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7:50am Wednesday 14th March 2007
Residents have reported two separate sightings UFOs hovering over Sussex.
One family even believe they captured a bizarre close encounter with a flickering, silver craft on film, as it sailed over Hove Park.
The night before four orange orbs were reported floating across Shoreham.
The Argus was flooded with calls in November after strange orange lights were seen hovering over the Sussex coast.
Spotters thought they could have been watching beings from outer-space.
They were later disappointed to hear they had probably been duped by a hoax, with Chinese lanterns, bought on the Internet, suspected to have been released by children.
However, Stewart Hall, of Holmes Avenue, Hove, said his close encounter on Sunday afternoon looked nothing like a candle in a plastic bag.
The 44-year-old artist said he had been called out to his garden when his seven-year-old son Raphael was playing on a trampoline and saw what looked like a "flying stick".
He said: "Eventually I looked and to my amazement I saw a UFO. It had no wings and appeared to be a tubular shape. I rushed inside to get a camera."
But Mr Hall said the craft was far bigger than how it appears on screen.
He added: "My video camera has a three-times zoom so the footage is not conclusive but experts could probably make something of it.
"I did get a clear view of the craft though, through high quality binoculars, and can assure you it had no wings or windows and appeared to be a flying metal pole.
"I realised then there was no way it should be flying. It was really, really unusual. As it turned you could tell it had a silver body as the sun caught it.
"I'm sure hundreds of people must have seen it because it looked like it was headed towards the always busy Hove Park."
The "visitation" at 1.30pm on Sunday followed the sighting of strange, glowing orbs nearby on Saturday night.
Ian Thornton, of Second Avenue, Hove, said: "At about 11.30pm a friend and I noticed what seemed to be orange UFOs coming in from the south west over Shoreham.
"They were all travelling at the same altitude - lower than the usual aircraft - all moving at the same speed, and roughly on the same line and direction.
"We saw four of these orange UFOs. There might have been more."
Similar lights, spotted by dozens of people across Sussex on Saturday, November 18, at first baffled police and air-traffic controllers.
They were later discounted by experts, describing them as Chinese lanterns - small candles attached to plastic bags by drinking straws able to drift thousands of feet.
Sussex Police said they had received no reports of UFOs over the weekend.
A spokeswoman said: "We did have reports of children lighting fireworks in Kingston Lane, Southwick, at about 11.50pm on Saturday and 1.15pm on Sunday afternoon so they could be related.
"But there's nothing else that even comes close."
To see a video of the UFO, click here.
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Easy 10, Southwick says...
9:18am Wed 14 Mar 07
Richard Ruffle, Hove says...
10:22am Wed 14 Mar 07
LB, Hove says...
10:30am Wed 14 Mar 07
Jeff, Virginia says...
11:10am Wed 14 Mar 07
Simon Brailey, hove says...
11:12am Wed 14 Mar 07
Easy 10, Southwick says...
11:14am Wed 14 Mar 07
Barrel of Fun, Brighton says...
11:25am Wed 14 Mar 07
Alex Pitt, Brighton says...
11:29am Wed 14 Mar 07
John Blade, Burgess Hill says...
11:35am Wed 14 Mar 07
Reggie, brighton says...
11:45am Wed 14 Mar 07
Easy 10, Southwick says...
11:50am Wed 14 Mar 07
Alex Pitt wrote:But how can you be sure that your girlfriend isn't one of those "cloaked" aliens that John Blade mentions ?
There aren't no such things as aliens, my girlfriend told me, so there.
John Blade, Burgess Hill says...
11:53am Wed 14 Mar 07
Easy 10 wrote:Especially if you have a big buffon or similar?!
Alex Pitt wrote: There aren't no such things as aliens, my girlfriend told me, so there.But how can you be sure that your girlfriend isn't one of those "cloaked" aliens that John Blade mentions ? I would watch her closely if I were you. You may wake up one morning and find her eating your hair.
LB, Hove says...
11:57am Wed 14 Mar 07
Admiral Akbar, Brighton says...
12:01pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Trufflehound, Uranus says...
12:02pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Barrel of Fun wrote:Pam or Ann? I used to fly with them a lot in the 80s.
Last night I was trudging along the Downs, way above Falmer when I noticed five or six figures dancing around a cauldron. They were led by a woman in a pointed hat, who seemed to respond to the name Pam or Ann. I could barely make out who they were, but I could hear some chanting. Something about casting a ghastly spell on Brighton & Hove Albion. Very odd, indeed.
Easy 10, Southwick says...
12:07pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Admiral Akbar wrote:Have you tried to phone home ?
