02/02/2021 – Castle Bromwich – White Shapes Sighting

Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2021

Last Updated: 11/02/2026

Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used

In late February 2021 a lady who I shall call “Claire” got in touch via phone to discuss something unusual she had seen earlier in the month close to her house in Castle Bromwich. She informed me that what she had seen had been captured on her security camera. Unfortunately, despite stating that she would do so, she never managed to extract and send me this footage to analyse. Despite this I have captured this information to get it down on record.

Incident Details

Around 5am on the morning of Tuesday 2^nd February 2021 Claire was awoken from her sleep by a horrendously loud grinding noise that sounded like metal scraping. A moment later the same sound happened a second time.

She got out of bed and peered out of the bedroom window. The view from this window overlooks the car park of Castle Bromwich Men’s Club just to the North. Along the near side of this car park are is a line of wheelie bins and some traffic cones up against the wall of the house.

Claire could see that these bins and cones had been knocked over. This was odd as it had been a very still night with no wind.

She then walked along the landing and peered out of another South facing window overlooking The Green. Near to the lamp post closest to her house she could see various white translucent shapes moving up and down. After watching them for a short while they seemed to fade away and vanish.

 Claire thought to herself “That’s weird!” but assumed the shapes must have been light reflecting off the snow. It was still early so she decided to return to bed and go back off to sleep for a number of hours.

Later on after she got up she decided to check the footage recorded by the house’s security cameras. When she checked the South facing camera from about 2am she started to see the white shapes appear. They would congregate and seemingly move through one another near the base of the lamp post, then sometimes drift up and down it almost like they were gathering energy from it.

When she checked the North facing camera at around 5am she saw the bins and cones suddenly fly into the frame. Unfortunately, the camera was not angled sharply enough to see how they had got knocked over. She believes they were knocked over at the same time as the loud sounds she had heard.

Just over a week later on 10^th February Claire noticed several workmen standing around the lamp post and chatting. They remained there for about 10 minutes before getting in their van and driving away.

Incident Analysis

What Claire saw sounds quite intriguing and it is a shame that she did not send me the camera footage to examine. It is tempting to think that the white shapes she saw drifting around the lamp post were nothing more than light reflections bouncing off the snow, but surely if this was the case she would have seen them on previous occasions and they would not cause so much confusion? That said this explanation cannot be entirely ruled out. Another possibility is that they were insects attracted to the street light and glowing as they were caught in it.

The loud noises that she heard are also interesting, especially when paired with the bins and cones that were clearly knocked over around the same time. One possibility is that a vehicle had tried to reverse and maybe crashed into them or into the wall, knocking them over and making the metallic scraping sounds. Even if Claire had managed to send me the camera footage the cameras only record visual not audio, so we only have her word to go on.

It is unlikely that the presence of the workmen a week later around the lamp post had anything to do with what Claire saw previously, it is probable that this was just a coincidence and nothing more.

If Claire gets back in touch and sends the footage to me I will analyse it and add my findings to this report.

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026