Flying Saucer with Flashing Lights

Published: Wednesday, 8th October, 2008 11:27

A BRIGHT orange flying saucer with flashing lights... Don't tell members of one Dunfermline family there's no such thing as a UFO.

For they've seen one - and have a four-minute film to prove it.

David Hill (39) and partner Elizabeth Cameron (33) were mesmerised on Sunday night when they witnessed what they described a hovering UFO above their house in Arthur Street at about 8.15pm.

But they still had the presence of mind to call on their neighbours and dash for Elizabeth's digital camera to capture the excitement on film.

David said, "We saw a bright orange rod-like structure emerge from the south of Dunfermline. It stalled in the sky above us and then we could clearly see it change its shape into a large orange ring, like a doughnut.

"It was enormous and the ring itself had an orange glow but in the middle was flashing orange, red, yellow and white lights.

"It came into the sky above Dunfermline and hovered above our house for approximately five minutes and then moved north.

"From where we were it looked as though it was coming from the Lothians."

He added, "When it lifted off it was orange and like a rectangle; when it got into the air it became square and once it was above us, from the angle it became a saucer.

"We shouted to our neighbours next door and they came out. We were so exasperated by what we were seeing, you're kind of rooted to the spot a bit."

David, Elizabeth and two-year-old son Adam gathered in the back garden with their neighbours and their neighbours' parents, with all eyes transfixed to the sky above.

"We were stunned," David admitted. "Initially it looked like a rocket lifting off but it was too slow for that and too big - it was absolutely enormous.

"Once it got above us the dimensions became obvious. It was a saucer shape. It virtually stopped above our head and we were getting a clear view of it, and at that stage we realised this was something absolutely remarkable."

He continued, "We were quite impressed with how quickly we thought of getting the camera, I think we got it after about 40 seconds. We were lucky to have captured it.

"I knew from the way it was moving it wasn't like an aeroplane. The way that it moved across the sky; it was slow and methodical and it stopped in the sky. It changed shape and it was all different colours.

"When it was above us it was surreal. At that moment in time we were thinking, 'What the hell is it?' It' shaped like your archetypal UFO - namely a saucer with flashing lights underneath it.

"I would have said it was maybe a mile above us.

"I spoke to the police and they told me that nobody else had reported seeing the sighting."

David, who said the sight was "obering and quite startling", added, "We live in a time when we have all open minds to possibilities of life

on other planets. "We see films like Independence Day and Alien and we have got that imagination put into us but when you actually see something that you think you would see in a Hollywood film, actually in our skies, it' a moment that doesn't leave you.

"What we saw was quite remarkable."

Ian and Joyce Munro, from Dunfermline, also spotted what they thought was a "red hot air balloon on fire ascending rapidly northwards near Townhill Road" at around 7.30pm on Sunday.

Ian said, "My wife got her binoculars and my guess is that it was some kind of hot air balloon. You couldn't really tell - it was so dark."