In Memory of Robert Rosamond
- Heather Dixon
- Feb 1, 2020
- 6 min read
Rob Rosamond, my dearest friend and past BUFORA colleague, died last month on 11th June 2020 aged sixty-two years. From diagnosis to his passing was just a matter of months, very sadly, and so there was so little time to say goodbye.
Rob was with BUFORA for six years from 2004-2010 and was very involved with the organisation on every level from investigation and research to image analyses and finally became Chairman for several years.
Rob’s innate ability to understand the human condition served him well in this extraordinary subject of so many strange narratives and curious sightings from around the UK and beyond. His analytical mind, combined with his empathic nature on so many areas of extraordinary human experiences, contributed immeasurably to BUFORA’s understanding of these reports. The personal time he gave in speaking with witnesses of high strangeness experiences and, on occasion visiting with them, was his completely natural and inherent skill in understanding what it really means to be human.
I first met Rob back in 2001 and engaged in an in-depth conversation with him about a specific UFO narrative. His passion for the subject and all things strange were reflected in this conversation that Saturday, long ago and far away.
When Rob and my ex BUFORA colleague and close friend, Judy Jaafar, came together as partners in 2004, Rob joined BUFORA becoming actively involved in the association, bringing with him his extensive knowledge and passion for aviation and Space together with his photographic experience to evaluate UFO images and sightings reported to BUFORA.
Rob also enjoyed UFO ‘plototics’ on several forums while he was with BUFORA, and never took any of this very seriously, but with good humour and a light-hearted engagement with the many differing thoughts and viewpoints out there.
Although Rob left BUFORA ten years ago, his interest never really waned and when I was in London with Rob and Judy, we would often engage in cracking debates and conversations about the weird and wonderful world of UFOs and all related mysteries.
On behalf of BUFORA, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to Judy Jaafar, his partner, and her family, and also to Sara, Rob’s much-loved sister and stepfather, Dave.
You will be remembered always, my unforgettable friend
Gloria Heather Dixon
BUFORA
July 2020
Observations of the Space-X Starlink series of Satellites
Updated 01st May 2020 reports for Jan-April.
Since the end of November BUFORA has received many reports of the Space-X Starlink series of Satellites.
The ‘strange lights’ in the sky were thought to be UFOs that were supposedly invading or just visiting Earth but unfortunately not.
If you see these over the UK they are NOT UFO's but satellites that are part of the Space-X Starlink project to provide accessible internet to everyone.
Below is a summary of reports received via the BUFORA website.
Date | Time | Duration | No. | Description | Location |
28.11.19 | 0530 | 10 mins | 25-30 | Bright white lights. | Nantymoel, Bridegend. |
28.11.19 | 0548 | 7 mins | 21 | Long line of stars moving | Newport, Caerphilly. |
28.11.19 | 0555 | 5 mins | 20+ | String of white lights. | Christian Malford, Wiltshire. |
28.11.19 | 0615 | 10 mins | 12 | Star Like | Hartlepool, Co Durham. |
29.11.19 | 0410 | 30+ | N/A | ||
29.11.19 | 0430 | Many | N/A | ||
29.11.19 | 0600 | 5 mins | 20-30 | Like the North Star like a line of cars on a motorway. | Middleton, Manchester. |
29.11.19 | 0600 | 20-30mins | 100+ | Star like travelling in a straight line. | Eckington, Sheffield. |
29.11.19 | 0615 | 25+ | Co. Durham. | ||
29.11.19 | 0615 | 100+ | Bright star like. | Mid Wales. | |
29.11.19 | 0620 | 5 mins | 30+ | Light in sky. | Bromley, London. |
