Sunday 4 July 2010

Flashing/pulsing object(s) followed by 2 other ufos, Fareham 3/7/10

This was recorded in our back garden in Fareham last night at 11.30pm using a Yukon Ranger infra-red night vision monocular connected via usb capture device connected to a laptop. The occasional laser flashes at the bottom of the video are me either pointing out to Zoe where to look in the sky to find these objects and also to see if any kind of response can be got from the objects as Ive seen this method used by other sky watchers.

The first pulsing/flashing object is travelling in a South-East to North-West direction. Between 48 and 54 seconds into the video another object is seen travelling in the opposite direction. I didnt notice this at the time as I was focussing on the original object so the 2nd one is only seen briefly and I cant tell if it is also pulsing? Then at 2:15 into the footage the 2 other objects appear into the frame travelling East.

Me (Ian) and Zoe usually sky watch together and while I keep an eye on the laptop screen my partner tries to identify things with the naked eye and using binoculars. None of these obects were visible to the naked eye although the Yukon Ranger is very sensitive and also picks up many stars and satellites also not visible to the naked eye.

We also use an app on the iphone 3gs called GoSatWatch which pinpoints the locations of satellites over our present location. I am not sure if this app shows all satellites or if data is missing but according to the app no satellites were passing us at that time.

We also saw a few chinese lanterns a couple of hours earlier in a completely different area of the sky also heading east but these were clearly visible to the naked eye, orange, flickery and obviously guided by the wind. They also burnt out. The lanterns' movement were too dissimilar to the objects in this video plus the fact that they were visible make it unlikely we think that the objects in the video were lanterns.