An Irish astronomy group is calling for help in tracing the origin of a huge explosion in the skies over the country on Thursday evening.
Astronomy Ireland said it was currently investigating the explosion, which occurred at 2100 BST.
A spokesman said the most likely explanation was a space rock or satellite crashing into the atmosphere.
She's a quasi political player, an eccentric former entertainer whose intense spirituality is ripe for tabloid fodder. She claims she knew actor Tom Cruise in a former life and once visited the planet Venus in a triangular spaceship.
This is Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of the next Japanese prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama. She is a free-spirited woman whose views are drawing Western attention since her husband's Democratic Party of Japan swept into power less than a week ago.
The Ministry of Defence official who investigated a UFO sighting which was seen by police officers in North Devon says the incident is still totally unexplained.
The North Devon Journal revealed last week that newly-disclosed documents from the National Archives showed that UFO sightings in the early hours of March 31, 1993, led to military fears about national defence.
Nick Pope was the person in charge of the MoD's UFO desk at the time and he said the release of the previously secret documents was a "blast from the past".
Peter Davenport
NUFORCThu, 27 Aug 2009 22:43 UTC
Occurred: 8/6/2009 02:05 (Entered as : 080609 2:05)
Reported: 8/6/2009 2:44:11 AM 02:44
Posted: 8/27/2009
Location: Pico Rivera, CA
Shape: Light
Duration: ten seconds
Light speedily flying across the sky with three bright flashes east to west.
My seventeen yr. old daughter was absent from the living room couch when I noticed that and the back doors opened. I saw her looking up at the sky. Just before I asked her what she was doing outside I saw three bright flashes of light. I thought maybe she had her phone so I asked her, she did not. I asked her what she was doing outside. She said she heard a strange noise entering toward the house. The sound came from the east. We discovered we experienced the same light sighting. She, however, saw a light flashing across the sky going west. As we talked in detail, my father-in-law said he, too, heard a noise he had never heard before.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCThu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30 UTC
Occurred: 8/5/2009 22:35 (Entered as : 05/08/09 22:35)
Reported: 8/5/2009 3:04:04 PM 15:04
Posted: 8/27/2009
Location: Exmouth (UK/England),
Shape: Flash
Duration: Blink of an eye
Brilliant blink of the eye blue streak of light followed by very small, bright blue explosion!!!
I was just looking out the window to the east, looked up into the sky and faster than I could blink a streak of blue light shot in a very slight degree upwards angle and traveling away from me in a southeasterly direction. It was as if the light had been stationary and invisible and the moment I looked into the sky at the place it was, the blue light shot off faster than anything I have ever seen (too fast to be a shooting star) traveled briefly away and across the sky and then exploded in a very small bright flash of blue and possibly a bit of white (can't be sure of this was to quick) then was gone!!!
Peter Davenport
NUFORCThu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30 UTC
Occurred: 8/5/2009 21:09 (Entered as : 08/05/2009 21:09)
Reported: 8/11/2009 9:22:25 AM 09:22
Posted: 8/27/2009
Location: Kenna, NM
Shape: Formation
Duration: 5 minutes
Lights flashing in sky.
Low flying string of large yellow lights in northwest sky above canyon, approx. 10-15 lights in sideways s formation. The lights then turned off one by one from right to left. The lights then appeared to the west in a u shape, like a smile, turning on one by one from right to left. The lights turned off again in same sequence. The lights were not spotted again.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCThu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30 UTC
Occurred: 8/5/2009 14:05 (Entered as : 08-05-2009 14:05)
Reported: 8/5/2009 2:52:32 PM 14:52
Posted: 8/27/2009
Location: Yelm, WA
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 35 sec
Silver triangle shape sighting in Yelm WA
The craft was triangle and silver in color and was the size of dime in the sky at first. Then it proceeded to get larger and larger until it was the size of maybe an orange relative to the sun. It made no noise. It did not spin around it just stayed in its original shape and came perpendicular to the earths surface very fast. It took off straight up just as it had come down. It was gone from eye sight within about a second. I was able to see it for maybe 35 sec. from the start to finish of the sighting. The sighting took place in Yelm, WA Thurston county. Looking toward the northeast sky. I have never seen anything like it, it was very interesting but at the same time scary.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCThu, 27 Aug 2009 22:04 UTC
Occurred: 8/5/2009 11:30 (Entered as : 08-05-09 11:30)
Reported: 8/5/2009 9:11:04 PM 21:11
Posted: 8/27/2009
Location: Glendora, CA
Shape: Disk
Duration: 6 or 8 min
Silver Disk above Glendora, Ca.
I was driving north on the 57 Fwy I had just passed Pomona, I was heading towards the 210 fwy and looked up at the mountains above Glendora, Ca. and saw 1 disk shaped UFO, silver in color it looked to me to have been at least 100 or so ft above the Mountains, it was at least seventy ft in circumference.
It moved slowly over the Mountains for about 6 to 8 min and vanished in front of me. I know every one on the 57 freeway going that way must have seen it. It was too big to have been a balloon and it was definitely not a plane or helicopter.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCThu, 27 Aug 2009 22:04 UTC
Occurred: 8/5/2009 08:37 (Entered as : 08/05/09 8:37)
Reported: 8/5/2009 10:54:45 PM 22:54
Posted: 8/27/2009
Location: Indian Springs, NV
Shape: Cylinder
Duration: 10 mi
UFO Sighting Indian Springs NV, off Highway US 95
Driving Down US 95 just outside of Indian Springs, NV, 3 small red lights in the shape of a triangle rose at about 45 degrees off the ground - I though it was a fire work so I watched it for a moment, then noticed a small blueish white light following close behind it like a tail. When the object reached its desired altitude it froze as the blue light caught up to it and leveled off, then both lights turned bright white and began twinkling at each other in increments of 3 flashes per side. It was about 700ft above the ground and about 1 mile away from my car. Then the object flew off south bound down the highway and into the distance, quite quickly. I continued south down US 95 and pulled over for some gas, after a quick fill up continued back on the highway and saw the object again; still twinkling its white lights. It had flown about 4 miles from the sight I saw it rise so I concluded it could not be a toy plane or helicopter, especially going as fast as it was and as far from its point of origin. The object zipped along the highway faster than I was driving (about 90mph) giving me ample time to observe it. With out notice the object turned around and began to head north up the highway. At this point I realized that the object was not 2 individual lights but a tube like object with lights on either side.
Peter Davenport
NUFORCWed, 05 Aug 2009 22:03 UTC
Occurred: 8/4/2009 21:15 (Entered as : 08/04/09 21:15)
Reported: 8/4/2009 6:49:23 PM 18:49
Posted: 8/5/2009
Location: Enfield, CT
Shape: Other
Duration: 5 Minutes
6 F-15's supersonic
My fiance and I were watching TV when we heard a very loud low rumble. We muted the TV and continued to hear it. We ran out onto our porch. The noise continued. Approximately 15 miles from us is an F-15 base (Barnes Air National Guard Base, Westfield, MA). We saw 6 F-15's fly over with afterburners on. This is not a normal occurrence, they usually fly over during the day time, and unless at an airshow I have never seen them fly over with afterburners. Particularly at night. The other odd part about this incident was the fact that the aircraft were running only their red collision lights, not a typical red white green configuration.
