Posted: December 14, 2009

Location of Sighting: Burgess Hill, West Sussex
Date of Sighting: 14th December 2009
Time: 16:42pm

Witness Statement: I'm not joking, seriously, I've had all the jokes....Santa's reindeer and all that. I'm not mad!!!! I was outside my house with my friend Duffy and my 12year old son, also a couple of neighbours were outside.This bright light was hovering over the tile quarry next to my house, then the light like a bright star moved up about 5 meters. The bright light went out and these little coloured lights were on it's bottom rotating in a circular motion. it moved really slowly until it was directly above us and was sort of ball shaped. It was NOT a helicopter and was totally silent. Then it shot off at high speed to the west.The speed was phenomenal, if it had been an aeroplane or helicopter of sorts we would have been able to see it for quite a while into the distance for sometime, but this was literally out of sight within about 4 seconds.

I'm saying to duffy 'please tell me you're seeing this'. Then the lights & power literally drained from half the town!!! Half of the power grid of the town went down and we were in total darkness.My friends & family think I've gone insane, but I'm seriously seriously telling the truth. I don't believe in that sort of thing. It was definitely an unidentified object because we were all just frozen on the spot just staring at it!, I wanted to grab my camera or phone from the house to film it but we were just literally numb staring at it!!