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I read this...
"Post it here and our community of meteorologists, pilots, scientists and other sky-watchers will have a bash at finding what it is"
So i am hopeful someone out there might know what this strangely shaped object is?
I should explain this was seen in the Manchester area of the sky on 1st of November 2016 at 12.15pm so some two years now but here's hoping?
I managed to only get 4 photographs off due to a low battery which died on me whilst trying to get a 5th shot.
This object was heading in a direction which would have taken it directly above our home, except it stopped & hovered for a short period of time before (as i hope you will be able to see in the photographs? it turning & heading off in a different direction)
I will post the original shots first & then some cropped zoomed in one's to show some (i think) rather curious features to it.
In order of shot...Here's Photo No1
Still not used to this...posted the thing twice again! arghh, sorry about that.
And here is the ZOOM...
There are a couple things you will of course see more clearly here now...
Starting over on this right hand side (the pointed area which one would think might be the front? but this is how it approached our home) the most interesting aspect of this object is the pipe like structure underneath this pointed area...not a pipe? take a look at photo 2 (below)
straight lines above leading to a curved top right area which heads down to a fin? type but before getting down to that section notice the protruding antenna type?
Bottom section (as we see it here) then has a slight jagged section before reconnecting with that pipe like structure...what is this? you might think an exhaust port or part of engine but this (Photo 2) might clear things up with regards to what this is...
Photo 2
And now for the close up...
As you can see it has banked (turned) a little here after hovering (standing virtually still for a good minute or two when i simply looked at it in awe! never seen anything like it in my life) then i took another shot but this one is very interesting as it would seem to confirm that that thing bottom left is indeed a pipe? as it seems to be releasing something from it that was not there previously in the first photograph...now what is this strange thing about to be released from it (i say released because in photo 3 below it's close by to it heading off in a completely different heading)
Here we can still see the pointed front section?
But other parts become clearer i think, it still looks very strange from this angle but we can now see it has a jagged section along that top edge now & then when you head around & down this right hand side of it it looks more like the tail end doesn't it?
Still very strange but what is this thing it's about to drop?
Photo 3 (in the sequence)
As you can see from this later shot i was truly in awe of what i was seeing (it was so different to what you usually see in the skies if Britain)
The way it looks is strange, the way it was heading over our home only to stop short of it & hover for a short while (it was almost as if it knew i was there & was saying take your shot) then it changed it's shape (well by that i mean it turned & looked as you can see here more like a traditional aircraft type? or shuttle type)
The leaves here are a large tall tree off to the right of our home & might give you an idea of it's size.
I got the impression it was not small but neither was it (i thought) jumbo jet sized, had it landed in front of us i would have expected it to be something close to van sized.
This close up will reveal something you might not have spotted by this one alone...
I hope you can see it.
After seeing something dangling from this craft in photo 2 i wondered if there would be any sign of it in this 3rd photo & i am happy to report there it is (a small speck to be sure) but just look under this main object & there it is, closing following it or so it would seem?
What is this? and the main craft?
At this point i would like to mention (hopefully without too much laughter from you folks out there) might it be the Black Knight? unlikely i'll give you but if such a thing exists up there (and the thought of a thousands of years old sat orbiting us is a remarkable one if ever proven to be true)
Ok, sadly folks the last still shot i managed to get, on the click of the 5th attempt the battery was gone, which is why i chose to leave the camera in photo mode rather than switch it to video (but damn how i wish i had a fully charged battery to do so as it left a strange sensation with me)
PHOTO 4
By this time it was heading well & truly away from us, looking a little triangular shaped it has to be said although there's not a great deal to see from this final shot, although the close up is a little more revealing below...
As you can see from my avatar i am very much a James Bond fan (Connery before you ask) & this final shot reminds me a little of that Moore bond film Moonraker in which he escapes a speedboat heading over a waterfall by pulling up & out using a handglider, it has the V shape (pointed at the front & swept back win sections at the back with something? at the bottom of it, might this be the pipe? or the probe? or drone returning?)
Curious to know if it's something explainable.
One last thing...not sure if anyone spotted it from above? but in photo 2 with that thing dangling as if ready to drop from that pipe section head to the main body of this structure here the centre area.
It's almost as if you can see inside this thing somehow?
But if true? then what can you see? for it almost looks like (when you ZOOM in even further) that we can see a pilot holding onto to the controls & sitting in a chair.
It might just be white shadowing? but there does some seem to be such an outline if you look close here in this photo no 2.
That's it.
A very strange day that left me feeling as if i had witnessed something very strange indeed, i just wish it had landed!
