Video: Team spots ‘pulsing craft’

Wednesday 23rd December 2009, 8:48AM GMT.

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UFO investigators claim to have captured video evidence of a strange triangular shaped craft with pulsing lights flying in the skies above a Shropshire landmark.

Phil Hoyle and Peter Jones, of the Shrewsbury-based UFO Investigations & Research Unit, conducted a sky watch on Monday as they claim the winter solstice is also one of the most active evenings for UFO sightings globally.

Mr Hoyle, and other witnesses who all claim to have had UFO encounters, say they saw a large triangle near The Wrekin for more than 10 minutes. He said he believed no military aircraft were being used at the time about 9.22pm.

Mr Hoyle said the footage of the UFO was captured from the top of Lyth Hill, near Shrewsbury, in the direction of The Wrekin. He estimated the craft to be about four miles away.

He said: “The triangle was caught on a night vision video and it can be clearly seen that it is not a conventional aircraft.

“We could see three large pulsating white lights at each corner with a smaller one in the middle of the object, which is typical of these UFO craft. I also received a number of orange sphere reports from the Newport area.

“On the same date in 2003 we witnessed over 20 unknowns across the Wrekin and north Shropshire, we checked all surrounding civil and military bases and they had no flights at that time.”

Mr Hoyle said the observation times for a UFO sighting had been predicted by a computer programme created by Roy Dutton, a retired British Aerospace scientist. Mr Dutton has developed a system which is claimed can predict times and places most likely for increased UFO activity.

Mr Hoyle said The Wrekin was a hotspot for UFO activity. He said he wanted to hear from anyone who also may have seen unusual lights on Monday evening. He can be contacted on (01743) 245574 or by e-mail at phil.hoyle@yahoo.co.uk


  1. 1
    Bob Jones

    By what rationale do they call themselves a ‘video team’, as it appears to me they were not using real video equipment. Further, there are no area or wide shots showing objects anything other than the ufo, and thus no way for a viewer to form any conclusions about its veracity. I’m not a sceptic, but I do prefer that videos published are a little more useful.

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    sam

    I think you will find that many other people witnessed lights on monday and tuesday evening it just has not been reported yet, these guys have got footage and that is the key thing here. Look at the other reports here of triangle sightings…. very similar and therefore something must be going on.
    you can’t complain about poor video at least they managed to film something. I believe that things are happening and these people are right to disclose to the public what they see and witness.

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    Bob Jones

    Yes, Sam. It’s very real.

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    MS

    it might have been santa’s sleigh on a pre season test flight!

    Paper lanterns?

    a kite with lights on it?

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    DP

    Don’t you just love the people who clearly like to mock others findings, regardless of the countless evidence that now should be enough for disclosure?

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    John

    I believe this triangle craft does exist, but as far as this video goes as evidence, it is just yet another shaky blurred image of lights in the night sky. It could quite easily be a plane with wing strobe lights. After going to all the effort shame they didn’t bother to use a tripod.

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    Father Christmas

    i wondered where that last slice of my pizza went last night

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    Quazzga

    Well, that certainly convinced me (not). That could have been anything, including a geezer dancing around a dark room with a couple of flash bulbs

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    Scotty

    C’mon you guys…anyone can see it’s plain ol’ swamp gas!
    Seriously now, I think perhaps in the excitement of the moment the guy with the video camera was concentrating on the object only, and never thought to try including landmarks for size comparison, and no doubt he’s probably kicking himself in the ass for his oversight. With so many hoaxes being posted, it isn’t easy for someone with a video of what they honestly consider to be an e.t. craft to come forward, knowing they are going to expose themselves to much ridicule. Thanks guys…your stepping up to the plate, took guts!

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    RST

    Looks very much like a civil airliner at night with wingtip high intensity white strobe lights with another strobe light beneath the fuselage, each timed to flash sequentially and not together making it more conspicuous to other pilots.

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    Andrew Johnson

    If it was a traingular craft it could have been a TR-3B or some derivative. Google Edgar Fouché and TR-3B. There was a similar craft sighted and videod on Cannock chase in 2002.

    Another one absolutely worth checking out is Merucry Astronaut Gordon Cooper’s account of filming a craft landing at Edward’s Airforce Base in 1955.

    Then of course there’s Bentwaters (1980), Sheffield/Peak District (1997), Landrillo (1974), Lakenheath (1956) – so much to investigate – most of it available for free on the Web….

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  12. 13
    Patrick Sullivan

    It is amazing that more folks have not figured it out yet.

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  13. 14
    ThomasT

    Not a big deal when you open theyfly.com. This is the US Billy Meier site. Billy has had open one-on-one et contact since age 5.

