"Amateur camerman John Zimmerman, of Bredgar Road, Archway, filmed the spectacle from a vantage point in Holloway Road. The "squadron" of around 15 orange lights spread panic among passers-by who witnessed it at around 5.30pm on January 31. People screamed - some fearing it was a terrorist attack. Police received 999 calls within minutes. The lights moved in a southerly direction then hovered above Archway before disappearing and appearing again. The eerie display lasted about 10 minutes."
"UFO sceptics insist it was no more than a group of "sky lanterns" or "UFO balloons" - one-off miniature hot air balloons. But all the eyewitnesses who contacted us are adamant the lights were NOT lanterns - because of the way that they moved. Designer James Zafar, from Palace Road, Crouch End, who witnessed the scene from Bredgar Road, said: "It is something I can't explain but I'm sure it wasn't lanterns."
"There were a group of them - 10 to 15 of them moving together. ...they didn't have a proper formation and they were all moving at the same speed."
"They were coming from the north and moving south. And then they kind of stopped and they were hovering. There was no sound. They seemed to fade away and I saw more coming and then they stopped. It lasted about 10 minutes."
"There were at least 30 people watching. Cars had stopped. It was kind of eerie."
Video with higher resolution here: http://www.guba.com/user/se...
and check similarity with "Mexico UFO fleets" - http://www.youtube.com/watc...
The Islington Gazette, London, UK:
Feb.02 2007 htt...
and check similarity with "Mexico UFO fleets" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2bkeq...
The Islington Gazette, London, UK:
Feb.02 2007 http://tinyurl.com/2bdnal
Feb.06 2007 http://tinyurl.com/25z276
Feb.09 2007 http://tinyurl.com/3e55mn
"Amateur camerman John Zimmerman, of Bredgar Road, Archway, filmed the spectacle from a vantage point in Holloway Road. The "squadron" of around 15 orange lights spread panic among passers-by who witnessed it at around 5.30pm on January 31. People screamed - some fearing it was a terrorist attack. Police received 999 calls within minutes. The lights moved in a southerly direction then hovered above Archway before disappearing and appearing again. The eerie display lasted about 10 minutes."
"UFO sceptics insist it was no more than a group of "sky lanterns" or "UFO balloons" - one-off miniature hot air balloons. But all the eyewitnesses who contacted us are adamant the lights were NOT lanterns - because of the way that they moved. Designer James Zafar, from Palace Road, Crouch End, who witnessed the scene from Bredgar Road, said: "It is something I can't explain but I'm sure it wasn't lanterns."
"There were a group of them - 10 to 15 of them moving together. ...they didn't have a proper formation and they were all moving at the same speed."
"They were coming from the north and moving south. And then they kind of stopped and they were hovering. There was no sound. They seemed to fade away and I saw more coming and then they stopped. It lasted about 10 minutes."
"There were at least 30 people watching. Cars had stopped. It was kind of eerie."