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March 12th, 2006
‘UFO sighting really took my breath away’
WAS it a bird? Was it a plane? No, it was a shining silver pyramid, according to two colleagues who spotted a UFO in the skies of Putney last week.
Michelle Medhat was sitting at her office desk last Wednesday morning when she glanced out of the window and spotted a glimmering silver object in the sky.
“I thought what the hell is that?’ There were no clouds in the sky at all and 100 per cent visibility.
“The sun was hitting the object and you could see it was turning very slowly.
“I did get a feeling there was something strange about the thing,” she said.
Entranced, Michelle signalled to her colleague Peter Gardiner, 53, to take a look.
He said: “At first I thought it was a big piece of rubbish or a clear tarpaulin sheet.
“But then it glistened and it was shiny. It had a strange pattern of movement. It was a significant size, possibly the size of a roof or even a house.”
The pair watched it for a couple of minutes, rotating in the distance and heading towards Wandsworth Town. Then, as soon as it had appeared it vanished.
Michelle said if it was a piece of rubbish it would have caused severe damage when it came down, because of its size and density.
“I can’t explain it and therefore I’m calling it a UFO. It took my breath away. It did feel weird.
“The more I looked at it I realised there was something not quite right. It wasn’t moving like anything I’ve ever seen before,” she said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it had not been notified of any sighting of the pyramid.
“The MoD does not have any expertise or role in respect of UFO/flying saucer’ matters or to the question of the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial lifeforms, about which it remains totally open-minded.”
He said it examined the reports of UFO sightings it received solely to establish whether what was seen might have some defence significance, namely whether there was any evidence the UK’s airspace might have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised air activity.
Michelle and Peter said there has been a lot of activity in the skies over Putney recently.
Michelle said they had seen several Chinook helicopters over the past week and believes something must be happening.
Chinooks are used to transport troops, artillery, supplies and equipment, but also used for operations such as medical evacuation, disaster relief and search and rescue.
When travelling to Putney, our reporter saw what looked to be three Apache helicopters travelling east.
A spokesman for the MoD said the helicopters were probably part of general aviation traffic over London and there was no specific activity or event they were involved in. He added such movements were “not unusual”.
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ctaylor@london.newsquest.co.uk
Chinooks are flying over that part of London regularly. They make a very distinctive sound, and you can tell they are coming when they are miles away.
As for this pyramid account, well, when I saw that logo above whilst trawling around (as one does) I just couldnt resist!