A Curious Sighting (Mar-Apr 1993).

[Terry W. Colvin]

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SUBJ: A Curious Sighting (Mar-Apr 1993)

September 29, 1991. Winchester, Eng land. A wet day, but the
rain had stopped and the wind velocity dropped. The 'subject'
is a B. Brumpton. His actual words are in single quotes, as
told to B. Hayes:

"A high easterly breeze was blowing along New Road which
runs eastwest and is about 400 yards long. The subject was
30 yards from the western end facing east. He first noticed
the 'object' at approximately 150 yards, at which his reaction
was that he was 'seeing things'. The object 'filled the
highway', so this suggests a width of eight metres or so.
It was 'on the ground' and 'round-topped', suggesting to me
a hemisphere. The 'object' was a 'mass of mist' and 'looked
very wet'. It seemed to 'roll' toward the subject at a speed
that he estimated at 30 m.p.h. However, his estimate of
half-a-minute for travelling 150 yards gives a speed of 20 m.p.h.
Let us not forget that time is difficult to estimate after an event.

"The object emitted a noise 'like very heavy rain pounding
on the road', except that it was not raining at the time, and
the subject became concerned about 'getting soaked'. Also, the
'mist' was clearly visible in spite of the darkness. This
suggests the possibility that the 'object' was luminous. The
observer moved into a driveway on the south side of the road,
but when a few yards away 'the object moved over' to the north
side and 'just vanished'."

(Hayes, Brian; "A Curious Sighting, 29 September 1991," Journal
of Meteorology, U.K., 17:346, 1992.)

From Science Frontiers #86, MAR-APR 1993. (C) 1993-2000 William R. Corliss
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