Is this a UFO flying over south Dublin?
Evening Herald
This is the image taken on Yvonne Daly's mobile phone.
An unidentified flying object spotted last week in the Dublin sky was probably the planet Venus.
Yvonne Daly, from Windy Arbour, was sitting in her back garden at 6am on Thursday when a strange red object caught her attention in the sky, leaving her puzzled.
She said: "The sun was coming up, it was very bright. When I looked up to the sky a big red blob got my attention, it was like a jellyfish, I couldn't explain what it was.
"Luckily I had my mobile phone on me, so I took a picture of it."
Yvonne was baffled.
She said: "When I was in the hospital yesterday, I was showing the picture to everybody.
"They probably think I am mad, but they were fascinated by it too."
Gavin Byrne, a paranormal investigator in Dublin, said in most cases these sightings can be dismissed as cases of mistaken identity.
He said: "Chinese lanterns that are lit at weddings are a common occurrence of people mistaking them for unidentified objects."
There were similar recent reports of a UFO in Tallaght, but that turned out to be a Chinese lantern.
Having analysed Yvonne's picture, Gavin speculates that the object could have been the planet Venus.
He said: "As it was so bright and early in the morning, Venus can be seen when the sky is clear."
Gavin works for The Paranormal Investigation Guys. Their website can be found at: www.thepigs.org.
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- Lloyd Murphy
