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  1. 3 minutes ago, offerman said:

    I know what you mean Jupiter was very bright recently

     

    did you see any shooting stars as I think there was a meteor shower over the last 3 to 4 days or so

    Not seen any shooters the last few nights (surprised not to see any sporadics!). Plenty of satellite action though including a few passes of ISS and a train of satellites (I guess starlink?) Weds night. I'll be looking out for Perseids in Aug. I see the Delta Aquariids are peaking in next few days, so yeah, would hope to see meteors at any time now with a clear sky.

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  2. Looks like the eye of this low is currently over Brittany. There's a good stream of moisture being pulled out of the relatively warm waters of Biscay to its S which I think can affect us tomorrow as it wraps and the low travels slightly NE, so I'm looking out for that, looks like heading towards Kent on the modelling so there's that!

    Intensification right now over the South coast but heading east quickly and dying inland. Just hope the garden gets a good dowsing.

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  3. 5 minutes ago, T4Toby said:

    Has anybody got any good webcams to watch the storms coming across the channel?

    This one's pretty good for anything approaching Bournemouth.

     

     

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  4. 55 minutes ago, Supacell said:

    Picked up an intense storm between Stamford and Corby early evening time. Lots of thunder, occasional visible lightning, the odd big CG with explosive thunder that nearly gave me heart attack and crazy rain, winds and hail. Not as big hail as the storms in Essex but still a good marble sized.

    Was watching the happenings over my old neck of the woods Wellingborough/Kettering and it was looking pretty intense (at least, on the radar)

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  5. 3 hours ago, warmintim said:

    Almost certainly the display planes. They fly over me in Warminster all the time, and the description fits to a T, notably the changing colours. Please see my photos from a few nights ago (taken as spoof ufo shots for fun...)

    Offerman - I’m keen to see your talk, or maybe meet for a chat at some point. 

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    Yep - spot on - but they were too far away from me to see that they were planes. (And no noise at that distance). Mystery solved! ?️✔️❌

  6. Thanks for the reply @offerman, Yes that father and son team does sound like it could feasibly be what we saw, although I'd have to say that the planes would have to be flying really quite slowly, for it to be that. I'll have a look into them and see if I can find any other corroborating evidence, for them being on that route at that time.

    Is this the footage that you refuted?

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    The Bath resident says he has never seen anything like it

    That is indeed a strange sighting, but what you have described does sound like it's the answer. I've always been into the subject but take a very sceptical view, looking for the answers in the more mundane explanations, a bit like yourself. There's usually an answer in 95% of cases, I suppose its the other 5% of unexplained sightings that keeps my interest in the subject.

    Sorry to hear you've had such tough time the last few years with your parents'  health. You are a good man to be putting such effort into caring for them even though it can be awfully stressful. I lost my mum last year after she'd been constantly in and out of hospital with COPD for three or four years. It really can wear you down, when all you want is for them to have a better quality of life. Then my partner lost her Mum 6 months later with a stroke out of the blue so I understand how tough these times can be. Stay strong and enjoy life as much as you can when you get the chance. 

     

  7. Anybody around N/E Bristol/Bath notice a couple of "ufos" tonight? Moving Northwest to SouthEast on a line towards around Bath to my East from Winterbourne (about 10/15 degrees up from the horizon). About 10pm. I thought they were chinese lanterns how they moved from the distance with the naked eye but was surprised to see them definitely changing through colours of the rainbow when looking through bins. Same sort of direction where Jupiter and Saturn rose a bit later.

    Never seen anything quite like it. Was there a northwesterly wind tonight? Didn't seem to be much breeze at all, so I'm wondering if the objects were under power? (too far away to hear anything.)

    If I were to make something to look the same I can imagine microlights but with rainbow changing LED lights or even chinese lanterns if the wind aloft was strong enough and in that direction - although I didn't detect any of the usual orange glow of a flame, indeed - as I keep saying, perhaps with a strip of multicolour LEDs. Doubt they were drones as they were slow moving and seemed to continue in a straight line for miles.

    Any ideas?

    @offerman I think you're into ufos looking back at a convo in February?

     

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