{"id":537,"date":"2015-03-09T20:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=537"},"modified":"2015-03-09T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:27:18","slug":"ufo-spent-four-hours-hovering-above-our-rural-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/ufo-spent-four-hours-hovering-above-our-rural-home\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;UFO spent four hours hovering above our rural home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/null.html\" width=\"698\" height=\"503\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;UFO spent four hours hovering above our rural home&#8217;, claims family after capturing video footage of &#8216;spinning lights&#8217; in the sky<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"boxContent\">\n<div class=\"modzzz_news_description\">\n<p>By Sara Malm<\/p>\n<p>A family has spoken of the terrifying moment they saw a UFO hovering above their house for four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Morag Ritchie, 50, was awoken in the middle of the night by flashing lights in the sky over the family home in rural Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The grandmother-of-one woke her family up and her daughter\u2019s fiance caught the shocking images of four blinking lights on video.<\/p>\n<p>Morag said: \u2018We live in a very rural area so I never have my curtains closed and I like looking at the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I just woke up all of a sudden and looked out of the window to see all these twinkling lights &#8211; they looked like they were moving.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was quite apprehensive about it. I\u2019m standing there looking at it and I\u2019m thinking \u201cis it watching me?\u201d, so I went around the house telling everyone and they all came to have a look.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Ritchie describes seeing a circular object hovering and spinning around above her home in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My husband is a fisherman and he\u2019s spent many hours looking up at the night sky, so he was quite sceptical when I told him, but even he admitted it was strange when he saw them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She says: \u2018Eventually we all went back to bed. I woke up a further two times, the second time was about four hours later and it was still there, but when I next woke up it was daylight and they had gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was there for so long that even all the way out here, someone else must have seen it, but perhaps they\u2019ve been too shy to come forward about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Morag\u2019s daughter, Cara, 27, had got out of bed to feed her baby at 3am on Saturday night when she first heard about the sighting.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u2018At first I thought it was just a plane, but my mum said it had been there for a few hours and there was no noise or anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was quite mesmerised by it all to be honest although my fiance Scott, was pretty scared.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He was smoking at the back door where you could see the lights from and he was genuinely frightened, he kept the door half open so he wasn\u2019t actually fully outside.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The mother-of-one added: \u2018I didn\u2019t really believe in UFOs or anything like that beforehand. You hear lots of stories, but you don\u2019t really believe them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But this was really really strange. After seeing what I\u2019ve seen, I\u2019m genuinely wondering if there are actually aliens out there now.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/52f47b27b18b0da7f236e6d728ecff1d.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/52f47b27b18b0da7f236e6d728ecff1d-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Right there: Morag Ritchie in their back garden pointing towards the part of the sky where she saw the UFO on Saturday night\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/52f47b27b18b0da7f236e6d728ecff1d-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/52f47b27b18b0da7f236e6d728ecff1d-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/52f47b27b18b0da7f236e6d728ecff1d-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/52f47b27b18b0da7f236e6d728ecff1d.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Right there: Morag Ritchie in their back garden pointing towards the part of the sky where she saw the UFO on Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although 95 per cent of all UFO reports can be explained, UFO expert Malcolm Robinson admitted he was baffled by the footage Scott captured.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018I\u2019ve looked at the footage and there appears to be four lights in a line intermittently flashing which could be anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But it\u2019s strange. Many suspected UFO sightings are actually Chinese lanterns, but it\u2019s not them this time &#8211; no way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s very interesting to a researcher like me but at the moment we won\u2019t have any answers for a couple of weeks at least when I find out if there were any other sightings or aircraft in the area at the time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Tony Finnegan said: \u2018It could be a light aircraft or military aircraft, but at 2am in the morning, it\u2019s unlikely to be civilian.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We aren\u2019t able to find out what aircraft were in the area at the time, but there was increased activity of northern lights last week, so I suppose they would be a possibility.\u2019<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;UFO spent four hours hovering above our rural home&#8217;, claims family after capturing video footage of &#8216;spinning lights&#8217; in the sky &nbsp; By Sara Malm A family has spoken of the terrifying moment they saw a UFO hovering above their house for four hours. 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