09/08/2020 – Hall Green, Birmingham – Silver Disc Sighting
Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2024
Last Updated: 13/10/2026
In April 2024 a 65 year old man by the name of Neil Watson got in touch with me via the BUFOG website to inform me of a disc-shaped UFO which he witnessed in August 2020. He informed me that he was unaware of BUFOG’s existence at the time or he would have got in touch back then. But after finding out about the group he decided to let us know about what happened. Later in the month I contacted him via telephone to discuss the incident.
Sighting Details
On the 8th August 2020 Neil spent the night at his aunt’s house on Arcot Road, Hall Green, Birmingham. In the morning after he had got dressed he decided to walk down to York News Convenience Store on York Road to buy the morning paper.
It was a very sunny and clear morning with no clouds in the sky. As it was quite early on a Sunday morning there were not many other pedestrians around.
After visiting the store he began walking back North West West along York Road. The route back to his aunt’s house led him over a bridge crossing the railway line which passes through Hall Green. At approximately 8.30am as he was walking over the bridge, he happened to glance up into the sky ahead of him.
It was at this moment that he noticed a disc-shaped object hovering motionless in the sky. It seemed to be quite low down, at an elevation of only 10 degrees from his position. Neil estimates it was only about 40 feet off the ground, and seemed to be about 30 feet across.
The object was a flattened disc with a smooth curved surface. It was metallic silver in colour and was reflecting the morning sunlight. Around the central rim of the object was a number of dark round portholes/windows. There were no other visible markings or lights.
It was hovering completely still in the air and did not appear to be making any sound. Neil noticed that there were another couple of walkers on the bridge who had also seen the object and were standing there watching it too.
Neil and the other pedestrians continued to stare at the stationary object for several minutes. During this time they did not really talk to one another, everyone was transfixed by the sight of the UFO. Sadly Neil did not have his smartphone with him as he was not expecting to call anyone so had left it in the house.
Suddenly without warning the object shot off to the South South East extremely fast! It was gone in a brief moment. Neil was amazed at what he had just witnessed. He did not discuss the sighting with the other pedestrians present, he just continued his walk home. Once he got back a number of minutes later he informed his aunt about what he had witnessed.
Not long after he decided to contact the Sunday Mercury newspaper to inform them about the sighting. According to Neil, the reporter on the phone informed him that they had received some other reports of sightings of the same object around Robin Hood Cemetery. This was in the direction that he had seen it depart the area so this made sense geographically.
The following Sunday there was an article in the newspaper about the sightings. Neil informed me that he had kept this article, but since the incident has moved house and does not know where he has put it. If he manages to locate it he will send it to me for inclusion in this report.
Sighting Analysis
This is an interesting sighting with some impressive aspects to it. Obviously we only have Neil’s testimony to go on at present regarding what took place, however he has little reason to fabricate the incident. He was not paid any money for the details which he passed on to the newspaper.
The object he saw could not have been an aeroplane as it hovered motionless for a number of minutes. As it was broad daylight the appearance of the object was clear to see, and it does not sound like a helicopter of any kind. In addition to how it looked, the fact that it appeared to be silent, and the extreme flight manoeuvre it performed at the end of the sighting means it cannot have been a helicopter.
This manoeuvre also puts out of the question the idea that it was a large inflatable of some kind. It sounds much too large to be a drone, and again the appearance is of course completely different.
Based on the object’s appearance and movement capabilities, this certainly sounds like a genuine daylight sighting of a disc-shaped craft, possibly extra-terrestrial in origin. It is unknown if the round circles seen around it were windows or actual holes in the outer surface of this craft.
I have attempted to look for the newspaper article about this and the other local sightings online, but have so far been unsuccessful. If Neil is able to track it down I will add it at a later date. If you have any information about this incident, please get in touch.
This is not the only UFO which Neil has witnessed. Later in the same year he had a sighting of a glowing white orb. As this incident appears to be unrelated it has been written up as a separate case report. Click here to go to this report.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026
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