Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Red and orange sphere with a swirling gaseous looking surface.

Size of Object(s)

Approx 100ft diameter.

Description of Area / Surroundings

It was in the middle of the town! Aberdeen is an oil rich town supporting the North Sea oil operations, another thing is that in the central area (the area that the sightings were in) most of the houses are built of granite and a geiger counter will read higher than normal radio activity in this area, safe but definetely higher than normal.

Full Description & Details

Around 1977, middle of town in broad daylight, an orange/red sphere about 100ft in diameter, it was sort of glowing and had swirling gaseous surface to it. It was silent and flying about 100ft which was just over the height of some three storey town houses in my street. I looked over my shoulder and saw it going across my street diagonally, I had to run to see it for a bit longer before it dissapeared over the town houses. I ran to tell this to my parents, but never told them until I remembered it 8-10 years later.

My Mother later told me of a mass sighting she had heard about through friends of hers, hundreds of people, in Aberdeen about 8 years ago. After investigation it turns out that, by description, the craft was the same, it was moving along exactly the same route and at the same height as when I saw it 25 years previously. A weird thing about the mass sighting was that it was only briefly mentioned in the news paper the next day and then nothing, the people I have asked said that it could have only been a craft from another world and they were confused as to why there were no investigations and everything went silent one day after the event.

At the same time as my sighting, 1977, a couple of guys in Orkney had the same experience as me also with the repressed memories. They aswell as myself, had the typical abduction nightmare around the same time, I remembered the nightmare but had repressed memory of seeing the UFO?

Reading the Abaglash Abductions the craft description is very similar to what I saw, and another report by a bomber aircraft crew in 1952 gives the same description of the UFO.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No

Witness Background

Engineer

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I was about 13, I didn't have any specific views before the sighting. After my memory came back I knew that I had seen something extraterrestrial. I have only been investigating seriously though after I heard the accounts of the mass sighting as it confirmed my story. I had read nothing about UFO's before my sighting.

Other Comments

The trajectory was approx SW and if you follow the trajectory Northwards you end up scurting the West coast of Orkney, which is where another sighting by two young guys happened around the same time as my sighting.

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