Friends spot UFOs flying over Stonehaven
Orange lights seen over town
Published: 21/09/2009
A GROUP of friends have reported seeing a series of UFO’s flying over Stonehaven.
The aircraft enthusiasts and their wives were left “puzzled” by an unexplained sequence of orange lights which passed across the sky above Stonehaven.
They described seeing eight orange balls speeding through the sky at three-minute intervals at the same speed and the same height.
Dan Paton and Graham Philip and their respective wives, Marie and Aileen, had just left the Carron restaurant in Stonehaven when they saw the first of the lights at about 8.30pm.
Mr Paton, curator of the Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre, said: “It was an orange light that came towards us, past us and then disappeared. It was moving in a north-west to south-east direction over Stonehaven and out to sea.
“We didn’t think that much about it but then a couple of minutes later another one appeared and another one after that until eight had gone by.”
He said they were definitely not the navigation lights of a plane or helicopter and that they could not have been balloons or parachute flares either.
He added: “I still haven’t come up with an explanation as to what caused it.”
Mr Philip, who is also heavily involved in the museum, said: “I am perplexed. We just don’t know what we saw.”
He added even his wife, Aileen, a physics teacher at Aberdeen Grammar, was confused.
They rang air traffic control at Aberdeen Airport and were told nothing had appeared on the radar.
See reader George Paterson’s video of the lights below:
