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July/August 1989 – Bridgend – Orange Orb Sighting

Birmingham UFO Group Report

Forwarded by Richard Hall

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2010

Last Updated: 30/09/2024

 

Note: For reasons of anonymity pseudonyms have been used


Sighting Details

 

In July or August 1989 "Mark" was sitting in his mother’s garden with a friend in the early hours of the morning. It was a clear and warm night. The two witnesses were chatting and relaxing. At about 1am they suddenly noticed a round orange light ascending directly upwards. The light was in the distance, at most 5 miles away from them. Mark assumed that it was a flare or firework.


The light ascended for 3-4 seconds. Then suddenly without warning it momentarily stopped. It then shot away upwards and to the left at an incredible speed. Mark estimates this speed was thousands of miles an hour. Within a split second the light had vanished from sight. Immediately they were convinced that what they had seen was neither a flare or firework or any other conventional object. They were astounded by what they had witnessed.

 

In the days following their sighting Mark informs me that there were other UFO sightings reported in the area. Many years have past but he has still found no explanation for what he saw.


Aerial photograph of Bridgend

Sighting Analysis

 

This is a straightforward multiple witness sighting of what was clearly an highly unusual object. If it wasn’t for the incredible manoeuvre the object performed I would have suggested it was a Chinese lantern. These appear like orange orbs of light at a distance, and if it was a clear and still night would ascend vertically with no air currents to cause them to drift. However the fact the object instantly accelerated to an incredible speed and left the area means it must have been something highly unusual. It could not have been a lantern, a flare, a firework or other lit inflatable. Neither could it have been a conventional aircraft of any kind.

 

Of course we cannot say whether or not it was ET in origin. As it was distant we do not even know what its true shape was. However this type of manoeuvre has been reported many times before with other UFO sightings. It suggests that the object was under intelligent control.


I feel that the speed it moved away at is far in advance of anything our military possesses, either publically or in secret. Surely a normal aircraft moving at such speed would kill a human pilot due to the G-force it would create? Maybe the object was being controlled remotely and was unmanned. Perhaps it was a back engineered craft being flown by humans, this is of course a possibility. Either way this certainly appears to be a genuine sighting of an advanced craft of some kind.

 

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2024

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