Beginning last Tuesday, residents in Portsmouth (nicknamed Pompey), England reported seeing a strange, saucer-shaped object flying through the sky.
Did anyone else see something fly thru the sky tonight?? What the hell was it? #pompeyufo
Word spread, using the designated hashtag #pompeyufo.
Does anyone know anything about this ufo sighting down south? Have they finally come for us? #pompeyufo
What’s this I’m hearing about a UFO spotted over Portsmouth?? #pompeyufo
The reports continued on Wednesday, and Lewis Rogers (26), of The Seagulls, Lee-on-the-Solent, took this photograph while visiting a friend from the area:
Did anyone see it again tonight? I took this pic..#pompeyufo
That same afternoon, Twitter user Ladyloki tweeted a different picture of the same object:
It's confirmed: #pompeyufo is a real, happening thing. Anyone got more info?
Portsmouth's local paper Portsmouth News reported on the sightings on Friday, September 19th. (Online text available here.)
#pompeyufo
The paper quotes Johnny Blackwell, 23, who says, "I don't believe in UFOs, but when I saw this I didn't know what it was. It didn't look like a cloud, and it was moving very fast."
Laura Young, a spokesperson for The Met Office (The U.K.'s national weather service), told the News: "After looking at the images, I can say the object is nothing to do with the weather. It is not meteorological and is not a cloud."
While the object may be unidentifiable at this time, other Portsmouth residents have some theories:
Some ones got some mad skills with a Frisbee #PompeyUFO