Birmingham UFO Group Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Originally forwarded by Richard Hall
Release Date: 26/07/2011
Last Updated: 03/09/2024
Sighting Details
It was 7.30-7.45pm on a clear sunny evening in August 1980. The sky was mostly clear other than some light high level cloud. Mike Millward was out walking his dog on Walmer Road recreation ground in Pakefield, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Mike was on a path that ran alongside the old track way. Suddenly the dog started to act unusual, like it was worried about something. It was staying close to a nearby hedge and looking around. It was now that Mike noticed an object off to his left above the tree line of the track way.
He saw what looked like a deep red coloured glowing orb. It was at an altitude of about 200 feet to the West of him, and about 2500 feet from his position. At first he thought it must be the sun, but then realised it was too small, and the setting sun was visible off to one side. He was puzzled by the object and so stood there watching it.
The object hovered above the trees for quite a while without moving. Then suddenly it descended rapidly behind the trees and moved off to the left. Mike could still see the red glow through the trees as it went. It then once again stopped for several seconds. After this it ascended back up above the tree line. It hovered for a short while then shot away to the North at an extremely fast speed. It was gone from sight within a second! In total Mike had watched the object for between 2-3 minutes.
Mike tried to continue his walk but the dog refused to walk down the access road to the old golf course, and even tried to slip its collar to avoid being dragged down there. In the end Mike retraced his steps back home. However even back home the dog appeared distressed and wouldn’t settle down.
The following evening Mike again took his dog out on the same route and the dog was totally fine, even when walking round the golf course where the UFO had been seen.
Sighting Analysis
This is a very impressive sighting due to the astounding manoeuvres the object was seen to perform. It was clearly under control, making sudden direct movements between periods of time where it remained completely motionless, before finally flying away at an incredibly fast speed. If it had not made these manoeuvres I may have put the object down to a Chinese lantern, that said this did take place back in 1980, way before lanterns became widely available. The movements it performed also put other mundane explanations such as a drifting lit inflatable out of the question.
Also these manoeuvres seemed too direct for it to have been atmospheric phenomena such as an earth light. It was the wrong colour to have been a helicopter, and was also completely silent. It is unlikely to have been a radio controlled model, it was daylight so the whole object could be seen, it was a self-luminescent orb or sphere, with no visible signs of propulsion.
The fact the dog became agitated by the object is again a good sign that it was something unusual – animals have often been reported acting strange when in close proximity to ET craft. The fact the dog was fine the following evening suggests that the cause of its distress had been the object and not something else.
As you can see there are numerous aspects of this incident which point towards it being a genuine UFO. Due to the apparent small size of the object it was probably un-manned and was there for monitoring or observational purposes.
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