A video posted on YouTube appears to have captured images of a UFO flying erratically over an Irish village – with a police helicopter in pursuit.
American website www.examiner.com has published a story with links to the YouTube footage.
Author Tom Rose claims that the video features the "amazing sight of a UFO flying erratically near a pursuing police helicopter in the rain-soaked, cloudy skies over an unidentified Irish village."
His report says that since the quality of the video is not the best, both objects are too far away from the camera to be clearly identified.
Rose wrote: “But the aerodynamic acrobatics of the unidentified flying object, which seems to be dancing circles around the helicopter, are unlike any conventional aircraft known today.
“On the audio track of the video the sounds of beating helicopter rotor blades can be clearly heard. Whatever is taunting the chopper, however, seems to be silent.
“The amazed villager who catches the action lets fly some well-placed Irish swear words, but who can blame him for that? The incident is absolutely amazing and quite confusing.
“As the UFO video plays out, the chopper closes in on the object circling in the sky. As it draws nearer and begins to hover, the unknown aircraft starts to fly around the helicopter crazily.
“Any responsible pilot would know how dangerous such manoeuvres can be, so there’s no good explanation for what is happening."
A keen observer of the paranormal, Rose added: "It’s too bad the UFO sighting is so far off."
“The picture added here is the best quality manageable for a close-up. It doesn’t reveal much, but it’s obvious from watching the video that this is not what a responsible pilot would attempt, or achieve, in any regular aircraft like an airplane, jet or other helicopter. So, what is it?”
Here is the video:
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.OBPiper | Aug 15, 2012, 01:17 AM EDT
Use your head, off yer arse, and doing some basic investigating to find out what helicopter was in the area at the time and talk to the folks in the helicopter!
IrelandNorth | Aug 07, 2012, 07:08 AM EDT
Looks more to me like unidentified flying dust (UFD) on his cell phone lense. What a smuchk.
StRoibard | Aug 06, 2012, 08:47 PM EDT
Journalistic excellence: "too far away from the camera to be clearly identified" ... hence, an UNidentified Flying Object.
billie061 | Aug 06, 2012, 05:32 PM EDT
We have enough aliens living here don't need any more.
UFOMedia | Aug 06, 2012, 02:34 PM EDT
Have any of you had a friend who had a negative opinion of a book or a movie he never read or went to? Well that's how most of you sound. You never read a book or studied the subject so you wouldn't know that two astronauts,one who walked on the moon, believe UFO are real and have been observing us. This does not include the hundreds of military and political whistle blowers who say the government knows they are real and doesn't know what they are doing here or where they come from. That is why the don't tell the public. Do you think the government would release info like that to flat thinkers like many of you. Many of you don't ever know that sober people see UFOs and they are not birds. Yes I have seen two in the daytime and over a beach. My friend and I have never forgotten. The rest of the people on the beach ignored our shouts and if they had only looked up their world view would have change as ours did that day. Joe Capp UFO Media Matters Non-Commercial Blog
YoungPike | Aug 06, 2012, 10:26 AM EDT
If they make first contact with extraterrestrials, I wonder how many pints of Guinness it will take before the aliens claim Irish heritage!
connemaragirl | Aug 06, 2012, 02:40 AM EDT
Your brains has to be water logged from all that rain, honestly though how desperate are you for news that you must resort to this trash.
warlocks | Aug 05, 2012, 11:25 PM EDT
could be anything you want it to be who knows the Quality of the picture is crap hey what can you expect the weather looks overcast. the Bozo speaking in the back ground sounds like he or she just walked out of the Pub.after having a few pints of Ale.
irishpjk | Aug 05, 2012, 10:34 PM EDT
I thik it was the squad after him, when he left the pub stagerring. I doubt if they caught up with him or that would have been a front page DWI
Curitiba | Aug 05, 2012, 07:41 PM EDT
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. Keep that butt probe away from me, though...
seanomelb | Aug 05, 2012, 07:23 PM EDT
If it is Belfast it may not be a village but it has a village mentality in some quarters.
Happyhippo | Aug 05, 2012, 04:54 PM EDT
If people believe this UFO over Belfast baloney,(a tiny village with over 600,000 souls) they are a lot dimmer than i gave them credit for.
TisEyerish | Aug 05, 2012, 03:57 PM EDT
Looks more like birds to me...both the videographer and whoever decided to print this article should lay off the Guinness.
oaklongan | Aug 05, 2012, 03:22 PM EDT
Only if the 'craft' drop off tons of cash, can they land; then send 'em to the states. By the looks of 'em they're as erratic as the economy, 'tho.
WoundedKnee | Aug 05, 2012, 02:41 PM EDT
Irish Central--employ one or two professional journalists. You really publish a lot of garbage.
Gearoid4 | Aug 05, 2012, 02:37 PM EDT
The north of Ireland sure does get a lot of rain, Bobby, and the occasional UFO too.
Silling | Aug 05, 2012, 02:18 PM EDT
Crows.
mhichil | Aug 05, 2012, 01:47 PM EDT
so why didn't you offer them a pint???
CitizenWhy | Aug 05, 2012, 01:35 PM EDT
Nothing new about this. UFOs regularly visit village pubs in Ireland, after official hours when the pubs are most crowded. But these visits are kept on the quiet because it is after hours. ... This story follows the plot of an old Irish movie starring that kid who plays Nathan on MisFits. Maybe they intend to re-release that movie now that the kid is a big star. Hence the need for publicity stunts.
handsome68 | Aug 05, 2012, 01:07 PM EDT
When the doldrums of August hit, as they apparently have for some Irish news here, how about knitting your brow(s) to think some really deep thoughts, maybe about the economy? That way, even if you drop a stitch or two, at least you will have tried to, say, see the glass half-full rather than half-empty? Knit your brow(s) a moment and try to think about that.
GregShox | Aug 05, 2012, 12:57 PM EDT
Shock news. Irish Central publishes badly researched, sensationalist story. Another first.
bonjouryall | Aug 05, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT
And did you see that other UFO swoop over there in an effort to break up the first two. Thank goodness - an interplanetary war may have just been averted!
Edward McDonald | Aug 05, 2012, 11:58 AM EDT
Just the whole damn image of a bunch of Martians chasin' a copter load of Mick Cops is enough to make me spit my pint out with laughter...
bobby | Aug 05, 2012, 11:46 AM EDT
Ohh Patrick you do like the word village or villager, actually it is Belfast, and it's definitely not a villige. It has a population of 641,638. That would be a very BIG village to me. Northern Ireland does have it's own police force (P.S.N.I) the helicopter belongs to them and not the Garda. Northern Ireland does get alot of rain, those rain soaked, cloudy skies......
like2tweet | Aug 05, 2012, 11:42 AM EDT
weird, I believe this is a genuine UFO
spotter | Aug 05, 2012, 10:59 AM EDT
The person that uploaded the clip to youtube is from Belfast, so its the first time I have ever heard Belfast called a small Irish village... Also the Helicopter would be a PSNI chopper.. not a (Irish Police) Garda chopper....
Portia777 | Aug 05, 2012, 10:42 AM EDT
unidentified Irish village. oh yes.that sounds credible for sure.?