I can speak from personal experience. I am an Alien but was forced to flee my homeworld. I have now resided in the UK for the last 26 years, where I am known as Gavin. My behaviour over the last 6 months has begun to worry me though, to be honest I have become a bit of a deviant. Any advice would be welcome on how I can change my ways.
Sally Collins, Brighton says...
12:31pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Trufflehound, Uranus says...
12:42pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Sally Collins wrote:Have you tried not walking in the bike lanes?
It's not the lights that worry me, it's the sound of ringing bells that follows me everywhere and the voices; I don't think they belong to this world.
elliot raggio, hove says...
12:45pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Reggie wrote:I saw this when i was driving my amazing,pimped audi,it is so much better than all your cars,losers!
THANK GOD,SOMEONE ELSE DID 2!!I also briefly witnessed this and was in total awe,it looked like what i could only describe as a \'flying sausagelump\'.I was practicing my shaolin and just while i was in the process of demonstrating to my friend wilfy a \'triplespinnaroony\'i was stopped by this incredible sausage.PLEASE TELL ME IF ANY1 ELSE SAW!!italic
Sheila, saltdean says...
12:49pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Adrian, Brighton says...
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LB, Hove says...
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LB, Hove says...
1:00pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Gritt 23, Kent says...
1:18pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Gritt 23, Kent says...
1:23pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Easy 10 wrote:That pretty much sums up what the reality of Aliens is. They are not a huge ship, that hangs over cities like Independence Day showed them as, they are in fact the size of a well-fed gnat, and in this case had flown directly into your glasses.
Only yesterday morning at around 9.45am I was perturbed to see what appeared to be some kind of indistinct, shapeless blob hovering in the sky in front of me. It seemed to stay directly within my field of vision as I watched it swoop and flit around for several minutes. Oddly, wherever I looked, there the blob went. I took off my glasses and cleaned them to get a clearer look, but strangely, when I put them back on, the mysterious hovering blob had disappeared. Perhaps one of your readers also saw this enigmatic shape yesterday, and can explain what it was ?
P.J.BENHAM, brighton says...
1:25pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Easy 10, Southwick says...
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Suzanne Harding, Southwick says...
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Philip Keeler, Burgess Hill says...
8:40pm Wed 14 Mar 07
Allen, says...
4:38pm Thu 15 Mar 07
Julia Tolley, Brighton says...
4:55pm Thu 15 Mar 07
anon, Hove says...
5:24pm Thu 15 Mar 07
joe, portslade says...
5:25pm Thu 15 Mar 07
JAN HICKLEY, Hove says...
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tony evenson, hove says...
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shaun, says...
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Kinchy, Southwick says...
8:07pm Thu 15 Mar 07
Easy 10 wrote:Not to mention his grandad, cousins and other relatives (spelt Grandard, cuzzins and uther rell-a-tivs)
Nor does your grammar.
Alex, Hove says...
10:44pm Thu 15 Mar 07
Daniel, Hove says...
7:23am Fri 16 Mar 07
Sharon Downing, Higher Bevendean says...
4:00pm Fri 16 Mar 07
David Sheppard, Hove says...
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Angel, Hove says...
6:29pm Fri 16 Mar 07
liam, porstlade says...
8:48pm Fri 16 Mar 07
gay boy...ow, london says...
8:54pm Fri 16 Mar 07
liam wrote:im a alian ooooohhhh....im gay
last week i saw a long black shaped thing in the sky,and it was turning around and when the sun shined on it,it turned silva.....
alsoabeliever, Hove says...
9:13pm Fri 16 Mar 07
Ree from ATS, Sweden says...
10:47pm Mon 19 Mar 07
alsoabeliever wrote:Hi, alsoabeliever. I'm interested in hearing more from you about this, can you please contact me on hembakat@hotmail.com so I could get a more detailed description of what you saw?
I also saw this on sunday from Holmes Avenue. It was silver not black (as the solar airships are), which would make it much less efficient at collecting heat. Shame I didn't have a camera as I was almost underneath it. I wasn't convinced it was anything especially unusual, as it was not apparently moving against the wind, though I couldn't work out quite what it was.
Dan, Worthing says...
3:38am Tue 20 Mar 07
Dan, Worthing says...
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Dan, Worthing says...
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Frank, Denmark says...
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Frank, Denmark says...
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Dan, Sussex says...
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jason spencer, tenterden says...
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Barney, hove says...
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aaron, brighton says...
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peter norman, brighton says...
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john, Canada says...
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shiny bug, brighton says...
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Dan, Saltdean says...
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caroline wilson, brighton says...
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Richard Valder-Davis, Brighton says...
8:56am Wed 14 Mar 07