Clear sky, great visibility, stars bright, no wind. Duration of sighting approx 10 minutes.
Two witnesses observed an orange-red coloured light in the sky that they considered was coming towards them. Their first thought was that it must be a shooting star, however, it was close to them now, and was moving slowly. They pulled the car over to the side of the road and got out to watch the light. It appeared to slow right down and hovered momentarily before beginning to move rapidly in square/hexagonal shaped patterns in the sky (erratic movement). The light then became stationary again and began to rise higher in the sky. The witnesses now thought it could be a helicopter, but that would not account for the bright orange light, and there was no sound at all.
The light then flashed several times, before the light “went out” completely. However, the sky was lit by the city lights and the witnesses were able to see a silver/grey object “if you held a pencil horizontally at arm’s length, the width was very similar..” The object appeared spherical, and one of the witnesses states he was able to see some kind of rotation of the object, which he described as “like a ball rolling on the ground”. The witnesses stated that they were able to clearly see the object because their eyes had been fixed on the position of the light before it “switched off”. They felt that anybody else looking at the sky would not necessarily have seen the object. It slowly started moving across the sky again and was lost from view as it passed behind trees. The witnesses lost track of the object at this point and were no longer able to spot it in the night sky.
The witnesses reported that the light approached from the general direction of Sumner, then passed over the Woolston/Linwood area (where they spotted it), and it was heading south towards Kashmir when they lost sight of it.
They described the speed and movement of the light/object as follows:
“As the light moved across the sky, it was very slow – slower than an aeroplane … but when it stopped and then started moving in erratic patterns, its movement was much faster. It would levitate very quickly – it seemed in a split second it was there and then it was further away in the distance, and then back close again. It did not move like an aeroplane at all.”
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