Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2010
Last Updated: 23/10/2024
Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used
In 2010 I was forwarded a sighting report form from Lancashire’s Anomalous Phenomena Investigation Society (LAPIS) for me to follow up on due to the location it took place at. I reached out to the witness who filled out the form but sadly he never responded. The below details cover what he initially shared.
Sighting Details
On the evening of 20th April 2010, “Mark” was standing outside the back of his house and was looking up at the stars. It was quite a cold night but the sky was relatively clear, with only a light amount of cloud cover.
As he looked to the North he suddenly noticed a particular star which seemed a bit lower, larger and brighter in the sky than all the others. He was puzzled by this and continued to keep an eye on it.
When he initially sighted it, it was at about 30 to 44 degrees elevation. After a while he became aware that it was not a star and was slowly descending in altitude. Mark went to get some binoculars to take a closer look at the object. When he looked through them he saw that the object appeared to be performing a display of flashing multi-coloured lights.
These lights were flashing in patterns. Mark described them as being “like a firework display, laser type graphics, or a high quality video game in four or five colours”. This display looked as if it was taking place through a transparent screen of some kind, and he was also aware that the object looked very large in size. He called his wife outside to also take a look at the object.
Both witnesses watched the object for 45 minutes, during which it dropped from its initial height till it vanished from sight behind some trees in the distance to the North. This gradual movement appeared deliberate and controlled, rather than something drifting down through the air. It looked like it was at least a few miles away in the area of Blakedown. Mark was so intrigued by the object that he decided to drive out to the location where he believed it had descended to see if he could get a closer look at it.
As he arrived in Blakedown in his Mercedes Benz, he got a strange eerie feeling like he was close to the object. Suddenly while he was driving, all the car lights went out without warning (both inside and out). He managed to put the hazard lights on and pulled up at the side of the road. After a short time he managed to get the lights working again, but when he drove back onto the road once again they all went out! His car was only 3 years old and had never had anything happen like this before.
Considering the current circumstances this was extremely un-nerving to him. Luckily after a moment the lights came back on again. He drove around the area for a while but could not find anything. He rang his wife who confirmed that she could not see anything from the house either. In the end he decided to head for home.
Sighting Analysis
Although Mark did not respond to my requests to discuss the incident further, he provided enough detail in the initial sighting form to form an opinion on.
The object witnessed does not sound like a conventional aircraft of any kind. An aeroplane would not have been able to slowly descend over such a long period of time so can be put out of the question. The lights on the object seen through the binoculars sound nothing like normal helicopter navigation lights. The sighting occurred several years before drones became commercially available.
The length of time the object was observed for tends to suggest it was not a balloon with multiple coloured LEDs attached to it. It would surely have drifted away in the 45 minutes it was observed for.
Although the fact that Mark’s car temporarily lost power in the vicinity of where he thought the UFO had descended towards, there is nothing to directly link the two. However there are many cases on record where vehicles in close proximity to craft have lost power just as Mark reported here.
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