Every Fisherman In The Harbour Saw It And Every One Of Them Lied To The Reporter
52% BELIEVED
CASE FILE #308
FILED: Mar 15, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: UFO Stories
WITNESS ON RECORD: FerryDeckRui
JURY OF 172 READERS HEARD THIS CASE: 89 believed it, 34 had doubts, 49 weren't buying it.
You have to understand the economics. If the harbour gets a reputation for men who see things, the insurance gets interesting, and the buyers get funny, and a reporter with a slow week can cost a fleet a season.
So here is what eleven of us saw on 4 February, and here is what we told the paper.
What we saw: a light that came UP out of the water about a mile and a half out. Not down into it. Up. It broke the surface without a splash — and I know how that sounds, but there was no plume, no spray, nothing — and it climbed, slow at first, then not slow, and it went into the cloud and the cloud lit up from the inside like a lampshade for about four seconds.
The sea was flat. The birds went up. All of them, at once, from the whole harbour, which is a thing I have seen exactly twice in my life and the other time was an earthquake.
Ten seconds later there was a swell that lifted the boats. One low, fat wave from open water, on a flat night.
So here is what eleven of us saw on 4 February, and here is what we told the paper.
What we saw: a light that came UP out of the water about a mile and a half out. Not down into it. Up. It broke the surface without a splash — and I know how that sounds, but there was no plume, no spray, nothing — and it climbed, slow at first, then not slow, and it went into the cloud and the cloud lit up from the inside like a lampshade for about four seconds.
The sea was flat. The birds went up. All of them, at once, from the whole harbour, which is a thing I have seen exactly twice in my life and the other time was an earthquake.
Ten seconds later there was a swell that lifted the boats. One low, fat wave from open water, on a flat night.
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Votes on record: 89 believed · 34 unsure · 49 didn't · 52% of readers believe this story