12/01/2026 - West Bromwich – White Orb Sighting
Birmingham UFO Group Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 10/11/2026
Note: For reasons of anonymity precise location has been omitted
Late evening on 12th January 2026 BUFOG was contacted by a man named Lee from West Bromwich. He wanted to report a sighting of an unusual aerial object he had seen early in the morning of the same day. I got back in touch with him to discuss what took place.
Sighting Details
On week days Lee wakes up quite early for work. He usually starts his day by letting his pet dogs out into the back garden and having a cigarette. This morning was no different. It was 6:32am. The weather was cool and damp, with some light cloud in the sky, and a light breeze. Due to the time of year it was still fully dark.
From his location he often sees aircraft on their landing path towards Birmingham International Airport ten miles to the South East East. While standing outside he looked up at a distant plane to the North East travelling towards the airport.
Suddenly a bright white orb of light appeared at the left of his vision travelling silently across the sky to the South East extremely rapidly on a straight course. Lee estimates it was about a mile away although this was quite hard to judge. A couple of seconds later it seemed to very briefly stop, then completely changed course and headed away from him to the North East!
Realising how abnormal the object was he into his pocket and with shaking hands grabbed his smartphone. However, by the time he had done so the object had disappeared into the distance. In total the sighting only lasted for about 4 seconds.
Lee was amazed at what he had witnessed. He kept his smartphone out in case it reappeared, but it did not return. About 8 minutes later his work colleague arrived at the house to pick him up. Lee explained what had happened. His friend informed him that he had also noticed the distant aircraft from his car, but did not see the other object.
Thinking back to what had happened Lee says that soon afterwards he became quite un-nerved, even though it was only a distant sighting. He wonders if when the object briefly stopped this was because it had noticed his presence. In the days following the sighting he has returned outside hoping to catch another glimpse of it, but so far no luck.
Sighting Analysis
In checking Flight Radar 24, the distant aircraft which both Lee and his friend very likely saw was TOM243 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at 6:32am:
The object which Lee witnessed could not have been a meteorite due to the fact that it performed a right angle turn. It also sounds like it was moving too slowly to be a meteorite, and did not appear to be on a descending arc towards the ground.
On the other hand it was also moving too fast to be a distant helicopter or white LED balloon. The instant turn that it made puts a distant jet out of the picture.
Drones can make sudden changes in direction, however it sounds too rapid to have been one of these either, crossing the sky in only a few seconds. Lee does manual ground labour and his company regularly uses drones to record the work, so he is familiar with how drones look and move during low lighting conditions. He says that there is “no way this was a drone”. He is also certain that it was not a spark from his cigarette drifting in front of his eyes.
With these mundane explanations discounted there is the possibility that this was a brief sighting of an advanced craft of some kind. It happened quite early in the morning reducing the chances of other witnesses, but if you have any information about this incident please get in touch.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2026
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