1996: A wedge-shaped dark craft over Ireland

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: March, 1996

Sighting Time: 23:50

Day/Night: Nighttime

Location: North County Dublin, Ireland

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.

Duration: total – 8 minutes, triangle 5 seconds

No. of Object(s):  2

Size of Object(s): Object 1(dark craft) – relative size – about 3 cm across – actual size – difficult to say but maybe 8 (length) x 4 metres (height) based on relativity to tree height Object 2 (triangle) – relative size – about 4 cm across – actual size – probably around 10 metres across (and base to peak as it’s equilateral) hard to tell as it was flying higher than the frames of reference

Distance to Object(s): 1000-1500 metres

Shape of Object(s): 1st object – Wedge-shaped, with a nose-cone and a sort of aerodynamic shape, although unfamiliar. Dark coloured, slightly lighter than night sky. No lights visible. 2nd object – Equilateral triangle shape composed of three connected bars of colour, upright, red on the top point and sides, dullish white/silver on the left sides, and green/blue type colour on the right ends. Colours remained constant, and while bright were not spectacularly bright, certainly less so than the Moon. Colours did not change, move, flicker, brighten or darken.

Color of Object(s): red on the top point and sides, dullish white/silver on the left sides, and green/blue type colour on the right ends

Number of Witnesses: 3

Source:

Summary/Description: A wedge-shaped dark craft was seen flying low. A red, white and blue/green outline of a triangle then appeared in the sky and stayed in the same position for approximately 5 seconds before disappearing. 

Full Report

As I was being driven home with my family at approximately 23:30 after a show in the school where my mother worked as vice-principal, I took to my usual habit of staring blankly out the window. In this part of Dublin it is very rural and it was dark at that time with none of the orange streetlight pollution I’m used to.

Approximately 15 to 20 minutes into the journey while driving along the backroads I noticed what looked like a large wedge-shaped object flying what looked like very low, and maintaining pace with the car (maybe a kilometre or two away). I dismissed this at the time as a plane, although it was black and had no lights, and could only barely be made out against the sky (although I should point out that this lower part of the sky was a bit brighter). However that was not the main incident. A few minutes after I had been observing this craft, I noticed a triangle shape which appeared in the sky, stationary. It was much higher up than the other craft. My late dad and brother noticed this as well. It was an equilateral triangle outline, with the three colours at each end, red on top, white/silver on the left, and a sort of blue-green colour on the right end. These colours were in the form of solid bars which linked up to form a triangle of colour; it is possible that the three were the lights of a black craft but I could not discern this (though the skies were clear at the time). The colours did not flicker, change shape, or become brighter or dimmer, they just remained constant as a triangle shape. This shape held the same position in the sky for approximately 5 seconds, though it’s difficult to tell exactly, it could have been 3 to 10 seconds.

When this occured I sat there silently and after it happened noticed the other craft was still flying low to the ground. My dad exclaimed when he saw it, and got my mam to pull the car over at the next chance, but it was gone. My dad then noticed the second object (the first I had noticed, the wedge-shaped one) when we were driving home, saying that there was “another one”, and I continued to monitor it until it passed behind some trees in the distance and couldn’t be seen any longer, and then it was no longer there.

I dismissed the first sighting as a plane as it appeared somewhat plane shaped although there was no sound from it or lighting and it was approximately 1000-1500 metres away – the weird thing was it seemed to be keeping exact pace with the car (and it was quite a remote place with not many other cars around).

The second sighting, the triangle shape, I considered as unknown, possibly the lights of some flying vehicle. I discovered later that my brother had seen the triangle as well. I could not guess how far away the triangle was as I had no reference to other nearby objects such as trees as I did with the low-flying craft. However, the triangle shape itself was about halfway up the sky, probably in an east direction from the car (as Irish passenger seats are on the left, and the journey was north-south). Its three points when compared to the moon would not touch the ring of the moon but would come quite close, as a comparison of its size (though the moon was not visible in that direction).