Mullingar couple claims to have viewed UFO for eight minutes

A report describing an alleged UFO sighting in Mullingar has been filed on the National UFO Reporting Center website. The report, filed anonymously by a 43-year old poster, describes an eight-minute sighting which occurred at 1.45 am on May 4 last.

According to the writer who posted to the site, the craft was circular and remained stationary in the sky for the eight minutes. The informant stated that she was in bed, and at about 1.40 am, her partner entered the bedroom with the intention of retiring for the night.

Happening to look out the window, he was taken aback by what he saw and he shouted his girlfriend’s name and that there was something in the sky.

"I jumped of the bed to see it and there was something big circle shape and flashing lights and changing colors, green, red, yellow, blue etc," (sic) the woman wrote, making clear she too was shocked.

The item was "huge" she said, adding that it definitely was not a drone.

"It was in the same place up in the sky and not moving. We were looking at it and in shock," she wrote.

About five minutes after first seeing the UFO, the woman picked up her mobile phone to begin recording the sighting, but her efforts to capture any footage were thwarted: as soon as she put her phone to the window and tried to record it, she says, the object immediately turned off the lights and took off: "It was as [if] they knew I wanted to record it," the woman said.

She added that she tends to be a sceptical person, and she had never previously believed in UFOs.

The last previous report from Mullingar to the site was made in July 2016 when a poster described a 24-second viewing of two triangular craft and a connecting energy beam.

Prior to that, there was a report filed on November 25 2011. It stated that around 5.30-6am, while out walking his dog, the informant noticed a red flashing light going across the sky.

This then became a yellow flashing light.

The informant thought at first that the object was a plane, but then realised it was flying in an odd pattern: "it moved up and down and also went faster and slower, like it was hovering in the air".

When he got home, he looked again and just over his village, noticed a white light hovering over the village and going back and forward and up and down.

The next morning the informant witnessed a similar spectacle, but when he attempted to take a photo, the lights disappeared.

"Up to now I was very skeptical about all this but as of now, my mind is in two places as to what is going on around here in the night sky," the informant wrote.