19/05/2021 - Rowley Regis – Reflective UFOs Sighting

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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2023

Last Updated: 15/09/2026

At the start of June 2023 a man named Scott got in touch with BUFOG via our website’s sighting report form to provide details on a sighting of multiple UFOs that he and his wife had experienced back in May 2021.

Sighting Details

Late morning on 19^th May 2021 Scott was outside the front of his house on Highfield Road, Rowley Regis, washing his car. It was a very pleasant, clear and cloudless day.

At mid-day he finished washing the vehicle and headed back inside. His then decided to join his wife on the bench in their back garden. As he exited the back door, he noticed a glinting light to the North West in the sky. He looked closer and realised it was a glowing sphere of white light. It appeared to be at a very high altitude.

He pointed it out to his wife and they both started to watch the object. They soon realised it was moving slowly in their direction. As it got nearer a second similar object appeared alongside the first. Then the first object seemed to begin to elongate in shape, before shrinking back down to a sphere.

As the two objects continued to move closer, more and more appeared on a similar course until there were 10 of them visible. They travelled overhead one after another and continued to move slowly away to the South East, eventually disappearing due to the distance. Scott had a smartphone on him but at no point did he consider filming the objects. In total the sighting lasted for about 15 minutes.

Sighting Analysis

Due to the number of objects seen, their appearance and slow speed it is unlikely they were aircraft. While multiple aircraft can of course fly in formation, they tend to fly in more organised patterns, and would not take 15 minutes to cross from one side of the sky to the other. Even at high altitude their general shape would also usually be visible.

The objects were the wrong shape for drones, so I do not believe this was a sighting of a number of distant drones on their way to or from a drone show.

As it was a bright and sunny day, it is likely that the objects were not self-luminescent but were in fact brightly reflecting sunlight. I feel that the most probable explanation for this sighting is a number of novelty balloons, which may or may not have been launched intentionally. When the initial object seemed to change shape and elongate it was probably just rotating, making it temporarily appear to be a different shape.

The very slow speed the objects were moving at, combined with the fact they did not perform any turns, suggests they were all drifting on a slow and steady air current. Until proven otherwise this does seem like the most likely explanation for what was observed.

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