    Now in his 70s he still is in touch. This group share common ancestors with us. They are 1500 years ahead in tech and live 500 light years distant in a parallel Universe, in the Pleiades.

    They travel here in a fraction of a second in a new tech craft they received as a gift from a much more advanced race in the Dahl Universe.

    Their older ships took 7 hours, needing to accelerate to light speed, jumping in time/space, and then decelerating.

    Be prepared for a big surprise. We are et with a human history of over a billion years.

    Hoax. You decide. Billy has over 1000 sharp, close-up, day and nite color photos, 100 were analyzed by JPL Labs CA USA, and found genuine, ie there was an energy field around a metal craft. He has cine film. All this before digital. He has metal fragments and sound recordings.

    Published by Wendelle Stevens, US Air Force Intel. Rtd. are 1600 pages of contact notes with Billy and et, in 4 volumes, Message From The Pleiades.

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    John

    I find it absolutely amazing that every time a U.F.O. sighting is reported or an object is captured on film that a number of posters find it necessary to write off such incidents as nonsense.

    I believe that many people feel more secure when they can explain the unexplained with conventional answers. So many people make fun or add humor to these reported events because they can not, for a moment, stand to think that their perception of reality might not reflect a true representation of reality.

    I also believe that there are many people/agents employed by various organizations to write many of these comments on websites in an effort to create a disinformation campaign. I think the software programs being used to accomplish such campaigns are very advanced and that a large budget has been dedicated to make sure the people of the world continue to swallow conventionality as the answer to everything that occurs in our world.

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    Dave

    I trust nothing from the Brits!.
    They are well known practical jokers and should never be believed in matters such as these.

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    wightalien

    Bob Jones! Curious. Have you ever shot night video with a hand held? Or… tried? Ever experienced a photo event or any kind/nature in which you (the videographer) chose a quick capture as opposed to taking precious event time to “set up” angles, shots, equipment and etc. – ignoring the very real possibility that the window opportunity to record the event might have a very high percentage/chance of disappearing BEFORE a viewer-convincing set up can be put into place? As for my speculating this recording, I’m one to simply state that there are INCREDIBLE, mind blowing softwares (not avail to civilian photographers) that can easily detect dark SOLID pixels/structures from ambient, dark, night time air and atmo. Well? Where are the lab results??? TY

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    E T Alieno

    The day they land and shake my hand is the day I will believe they really exist.

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    darren

    Am i reading things right here?????
    i could have swore it was confirmed that ” NO” aircraft were operating in that area at that time….
    Again we have the skeptics here, it makes funny reading theor comments though.

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    Andy

    I see the government blur squad have done their work on this video footage…

    With all the HD technology around at the moment, and the average camera phone now up to 5 megapixels, isn’t it strange that all of these filmed ‘sightings’ are so distorted.

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    Steve

    I and two of my children saw a Triangle UFO over Perth in Auustralia a few years ago. There were at ;east six separate reports of the thing apart from our sighting that I know of also.
    This one came much closer, perhaps no more than a few of hundred meters high and no futher than half a kilometer distant to us and we were able to hear nothing, except a sort of whisper, I think of wind over what was the most enormous thing, a football pitch could easily have been set up on it within the boundaries of the triangle.
    What was most weird was how difficult it was for me to get the attention of many other motorists who were driving along and not looking up. I stood and pointed frantically at the sky over their heads, whilst traffic passed me by, even as this thing hung there and to a person, they all just stared at me and many deeliberately wouldn’t even look at me, just kept their eyes ahead, and refused to acknowledge the man gesticulating wildly at the sky.
    A bus stopped when it was still very clear and no more than a kilometer distant and still easily identifiable as a triangle, and I tried to get the half dozen people and driver to look at it, and again, all they did was stare at me as I told them it was out there, and some turned away, looked down, a couple laughed but not one person would look out the window except maybe a quick glance but not enough to even pay attention.
    This is exactly what happened and I have come to realise this is what happens most times a UFO appears. Most people will NOT even look. They have some sort of automatic program which cuts in, the moment something hugely significant to their outlook on life is on the horizon and their brain shuts the information out, locks the senses out or distracts the brain with something understandable. Laugh at the person telling you to look, jeer at the people looking, ignore the weirdos, just gho back to your knitting or your magazine.
    Ask not why more people don;t see these things, it really is as simple as this, they do not want to, and the human mind is wired in such a way there is a mechanism available for denial of reality when dealing with reality is beyond the mind’s ability.

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    massimo

    THERE’S NOOO UFO’s what you see is nothing but LEZER
    show and it be made with any shap or a group of shining lights with different colors and they’re able to turn
    some lights off & on to make yu believe it is moving.
    Go to YouTube & search 4 : Lezer show
    and then you should get the idea.

