Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 30/09/2010
Last Updated: 29/10/2024
Sighting Details
At 6.30pm on 26th February 2010, witness Mark Goode was in his house at Wolverhampton and talking to his friend, UFO and animal mutilation researcher Mike Freebury, on the phone. He was looking out of the window. It was an overcast evening with complete cloud cover.
All of a sudden to the North West, about 150 metres from his location, he saw a glowing orange spherical-shaped object descend from out of the base of the low cloud. The object was moving slowly, seemingly under control. It was hard to judge its exact size or height in the sky.
The UFO continued to descend for around 15 seconds, then all of a sudden reversed its direction and began to ascend straight upwards until it re-entered the cloud and was lost from sight. Mark was surprised at what had just taken place, and discussed what he had seen with Mike.
Sighting Analysis
Although the observed movement pattern of the object was interesting, I feel that this sighting may well have been of a Chinese lantern.
Lanterns often appear as glowing orange orbs/spheres at a distance and it is hard to see their actual shape due to the brightness of the light coming from them. Lanterns do tend to ascend slowly rather than descend, but it is entirely possible that it was caught in a downward air current temporarily, after which it then began to drift upwards again. Although the movement did seem artificial this is by no means a definite.
The witness was obviously impressed with the sighting, and I of course cannot be certain that it was a lantern, however I feel this is the most likely explanation.
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