Moderation Note: deirdre
"Post it here and our community of meteorologists, pilots, scientists and other sky-watchers will have a bash at finding what it is"
So i am hopeful someone out there might know what this strangely shaped object is?
I should explain this was seen in the Manchester area of the sky on 1st of November 2016 at 12.15pm so some two years now but here's hoping?
I managed to only get 4 photographs off due to a low battery which died on me whilst trying to get a 5th shot.
This object was heading in a direction which would have taken it directly above our home, except it stopped & hovered for a short period of time before (as i hope you will be able to see in the photographs? it turning & heading off in a different direction)
I will post the original shots first & then some cropped zoomed in one's to show some (i think) rather curious features to it.
In order of shot...Here's Photo No1
Still not used to this...posted the thing twice again! arghh, sorry about that.
And here is the ZOOM...
There are a couple things you will of course see more clearly here now...
Starting over on this right hand side (the pointed area which one would think might be the front? but this is how it approached our home) the most interesting aspect of this object is the pipe like structure underneath this pointed area...not a pipe? take a look at photo 2 (below)
straight lines above leading to a curved top right area which heads down to a fin? type but before getting down to that section notice the protruding antenna type?
Bottom section (as we see it here) then has a slight jagged section before reconnecting with that pipe like structure...what is this? you might think an exhaust port or part of engine but this (Photo 2) might clear things up with regards to what this is...
Photo 2
And now for the close up...
As you can see it has banked (turned) a little here after hovering (standing virtually still for a good minute or two when i simply looked at it in awe! never seen anything like it in my life) then i took another shot but this one is very interesting as it would seem to confirm that that thing bottom left is indeed a pipe? as it seems to be releasing something from it that was not there previously in the first photograph...now what is this strange thing about to be released from it (i say released because in photo 3 below it's close by to it heading off in a completely different heading)
Here we can still see the pointed front section?
But other parts become clearer i think, it still looks very strange from this angle but we can now see it has a jagged section along that top edge now & then when you head around & down this right hand side of it it looks more like the tail end doesn't it?
Still very strange but what is this thing it's about to drop?
Photo 3 (in the sequence)
As you can see from this later shot i was truly in awe of what i was seeing (it was so different to what you usually see in the skies if Britain)
The way it looks is strange, the way it was heading over our home only to stop short of it & hover for a short while (it was almost as if it knew i was there & was saying take your shot) then it changed it's shape (well by that i mean it turned & looked as you can see here more like a traditional aircraft type? or shuttle type)
The leaves here are a large tall tree off to the right of our home & might give you an idea of it's size.
I got the impression it was not small but neither was it (i thought) jumbo jet sized, had it landed in front of us i would have expected it to be something close to van sized.
This close up will reveal something you might not have spotted by this one alone...
I hope you can see it.
After seeing something dangling from this craft in photo 2 i wondered if there would be any sign of it in this 3rd photo & i am happy to report there it is (a small speck to be sure) but just look under this main object & there it is, closing following it or so it would seem?
What is this? and the main craft?
At this point i would like to mention (hopefully without too much laughter from you folks out there) might it be the Black Knight? unlikely i'll give you but if such a thing exists up there (and the thought of a thousands of years old sat orbiting us is a remarkable one if ever proven to be true)
Ok, sadly folks the last still shot i managed to get, on the click of the 5th attempt the battery was gone, which is why i chose to leave the camera in photo mode rather than switch it to video (but damn how i wish i had a fully charged battery to do so as it left a strange sensation with me)
PHOTO 4
By this time it was heading well & truly away from us, looking a little triangular shaped it has to be said although there's not a great deal to see from this final shot, although the close up is a little more revealing below...
As you can see from my avatar i am very much a James Bond fan (Connery before you ask) & this final shot reminds me a little of that Moore bond film Moonraker in which he escapes a speedboat heading over a waterfall by pulling up & out using a handglider, it has the V shape (pointed at the front & swept back win sections at the back with something? at the bottom of it, might this be the pipe? or the probe? or drone returning?)
Curious to know if it's something explainable.
One last thing...not sure if anyone spotted it from above? but in photo 2 with that thing dangling as if ready to drop from that pipe section head to the main body of this structure here the centre area.
It's almost as if you can see inside this thing somehow?
But if true? then what can you see? for it almost looks like (when you ZOOM in even further) that we can see a pilot holding onto to the controls & sitting in a chair.
It might just be white shadowing? but there does some seem to be such an outline if you look close here in this photo no 2.
That's it.
A very strange day that left me feeling as if i had witnessed something very strange indeed, i just wish it had landed!
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