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    Harry

    The skeptics are hilarious i have also checked with Shawbury etc there were no aircraft at all operating in the that area of Shropshire when the video was filmed.
    Oh and it is not a laser show either the guy who said that is clearly all youtubed out with teenage gadegts etc which i find really amusing.
    Can i point out that the Americans are currently showing a big interest in Shropshire UFO’s and other related sightings, there is enough evidence now all ovver the interent and in documents and books to start disclosure.
    Just wish they would hurry up and do it.

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    Peter

    I find it interesting that the military are so happy to freely disclose the movement of all their aircraft to any Tom, Dick or Harry happens to ask…

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    Bob Jones

    wightalien:
    to your first question, yes and yes. I am not a professional videographer, and neither do I go out looking for UFOs. I do have vidoes of UFOs which I have taken myself, on my little cameraphone, at night, with at least the horizon for a comparison. On the occasion that I believed myself to be in camera range of a UFO, my first thought was to make sure that my recording of the incident would be easily authenticated by others. Please do not assume that I am a sceptic to the fact that aliens are visiting our world, being one of them myself, I obviously feel no need to detract from the truth except to clear it and ask people to make clear videos rather than those which fuel the disinformationists’ agenda. Love.

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    julian

    Have to agree with #25 – if you ring up Shawbury and ask whether any of their helicopters were out over Lyth Hill/Condover area (they are most nights) they are going to say no. Then the next day those men in black that you think are aliens are really just the military calling round checking whether you are a terrorist.

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    Llowarch

    The Wrekin has long been “revered” for being a special place. My Mom, back in the early 1920s, went up there and passed through “The Eye of the Needle”, a narrow defile which, she told me, was said to close up at certain times of year. She told me about it some sixty years ago, but the Salopians I’ve asked about the legend – or whatever it is – seem to know nothing of it.

    I do not think this brief video is any kind of fake. Such things are seen all over the planet. Yet the born-again sceptics poo-pooh them, mainly because those sceptics have experienced nothing of “the unexplained”.

    Wonder if the lights filmed here can be connected with The Eye and movements of rocks in an earth-fault?

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    jack

    that looks like the same craft spoted by lots of other people.. i believe it..

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    Dave

    looks like a TR-3B

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    John

    I believe in the existence of UFOs (whatever they are, and have seen several)but there are many hoaxers out there. This particular film does not look convincing, because the camera does not seem to move at all. It doesn’t seem credible that all that dancing about by the ‘UFO’, including closeups, should happen entirely within a fixed field of vision.

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    wuffing

    Why would a UFO display rotating or strobe beacons? Pan-Galactic Regulations?

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    Joshua Makke-Pease

    I have information relating to the EVACUATION PLAN FOR PLANET EARTH – this is information provided to me by ‘alien’ intelligence and which I believe is about to happen very soon.
    Email me for more ( FREELY GIVEN ) information.
    Joshua

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    David

    I find it staggering the number of narrow minded sceptics that feel they have to rubbish what people have seen, with evidence, even though they were not there, and probably have an opinion on everything from the comfort of their own armchair. Every time a U.F.O. or ghost sighting is reported or captured on video they are the first to laugh or snigger behind forums like this. Get a life guys, open your mind to the slight possibility that you don’t know everything and just maybe there’s something out there that you can’t explain or make fun of.

    I have viewed the footage & believe it to be genuine and similar to previous sightings of UFO’s over the Wrekin. I for one must congratulate the guys for posting this video knowing the small minded armchair ‘experts’ would of course try to ridicule what they don’t understand.

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    Ari Ben Gordon

    You are all absalutly write but in our society as a whole ‘nothing moves without intent’ and this is comunication that is happening within these videos . Now think , it might take some money to do and a vacation to acomplish this . but , in simple terms There is one particular Crop Circle Formation of this past summer from France . A particular signature or a flowing trace of good penmanship is telling every one to look more closely and slow it down to a trikle these silvery , yellow balls of lightish color and texture or any UFO jitter in the sky , so you will be able to make out imprintable patterns within these movements . Some of these videos can be most revealing indeed if you can catch some cursive writing within some of these orbical movements . To the ‘wuffing comment above’ is to make enfisas , notations , periods , capitals and there is so much to say – I guess there is no rush with any of this stuff these UFOs do .

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    Tony

    Disclosure is surley around the corner, these guys who have witnessed stuff hold the key!

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    Matt

    If we are being visited by beings from other worlds, then this isn’t the proof.

    This is a helicopter ‘filmed’ by a poor camera and an even poorer camera man.

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    D

    errrrrrr hang on a minute “Matt” no aircraft were operational in that area while this was filmed, confirmed by NATS who control uk airspace.
    no helicopter no fixed wing no aircraft…
    rest my case.

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