Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Year: 2011
Last Updated: 09/11/2024
General Information
Two videos of white orbs received by one of the witnesses, and apparently shot over Bushey in Hertfordshire on two consecutive nights.
The videos are not original so metadata analysis is not possible. Despite the lack of addition information about the videos some assumptions can be made from the appearance of the object in the footage and the recorded conversation between the witnesses.
30/06/2010 Video
Audio transcript:
F: That's exactly the same as last night. Babes it's going red in this..... My god, it's just a ball of light! Oh my god!
M: I can hear a plane distant flying.
F: That is not a plane. Look it's going all different colours!.... I can't keep still!
M: I mean this is exactly the same time as last night, and this is going exactly the same direction as yesterday.
F: It's just a ball of light.... I hope my lens is open. Yeah it is. Must be 'cause I can see it now. What the hell is that?
M: There's no sound now.
F: Oh my days!
M: Try and get...try and get that tree in or something if you can.
F: I can't, I can't.... it's just gone. It's still there but I can't zoom in any further.
M: It's just gone through the trees there.
The audio of the video makes it clear that there are two witnesses, a couple.
The colour changing of the orb observable in the video is down to a camera artefact which can occur when filming bright lights against a dark background. The trail sometimes seen behind it is another artefact caused by unstable movement of the camera, which the female witness holding the camera remarks on at one point.
It appears that the object is either silent, or too distant to hear. In the early part of the video the noise of a jet engine can be heard, and the male witness seems to believe that the object is a plane and the sound is coming from it. However I do not believe this is the case. Later on the object appears to be at roughly the same distance away yet the sound disappears. It is likely that it is from another aircraft in the vicinity off camera or obscured by cloud.
Aside from the fact that the object appears to be silent or extremely quiet, another aspect which points away from it being a plane is that no other navigation lights or strobe lights can be made out. Even at a distance it is often still possible to see the regular strobe or sometimes red/green lights.
That said, the male witness does state that they had seen something on 29/06 at the same position in the sky and at the same time, and then there is the second video the following night, which could suggest a regular flight of an aircraft.
Both the witnesses believe that the object is moving slowly away. Although this is impossible to tell from the footage due to how dark the surroundings are, the fact that it does seem to vanish after a couple of minutes suggests that this is correct. If so this rules out the idea that the object is merely a bright star/planet in the sky. If I knew the precise location, date/time and compass direction that the footage had been taken in then I could confirm this utilising night sky software but unfortunately this information is unavailable.
01/07/2010 Video
Audio Transcript:
M: Try and get the corner of the house in.
Again not much can be determined from the footage.
The audio confirms that the male witness is again concerned with the lack of a point of reference, but sadly it is too dark to see anything besides the object itself.
After 10 seconds it is clear that the video has been slowed down in an attempt to get a clearer view, but due to the amount of camera movement and lighting conditions this is not possible.
Conclusions
In more recent years drones are sometimes responsible for white points of light seen moving in the sky after dark. However these videos were from 2010, several years before drones were available commercially.
There are a number of other possible mundane explanations which cannot be entirely ruled out, including very distant aircraft (too far to see the separate navigation lights), white coloured LED balloons, stars/planets (if stationary), satellites or the International Space Station. Obviously a more unusual explanation is still a possibility.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024
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