29.11.19 | 0620 | 8 mins | 30+ | Bright white star like. | Northwich, Cheshire. |
29.11.19 | 0620 | 9 mins | 22+ | White like a satellite. | Stanton, Suffolk. |
29.11.19 | 0620 | 3-4 mins | 10+ | White like a satellite. | Solihull, West Midlands. |
29.11.19 | 0620 | 2 mins | 15-16 | White star like | Tuffley, Gloucestershire. |
29.11.19 | 0624 | 5 mins | 28 | Like a satellite white. | Wakefield, West Yorkshire. |
29.11.19 | 0625 | 5 mins | 20+ | String of white lights. | Shrewsbury, Shropshire. |
29.11.19 | 0625 | 12 | White Light String | N/A | |
29.11.19 | 0625 | Many | Star like | Baschurch, Shropshire. | |
29.11.19 | 0630 | 4-5 mins | Many | Star light engines heard! | Ballymena, Northern Ireland. |
29.11.19 | 100+ | Star like travelling in a straight line. | N/A | ||
30.11.19 | 0400 | 30+ | Straight line of stars. | N/A | |
30.11.19 | 0510 | 22+ | Star like. | Bole, Nottinghamshire. | |
30.11.19 | 0530 | 7 | Star like | Bridlington, East Yorksire. | |
30.11.19 | 0640 | 30+ | Satellite like. | Edinburgh, | |
30.11.19 | 0700 | 15 mins | 50+ | White star like | Doncaster, South Yorkshire. |
01.12.19 | Many | Line of Stars moving. | Cheshire. | ||
01.12.19 | 0200 | 3-4 mins | 30+ | Stars in a necklace. | N/A |
01.12.19 | 0700` | 12+ | Star like | N/A | |
02.12.19 | 0600 | 10 mins | 50+ | Star like | Caterham, Surrey. |
02.12.19 | 0600 | 45 secs | 9 | White star like | Llanedeyrn, Cardiff |
02.12.19 | 0600 | 6 mins | 28 | White lights | Saltash, Cornwall. |
02.12.19 | 0610 | 10 secs | 6+ | White lights | Yeovil, Somerset. |
02.12.19 | 0610 | 1 min | 15 | String of white lights. | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. |
02.12.19 | 0640 | Many | Train of white lights | Honiston, Devon. | |
02.12.19 | 18 | Lights | Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire. | ||
03.12.19 | 0600 | 30+ | Ring of satellites orbiting | Bradford, West Yorkshire. | |
03.12.19 | 0620 | 30+ | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. | ||
03.12.19 | 0625 | 5-8 mins | 40+ | Star like | Wakefield, West Yorkshire. |
03.12.19 | 0629 | 5 mins | 30 | Star like | Wirral, Merseyside. |
03.12.19 | 0630 | 15 | Straight line of stars moving | Chesterfield, Derbyshire. | |
03.12.19 | 0630 | 2 mins | 15 | White lights like a star | Burntwood, Staffordshire. |
03.12.19 | 0630 | Line of moving stars | Hove, East Sussex. | ||
03.12.19 | 0632 | 5 mins | 18+ | White light | Warrington, Cheshire. |
04.12.19 | 0510 | 20 mins | 15+ | Star like | Norwich, Norfolk. |
04.12.19 | 0515 | 15 mins | Many | Bluish White Lights. | Liverpool, Merseyside. |
04.12.19 | 0516 | 10 mins | 30+ | Line of moving stars | Rendlesham, Suffolk. |
04.12.19 | 0520 | 3-5 mins | 20 | Mutiple Star like | Pattishall, Northamptonshire. |
04.12.19 | 0700 | 20+ | Mutiple Star like | Dublin. | |
04.12.19 | Lights in straight line | N/A | |||
05.12.19 | 0550 | 3-4 mins | 30+ | Star like | Gillingham, Kent. |
29.12.19 | 1800 | 15+ | Line of lights like a necklace. | Alletsree, Derbyshire. | |
29.12.19 | 1800 | 50+ | Chain of lights. | Rainrow, Cheshire. | |
29.12.19 | 1800 | 40+ | Lights in the sky moving. | Bideford, Devon. | |
29.12.19 | 1810 | 10 mins | 30 | Line of moving stars. | Duffield, Derbyshire. |
29.12.19 | 1811 | 8 | Line of lights moving. | Clayton. | |
29.12.19 | 1815 | 10 mins | Train of white lights | N/A | |
29.12.19 | 1815 | 7 | Line of lights. | Bryn Gwyn, Powys. | |
29.12.19 | 1815 | 4-5 mins | 20-30 | Stream of lights. | Southsea, Hampshire. |
29.12.19 | 1815 | 60+ | Moving lights like stars. | N/A | |
29.12.19 | 1817 | 4 mins | Many white lights | Essex. | |
29.12.19 | 1820 | 5 mins | 15 | Lights moving in a row. | Bristol, Avon. |
29.12.19 | 1820 | 10 mins | 40-50 | Line of lights. | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. |
