UFO Over Dublin?

Name: Fionán Healy

Email Address: ufodublin@gmail.com

Location: Blackrock Co, Dublin, Ireland

Date: Thursday July 3, 2008

Time: 10 p.m.

Weather: Night clear with some clouds

Camera: Canon Ixus Digital

I received an email from Fionán Healy of Dublin, Ireland. He has a friend, Carly Rose who is a friend of Alexandra Holzer (Alexandra writes a syndicated monthly column called "Spirit Talk" which appears in UFO Digest.com). Alexandra suggested Fionán contact me regarding his UFO sighting.

Fionán describes his sighting:

Last Thursday night around 10 pm. I was on my way home from visiting my girlfriend. She lives in Blackrock, Co Dublin, which is close to the Dublin bay coast. I walked up onto the Stillorgan dual carriageway where I proceeded to wait for a bus. I was sitting at the bus shelter that faced two apartments blocks directly in front of me with a gap between the two that looks out in the direction of Dublin Bay, which is east.

I saw a really intense light, which I assumed to be a plane's head lights out in front of me, except it, didn't seem to really move for almost five minutes and that didn't make any sense. I estimate that it was 1.5 miles out over Dublin bay.

I didn't think it was a helicopter because there were no flashing lights, but I didn't rule out an airplane, because it could have been moving at an odd angle coming directly toward me, but this was not the flight-path to the local airport.

There wasn't a single flashing light to be seen and it seemed too low to be a commercial flight! I saw what I recognized to be an airplane taking the traditional approach to the Dublin Airport. It was out past HowthHead, nowhere near the other light.

Well this went on for about 5-8 minutes so I took out my camera just to zoom in and see if I could see the shape, but it was hard to make out everything. It was not that it was out of focus and my zoom isn't that great anyway, so I put it on the standard nigh time setting and alternate red between using some with flash and some without. As you can see from the shots you can make out everything so its not that out of focus and on img_2482, the object appears to have shifted shape. If you look closely in the middle of the orb/UfO, there seems to be a 5-point petal shape pattern and in each petal shape are two squares.

I don't know of any craft that looks like that and I don't imagine the Irish government is working on any Black Projects. My bus finally arrived and the object starting to head away, toward the clouds and disappeared.

I wrote Fionán after his initial email requesting more information and this in his reply:

Thanks for getting back to me so soon and I'm delighted that it's (photos) put into the UFO category. I personally know what I saw and its nice to have some confirmation. I can't believe how many sightings, certainly in England, of pretty much these same things. I saw a photo at www.ufocasebook.com which is basically identical!

Analysis

I have analysed the photos and to the best of my knowledge they appear to be of a distinct object that does not have the characteristics of aircraft, helicopters, balloons or birds.

I have used various Adobe Photoshop filters to enhance the photographs including: equalize, auto contrast and variations. The results can be seen in the right hand side.

What is of particular interest to me is the fact that these photos appear to show multiple crafts, aligning and realigning, morphing into a singular craft.

This is illustrated in both of the top two photos: img_2482 and img_2485. The number of globes, balls, and orbs in img_2482 appears to be 4 or 5, but this has decreased in img_2482 to only two, and their position or yaw has also changed.

In img_2484 (directly below) we discover that this objects have merged into a solid ball or to what appears to be solid, now appearing as an orb or star!

If you are lucky enough to photograph an UFO or other paranormal object please let us know and we'll publish it here.

Photographs mentioned in this article are available at: http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0808/dublinufo.html

Please note all photographs are Copyright 2008 Fionán Healy.