28th July 2014 – Solihull – Silver Oval UFO Sightings
- Chairman Dave
- Jun 10
- 3 min read
Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2014
Last Updated: 10/06/2025
Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used
Sightings Details
Around 9:45am on 28th July 2014 Paul was driving along Hobbs Moat Road, Solihull on his way to work. It was a clear and sunny morning, with very little cloud in the sky. He was travelling South past Hobbs Moat on a gradually ascending slope.
Something suddenly caught his eye in the sky visible ahead of him through the windscreen. He saw a large oval-shaped object in the distance. It was silver in colour and reflecting the sunlight. It appeared to be very large in size, at least 2-3 times as big as a passenger jet. It appeared to be a number of miles away, around the size of a 5 pence piece from his perspective.
Paul leaned over the steering wheel watching it as he continued to drive up the hill. He did not stop initially as there was another car directly behind him. The UFO seemed to be moving about twice as fast as an aircraft going from right to left and away from him.
After watching for about 10-15 seconds it suddenly massively increased in speed and shot away in the blink of an eye! Paul found somewhere to pull over by the side of the road. He got out and checked all around but the object had gone. There was no indication that anyone else in the area had seen it.
Paul’s father works as a delivery driver in the Solihull area. After Paul confirmed that the UFO had disappeared he decided to contact him by phone. When he informed him about what he had just seen, his dad burst out laughing, and then said “I’m so glad somebody else saw that, I thought I was going mad!”
Paul was amazed to find out that his father had also seen the UFO from the location he was at (Not yet confirmed). After discussing the object together, Paul told him to search online when he finished work to see if anyone else had reported it.
Later on his dad apparently confirmed that there had been a similar sighting in the USA earlier in the week, but there were no other reports from the local area.
Sightings Analysis
The details and drawings Paul has provided are very interesting indeed. Although we do not yet have a statement from his father, the fact that he also saw it from a different perspective means that it was clearly a solid object in the sky, rather than an optical illusion or reflection in the windscreen.
In terms of appearance, the object was clearly not a normal aircraft. It was too rounded to be a distant plane, and the wrong shape for a drone or remote controlled model. A silver coloured blimp or novelty hot air balloon would have possibly been an explanation, however the extreme increase in speed observed at the end of the sighting put these possibilities out of the question.
Therefore there is a definite possibility that this was a genuine sighting of an advanced craft of some kind. The incident clearly left a lasting impression on Paul. Summarising how he felt about the object he says the following:
“From the off I knew it wasn’t anything normal which I why i was so fixated on it, but when I saw it shoot off I was excited and baffled like the thought of seeing something created by a whole new life form was amazing. It definitely wasn’t anything we know of anyway.”
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