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/ 06.27.2011 12:00AM
‘UFOs’ Spotted Flying Over the BBC Building
LONDON: An alleged UFO flyover of a BBC building in
London was captured on video Friday, according to reports out of the city. A
two-minute YouTube video has local media buzzing. It shows several bright
lights flitting in and out of the clouds. At about a minute in, the shooter
zooms in on what appears to be the iconic disk-shaped object that hovers for a
few seconds and zips back behind the clouds. It was posted by a 31-year-old
user from the United Kingdom, alymc01, who’s had some 381,000 hits so far on
the clip.
The comments are mostly declarations of legit versus fake versus a promo for
the next “Men in Black” installment. The video was said to be shot Friday, 64
years after Kenneth Arnold reported strange objects in the sky near Mount
Rainier in Washington,
Space.com
says:
Arnold's sighting was “such a sensation that it made front page news across the
nation,” UFO-logist and author Martin Kottmeyer wrote in
REALL News in 1993. “Soon everyone was looking for these new
aircraft which according to the papers were saucer-like in shape. Within weeks
hundreds of reports of these flying saucers were made across the nation.
While people presumably thought they were seeing the same things that Kenneth
Arnold saw, there was a major irony that nobody at the time realized. Kenneth
Arnold hadn't reported seeing flying saucers.”
The date also represents the 14-year anniversary of a U.S.A.F. report on the
Roswell, N.M. sightings in which the bodies of aliens were supposedly
recovered. The report said the bodies were actually crash dummies. It was June
of 1947 that a rancher in New Mexico came upon “a large area of bright wreckage
made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks,” according
to
The Roswell Files. He thought little of
it until hearing the reports about Arnold’s sighting.
Reports of UFO sightings coinciding with the Arnold anniversary are cropping up
in the United States as well, according to Roger Marsh. Marsh writes about UFOs
for
Examiner.com. He’s written about
recent sightings above Kansas
and Illinois.
Check out the YouTube video and see what
you think
:
~
Deborah D. McAdams
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