Saudi UFO - a light in the sky

Fragmentary reporting of an object seen in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. There are a couple of pictures of a bright object, no real details of anything discernible, but according the the reports the object made quite a hub-bub.

Some people thought the object crashed, but no one apparently saw it fall from the sky. Some reports of feeling "a large tremor" were the extent of the speculation. It happened 10 days ago:

"On Wednesday 7^th of January after evening prayers a loud noise was heard in the sky followed by the sighting of an intense large light heading from the west above the Al-Qasim region east of Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh."

We checked the map and there are 8 references with variations to Al-Qasim on the map, so that is not very specific as far as we could tell. The second photo looks a lot like the moon, since the full moon was on the 11th of January. The first photo is partially obscured by clouds. And it is a surprise that there are not more photos of an object over a large metropolitan area. But a couple of photos are better than none.

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Giant Pink Jellyfish Flies Over London!

And apparently only one person reported it.

This certainly is a most creative UFO sighting from Merton, UK on January 9th in the form of a pink jellyfish. The article has an artist's rendition of the sight hovering over the Wimbledon Theatre. The map shows that it is close to the tennis match area known round the world. But the article seems to be based on a single observation, perhaps a phone interview. And it brings up an older story that has been causing a stir about a wind turbine being damaged in the vicinity.

There does not seem to be a connection, but that does not seem to be a bar to re-reporting a now-days-old sighting. And you would think that in a densely populated part of Greater London, as the map shows, there would be more observers of such an unusual object. Where were the cell phone photos? Was everyone a little stupefied? The person involved could not find his cell phone in time. It sounds like more than a lights-in-the-sky story, but unfortunately, all we have is a brief description by a "visitor" to the Guardian UK website:

"I looked out my flat window this morning, over towards Merton way, and to my surprise notice a large bright pink jelly-fish looking object surrounded by a pink haze. It appeared to be hovering over or above the pylons in the distance."

The part about the pylons (power lines) is a little intriguing, perhaps the jellyfish creature needed to recharge. But the reportage is nothing more than a cursory repetition of an unknown person's observation. The English papers obviously are busy reporting UFO stories at a fast clip, more than this time last year.

Short Article on Pink Jellyfish UFO with Artist's Rendering

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Too Many Stories

We have been dormant for quite a while. The Stephenville Texas stories in January 2008 were fascinating because they recapitulated nearly all the reactions that people have with anomalous events. The military, reporters, UFO groups, George Noory and his army of Coast-to-Coast AM radio followers all chimed in in classic, almost 1950s fashion.

But nothing really came of it. No new discoveries were made. And the conspiracy talk just kept on growing - the Air Force, the link to nearby (60 something miles) Crawford, Texas where the President spends time. The story grew to incredible proportions, based on a few sightings of lights in the sky. But the speculation grew, and we just threw up our hands and gave up writing hoping to see what happened, how it would conclude, and a year later, it is no closer to be defined than any other sighting in history. But the story has now been discovered by the enthusiasts and breathless professionals, and the legend will now never die for as long as we can tell. People get excited, and they portray any movement of lights in the sky seemingly as the work of an advanced civilization.

There are nearly daily stories on UFOs now. We just have to gasp, or sigh, but they are really mostly lights in the sky stories. Someone spots a small light or a Chinese candle lantern in the UK (they don't have them in the States) as it drifts by, and then there are scores of stories in the paper. We keep hoping for juicier stories, of some kind of encounters, but most of them are just fragmentary photos. We should probably write an entry of the digital cameras that people use, and when they look at the photos later, they discover some shape or light in the sky that they had not seen when they were actually there in real-time. It seems to happen more and more as these cameras become more available.

Some of the reports are sort of skeptical, waiting for the real UFO, which seems pretty elusive right now. Here is a news recap of the lantern stories.

Australian Story about the UK