sevensama
Padawan Learner
Hello everyone, I'd like to share with you some particular sightings me and my friends have experienced in the city of Maastricht.
Before I tell of these accounts, I might need to address the point that Maastricht, located in the very south of the Netherlands, seems to have increasing sightings these days. There are numerous accounts available on the internet and one of my friends and I have made it an almost daily event to look at the night's sky together over a cup of tea. We have been seeing many different things, from lights that stop and hang around to airplane-like crafts that act differently in flight behavior from normal airplanes. As my apartment is located rather high in a building and no exceptionally tall buildings block the view, it has become an easy place to 'spot things'.
There is a lot of normal air traffic in Maastricht as well, seeing as there is an airport located nearby. However, due to this we've become more skilled in telling the difference between a normal airplane and something out of the ordinary - the normal airplanes fly at a certain altitude, in a limited number of directions and there are only a couple of different types of planes that come by.
On Sunday the 12th of December, my friend and I were walking outside when we noticed a very bright light in the evening sky. As we walked on, we were able to distinguish three different small white lights aligned and a red light that seemed to act as some sort of 'tail' to those. At first we did not exclude the possibility of this being an airplane, but the placing in the sky was different from the route the usual air traffic takes and as we were discussing this, the lights suddenly seemed to move more quickly across the sky. At one point, the lights suddenly moved from being horizontally aligned to a vertical position and descended rapidly, as if though it was 'falling' from the sky. We tried following it, but it disappeared from our sight behind blocks of houses when it got too low.
In the same week, on Wednesday, the same friend and I had invited over two other friends for dinner and we told them about what we had seen and that we occasionally see odd lights and things in the sky from my apartment. Later on, when it had turned dark, I noticed during a conversation when I glanced at the window that there were numerous blinking lights in the sky.
The four of us moved up to the window to take a look and soon it became clear that there were at least twelve blinking lights moving here and there. We weren't able to exactly make out what kind of crafts they were, but comparing them to normal airplanes, both the lights and their flight behavior, as well as their altitude and positions were different. In addition, there seemed to be little to no stars visible as it was quite clouded that day.
After watching these objects for a while, we decided to sit down again and continue our conversation. After half an hour or so, our curiosity took over once more and we moved back to the window. We then saw bright blue lights coming from near the church in the distance and from a block of houses situated just two or three streets away from us. These lights at first we thought to be part of some sort of celebration, as the city has many decorations up for Christmas, but for some reason we couldn't shake off the feeling of them being a little unusual, especially considering they also came from a normal neighborhood where no Christmas decorations or parties were going on (This was also during the first period of heavy snowfall, so there weren't many people outside in the first place - another reason why we excluded the possibility of these being party street lights of some sort).
The lights behaved in a flashing manner, not quite like a stroboscope, but not alike search-lights either. They seemed to come from the ground and were aimed at the sky. The light in the neighborhood near us was so bright it even reflected from the side of the building opposite of my apartment. At the same time, the lights in the sky had lessened in numbers, but there were still three or four of them left, flying over.
At one point a car stopped on the road in front of my apartment building and a lady stepped out to scoop off some snow from the roof and the hood. She then paused and looked up at the sky as well, after which she quickly got back in her car and drove off.
The blue lights disappeared at one point when we had gone back to sit down and the activity in the sky had lessened as well. When everyone went back home, which was after midnight, I sat down in front of the window again, but didn't see anything else out of the ordinary.
This last particular account was so impressive to me that I did some research on the internet to see if there were more sightings of the same happening. Sure enough, I found one particular account that took place during the same night;
from http://ufo-tv.com/they-were-above-maastricht-all-night-long;
Before I tell of these accounts, I might need to address the point that Maastricht, located in the very south of the Netherlands, seems to have increasing sightings these days. There are numerous accounts available on the internet and one of my friends and I have made it an almost daily event to look at the night's sky together over a cup of tea. We have been seeing many different things, from lights that stop and hang around to airplane-like crafts that act differently in flight behavior from normal airplanes. As my apartment is located rather high in a building and no exceptionally tall buildings block the view, it has become an easy place to 'spot things'.
There is a lot of normal air traffic in Maastricht as well, seeing as there is an airport located nearby. However, due to this we've become more skilled in telling the difference between a normal airplane and something out of the ordinary - the normal airplanes fly at a certain altitude, in a limited number of directions and there are only a couple of different types of planes that come by.
On Sunday the 12th of December, my friend and I were walking outside when we noticed a very bright light in the evening sky. As we walked on, we were able to distinguish three different small white lights aligned and a red light that seemed to act as some sort of 'tail' to those. At first we did not exclude the possibility of this being an airplane, but the placing in the sky was different from the route the usual air traffic takes and as we were discussing this, the lights suddenly seemed to move more quickly across the sky. At one point, the lights suddenly moved from being horizontally aligned to a vertical position and descended rapidly, as if though it was 'falling' from the sky. We tried following it, but it disappeared from our sight behind blocks of houses when it got too low.
In the same week, on Wednesday, the same friend and I had invited over two other friends for dinner and we told them about what we had seen and that we occasionally see odd lights and things in the sky from my apartment. Later on, when it had turned dark, I noticed during a conversation when I glanced at the window that there were numerous blinking lights in the sky.
The four of us moved up to the window to take a look and soon it became clear that there were at least twelve blinking lights moving here and there. We weren't able to exactly make out what kind of crafts they were, but comparing them to normal airplanes, both the lights and their flight behavior, as well as their altitude and positions were different. In addition, there seemed to be little to no stars visible as it was quite clouded that day.
After watching these objects for a while, we decided to sit down again and continue our conversation. After half an hour or so, our curiosity took over once more and we moved back to the window. We then saw bright blue lights coming from near the church in the distance and from a block of houses situated just two or three streets away from us. These lights at first we thought to be part of some sort of celebration, as the city has many decorations up for Christmas, but for some reason we couldn't shake off the feeling of them being a little unusual, especially considering they also came from a normal neighborhood where no Christmas decorations or parties were going on (This was also during the first period of heavy snowfall, so there weren't many people outside in the first place - another reason why we excluded the possibility of these being party street lights of some sort).
The lights behaved in a flashing manner, not quite like a stroboscope, but not alike search-lights either. They seemed to come from the ground and were aimed at the sky. The light in the neighborhood near us was so bright it even reflected from the side of the building opposite of my apartment. At the same time, the lights in the sky had lessened in numbers, but there were still three or four of them left, flying over.
At one point a car stopped on the road in front of my apartment building and a lady stepped out to scoop off some snow from the roof and the hood. She then paused and looked up at the sky as well, after which she quickly got back in her car and drove off.
The blue lights disappeared at one point when we had gone back to sit down and the activity in the sky had lessened as well. When everyone went back home, which was after midnight, I sat down in front of the window again, but didn't see anything else out of the ordinary.
This last particular account was so impressive to me that I did some research on the internet to see if there were more sightings of the same happening. Sure enough, I found one particular account that took place during the same night;
from http://ufo-tv.com/they-were-above-maastricht-all-night-long;
