Earlier this evening I saw something I can't explain. I know that by writing this blog I could be up for a fair bit of ridicule and skepticism but quite frankly, I don't care as what I'm about to describe was nothing short of incredible!
I got off the train just after 7pm at Streatham Common
in London, when I became aware of green and turquoise lights in the sky in the
distance. At first, I didn't think anything of it as there is usually a lot of
activity one way or another, with large planes from Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
The lights started to come closer and at speed, before they then
stopped and hovered. Then they darted off at an angle, again at speed, before stopping once more. They dropped altitude and travelled in an elongated letter "S" shape, passing over my head
no more than 200ft up. By now I'm transfixed, there was hardly any traffic around and yet, not a single sound could be heard from this thing. The "craft" was probably around three quarters the
length of a single deck bus and swept by me gracefully travelling at what I
estimate to be between 80 and 100 mph.
It headed towards the common then stopped again, as
abrupt as it started. Hovered for a few seconds then darted. First in one
direction, then another without slowing down. I'd been watching for
around 10 minutes so telephoned my wife who was at home and told her what I
was looking at. She agreed to come and meet me as our home wasn't far away. By now the craft is
around 200 - 300 metres away, yet the lights are as clear as anything and
have risen to somewhere between 800 and a 1000ft.
Moving around, hovering, darting in different directions
and completely defying any general rules of flight, the craft then used what I can
best describe as white searchlights, as I saw large beams move from left to right
reflecting on clouds in the distance. This it did for some time (around 2-3
minutes) whilst all of the time the turquoise lights are still there, now with
added, smaller red lights.
Suddenly, all lights went out and became replaced with a
single much brighter amber / yellow light that flashed rapidly like a beacon
for around 30 seconds. This then stopped and the green, turquoise and red
lights came back on again.
All the time this is happening the craft is either
hovering or moving at speed left and right without a second to pause from one
direction to another. By now my wife is almost with me, so I briefly glanced
around to see her. Literally, two seconds later I looked back, but to my dismay
this thing had shot out of sight.
Scanning the skies we both see it again, only this time it had to be the best part of over half a mile away. A single red dot in the sky, which then slowly over a period of around 5 minutes came towards us. The light was steady, its speed and direction almost constant and at first I thought it was just another plane. The height by now had got to thousands of feet over our heads, when instantly, the red light disappeared, the green and turquoise lights came on again, and the whole craft dropped like a stone out of the sky. It raced through the atmosphere and in the space of just a single second the craft stopped abruptly, around 800ft high - less than a couple of hundred metres from where we were stood.
Again, it hovered before gracefully going off, back in the direction it had just come from. Twisting and turning until it went out of our sight beyond some houses. We waited and continued to scan the skies, but it had gone.
Did anyone else in the Norbury, Mitcham, Streatham or
Streatham Common areas remember seeing this spectacular event? There were cars,
buses and the occasional pedestrian, surely someone else can verify that they
saw this too?
I'll leave you to make up your own mind, but I know what
we both saw that night and I know that neither of us were able to logically
explain it.
