The photo above is what’s being passed around as “Alien aircraft” over at the DailyMail UK.
Without going into any photo-analysis, I can tell you right away what these objects are. I’ve seen the same hoax perpetrated on some online forums. What the DailyMail posted up were photographs of the reflections of light fixtures. It’s quite easy to fake this. All you need is a camera and a window and BAM! Instant UFOs!
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They hover in close formation against the backdrop of a cloudy Kent sky.
The two mysterious bright lights were photographed on January 6 floating over Chatham.
Less than a week later four similar lights were seen over Essex, shining brightly against the dawn.
The remarkable sightings were made just 30 miles apart in an area now dubbed the country’s UFO hotspot.
The first image was captured by Ernestas Griksas, 21, who was taking a picture of a cherry-picker outside his home in Chatham at around 1pm.
When he looked at the image afterwards he saw 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 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 lay claim to the sightings as evidence to support their theories of alien life.Expert Nick Pope said: ‘Assuming the images are genuine, they’re interesting, though the smaller objects (in the first picture) weren’t seen at the time, which raises the possibility of some glitch with the camera.
‘As for the large one, I’m not sure. It might be some sort of atmospheric plasma phenomenon, but it’s difficult to say.
He added: ‘The South-East does seem to be a hotspot at present. I’m not sure why.
‘One possibility is that it’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, where one media report smokes out more from the same area.
