Eastbourne, East Sussex-31st May 2009
Location of Sighting: Eastbourne, East Sussex
Date of Sighting: 31st May 2009
Time: 10-11 PM
Witness Name: Jon
Witness Statement: I was having a ciggie out of the bathroom window and saw a large ‘fireball’ (glowing orange) moving horizontally and quite low in the sky. This thing appeared to be both bigger than a 747, and faster than any plane or helicopter. I watched it, shouted and ran to get my partner, was literally gone 3-4 seconds, and when I returned it had just vanished ! Impossible ! I know what I saw, and it wasn’t anything man made (that I know of !). Just a big ball of ‘fire’ flying at a constant speed and height. It’s stayed in my mind all day as it was so bizarre. This definately wasn’t a meteor so what was it ?Source:Direct request on UK-UFO
Comment : If you can provide further information on this or other possible UFO sightings in the Eastbourne or surrounding area then please leave a comment or send details through our “submit sighting” form.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I’ve just logged on this morning to find your UK UFO sighting site, having added UFO’s seen over Eastbourne into Google. After what I experienced yesterday evening 06/06/09 at approx 22.10 I scoured the net to find a few other similar sites including an MOD email address, all of which I reported to. Jon’s email is very interesting and I’ll get to that later. What I saw, walking up Meads Road, returning home from walking my Dog, was five UFO’s. I stood still in disbelief but there they all were at a distance apart, some moved up and down and some sideways. They moved slowly and silently but could clearly be seen by their very bright lights and what appeared to be wings curled under. I couldn’t undertsand why they were hanging around until I saw the sixth one to my left join them. Once it had done this, they all went off together in the direction directly above Beachy Road. I ran the rest of the way home, to get my husband to drive out in the same direction with his camera on board, in the hope they could still be seen. When we left our home to go to the car, to our left in the sky was a large glowing orange ball, not moving, just still. If I think about it now, what I had seen earlier, had come from the exact same direction as this thing. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time, though I did point it out to my husband who also saw it. I was in too much of a hurry and preocupied with heading out to where these six craft had flown to. When we returned not having seen anything more, that orange ball was no longer there. I am truly shocked by what I saw, and only wish to God someone else had seen it too. Only being the day after I’m so hoping there will be a similar report, and that I won’t have been the only one.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Rhona i was in eastbourne at that same time and i saw them!! i dont know exactly where i was, i think it was called beachy cliff or something, i dont really know the area.. but i was with a friend and we saw and watched the lights for about half an hour.. Im dead sure we are talking about the same thing, from what i could see it was like a black triangle with an orange glow in the centre, they made no noise at all and flew all over the place. Like you i have also come on the internet looking for reportings
June 8th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Rhona and Sam I also saw craft in the sky at about 10.40 pm on Saturday night (06/06/09) which I could not explain. They were travelling up Baslow Road, Meads. As I got out of my car I saw two craft which seemed to me to have three orange glows under each. They were moving silently in the direction of the Downs. I then saw two more craft behind them.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
On Saturday 6th june i had just returned to my home in Hastings from Eastbourne, i was in my back garden at 21.20, when i loked up in the sky i saw a single orange ball of light orange to yellow in colour which seemed to come north and head out towards the sea, i live approx a mile from the coast and 5the light seemed to cruise very hi up outwards,having lived in london near heathrow i am used to aeroplane sounds, even in east sussex no matter how far away aircraft are flying you can allways here some noise,this object that i saw made no noise at all, i called my son outside to make sure that i was not seeing things and he was amazed as we watched the object go out to see, i observed the object for approx.1 min-1.5mins.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Its all sooo true people…these things exsist! Its absolute madness. I’ve seen them myself, very strange experience on more than one occassion. Why the goverment dont just let us know the truth!! The sightings are getting more and more frequent..maybe they annoyed with what we doing to our planet? As far as im concerned, we need to make big changes…and quick! Or face some sort of doom or whatever..maybe a bit far fetched but u never know. We need to come out in force people!!!
June 19th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I saw a massive triangular shaped ufo with dim lights around the underside perimeter over Eastbourne (Hampden Park) back one night in April (2009) around say 9pm. It was much bigger than any plane I have seen which flew at low altitude and made no noise whatsoever. It just diappeared into the distance leaving me wondering what it might be.
