Mystery air craft sighted in East Anglia, UK.

Hey guys,

A few weeks ago, two friends and I were sitting on a bench, overlooking the sea outside my house having a ciggie. It was a clear night, but the moon was kind of dull; but anyway.

A friend of mine noticed a light in the sky toward the west, from a distance it looked like a helicopter with a spot light, so we carried on watching it anyway as it was interesting. After a while, this thing kind of like swooped down from its altitude, and flew toward us, as it got closer, we noticed there was little to no sound, and the spot lights where in fact two massive "head lights" much like a car would have. So it got closer and closer, and flew straight over our heads..

This thing was massive and almost silent, I couldn't tell you an accurate estimation of its altitude, but it was fairly low. It was definitely man made, it had what looked to be port and starboard navigational lights, but it was unlike anything I've ever seen.... well that isn't strictly true. I've seen this thing, with the same flight path 3 times in around 6 years of living here, it didn't have navigational lights before though.

I could make out a clear triangle shape, and l looked for the tail characteristics of a stealth bomber, but it was pretty much a perfect triangle.

It was heading out over the North Sea, travelling to the North East over Hopton.

Any ideas?

reply to post by VraxUK

Since you and your friend are the only witnesses and you have no pictures or video.
I think your opinion is better than any of ours.

No sound...massive....lights....sounds like a blimp/airship to me

Or it could be that you were further from it than you actually thought...perspective plays a massive factor in all of these sightings!

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I Live in the Lower part of Michigan and i have been seeing these aircradts everywhere.
They will fly in a line over the sky i have seen 20 to 30 at one time.
Ive been watching the same thing for a few months now.

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Suffolk?

Please give me an indication of your approximate position. Nothing detailed, just the general area. I'm curious.

Never mind...

My guess would be a B2 that had refuelled at Mildenhall

However, you could have seen Taranis on a flight test potentially.

Here's a couple of videos to compare with. The first one is from around June 2008...Taranis? as Nef speculates,
possibly if it is climbing,
www.youtube.com...

This one has just been uploaded,

www.youtube.com... This one has just been uploaded.

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Did this happen on a week night or at the weekend? I am in the Hopton area at weekends and unfortunately I didn't notice anything. In the past, I have seen what look like car headlights in the sky, but I just assumed it must be an aeroplane changing direction or something.

Somebody mentioned a blimp. On Monday September 26, there was a Premier League football match in Norwich that was televised on Sky. There was a massive Sky TV blimp above the city that night. If this was the night you saw something in the sky then this would be the solution. Also being in the Hopton/Lowestoft area, it would be coming from the west (as you said) from the Norwich area.