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Peculiar UFO sighting

LTC8K6 said:
Might it have been a projection on the clouds from the ground?

Laser light shows were around in the early 1970's.
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On Christmas Eve 1930 Harry "Death Ray" Matthews caused a minor panic around London when he demonstrated his 'Sky Projector' without informing anyone.
He projected images of angels and the message 'Happy Christmas' (which was rather blurred) onto clouds over the city triggering a furor amongst the usually staid Londoners and frightening the religiously inclined into believing a divine manifestation was under way.

A fascinating man, one of the classic 'mad scientists' (complete with the aforementioned death ray) and a quite talented inventor.
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Speaking as someone who has worked for a company that owns a Skyscanner...

Bubba said:
There was no beam of lights visible from ground to cloud.
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You would only see beams of light from the ground to the cloud if there was something to disperse the light - mist, or bonfire smoke or something. Otherwise you would no more see the beam of the light any more than you'd see the beam of an ordinary torch.

So, yes, entirely possible.

The circle of lights eventually moved slowly out of sight.
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The beams from a Skyscanner can reach for miles and where they're projecting is very easily changed either through controlling the motor on the light itself, or by manually moving where the head is facing.

So, yes, easily possible.

Please note that I'm not saying that this was a light projected from the ground - I'd say that that would be quite a risky plan as it would depend on the presence of cloud as well as the absence of mist/smoke/etc.* - but it's certainly a plausible explanation, based on my experience of projecting rings of lights onto a cloud from the ground.

I should also point out that this would not be a laser, but a big light with a massive lamp inside.

*But, of course, it's worth noting that people do, indeed, carry out risky plans, so this doesn't rule anything out.
 
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Bubba said:
Maybe, if such a projection can manage these points:

There was no beam of lights visible from ground to cloud.

The circle of lights eventually moved slowly out of sight.
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There is a night club a few miles from me. I don't know it's name, nor have I ever visited it. However, from my back garden I can see the display at their front door playing across the nighttime clouds. Pale discs of light "fly" in formation, zoom off to the horizon at high speed, creep around at low speed, pretty much any behaviour one could imagine. I see this often since I smoke and hence visit the back garden often.

Not once have I seen a beam of light from the ground.

Your criteria are trivially commonplace.
 
abaddon said:
There is a night club a few miles from me. I don't know it's name, nor have I ever visited it. However, from my back garden I can see the display at their front door playing across the nighttime clouds. Pale discs of light "fly" in formation, zoom off to the horizon at high speed, creep around at low speed, pretty much any behaviour one could imagine. I see this often since I smoke and hence visit the back garden often.

Not once have I seen a beam of light from the ground.

Your criteria are trivially commonplace.
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In the 1950s in the UK there were a number of sightings of a 'ghost plane', including the identification number of a Liberator lost in WW2, reported by pilots and people on the ground. On two occasions aircraft were launched to intercept the phenomena.
It was traced to another sky projector device that used film taken during the war. Realistic enough to fool experienced pilots.
 
abaddon said:
There is a night club a few miles from me. I don't know it's name, nor have I ever visited it. However, from my back garden I can see the display at their front door playing across the nighttime clouds. Pale discs of light "fly" in formation, zoom off to the horizon at high speed, creep around at low speed, pretty much any behaviour one could imagine. I see this often since I smoke and hence visit the back garden often.

Not once have I seen a beam of light from the ground.

Your criteria are trivially commonplace.
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That place has been out of business for 15 years! What exactly is it you are smoking?:D
 
I have absolutely no idea what it was. And I am fine with knowing about an incident for which I have no explanation.

What do you think it was?
 
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