Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 10/04/2009
Last Updated: 18/09/2024
Back in 2008, avid photographer Steve who lives in Saint Helens, Lancashire, witnessed two very different sightings of UFOs. Fortunately he managed to capture both of these incidents on camera, and they are both interesting sightings. This report will look at each sighting in turn.
Pink Orb
In May 2008, Steve purchased a zoom lens for his Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL camera. On the afternoon of 13th May he decided to head out to a local beauty spot to take some nature photographs. It was a bright sunny day with a clear blue sky and very little cloud.
At 4.13pm he was crossing a brook via a small bridge when he noticed that the moon was also visible, and decided to take a photograph of it on full zoom. Because the lens of his camera did not have an anti-shake mechanism, he put the camera into rapid fire mode in the hope that one or more frames would turn out sharp. As he did not have his tripod with him, he leant on the rail of the bridge to stabilise the camera. He started to fire off a sequence of photographs. While he was doing this, to his amazement, a glowing object giving off a pinkish coloured light appeared to emerge from behind the moon travelling at an incredible speed considering its apparent distance.
The camera buffer filled up very fast and he had to stop taking photographs for several seconds. Suddenly the object vanished without trace. He hurried back home and uploaded the photographs to his PC. They had all turned out blurred apart from the below photo, which luckily managed to catch the mystery object.
It is hard to say what the object could have been. There is the possibility it was space debris burning up as it entered the earth’s atmosphere. This would explain why it suddenly vanished. Could it have been a flare or balloon of some kind? Or perhaps it really was something more out of the ordinary, something that was of a large size and out in space. Unless we receive more information we may never know for sure.
Silhouetted UFO
In October of the same year, Steve was taking prolonged exposure photographs of the full moon at night. One evening he was outside playing around with different exposures, trying to find the optimum setting for getting clear photographs using a Canon 350D and Sigma 70 - 300mm lens. The weather was a bit breezy so he had the camera set to multi shot mode and on a tripod for stability. He filmed for about 20 minutes using lots of different settings.
Afterwards he copied the photographs over to his PC to review them. This is when he noticed the strange shape he had caught on one of the sequences of photographs.
Right near the beginning of one of the sequences, it looks like a semi-circular chunk had been taken out of the upper left edge of the moon. This is due to an object obscuring the view. After several frames it moves to near the base of the photograph. Over the next few frames the object moves across the lower right area of the moon’s surface, and takes on the appearance of a number 3.
Steve wonders what the object or objects could have been. He does not know whether or not it was close to the camera or far away out in space. At the time he forgot to do anything with the photographs, but several months later in January 2009 he remembered them and uploaded the sequence to Youtube.
Once again we have a fascinating piece of evidence which is hard to explain. However the shape is so specific that I believe on this occasion the object was probably a number three helium balloon that somebody had let go of, which drifted in the breeze across the camera view. There are not many other objects which would cause this unusual appearance. But we only really have the shape to go on, I cannot say for definite that it was a balloon.
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