Comments on: ‘UFOs’ spotted in Reading

By: Berber Anna

Berber Anna — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:39:14 +0000

Could it have been a bunch of people having fun building some of these things? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asstv3jtpSs

In the right weather conditions, they can look a fair bit like UFOs.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:14:24 +0000

Best thing for Lizzie to do would be to release the raw footage on to the net. Obviously put copyright messages onto it so Murdoch Media doesn’t get a free ride but in it’s raw footage, with in-file camera information, people will have a better chance of getting a handle on it.

Kite sounds good. The shading could be a design on it.

Yes, I am sceptical but also open-minded. I believe there *must* be life “out there”. Just the distances involved are way too great to traverse in a timely manner with only conventional propulsion.

By: insomniac

insomniac — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:03:11 +0000

Looks a hell of a lot like a hand glider to me. in fact, even the way they describe it, metal rods… pointing in the same direction it was flying and it fits the description of being a noiseless aircraft. the video is of a poor quality as is standard for these types of things but in my opinion, that looks like a triangular shape on a horizontal perspective. The only other explanation would be that its a kite of some sort or a remote controlled aircraft. but its hard to judge the distance and tell how far away / how big it actually is from this shot.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:01:22 +0000

Later the same day Daily Telegraph told me they published what we found. I went to their website and found their publishing time was around 16:40. Then I went to Jo’s room to tell her, but before I spoke to her, she asked me: “Did you tell others later that we saw UFO this morning?” I told her no, and because I did not sleep for the whole night, I was too tired to do anything else except having a nap after I went back home at about 15:00. And I asked her why ask. Jo told me that at about 14:00 -15:00 she heard many middle school students passing by the building we are living, and they were loudly talking about the UFOs found in the morning. I guess perhaps the people who saw those UFOs are not only us two.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:53:37 +0000

Generally, although we also encountered some problems when telling Daily Telegraph what happened, they finally got what we recorded, and published a tiny part of them (UFOs’ appearing lasted for more than 1 hour. and even when we made the first call to Daily Telegraph, the 21st/22nd UFO was flying across the sky, but my arms were too tired to record any more video. We recorded using my mobile phone for about half an hour, but Daily Telegraph only published less than 2 minutes of what we recorded.)

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:48:58 +0000

The first company we called was BBC. But it took us quite a few minutes to find a valid telephone number from their website to dial. We tried many times and finally our call was answered by a woman, and the first question she asked was:”So what new story do you have?” See, they don’t want news and truth, and they just want new story. Then she interrupted us and transferred us to an answering machine. After we made a few choices according to the answering machine’s instruction, the machine hung up our call suddenly – we even had no time to start to tell them what happened. We got upset so finally decided to try Daily Telegraph. We decided that if Daily Telegraph did not treat this seriously, we would give up.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:41:31 +0000

Just when we were astonished we saw more UFO flying one by one, in the same direction which the previous UFOs flew in. Then I said:”Be quick, take photos!” But she had no camera at hand either, so I ran back to my room with bare feet (I had no time to put on my shoes) and used my mobile phone to record the next 7 UFOs.

After that I went to Jo’s room, and when we were exited and I was going to show her what I recorded, we saw more UFOs, then again I recorded them using my mobile phone. Finishing recording – going to let Jo see what I recorded – finding more UFO appearing in the sky – recording them again. This repeated four times (and thus we only managed to record not all of them). Then we decided to call some newspaper company.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:34:45 +0000

Then I started to hesitate: Shall I wake up people who are living in the next left/right room (I am living in a student hall) to see these UFO? I would prefer to wake up the one in the right room, because the UFOs were flying toward my right side, but the person living in the right room just moved in so I even did not have time to speak to her and know her name! So, I ran out of my room and knocked the door of the left room. “Be quick, open the door please!” Then Jo opened the door – later she told me when she was woken by me, she thought I must be seriously ill and therefore needed her help urgently – and then I said “Look out of the window! Are they UFO or something?” Then she was astonished as well by what she saw (her window was open then, and she did not hear any voice either).

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0000

Because many planes usually fly across the sky above the building I am living in, I am very familiar with the noise they will generate when flying. But I heard nothing! It was so early in the morning and very quiet – in my video there are only the voice of my clock in the room, the voice I pressed the button of my mobile phone and the voice of the birds outside. So I suddenly realized that it was an UFO. It left a bright, long, narrow and compact track behind in the sky when flying. I immediately grabbed my mobile phone trying to take a photo, but only took a photo for its track in the sky. When I was still gapemouthed, two more UFO flew in the same direction into my eyeshot. I took 2 photos for them without any hesitation.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:19:22 +0000

Hey guys, I am one of the eyewitness of this event. The reason how we captured this phenomenon is that I was sitting beside the huge window in my room on the 8th floor of a building in Reading, and watching a film, so I did not go to bed. When finally I felt very sleepy, I looked at the sky casually and found the sky was becoming brighter and the sun was rising, so I realized that I really needed to go to bed and have a rest. Then I saw the first UFO. I thought it was a meteor, so at first I said to myself: “Wow, a meteor. Let me make a wish.” Then I realized that it was not a meteor. “But what could it be? A plane/aircraft?” So I opened the window trying to hear the noise which a plane will generate when flying.