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"Ball of Light" Sighting, Medway Valley,

Saturday, July 16th 2005

by Andrew Fowlds

Here is an account of a "Ball of Light" sighting I reported back in July, 2005

At around 2pm on a beautiful, hot sunny afternoon in the Medway Valley in Kent I tracked what appeared to be a ball of light in the sky for about 10 minutes – it seemed quite high up in the sky, quite distant but very distinct. It moved slowly coming from the north heading south and then it altered its course and headed south eastwards, over the Medway towns towards Bluebell Hill and across the Medway Valley area. At times whilst tracking the object, it shone brilliantly like a star, after a few minutes of watching this thing I knew I wasn’t looking at an aeroplane or a helicopter or balloon – in truth I had absolutely no-idea what I was observing . . . It seemed to “shake” as it

moved, it was incredible. I managed to grab my camera and take a few shots of it – it was difficult to get a real close up as it was high up in the sky, however from some of the photos that did come out you can clearly see a white spherical object – in one photo there appears to be a faint greyish cigar-shaped object that appeared next to the ball of light. I was naturally quite excited about what I had witnessed, and after reporting my sighting to Graham Tucker of Medway CC research, we both felt there could be another crop circle arriving immanently – at 7am the next morning a beautiful crop circle was reported near Boxley, in the vicinity of where my sighting took place.