Mystery of 'Stealth bomber'over city
A further sighting of a strange light high above Derry has added to the mystery surrounding the city's night skies.
In the latest sighting, a Derry resident, who does not wish to be named, told the 'Journal' how he watched a "traffic-light-red object" move across the sky last Sunday night before disappearing from view.
"We live in the flight path of the airport but this was definitely not a plane, we are well used to seeing them," the eyewitness told the 'Journal.' "It was around 10:30pm and I was in the garden when I noticed the light. It was bright red, traffic-light red, and it was moving at a rate of knots."
The eyewitness said the light moved across the sky for a couple of minutes before disappearing from view.
"It was nothing like anything I have seen before, you could clearly make out its form. It was shaped like a Stealth bomber," he said.
The latest first-hand account of strange phenomenon comes in the wake of six to ten bright orange balls of light being spotted above the city in the early hours of March 6.
Local resident Niall Smith told the 'Journal' he had seen six objects that "were bright orange, almost red, like balls of flames burning with a tail behind them."
Earlier this week, Derry man Phil McGerigal challenged the idea the objects could have been part of a meteor shower - despite the Armagh Planetarium suggesting there was some meteor activity above the city on that night.
Sightings of those lights have now also appeared on a number of UFO websites with one witness reporting seven to ten orange lights that "moved at the same speed and remained spaced apart".
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