Cllr Sheamus Greene reported a couple of ‘close encounters’ with literal UFOs, unidentified flying objects, in recent weeks. It all began a few weeks ago when he spotted a strange orange glowing
object in the skies over Carrickaheenan view point, near Brookeborough.
Cllr Greene said he had been driving home when he noticed a strange
light in the sky.
“My bus run was finished that day so I stopped and took the photograph,”
he said. “Then I saw the orange light in the sky and it was in the
photo as well, and I just thought, what is that?”
He added: “Without a shadow of a doubt, it was a UFO, because the
definition of is unidentified flying object. It definitely wasn’t the
sun, if you enlarge the photo there are three orange lights a wee bit
apart.”
The weirdness doesn’t end there either. On the very next day after he
spotted the first UFO, Cllr Greene discovered a local picnic table set
in the same area completely wrapped in black plastic. Baffled as to why,
Cllr Greene contacted the council department responsible for the table.
Strangely, it was not the Council who wrapped the table.
“I’m as baffled as anyone else by it, it’s very spooky. ” he said.
Then, last week, Cllr Greene was walking near in the local area when he
spotted yet another unidentified object flying in the sky, this time in
daylight.
“One person said they had seen these lights, and one of the quotes sent
to me was that possibly that plastic was put on the bench to stop you
looking up as it’s a view point,” he said. “Then they ended the message
very spookily by saying ‘tread carefully’.”
All in all, though, Cllr Greene conceded: “It’s a bit of light relief. I’m not taking it all too seriously.”
