LIGHTS IN THE SKY (LITS) UFOs
About 60% of all incoming UFO reports refer to strange lights seen in the sky. There are a number of places throughout the world where these light phenomena are seen on repeated occasions. Perhaps the most famous of these areas with repeated light phenomena is the Hessdalen valley in Norway, where a scientific investigation has amassed many reports since 1981. Project Hessdalen run their own website here.
The East Midlands area of England has several of these places. Two of these places are the Harston area near Cambridge and the Great Houghton/Little Houghton area near Northampton. These have their own sub-pages, which can be accessed below. Another place in the East Midlands where there are repeated reports of strange light phenomena is around Sibson airfield near Peterborough. There are also a number of reports of strange lights from Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, an area where there was a famous alleged landing of a UFO in 1980.
In around 1990 researcher Hilary Evans started the BOLIDE project - Ball Of Light Information Data Exchange - to collect information about these Ball Of Light (BOL) UFOs. The project was later taken over by Robert Moore on behalf of BUFORA's research section. Robert constructed a database from the BOLIDE data, which he called BOLREC. In August 1997 the BUFORA Research section published a report on the BOL phenomena - The BOLIDE Report.
It is possible after further investigation that these light phenomena will turn out to be either a rare or a previously unidentified natural phenomenon.
Investigation into these phenomena is being continued jointly by researchers at BUFORA, CUFOG and NUFORC.
A TYPICAL BOL CASE - The Hedge-hopping Sphere
The following case is taken from the BUFORA Journal. On 27th November 1976 at approximately 8pm Mr. G.W. Taylor, accompanied by his wife, was travelling by car along the A38 from Truro to the village of Zelah in Cornwall. They were driving at approximately 40 miles per hour. Mrs. Taylor noticed the object first, but didn't say anything until her husband said, "What the Hell's that". A small spherical white light had passed across in front of their car. The sphere was about the size of a football, the witnesses estimate 12 inches diameter. They observed it close to the ground for about 10 seconds, they described it as hedge hopping moving from their right, across the road, departing to the left.
The object made no sound. Mr. Taylor states "If I could have stood on the car bonnet I could have touched it". The witnesses considered a number of possible explanations. It was not a reflection from the windscreen. It was not a flare. There was no electrical storm or lightning.
There was no other traffic on the road, so it could not have been lights either from oncoming or following vehicles. The road was unlit, so it could not have been reflections from street lights.
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