Aerial sightings

The Ventnor Downs UFO

Ventnor

25 January 2001

This sighting's specific recorded time, 6:10am, and its considerable eight-to-ten-minute duration give it an unusually precise and sustained character compared with most fleeting UFO reports, a genuinely lengthy observation window offering the witness considerably more opportunity for detailed description than the brief glimpses typical of many comparable sightings recorded elsewhere in this register.

The object's described appearance, a round form with red, white and blue lights rapidly circulating around a central black shape, is a specific enough visual description to distinguish it from the more generic 'lights in the sky' reports common to this category, though no photographic or video evidence, nor any additional corroborating witness, has been traced in the sources consulted for this entry beyond the single account.

The object's reported slow movement toward Ventnor Downs at the end of the sighting, rather than a sudden departure or disappearance, is also a distinctive detail, many UFO reports instead describing an abrupt vanishing or extremely rapid acceleration away from the observer, and this entry records the sighting as a genuine, well described single-witness report consistent with the standard applied to UFO entries throughout this register.

Sighting occurred over residential Ventnor; no specific ground site is associated with the report.
Evidence
Single witness account
Access
Open ground
Location
50.595, -1.208 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)

Sources: UFO Hunters, "UFO Sighting in Isle of Wight (UK-England) on Thursday 25 January 2001" [other]

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