DavidB66
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Update: Solved - a low quality photo of the Moon behind some clouds.
Source: https://twitter.com/ufoofinterest/status/1412117603611557891
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There are several news reports today of a student in Devon, on the coast of England, who claims to have taken a photo of a UFO. Here is a report from the Independent newspaper. ( If for some reason you can't access this, searching Google News for 'student Devon UFO' should produce other links. )
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/devon-ufo-photo-tidmouth-sea-b1878124.html
The student describes the object, with several bright lights, as moving slowly, hovering for about 10 minutes [correction: 10 seconds!], then quickly vanishing. The description does not sound like a regular airplane, and the location (Teignmouth, not 'Tidmouth' as shown in the link) is not near a major airport, so I thought the most likely explanation (assuming it is not a hoax) would be a helicopter, perhaps from the police, coastguard, or air-sea rescue services. These might be showing bright lights for search purposes as well as standard recognition lights. The photo seems to have been taken in late evening. There is nothing in the photo to give a clear scale for the object, so if it is not a helicopter it might be smaller drone relatively close to the camera.
But the report itself mentions another possibility which may be attractive to Metabunk readers: that the object is not in the air at all, but on the sea. As the sea horizon seems at first sight to be well below the object, this could be a 'false' horizon. In the uncropped version of the photo there is in fact a slight difference of colour in the 'sky' coinciding with the level of the object, which could be the true sea horizon. The object would then plausibly be a boat with lights on, and the rapid disappearance of the object might be due to lights being switched off. Teignmouth has a harbour, and numerous boats moor in the estuary of the River Teign.
Source: https://twitter.com/ufoofinterest/status/1412117603611557891
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There are several news reports today of a student in Devon, on the coast of England, who claims to have taken a photo of a UFO. Here is a report from the Independent newspaper. ( If for some reason you can't access this, searching Google News for 'student Devon UFO' should produce other links. )
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/devon-ufo-photo-tidmouth-sea-b1878124.html
The student describes the object, with several bright lights, as moving slowly, hovering for about 10 minutes [correction: 10 seconds!], then quickly vanishing. The description does not sound like a regular airplane, and the location (Teignmouth, not 'Tidmouth' as shown in the link) is not near a major airport, so I thought the most likely explanation (assuming it is not a hoax) would be a helicopter, perhaps from the police, coastguard, or air-sea rescue services. These might be showing bright lights for search purposes as well as standard recognition lights. The photo seems to have been taken in late evening. There is nothing in the photo to give a clear scale for the object, so if it is not a helicopter it might be smaller drone relatively close to the camera.
But the report itself mentions another possibility which may be attractive to Metabunk readers: that the object is not in the air at all, but on the sea. As the sea horizon seems at first sight to be well below the object, this could be a 'false' horizon. In the uncropped version of the photo there is in fact a slight difference of colour in the 'sky' coinciding with the level of the object, which could be the true sea horizon. The object would then plausibly be a boat with lights on, and the rapid disappearance of the object might be due to lights being switched off. Teignmouth has a harbour, and numerous boats moor in the estuary of the River Teign.
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