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- 'LIKE NOTHING I'VE EVER SEEN' 29/02/96
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- The Horley Mirror
- (Horley, Smallfield, Burstow, Hookwood, Charlwood)
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- A HORLEY man has photographed something out of this world to add to the
- burgeoning Horley Mirror X files.
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- But it is uncertain if John Henderson's picture is a UFO or a nearby planet.
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- Skygazer John took his snap when he spotted an unusual light in the western sky
- from his Balcombe Road home one evening.
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- "I thought it was too bright to be a star." said the 31-year-old flight
- attendant. "I watched it for about an hour as it moved across the sky and down
- over the horizon. Around the top left was an orange disc and at the bottom it
- was deep blue.
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- "Working in the aviation industry, I can definately say that it's not an
- aircraft or anything I've ever seen from an aircraft cockpit." John suspected
- that the UFO could be the rogue Chinese satellite which is expected to re-enter
- earths atmosphere, or perhaps a passing comet.
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- But Dr Jacqueline Milton of the Royal Astronomical Society said that a more
- likely candidate is Venus, currently shining brightly in the western evening
- skies.
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- "I strongly suspect that the sighting was of Venus at a low altitude," she
- said.
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- "The orange and blue colouring could occur because the atmosphere can act like
- a prism distorting colours and causing it to twinkle and flash.
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- "If people don't look at the sky a lot they are sometimes at a loss to relate
- to unusual sightings."
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- UFO sightings have come flooding into the Horley Mirror since a spate of
- unexplained objects were spotted over Gatwick.
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- [The picture accompaning this article showed a bright white streak with a red
- tint on the bottom side and a blue tint on the top. Beside the streak there is
- what appears to be a stationary star.]
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