25/07/2026 – Glastonbury – Lit UFO Sighting

Chairman Dave
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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Date: 06/08/2026

Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used

Over the weekend of 25^th-26^th July 2026 I was down in Somerset for the annual Glastonbury Symposium conference, which I was a speaker at.

During the 26^th July my wife Natasha decided to check out a local gift shop. She was wearing a Birmingham UFO Group t-shirt at the time. This sparked a conversation with one of the shop assistants, who claimed to have seen something early on the previous morning. Natasha came and got me and I had a discussion with the lady, who I shall call “Laura”, about what had occurred.

Sighting Details

Laura lives in Millstream Estate on the Western edge of Glastonbury. Around 1am in the morning of Saturday 25^th July 2026 Laura woke up from her sleep needing to use the toilet. As she walked to the bathroom she decided to quickly peer out of the back bedroom window, which faces South.

It was a clear and still night. Laura immediately noticed a line of lights in the distance. It was hard to say exactly how far they were away but they appeared to be around the height of a patrol helicopter. Most prominent was a slightly curved line of around 5 orange coloured lights. Above them was a possible red light but this was hard to clearly make out. Below them were two lines of smaller lights.

The lights were nearly stationary but there was a slight back and forth movement to them. They were all moving together and clearly appeared to be attached to a singular object, although this could not be made out due to the darkness. She estimated this would have been about the size of a small aircraft, roughly 25 feet across.

Laura stared for about 2 minutes at the lights trying to work out what they were. Suddenly all the lights turned bright white! Even more confused by what the object could be Laura continued to watch it.

After a further 2 minutes, the lights all seemed to disappear. The object did not seem to fly off anywhere, it was just gone. As it was a clear night Laura did not believe it had been hidden by a cloud. The object did not reappear so she went to the bathroom then got back into bed.

Sighting Analysis

This is an intriguing sighting of an unusual lit object. The object remained relatively still for 4 minutes so was not an aeroplane. It had the wrong lighting on it for a helicopter, normal navigation lights are white static, white strobing, red and green:

The lights were not completely static so this rules out the idea that they were lights from a building or ground machinery such as a crane. Also as the sighting took place from her house, Laura would have seen the same lights on other occasions if this was where they were coming from.

It was quite a still night so a cluster of tethered lit inflatables such as LED balloons would be possible. While most LED balloons are an individual colour, it is possible to purchase ones which can change colour on command via remote control. However, this seems somewhat unlikely, and the sudden disappearance of the lights entirely would not fit with this possibility.

A drone cannot be ruled out, but these do not often have orange lights on them, and for what purpose would the pilot have changed the lights to white mid-flight? Also it is unlikely the pilot would have switched the lights off while it was airbourne, so again this doesn’t really fit with this explanation.

What we are left with is a mystery. Could the lights have been attached to an advanced craft of some kind? This certainly cannot be ruled out. It’s great that my wife found out about this incident purely by chance, and highlights the fact that UFOs can be seen anywhere at any time.

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