UNEXPLAINED ’ BRIGHT LIGHT’ IN WORCESTER
by
Mark Easen
Occasionally, a sighting report will come
into enquiries which the witness believes seems to defy all explanation.
At 10.05 pm on Monday 31st January 2011 in
the Worcester area, a ‘small but very bright light’ was observed in the sky
through a closed first floor bedroom window, moving quite fast in a North Westerly
direction.
The witness says at first he thought it was a
plane on its way to Birmingham airport but then it changed direction and
started heading in his general direction.
The next moment, the bright white light
suddenly appeared 40 to 50 yards away, travelling fast, with what looked like a
‘reddish flame at the front, similar to that of a meteor or rocket’.
The witness turned away to warn his wife to
take cover and when he looked out of the window a few seconds later he noticed
the bright white light was stationary approximately 50 yards away and off the
ground, across
and opposite the street from him where it was
apparently ‘interested’ in one of the other houses.
The light which was around four to six feet
in diameter but with a flat bit at the bottom (he drew it similar to a ‘D’
shape on its side), decided to ‘look round’ the house, going from the front
windows to
the side windows upstairs.
The witness says he saw ‘two small thin brown
legs’ at the bottom of the
light and then it proceeded to ‘climb up the
sloping roof very easily until it was at the top’.
The object stayed there for a few seconds
before ‘shooting off into the sky in a South Easterly direction’ where it was
lost in the clouds before re-appearing as a ‘white centre in the clouds with
what looked like
electrical waves coming out in all directions
– some quite long, then it disappeared’.
The elderly witness claims to have good
hearing and eyesight and reports the object as having made no noise. He
comments that ‘this is the most remarkable thing I have seen – including
bombardments in
Normandy during the war’. He adds that he
‘would very much like to know more about this incident’.
When this case was assessed by us at BUFORA,
a colleague and I came up with two possible theories which we felt could offer
plausible explanations for what had been observed.
These were:
1)
Police helicopter – first noticed in the
distance, then its searchlight beam had been projected into the street opposite
the witness lives to check out premises there. Subsequently this beam had been
raised up
(a helicopter flying away?) having illuminated
the clouds.
2) A combination of separate objects seen which
could have been mistakenly considered connected such as an aircraft landing
light first seen in
the distance, then noticed the same or
different aircraft light closer, followed by a nearby Chinese lantern with
decorative tails (legs)and
3)
….finally a firework of some kind exploding
in the night sky.
The witness was appreciative of our efforts
to provide two possible theories to account for what he had observed, but he
did not feel happy that either of the two hypotheses satisfactorily explained
what he had encountered on that night.
If anyone has any other thoughts or ideas as
to the true identity of the mysterious object, or if similar unknown objects to
this have been observed (on the same night or different) by anyone else, then
we'd like to hear from you at
enquiries@bufora.org.uk