UFO photographed over Filton
An unidentified flying object has been photographed over Filton.
Taxi driver Paul Matthews spotted the object in the air near the Royal Mail depot on 2pm on Friday afternoon soon after he had driven into the Airbus site.
He quickly pulled over his car and watched as what he described as a disc-shaped object hovered in the air before disappearing as swiftly as it had appeared.
Now the Bristol Evening Post is calling on readers who believe they know what the object is to get in touch.
Mr Matthews said that at first he thought it was an aeroplane, microlite or parachute, but it wasn't behaving like anything he had seen before.
"It was very weird. It was so strange. I have been a lorry driver in my time and seen some strange things, but this is something else," said Mr Matthews, 45, from Patchway.
"I had never ever seen something like this before. I was really surprised how other people had not noticed it. I thought they would be stopping in their droves, but that was not the case at all."
Denis Plunkett of Winterbourne, who runs the British Flying Saucer Bureau, believed Mr Matthews' sighting was just the latest in a series of visits by aliens to Earth.
Mr Plunkett said: "They come in all shapes and sizes, mainly disc-shaped but in the upper atmosphere also cigar-shaped – the so-called motherships.
"When they get in the upper atmosphere, they discharge the smaller ones that are used for surveillance.
"We have had quite a few UFO sightings in the last few months, in Cardiff for example when one almost crashed into a police helicopter.
"Before that, it was seen over Kingswood and the Suspension Bridge before heading to Wales."
Former RAF pilot Mr Plunkett, 77, added: "I'm not surprised this UFO was spotted over somewhere like Patchway because quite often they visit airports like Filton. They visit anything to do with the air because they want to know the infrastructure of the planet. What they are obviously doing is surveying and collecting information about us."
Did you see the mysterious object in the sky over Filton on Friday – or do you think you know what it was? Contact the newsdesk on 0117 934 3333 or e-mail us.
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by Lynn White, Bristol
Tuesday, August 11 2009, 1:04PM
“Many people have reported weird shapes and lights in the sky thinking they may be a ufo.
The real truth is that they are probably sky lanterns which have been purchased from Hawkins Bazaar store in Bristol.
Each lantern is a miniature hot air balloon that inflates with heat in about 20 seconds of being lit and then floats silently and serenely into the sky.”
by paul, clifton
Friday, March 13 2009, 1:06PM
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by max, bristol
Thursday, February 12 2009, 11:30PM
“I believethis is a ufo, cracking pic, those who don't believe fair enough, but our race is not ready is to feeble minded to look at posability there interested in us and we don'tput enought effort or money to explore the universe, if our race got on, and there was no poverty, war or disease we could be a race of humans who could be out exploring te galaxy, there watching and some of us know it, keep in mind they want to talk or tell us some thing but like i said we don't listen, where violant not all, but most. what would u think if the word got on as one!”
by Greetje Noppert, Groningen, the Netherlands
Monday, November 24 2008, 1:16PM
“From what I've seen in the pic, the shape is not really equal at all sides, material looks a bit wrinkeled here and there. The inside is black or the material blocks light. To me it is earthly material. Perhaps some kids toyed with a sack which contained stuff that needed to stay dry or such and let it up in the air ..”
by mike, bristol
Saturday, November 08 2008, 1:45PM
“actually if im honest i thought i saw a UFO a couple of days ago.
then realised it was fireworks ;)”