They weren’t moving fast enough for a satellite and were hovering, not being blown about by the wind.” Student Natalie said: “Chinook helicopters regularly fly over – but these were silent. It’s scary.”
Neighbour Debbie Bucksey, 46, said: “I thought they might be fireworks but then the lights started switching formation.” Daughter Rachel, 16, described the UFOs as looking like “upside down tears”.
Trucker Reg Lockyer, 47, claimed he saw up to TWENTY of them. He added: “I thought it was absolutely a fleet of UFOs.
FAMILIES last night claimed they watched in awe as a dozen glowing orange objects buzzed Basingstoke.
In the latest UFO riddle to grip Britain, witnesses say the “alien” fleet hovered above the Hampshire town for half an hour – changing formation before their eyes.
Dad-of-two David Osborne, 47 – who captured the unearthly phenomenon on video – said yesterday: “My adrenaline was pumping and I was trembling all over.
“I’ve never seen anything like it. It was amazing.”
Awestruck
David, an amateur astronomer, yelled to his daughters to grab his camera after he phoned nearby RAF Odiham and was told officials could not comment “for security reasons”.
'Trembling' ... David OsborneThe family had just settled down to watch alien invasion movie Independence Day when the objects were spotted at 10.40pm on Saturday.
The “craft” drifted across the sky, switching from a delta formation, to a random pattern, then an arched line and a triangle before disappearing.
David, whose daughters Natalie, 20, and Charlotte, 18, were also left awestruck, said: “There were about 12 of these orange-coloured spherical objects. I thought, ‘Oh my God – what the hell is that?’ They were changing formation in the sky for half an hour.
They weren’t moving fast enough for a satellite and were hovering, not being blown about by the wind.”
Student Natalie said: “Chinook helicopters regularly fly over – but these were silent. It’s scary.”
Neighbour Debbie Bucksey, 46, said: “I thought they might be fireworks but then the lights started switching formation.” Daughter Rachel, 16, described the UFOs as looking like “upside down tears”.
Trucker Reg Lockyer, 47, claimed he saw up to TWENTY of them. He added: “I thought it was absolutely a fleet of UFOs.
only in the sun, no other paper i dont think was reporting it.
wow alot of these buggers are sure showing up, WHY? WHY? WHY?
am serious by the way,