Birmingham UFO Group Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Originally forwarded by Richard Hall
Release Date: 07/08/2011
Last Updated: 03/09/2024
This report covers an unusual case. Rather than see a UFO up in the sky, the witness had a close encounter with a small orb of glowing light. It is unknown whether or not this was ET related, but it is certainly worth reporting either way.
Sighting Details
In 1975 or 1976 Iain Forbes was 19 years old and working at a tanning yard called Russell’s Tanyard in Hitchin (It has since closed down). The tan yard used to be located on High Street. Early in the afternoon he was inside and working on a setting out machine. It was bad weather outside and drizzly.
Suddenly a yellow-green coloured orb of light emerged from the wall several yards off to his left. It appeared to be made out of glowing energy and was semi-transparent. The object was about the size of a football. It was hovering about 4 feet off the floor. The orb began to drift across the room heading behind him.
It was moving about walking pace. Iain turned around to follow its movement. While he was watching it he was not frightened, instead he felt completely at ease about the presence of the object like it was nothing out of the ordinary. He also felt a sense of familiarity like he recognised it from somewhere. There were other people in the room at the time but they were not looking the right direction to see it and Iain did not get their attention.
The orb continued for about 10 yards across the room. Then it changed direction and started heading back towards the wall it had emerged from. When it reached the wall it seemed to merge into it and was gone. Iain did not tell anyone about what he had seen as they were busy.
Sighting Analysis
This is certainly a fascinating incident. The object seen could not have been caused by sunlight reflection coming in from outside through a window as it was a cloudy day. As it emerged from a wall and re-entered it this suggests it was not solid but some kind of glowing energy. Could it have been unusual atmospheric phenomena such as ball lightning? This is a possibility but the weather was not stormy, it was just cloudy with light rain.
If it was something out of the ordinary, what could it have been? Perhaps it was something supernatural but spirit energy of some kind and not ET related. However there are a number of signs that it could have been ET in origin. The way in which Iain felt completely calm about the presence of the orb has been commonly reported by contactees and UFO witnesses on many occasions. This seems to be something which is done on purpose, probably so that they will encounter little resistance to whatever they wish to do.
Iain also felt a degree of familiarity when he saw the orb, it was like he knew what it was and it didn’t bother him. This is interesting as this is often reported in UFO sightings, especially where actual contact is involved. It appears that the ETs have a way of relaxing the individual so theyt are at ease with what is taking place. Is this evidence that the orb was ET related in some way? Whatever the orb was, it certainly seems to have been something highly unusual.
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