Carl Nally and Dermot Butler
On 1 March 1996, UPRI (UFO and Paranormal Research Ireland) was informed about a strange event that had just occurred, around the Sugarloaf Mountain in County Wicklow. A family was driving on narrow, remote roads, seeking a suitable area in which to have a picnic. Out of the blue, a disc-shaped craft came into sight.
It then proceeded to harass the family, coming close to colliding with their car several times. The terrified driver swerved repeatedly across the road, trying to avoid a collision with the UFO, which was very obviously intelligently controlled.
The day out ended almost as soon as it had begun, with two petrified parents and their hysterical children speeding from the area and leaving the UFO in what appeared to be a patrol of its domain.
A similar incident occurred over a year later, also in the Wicklow Mountains area, when a young woman was driving home alone at approximately 2:30 a.m. In her rear view mirror, she could discern two bright lights. As in the second Clones Strand incident mentioned previously, she thought that a vehicle, perhaps a truck, was trying to overtake her.
She slowed her car down, pulling the vehicle tighter to the left side of the road as she did so. Instead of it being another driver passing her, she watched in shock as the two lights separated, then drew alongside the driver’s door and the front passenger’s door. The terrified woman accelerated dangerously along the deserted roads towards her home, with the objects remaining on either side of her car. Just as she reached her home, the menacing objects shot off into the sky.
She skidded to a stop in the middle of her street, flung the car door open, and ran into her home, sobbing for her parents. By the time they had woken up and calmed her down, the objects had disappeared completely. Reluctantly, the shaken and tearful young woman parked her car and locked it – but only while her parents kept watch as she did so.
On Easter Saturday in 1990, a local chemist, Sean O’Callaghan, had an experience he would never forget. He and several others in Carlingford, County Louth, observed a saucer-shaped airborne object of about ninety feet in diameter. The UFO descended and hovered low over the town for about four minutes. O’Callaghan, standing no more than thirty feet away from the mysterious object, was so shocked by what he was seeing that he forgot that he had a camera with him. By the time he thought of it, he had the opportunity to take only one photograph of the craft as it moved away from the area.
When it had arrived, he’d had to cover his ears to block out the sharp, piercing noise that it was making. The UFO stopped descending and hovered at only ten feet or so above the ground. It had a glowing, orange hue as it descended from cloud level, it had a shade of blue when it hovered, and it then turned red as it accelerated vertically.
There were at least five other witnesses to the spectacle, while many others heard the shrill noise of its arrival. The object had frightened several horses in a nearby field, with one of the spooked animals hurting its leg as it tried to jump a wall in an attempt to flee.
Another case involving the sighting of a UFO hovering at an extremely low altitude comes from Dublin. At approximately 9:30 a.m. on 14 July 1998, in the southern suburb of Killiney, a 52-year-old resident of the area was walking along Vico Road when he noticed a flying, triangular (FT) object out over the sea.
The UFO travelled in from the southeast, stopping directly over a marker buoy in the water. The
unknown object had moved noiselessly in a straight line to that position. Though he estimated that he was six hundred yards away from the airborne object, he used the buoy as a reference, a gauge, through which he arrived at the conclusion that the object was about twenty feet across. It appeared to be an equilateral triangle.
According to his statement to us, the object flew at great speed from the Bray Head direction, and when it arrived over the buoy it stopped dead. It tilted up on one end for about five seconds, and as it did so, red and yellow lights flashed on it. To the witness, it was as if the UFO was examining the buoy. The triangular object then levelled itself again, flew off in a straight line for three hundred feet or so, and then stopped again for half a minute. The FT then shot vertically into the clouds.
About a minute later, a propeller-driven aircraft approached from the same direction that the
UFO had come from. The witness pointed out to us that the contrast in flight characteristics between the two craft – and presumably their technologies, therefore – could not have been more obvious.
The brief accounts outlined here are just a modest sample of the myriad cases contained within our files. They serve to illustrate that UFOs continue to be observed by ordinary people on the ground, and not only by trained observers such as pilots and police officers. In this regard, citizens – especially when capturing mobile phone footage - serve as an excellent barometer of just how much UFO activity is really occurring on a global basis.
For more read:
Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland
States of Denial: The Tuskar Rock Incident and Other Mysteries
Circle of Deceit: A Terrifying Alien Agenda in Ireland and Beyond
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