The French-Connection, The Lille UFO Sighting 2009 By Jason Gleaves, Ufonly on Facebook and International author of UFO PHOTO & The Ufology Umbrella.
I was recently contacted by a UFO witness (who wishes to be kept anonymous) regarding a UFO Sighting which happened to her and a small group (6 members) who had been travelling in a car together from the United Kingdom to Luxembourg during 2009. The sighting occurred in Lille a small city, capital of Nord department and of the Hauts-de-France region of northern France, while they had been passing through on-route to Luxembourg. While waiting at a red traffic light at approximately 01:00 am in the morning, a huge elliptical shaped object, illuminated (yellow/orange in colour) approximately the size of a family car slowly descended out of the sky and landed on a nearby traffic roundabout (Arc de Triomphe), about 3-5 metres away from their stationary vehicle, it stayed there for approximately 2 minutes before ascending and leaving the area completely out of view.
object at the time of the sighting had been making a strange loud noise, when prompted further by myself asking what did they think it sounded like for comparison, she stated: “it sounded like some kind of aircraft landing?”. I also asked the witness who else saw the object at the time, she replied, “Only me and my partner saw it and the rest of the party in the vehicle did not see anything? We both just sat there staring at this strange object through the car window, also at the same time telling the other passengers « look-look » pointing at this unusual object” but alas strangely nobody saw what we did. This can be a common occurrence we’re only certain members of a group witnessing a sighting would see an anomaly and the other members would be totally oblivious too the phenomenon.
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The weather at the time of the encounter had been raining and foggy and the visibility was not so good. The whole event lasted approximately 2 minutes in duration but felt like an eternity. Also stated by the witness: “It’s noise and bright lights were very difficult to miss”, which confused and frustrated the witness and their partner wondering why the others couldn’t see what they were seeing...? “I felt paralyzed by what I saw”. People to whom I have spoken to about it since have asked If was scared “No I wasn’t , I was kind of paralyzed, not having time to realized what happened. Strangely the few hundred kilometers left to reach our destination Luxembourg, we didn’t say a word in a car although we were sure what we saw the only question raised was why others did not see it”. The UFO images in 2009 had been taken using a very basic LG mobile phone camera and are remarkably clear, as the witness said, “As much as I was shocked to see it, I still somehow managed remarkably to take these 2 photographs with my cell phone”. Upon analysing the original source images fascinating detail can be seen within the illuminated mass, exposing a detailed structure, also central too the overall structure a brighter illuminated mass is exhibited and could be the objects propulsion system or power source. The overall glow and Illumination of the unknown object is accentuated because of the weather conditions stated at the time as poor and foggy. It doesn’t appear to be any type of known conventional aircraft in use today or at the time (2009) fixed wing or helicopter. Verdict: Unidentified.
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