29.12,19 | 1820 | 15 mins | 30+ | White lights | Worthing, West Sussex. |
29.12.19 | 50+ | Row of lights. | N/A | ||
30.12.19 | 1730 | 4 mins | 25-30 | Moving lights. | Tintwistle, Derbyshire. |
31.12.19 | 1730 | 45+ | Grimsby, Lincolnshire. | ||
31.12.19 | 1730 | 5-9 mins | 50+ | String of white lights. | Boston, Lincolnshire. |
31.12.19 | 1730 | 30+ | Line of white lights. | Preston, Lancashire. | |
31.12.19 | 1734 | 3-4 secs | 9 | White lights in a line. | North Hykeham, Lincolnshire. |
31.12.19 | 1930 | 20 mins | Many | Lights in a line. | Bathgate, West Lothian. |
19.01.20 | 1820 | 20+ | White lights in a row. | Plymouth, Devon. | |
19.01.20 | 1930 | 4 mins | 75+ | White lights. | Northwold, Norfolk. |
22.01.20 | 0601 | 4 mins | 13 | White objects. | Sapcote, Leicestershire. |
23.01.20 | 1820 | 6-7 mins | 27 | White lights. | Rotherham, South Yorkshire. |
27.01.20 | 1825 | 16 mins | 25+ | Star like. | Stone, Staffordshire. |
27.01.20 | 1840 | 5-10 mins | 31+ | White lights in the sky. | Oakham, Rutland. |
28.01.20 | 0530 | 5 mins | 8+ | Lights in a line. | UK. |
29.01.20 | 0545 | 15-16 | White lights. | Tilstock, Shropshire. | |
29.01.20 | 0550 | 20 mins | 20-30 | Satellite like. | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. |
29.01.20 | 0600 | 7+ | Star like | Weldon, Northamptonshire. | |
31.01.20 | 1846 | 20 mins | 50+ | White string of lights | S Helens, Merseyside. |
18.02.20 | 0522 | 10 mins | Several | Star like. | UK. |
19.02.20 | 0550 | 20+ | Lights in the sky. | Bexhill, East Sussex. | |
25.02.20 | 0418 | 2 mins | 7-8 | Line of moving stars. | UK. |
25.02.20 | 0525 | 4-5 min | 20 | Straight line of stars moving. | Upminster, Essex. |
25.02.20 | 0530 | 1 min | 20+ | Star like | Uffington, Oxfordshire. |
26.02.20 | 0515 | 45 secs | 6 | Lights in the sky. | Trowbridge, Wiltshire. |
27.02.20 | 0425 | 5 mins | 24+ | Star like objects moving straight line. | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. |
09.03.20 | 0535 | 15 | White lights | Lambeth, London. | |
16.03.20 | 1900 | 10 mins | 30+ | Star like | Norwich, Norfolk. |
17.03.20 | 1950 | 14 mins | 38+ | White lights straight line | Wakefield, West Yorkshire. |
27.03.20 | 2015 | 16 mins | Many lights seen moving in a straight line. | UK. | |
27.03.20 | 2100 | 12+ | Lights moving straight line. | Portsmouth, Hampshire. | |
27.03.20 | 2100 | 5 mins | 23 | White dots moving in a line. | Swansea, Wales. |
29.03.20 | 2044 | 25 mins | 20+ | White lights. | Waterlooville, Hampshire. |
29.03.20 | 2045 | 45 mins | 25-30 | White single lights. | Sheffield, South Yorkshire. |
29.03.20 | 2050 | 20 mins | 60+ | White star like | Liverpool, Merseyside. |
29.03.20 | 2130 | 40+ | Like satellites. | UK. | |
31.03.20 | 0330 | 10-15 mins | 50-60 | String of white lights. | Bungay, Suffolk. |
31.03.20 | 2100 | 20 | Starlike Objects | Dereham, Norfolk. | |
31.03.20 | 2115 | 7 mins | 15+ | Like satellites. | Corby, Northamptonshire. |
31.03.20 | 2115 | 7 mins | 10-15 | Pin pricks of light. | Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, |
31.03.20 | 20+ | UK. | |||
01.04.20 | 0400 | 12-15 | White lights | Billericay, Essex. | |
05.04.20 | 2155 | 10 mins | 16 | Hampstead Heath, London. | |
06.04.20 | 2030 | 15-20 mins | 12-15 | White lights | Truro, Cornwall. |
19.04.20 | 2100 | String of white lights. | Norwich, Norfolk. | ||
19.04.20 | 2120 | 30 mins | 50+ | Like satellites. | Porthtowan, Cornwall. |
19.04.20 | 2140 | 10 mins | 10 | White lights string | Brightlingsea, Essex. |
19.04.20 | 2200 | Few minutes | 15 | White lights like a satellite. | Ramsgate, Kent. |
20.04.20 | 2130 | 30 mins | 8 | Sting of lights | Sheffield, South Yorkshire. |
You can visit the following site and input your location to see when the satellites are visible.
Michael Hudson