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 am
Excellent to hear more comments and experiences, and in a way extremely comforting to feel some affirmation of what we have all seen. So we ain’t going nuts then lol ! These ‘orange balls’ seem to be appearing everywhere, yet the media doesn’t seem to be very forthcoming ? I emailed the Eastbourne Herald the same night to see if any more reports had been noticed, but they never replied.
Rhona your report sounds astonishing. I wish I had seen what you had, and not just the orange fireball. I live in the centre of town, not too far from Meads Road – and what I saw was also heading in the Beachy Head direction from the sea. The annoying thing is, people don’t understand the impact this has on you until you witness it yourself. You truly have to see it to believe it – but we CAN’T all be imagining the same thing.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Withdean, Brighton. Last Friday night (3rd July 2009) – between 11pm – 12pm can’t say exactly. (which is ridiculous in view of what happened). I was having a cigarette in the garden and saw 4 bright orange orbs appear low in the sky about 5 miles away coming in from the coast, heading inland, after about a mile they stopped momentarily and then went up and disappeared into the athmosphere. I didn’t call to my boyfriend as I thought he would have me locked up. Then another group of objects appeared in the same way, took the same path and disappeared out of sight. At that point I got the other half into the garden and right on cue another two appeared from the same direction and did exactly the same. He went indoors bewildered (I had woken him up from in front of the telly) only to miss a further visit from three more. I have search the internet to see if anyone else witnessed this last Friday night but perhaps they too, like me, didn’t like to seem slightly potty. Thank god the other half did actually witness the phenomenon.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Oh my, i too have just tonight witnessed these orange balls of fire, flying totally silently across the sky on Eastbourne seafront. What the hell are they?, it has freaked me out, too weird and from searching the internet, this seems to have happened many times before, what;s going on?
October 6th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Thought I would take a look to see if anything else had been posted since my original message. I am SO pleased that Sam, Beth and Jon had added their experiences too! It’s lovely to know that I wasn’t the only one to have seen this incredible sighting in the sky that night. I never had a response from my report to the MOD, so I’m not surprised to hear that The Herald didn’t respond either.
October 16th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I am very intrigued by the comments left here. I too saw balls of light in the Beachy Head area on Sunday 11th October at 18.57. It had just got dark and was a beautiful clear, cloudless night sky. I was driving back from Birling Gap to East Dean and noticed 2 lights in the sky so I stopped the car. They were small whitish orange lights in the direction of Beachy Head. I first assumed they were helicopters but their motion was unlike anything I had ever seen. They were bobbing around left to right and up and down but not synchronised with each other. I turned off the engine but there was no noise of any description. I watched them for a few minutes and took some pictures with my phone but it is pretty low res so they are not much more than a few pixels big. I drove to try and get closer but lost sight of them. I would love to know what they were.
February 13th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
OMG! I’ve just seen something in the sky that was unreal. Saturday 10.45 13th February 2009. Exactly as the other reports. 3 orange/red balls floating slowly across the sky at exactly the same distance apart. I called for my daughter, but by the time she got downstairs and outside they had gone. I’m amazed I’ve never seen anything like it in my life…I’m still shaking!
February 18th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Hey all I witnessed on several occasions orange lights around Eastbourne, the most recent was new years eve… although it was very cloudy it was bright and zig zagged in a motion not possible for a man made aircraft… only explanation would be a sky lantern catching an air current but doubtful as it was shedding a lot of what looked like debris! before it disappeared. Owning a telescope and being an enthusiast of astronomy and astrophotography I have had several friends and friends of friends questioning me on their sightings. It seems these sightings are quite common over the past year and are becoming more frequent.
March 6th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
My wife, my best mate and I have all just seen 6 glowing orange lights in the sky moving NW over Eastbourne. These appear to have come from the Hastings direction.
They were all equally spaced apart and moving at the same speed apparently. They were very bright orange and appeared to be ‘glowing’
I’m guessing they were some kind of ‘chinese lanterns’ but it was quite weird.
I last saw this about 5mths ago. Again they were bright orange and moving slowly and smoothly NW across the sky.