Close encounters in the Home Counties: Two 'alien aircraft' sightings in one week in 'UK's UFO hotspot'
Last updated at 2:11 PM on 17th January 2012
Less than a week later the two mystery objects are joined by another pair and this time are seen over Essex, shining brightly against the dawn.
The remarkably similar sightings were made just 30 miles apart in an area claimed as the UK's UFO hotspot.
On January 6 Ernestas Griksas, 21, took a photo of a cherry-picker outside his home in Chatham, Kent.
When he looked at the image afterwards he the bright disc-shaped objects.
He told the Sun: 'There are two white discs I can't explain. I'm nowhere near a flightpath. One is slightly fainter as if it is further away or going at a different speed.'
The second sighting came was last Friday at 7am when car salesman Josh Cummins spotted four bright objects in the sky as he drove to work through Loughton, in Essex.
Mr Cummins, 21, told the newspaper: 'I nearly crashed. I stopped to take this picture with my mobile. It was like the UFOs were surfing the clouds. They were there for 15 seconds then vanished.
'I wasn't a believer in UFOs but this made me think again.'
UFO fanatics will no doubt be enjoying what they would claim is evidence to support their theories of alien life.
While the phenomenon of flashing lights in the sky has been seen - and dismissed - in the past.
Expert Nick Pope said: 'The South East is now the hotspot for UFO sightings.'
He told the Sun: 'There are two white discs I can't explain. I'm nowhere near a flightpath. One is slightly fainter as if it is further away or going at a different speed.'
The second sighting came was last Friday at 7am when car salesman Josh Cummins spotted four bright objects in the sky as he drove to work through Loughton, in Essex.
Mr Cummins, 21, told the newspaper: 'I nearly crashed. I stopped to take this picture with my mobile. It was like the UFOs were surfing the clouds. They were there for 15 seconds then vanished.
'I wasn't a believer in UFOs but this made me think again.'
UFO fanatics will no doubt be enjoying what they would claim is evidence to support their theories of alien life.
While the phenomenon of flashing lights in the sky has been seen - and dismissed - in the past.
Expert Nick Pope said: 'The South East is now the hotspot for UFO sightings.'
