UFOs not grounded by iceland volcanic ash

You'd think this would be really good evidence, given the complete lack of other possible air traffic at this time....

UFOS obviously hadn’t got the UK-wide ‘no fly zone’ message from air traffic controllers, as an unexplained object was spotted in the skies above Ware.

Despite the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland grounding conventional aircraft, the close encounter took place on Thursday at around 9.15pm. Eyewitness Lesley Weir claims to have spied a “light in the sky”.

She wrote on a UFO-watchers’ website: “On a night with no aircraft flying, I witnessed a light in the sky through my conservatory roof coming from the north, I then went to the front of house and saw the same light travelling south. There was no noise and it was travelling around the same speed as a plane.”

She said the mystery object was “round and orange with a white centre”.

Ms Weir added: “I am sure this is not a Chinese lantern I have seen them before.”

dublin high-speed triangle video

I still think Nick Pope is a disinfo agent for MI5.
This video, which I need to find on YouTube if it's there, could be pretty interesting. There's only a still from it in this article, unless my corporate firewall is blocking the YouTube link -- always a possibility.

some more sightings in the UK

a computer game developer (hmm, somebody well-versed in photoshop and CG no doubt) snapped some video of an object hovering over Bristol, UK. It's a lone-person sighting so that makes it more suspect, but some interesting video nonetheless.

Some interesting footage of two small spheres messing with a passenger jet over Gorebridge, Scotland.

And further, another object filmed over London, some glowing orbs videoed over Liverpool, and a report of a glowing orange football over Spalding.

several sightings in Wales and Bath, UK

Astronomer reports on rotating orange ball over Bath, England, 5/20/09. Says he knows what venus and lanterns look like, and this was neither. I've started including Google Maps references to sighting locations for the serious researcher. Bath is here.

Another woman in Newton shot some (crappy) video of this object:

"The white object was egg shaped and was spinning on an axis," the 17-year-old told the County Times. "The object was completely silent and was hovering like a glider. There was also a bright orange light at the back."

Another witness from the same place in Wales evening saw something different:

"There were about 20 lights going over in the same direction, they were completely silent and they didn't all go over at once they went over in small groups."

Wales is here.

Engineer sighting of Huge UFO over power station

no video or pix but an interesting report nonetheless.
I like reports by engineers, pilots, policemen, military dudes etc as these are typically no-nonsense types of people who aren't going to go out on a limb and join what they often perceive as the lunatic fringe unless they really saw something that freaked them out.

here's the Google Earth/Maps image of the location; Hmmm, nuclear power station, a UFO favorite....

several new still photos of interest

these are all from UFO Casebook, which is a great resource well worth perusing.

this one is the classic little old English lady UFO skeptic who only sees the UFO when her dog starts acting scared. She takes this tourist-perfect pic of a UFO next to some famous Brit cathedral.
If not for the accompanying testimony (always suspect, but not to be disregarded completely) it seems a bit too, as the English would say 'twee' for me, but I'll defer judgment until a photo analysis.

this one is a bit interesting, even though dating from three years ago, as it's one of those where the photographer didn't even see the object when he was taking the photo. Yet object there clearly is! The wacky French 'OVNI' blog that this came from is worth checking out too, if for no other reason that to see the only French person with no taste for design, at least not web design! This has got to be the most eye-searing site I've seen since 1995...

this one is from some amateur astronomer in Illinois (again Illinois! What's going on there?) from 3.20.09, when he caught some sort of object passing in front of the sun; again, skimpy but interesting photo evidence...

some kinda weird photo of something moving pretty quickly in the evening sky. From 3.17.09
These one-off photos are so limited in what they can tell us, most of the time.
But just the sheer weight of these reports has to mean something. Even if it is just a mass psychosis, as most skeptics would have us believe, why do we have that propensity? What is the nature of the sound and unshakeable belief that many UFO witnesses have that what they saw was not part of our normal reality?