A (still) unidentified flying object was sighted Saturday night in São Bartolomeu de Messines. The witness published the account of the moment on the Internet, with photography and video – barely perceptible – but there may be a rational explanation (or two) for the sighting: the star Vega and a drone.
Second the newspaper Terra Ruiva, the case “is attracting the attention of the community dedicated to monitoring and studying cases of UFO sightings” and the collaboration of other people who may have witnessed the phenomenon is even requested.
Teresa Silva tells, in a report published in blog UFO Portugal, who, on his balcony, facing northwest, at 21 pm, when looking to the left, «I saw a still white light that looked like a star to me, but more intense standing on top of a hill. […] I found it strange because I had never seen a star there».
Then, he continues, «I went back inside and after a few minutes I went back to the terrace and I no longer saw that white light, I looked for it and behind the trees, in the distance, in the mountains, I began to see lights shining and twinkling that went from the red, yellow, blue and green».
This object «moved and, again, I didn't see it for another 10 to 15 minutes». However, the sighting was not yet over as it "appeared later at 300° NW much higher and farther away".
The witness says he saw the object "with some good binoculars I have" and "despite being so far and high, those colors continued to shine with a fantastic intensity."
According to Teresa Silva, "his shape seemed more vertical (Greek type), but I can't say that with certainty, as he had moved too far away."
Bruno Gonçalves, environmental engineer, amateur meteorologist responsible for Meteophons and through the Troposphere association, he finds, however, a plausible explanation for the phenomenon: «the intense white light could be a more intense star or even a planet». That particular night «the star vega stood out in the sky," he told the Sul Informação.
For Bruno Gonçalves, «the fact that you stopped seeing that same white light 10 or 15 minutes later may result from the apparent movement of the stars and, meanwhile, have stayed at a different angle or behind some house or something that you couldn't see. again".
Regarding the colored lights in the sky, the amateur meteorologist, who also uses drones professionally to capture images, says that «the red and green lights flashing, or even yellow, refer me to a drone… the models just like the man, the best sellers, they have these lights».
Bruno Gonçalves says that «the drone, in the distance, with the lights flashing, for those who don't know what it is, can lead to thinking about “extraterrestrial” things».
In other words, it may have just happened that, on the night that the star Vega, in the constellation Lyra, was especially bright, someone was using a drone at night, with or without authorization to do so. And the sighting of both situations in the same night excited the imagination of both Mrs. Messines and the lovers of “Ownology”.
São Bartolomeu de Messines has proved to be a land prodigal in “Entroncamento” phenomena. In 2002, several village women undressed from the waist up and stood at the window for a supposed satellite mammogram.
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