Birmingham UFO Group Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Originally forwarded by Richard Hall
Release Date: 17/08/2011
Last Updated: 02/09/2024
Note: Actual witness names not provided
Sighting Details
At about 1pm on 12th June 2001, “Thomas” and his wife “Natasha” were in their home at Codsall, Wolverhampton. It was a bright sunny day outside with very little cloud. Natasha was looking out through the double glazed patio doors when she noticed a strange object in the sky to the East.
The object was about 10-15 feet in diameter. It was black in colour with no visible markings or lights. It was a flattened triangular shape. It appeared to be only a couple of feet thick. There was a faint yellow glow coming from one side. The object was slowly descending in altitude. It was about 180-200 feet from her location.
Natasha called her husband to come and take a look at the object. By the time he had also approached the patio doors, the object had disappeared from sight behind a large oak tree. They continued to watch and after a moment it started to rise again and became visible again above the tree.
The object was slowly ascending with a pronounced rocking motion, tipping back and forth. It did not ascend vertically but instead rose in a spiralling motion covering an area no bigger than 50 feet. The witnesses were amazed by what they were seeing. They watched the object for 10 minutes until it was out of sight. Thomas grabbed his 10x50mm binoculars and continued to watch the object through them.
When it reached a high altitude, it suddenly stopped ascending and moved away towards the North East on a straight and level course. He watched it for several more minutes until it disappeared from sight.
Sighting Analysis
Thomas believes that what he and his wife witnessed was an experimental military aircraft of some kind that had malfunctioned. However I am not so sure that it was either this or a genuine ET craft. It was clearly not a conventional aircraft of any kind. It was much too thin to have been a piloted aircraft, whatever its origin. So if it was military then it would have been an unmanned drone. However these almost always have visible propulsion methods such as engines or propellers. Also it seems unlikely that the military would fly such an unusual object in populated residential areas in the first place, if it was secret it would only be flown in remote or privately owned locations.
We must also take into account the fact that the object descended to such a low altitude in the first place. If this was a craft of some kind which was malfunctioning, surely it would have continued to descend and crashed into the ground or landed? Why would it descend so low and then suddenly find a way to keep aloft?
There are some aspects which lead me to wonder if the object was some kind of unusual kite or remote controlled model. The fact that it was very thin, not overly large, rocked as it ascended, and ascended in a spiral tends to point towards this possibility. Perhaps the reason the object ascended in a spiral was that it was riding on thermal air currents, in much the same way that a hand glider gains altitude. The fact that once the object was at high altitude it moved off on a straight course could suggest it was under control, but alternatively it could have just been caught in another current moving in a North Easterly direction. If it was light weight it would be easy for it to drift in these currents and create the impression it was under control. Perhaps the fact the object was rocking back and forth was because it was being buffeted in the air.
Black triangles are one of the more commonly reported types of UFO. However they are usually much bigger in size and perform direct and sometimes extremely fast manoeuvres. If it was a genuine craft, then I feel it is unlikely to have ascended in a spiral pattern, craft of this type have often been reported as having the ability to ascend straight upwards. True, it could have been damaged in some way, but I feel that on this occasion, a mundane explanation is probably more likely.
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