Odd sighting in Sheffield sorry no pictures.

Hi all,
As a new ish (skeptical) member of ats and not able to start new threads I thought I would mention a odd sighting over Sheffield on the 20-10-2010 I am not trying to say I have seen a ufo/little green men but what I saw was odd and wanted to share this information in the hopes that someone can clarify what I saw or saw it aswell?

I was dropping my partner off near Sheffield Hillsbrough stadium on Wednesday 20-10-2010 at around 9.15am. I pulled into Bramalls gold centre to drop her off and to turn the car around. Upon turning the car around to travel back up Herries road I was waiting for a gap in the traffic when I looked into the sky to see a large bright glimmer there was a aircraft with vapour trail behind travelling in my direction at a high altitude and a Huge silver sphere much higher than the plane and a hell of a lot larger. I first thought it was a star but in the day in clear sky? It must have lasted just under a minute it appeared to be metallic and very bright and very large? It then just flickered out and vanished. I found it odd although carried on with my day and forgot about it however on picking up my partner and travelling home she asked if I had seen the bright object in the sky! (I wasnt planning on mentioning anything about it) She had seen the sphere whilst walking away from my direction and whilst waiting for the crossing saw the object to her left hand side and watched it disapear whilst crossing the road. It was odd in the fact it was very bright, silver and a very large sphere? If anyone has a answer to what we saw or could confirm other sightings please comment.

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Axisoevil…..

Thank you for your interesting report.

I will post this material for you, not to suggest what you saw but to show you the strange appearances that planes can exhibit when illumunated by the sun......just in case it is helpful in view of your "ponderings" of what you saw.

As per my previous posts on this subject, I have again utilized the excellent work of DepthOfField.

To help illustrate my point (above) pertaining to the strange appearances of aircraft when illuminated by the sun, here is a post from another thread by DepthOfField that shows some examples of this.

Posted by DepthOfField on 24-6-2009 @ 21:04:

I didn't bet if i were you it it was not a plain

I've explained above why it could be a plane.

And here are examples taken with different camera, by a guy which i know him, and he knows what he shot: a plain!

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Taken from here: www.rufon.org...

forget the language (romanian), but see the pictures (or try google translate).

Of course, different camera, different bokeh. Yet, "donuts"

On that topic there are other examples of how "strange" an airplane can appear.

Here is one of my personal photo as an example of other kind "strangeness". A sun glint on it's body, but no body seen at all (invisible aircraft?

) . Yet, i know what i photographed, it was an ordinary plain:

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Here's another good example provided by DepthOfField

Posted by DepthOfField on 10-1-2010 @ 08:19:

Just one older example of mine... how a trivial airplane, flying maybe at 5 ..10 km up or so, without contrails, can appear later on the photo, when sunlight angles and perspective, along with powerfull optical zoom (12x) can stretch the things.

The following picture shows the same plane, and the time marks when the photo was taken, together with some relevant EXIF data (F-number, exposure time):



here another external version, since ATS media portal recompresses too much the file adding some jpeg artifacts): img519.imageshack.us...

While when up from my head, the plane is easy to understand, later, when much far away and low to the horizon, along with sun glare on its body, the shape became much more "anomalous".

Integral post is here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not

Thanks for your reply and the images, only thing I could say and am Not saying the images you have posted are nothing like what i saw or not what I saw are the differences to the images and what i saw was the size of the sphere it was huge, I mean if I held my arm out and pinched the plane with my fingers the plane would have been lets say about 1cm maybe smaller the light/sphere was about a good inch big if not more (if you know what i mean) Also the plane was nowhere near the sphere it would (again using my fingers) been maybe 4/5 inches away and higher than the plane. When I asked my partner how much larger it was to the size of the plane she thought it would have been about 7 or 8 planes together in size? As it only lasted for just under a minute its quite difficult to explain the sizes and differences between the two objects the only thing I am thankfull of is the fact she saw something and was not directly with me at the same moment i.e further down the road and at a different angle. Still thanks for the images its atleast something more to think about now over other ideas/thoughts of what it was either star, planet, satellite (you get my drift)

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Axisoeveil.....

OK.....

So thinking again & reading your report I note you state:

a Huge silver sphere much higher than the plane and a hell of a lot larger.

How do you know the "huge silver sphere" was "much higher than the plane"?

Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not

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I can only say it was higher based on the fact the plane was further away in the distance and climbing from my vantage point it would have been 4/5 inches higher up than the plane and much larger. The plane wasnt heading in the direct direction of the sphere, as the photos show the light appears to be towards the nose of the plane the sphere was nowhere near the plane it was id say closer to me than the plane and higher in the sky??? Difficult to word or explain depth/height as no objects/buildings to judge it with only clear sky. My partner claims from her view the plane had passed the sphere with the sphere staying still and being much higher and further in the distance to the plane?? Again hard to explain and niether of us are familiar with sky anomolies or reporting things like this.
Hope this helps in some way or another and cant really be more specific than I have tried to be.

