UFO filmed over Islington could be a spaceship, says expert

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VIDEO footage of a mysterious triangle of lights hovering in the night skies above Islington has been verified by a UFO expert who believes it could be an extra-terrestrial spaceship.

New North Road resident Paul Southcott, a member of the UFO Supernatural Study Group, has told the Gazette he is “90 per cent sure” that spooky footage of a trio of bright orbs moving above the Chapel Market area is genuine.
The startling video was shot at 9.30pm by a 45-year-old mother-of-two from her second-floor home off Essex Road in April 2004. Two weeks later she filmed a second larger unidentified orb that appeared in exactly the same position at the same time - but has not revealed the footage until now for fear of being branded a hoaxer.
The woman, who does not want her identity to be revealed, said: “It was like a blob in the sky above the trees. I’m 100 million per cent sure it was a UFO because it was like a big orb darting about like a lunatic. I zoomed in on it and it looked like a big ball of cells, like they would look if you saw them through a microscope.
“I wasn't scared at all because I was so fascinated. I stayed up all night afterwards looking at the footage. It was so exciting and I've been wondering what to do with it ever since. It was only when I looked at other UFOs on the internet that I realised it was exactly the same as all those other sightings.”

Mr Southcott, an avid follower of UFO and supernatural sightings since he was a child, visited the woman's home with the Gazette to see for the two films for himself.
He said: “A lot of people feel a bit weird after a sighting like this. There's no way this is a reflection from a lamp or Chinese lanterns. This is what we call an amber ball – it's always associated with a triangle. There was one above Pentonville Road in 1996 when nine of them all went into the one ball. You've got to go along [to each sighting] a sceptic and not believing until something makes you believe. I've not seen anything like that before. It's impressive.”
Mr Southcott believes the lights, captured on film on a clear and starry night, could be an outline of a spaceship. There appear to be no stars visible within the triangle, which slowly changes angles as if turning on its axis.
He said: “A triangle one minute and a line the next minute – I can't see the planets coming out of line do that, can you? We've got stars going on around it but in the middle there’s nothing. It could be a Tesco bag but until it lands its unidentified. It's strange. I'm 90 per cent sure its something.”
The woman - who contacted the Gazette after we uncovered a lost UFO sighting last month - has since had dreams about a UFO invasion.
She said: “I'm relieved that someone like Paul who's got a bit of expertise about it thinks it's genuine. I wrote to the Ministry of Defence but they didn't want to know. It's been driving me a bit mad from time to time. I'll leave it for months on end and then I think lets get it out and look at it again.”
Mr Southcott, who is planning to have the video cleaned up and authenticated, added: “[The MOD] can get away with it being anything they want. They have called the RAF out in the past – I'm surprised something this big didn't attract a helicopter at least. People want answers but nobody gives them to them.”