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UFO Appears For Second
Year At Goodwood 2004 UK Air Show

This year's edition of the world's famous Goodwood Revival Festival was, as usual, a success for the thousands who gather every year in this British West Sussex province to enjoy the traditional vintage celebration. The Festival took place the weekend of September 3, 4 and 5 with the usual vintage racing cars along with other attractions - including the annual World War II fighter aircraft flying display featuring Spitfires and Mustangs among other classic planes. On Saturday, September 4, 2004, the vintage aircraft display began at mid-day. The weather conditions were perfect. On the ground, the expectant crowd was enjoying the beautiful maneuvres of those old war planes flying in formation. And among the audience was a young man videotaping every move those planes performed. This year's edition of the world's famous Goodwood Revival Festival was, as usual, a success for the thousands who gather every year in this British West Sussex province to enjoy the traditional vintage celebration. The Festival took place the weekend of September 3, 4 and 5 with the usual vintage racing cars along with other attractions - including the annual World War II fighter aircraft flying display featuring Spitfires and Mustangs among other classic planes. On Saturday, September 4, 2004, the vintage aircraft display began at mid-day. The weather conditions were perfect. On the ground, the expectant crowd was enjoying the beautiful maneuvres of those old war planes flying in formation. And among the audience was a young man videotaping every move those planes performed. Simon Anderson, resident of West Sussex and devoted fan of racing cars and aircraft displays, was in attendance, as always, for the annual Goodwood exhibition. Simon likes to travel through the UK attending the most important racing car events and has a passionate interest in their competitions...and always carrying his videocamera to capture the exciting moments performed by his favorite racing drivers. Last year, on September 5, 2003, while at the Goodwood Revival Festival, Anderson captured on tape a very unusual incident during the aircraft display. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, an unknown flying object with a strange shape and flight characteristics flew right in front of two airplanes causing immediate worry and a dangerous risk of collision.

and now for last year's UFOs

Goodwood Air Show 5th September 2003

Two weeks ago the excitement and the traditional display of the vintage aircraft revival festival that attracts a lot of tourists and fans year by year in the UK was interrupted by the intrusion of a non announced flying object that caused confusion and uncertainty in a dangerous situation that could have ended in a tragedy." On September 5, 2003, at the Revival air show, two World War II aircraft were flying in formation above the crowd when a disc entered the formation in a clear sky. A British Spitfire and a P-47 were flying in formation, when a disc shaped UFO joined them at 1:35 PM. Simon, a 29-year-old from West Sussex was filming the event with a JVC Hi-8 PAL camcorder and his images are excellent. The maneuvering UFO could have caused a dangerous collision. The footage is crystal clear with zooms to both the aircraft's and the UFO. The two planes, flying in formation and making a turn from left to right are filmed with an unknown brownish object, round in shape that appeared in the scene passing from right to left close to the airplanes at moderate speed. The images are clear and the unknown object was caught in several frames by Simon's camera. Simon made a great zoom to the object and it's shape and size was clearly revealed. A disc shaped UFO was floating making balancing movements and appears to be a metallic structure. Simon and the crowd were impressed by the unknown intruder. Thanks to Santiago Yturria and Jeff Rense. The film is at

The incident took place in Goodwood, West Sussex on September 5, 2003 at the annual Goodwood Festival and Revival where an old aircraft display was presented. Goodwood is located just outside Chichester in West Sussex south of England, 60 miles from London and about 30 miles from Brighton and Southampton. Goodwood is also known by it's worldwide famous racing cars festival, an event that brings together hundreds of enthusiastic fans in a major event that includes new and old racing cars, motorcycles and airplane exhibitions.

Among the fans of the old war aircraft display was Mr. Simon Anderson who likes to attend and film aircraft displays and in this ocasion destiny was keeping for him an unusual and intruiging surprise.

SIMON : " I made a discovery in the sky when filming the Goodwood festival and old aircraft display.

A fast object shot past the aircraft I was very amazed then trying to keep filming as it went up into the clouds.

Then it went off to the south towards Portsmouth. I am interested in aircraft filming them for years at displays but never seen this thing before. "


Simon, a 29 years old from West Sussex was filming the event with a JVC Hi-8 PAL camcorder . The time was 1:35 PM and the sky was clear. After several days Simon contacted me asking for advice and sent me a VHS copy of the footage.

I must say that I got impressed by the images and the unique moment when two airplanes confronted a disc shape object in a maneuver that may have resulted in a dangerous risk of collision.

"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists seems to me to be overwhelming . . . There have been thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of sightings and encounters, physical results and of the latter, by people all over the world whose evidence on any other subject would be accepted without question."

Lord Hill-Norton, Admiral of the Fleet, former Chief of the Defence Staff , former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. United Kingdom, 1988.

This photograph is one of a series of four taken on 21 December, 1993 whilst I was out walking just south of Dorchester, Dorset. I was also looking for and photographing any remaining traces of that season's crop circles. Standing on the B3159 road overlooking Maiden Castle hill-fort and the site of a previous, small crop circle, I witnessed at about 11am two flashes of light, seemingly from the sky to the north-east. This prompted me to take a sequence of photographs panning from the North towards Maiden Castle around to the east along the road. Apart from the flashes of light, nothing anomalous was visible in the sky. I returned to the same site later in the day at 4pm, and thought I witnessed another flash of light - this time from the south. I took another sequence of photographs. This time to the south and east. Once developed, the film showed a total of four anomalies none of which were seen whilst the photographs were being taken. The photograph was taken on a 35mm SLR camera using standard 100 ASA colour slide film. The exposure was set at 1/125 and 1/250 of a second.