Originally posted by axisoevil
reply to post by Maybe...maybe not

 

I can only say it was higher based on the fact the plane was further away in the distance and climbing from my vantage point it would have been 4/5 inches higher up than the plane and much larger. The plane wasnt heading in the direct direction of the sphere, as the photos show the light appears to be towards the nose of the plane the sphere was nowhere near the plane it was id say closer to me than the plane and higher in the sky??? Difficult to word or explain depth/height as no objects/buildings to judge it with only clear sky. My partner claims from her view the plane had passed the sphere with the sphere staying still and being much higher and further in the distance to the plane?? Again hard to explain and niether of us are familiar with sky anomolies or reporting things like this.
Hope this helps in some way or another and cant really be more specific than I have tried to be.

Still doesnt answer your question after re-reading but the sphere was bloody huge mate and looked a hell of a lot higher then the plane in straight yorkshire talk

It could possibly have been a small cloud illuminated by the sun through a hole the clouds above it. This often happens in the evening when the sun goes down. This is the effect I am talking about:
www.flickr.com...

Once the gap in the clouds above closes up due to cloud movement, then the cloud will no longer be illuminated and would blend in with the rest.

I am not saying this is what you saw, but its another possibility for you to consider.

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Axisoevil.....

OK.....thanks for helping me to understand your sighting a little better.

Have you searched for any reports of the "object" being sighted by anybody else?

Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not

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Thanks for the reply and liked the image however it was 9.15am in the morning no clouds and a perfect sphere very bright, and it wasnt the sun lol. Viewd for just under a minute

cheers

Ey up fella,
S&F for you but that's just cause you're a mate !

Good to see you posting although I'm shocked you being you didn't whip out the old iphone and take a snap !

I don't recall but was it sunny that morning ? Low winter sun maybe although I know you well enough to not be taken aback by a bit of sun glare

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Hi maybe,
I have posted the sighting onto www.uk-ufo.co.uk... and have checked other recent posts around my area. There have been sightings and some similar sounding although most mention a orange colour although this was silver (very bright silver illuminated). To be honest I wasnt going to mention it on ATS its only because my missus saw it that made me think why not. I would like to know what it could be or what it was. I dont make a habit of making up outlandish stories as I happen to be quite skeptical about most if not all items I read here on ATS I really appreciate your (and other peoples) comments and interests. I hope/would like to think someone else saw it or could answer what it was - led swamp gas etc

Cheers

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Ey up mate..
Only lasted under a min mate, wouldnt have time to fish phone out o my pocket (Really wish I did have it at hand now and kicking myself for it)
No sun in view pal from my perspective (never noticed the sun just fade out and vanish before either) very clear sky nice and bright no clouds I could mention (Sure I would have burnt out my retina's if it was the sun for how long I stared at it )

Take care mate

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Just had a little Google but I'm on my phone at work so not the best thing. Can't see any events or anything on that day that could fit though

Actually surprised at how many sightings in Sheffield recently came up with a quick search !

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Did it fade out/disappear quickly? Blimps and balloons, don't disappear. We've had quite a few sitings, relatively low, that directly went over our roof. Planes just flew over at their height, which was higher than many of them. But the soundless ones all had a light over them, solid red, one time the craft hovered and oscillated with the light webbing in and out, and yellowish/white. The city glow started pretty much right our roofline with only a trailer court, lots of trees and country side out our back and a reserve on one side..

At our roof they did 3 things, arc up higher to go over town, fly straight so we could see under the light, in which we saw the typical red lighted craft was a saucer about 30-40 feet , and the third disappear. Several flew as low as 50-80 feet over our roof.

The sun is interesting in itself. I still want to mod my older camera to an infared, just don't know if we will wreck it or not, not a mechanical person.

Plus I really don't know if I want to risk pointing any lenses even near the sun. Murphy is almost like a cousin and hangs out alot at our house.

But, we only see in a limited range of the light spectrum. If you take a large binder or book, or wait for the sun as its coming over the edge of a strucutre, like the roof, so that the intense glow is what you can see. Basically you block the sun itself off and look into the glow, close to it.

I've seen some really interesting things, that disappear as they fly just out of that glow, in a cloudless sky in broad daylight.

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Hi Unity,

How can i explain..Whilst looking at it then at traffic then looking back it was there then kind of imploded. (it just was there then gone like a light being switched off) Whilst I was looking at it it didnt move, shake or wobble it just hung there in the sky very bright and again it was very large I just thought what the hell is that? Whilst driving back up the road I kept looking into the sky (obviously whilst concentrating on driving) and there was nothing more?

reply to post by axisoevil


Axisoevil.....

I would like to know what it could be or what it was.

I'm not sure you ever will.

Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not

reply to post by Maybe...maybe not


Hi Maybe,

I'm sure I never will mate

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THought I would post this update from The Sun newspaper, sighting and photo over Rotherham (next to Sheffield) not exactly what I saw but another local sighting........www.thesun.co.uk...

If this plane didn't leave a trail it would have looked like something else imo. I remember it reflected the sun very brightly for a sec then seemed to "go out".


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