UFO Captured on Video!
I captured UFO’s flying visit on film
A UFO enthusiast has captured what he claims is startling camcorder footage of a possible alien craft hovering in the night sky.
Tony Hicks’s video, shot from his back garden in Danescroft Drive, Leigh, has already attracted more than 3,500 hits on YouTube and his own website.
The film appears to show a white flashing object plummeting to earth, then suddenly coming to a halt, before disappearing.
Tony, 39, says the incident happened on February 28.
He said: “I was standing near the back door and it was a clear night. All of a sudden I saw what looked like a bright star fall from the sky.
“I thought it looked a bit strange, so I stopped what I was doing and managed to film it, then it stopped in mid air. I carried on filming it for four minutes while it just hovered, then it shot off,” he said.
This isn’t the first time the father-of-one claims to have seen a UFO.
He captured a mysterious black triangular craft while taking a photo of his son at a Hadleigh fire station open day two years ago.
Tony added: “They are around everywhere, it’s just a matter of getting the perfect piece of evidence to prove it. When you play the film and pause it the object changes shape and colour, it does seem very genuine. It gave me the shakes, I thought it was going to crash.
“I do think they exist, but are very intelligent. This one was trying to fake being a star falling from the sky and when it thought it was being seen it zoomed off.”
Mr Hicks is no stranger to unexplained events after a lifetime of seeing ghosts and is part of a team which investigates paranormal activity around the country.
Earlier this month, the Echo reported a spate of possible UFO sightings by seven residents in Basildon and Southend.
However, astronomer Bryn Jones from Queen Mary, University of London said the reports could be due to people mistaking Venus or meteorites for UFOs.
Elizabeth Barrett
Essex Echo
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Mar 24 2007 
March 25th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Guys,
I am rarely one to discount a paranormal expirience but the problems with videos like this are numerous.
1. easy to replicate
2. rarely do we get a stable image
3. if a digital camcorder was used its easy to alter the image and even playing with the focus during filming can create changes in the appearance of a star or aircraft.
4. Nothing proves that the movement of the object wasn’t actually the movement of the camera as the cameraman changes positions.
5. There are too many lighting, enivronmental and technical variables to prove it one way or another.
So we end up with footage that could or could not be something.
I know, you all know this and it’s cool anyway.
Jess
March 25th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Jess,
You took the words right out of my mouth (or keyboard, as the case may be.)
March 25th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Yeah, Its just not enough detail. Anyone could replicate that.
March 25th, 2007 at 11:12 am
I agree completely. In fact, these types of videos do more to harm than good. They have no scientific value and only serve to reinforce the myth that those interested in studying the UFO phenomena are completely uncritical in their acceptance of so called “evidence”.
I just read an article entitled “Fuzzy films on Web hurt our Cause” which addresses this exact issue. Here is a link if you’re interested:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=21ed3436-2432-4a86-9ffe-4ea5474c8605
March 26th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Greg, to me, the ‘UFO’, right from the off, looks like a ‘pencil’ torch, or the like, being moved in the manner some kids like to play with the fireworks we in the UK call ’sparklers’, i.e., in big ‘S’ and figure ‘8′ shapes.
It does NOT look anything like its ‘motion’ is being derived from the cam operator’s attempts to keep it in focus.
Then, clinching it - for me, at least - it’s a fake, the ‘ufo’ is suddenly found to have ‘descended’ to a position where a ‘conveniently’ placed wall, (in the middle of an area that’ll later suddenly become full of tree and bushes), can now be used as a point of visual reference to ’show’, not only is it no longer haphazardly ‘falling’ but it can now suddenly ‘hang’ in mid-air, and maybe even exhibit ‘amazing’ ufo-like horizontal manoeuvering ‘capabilities’.