July/August 2016 – Handsworth – Black Spheres Sighting

Chairman Dave
Sep 30
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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2016

Last Updated: 30/09/2025

In early October 2016 a man from Handsworth named Jamie got in touch with BUFOG via phone to discuss a direct sighting and a later photograph he had taken earlier in the year. This report covers his sighitng from late July or early August.

Sighting Details

On the evening of the incident Jamie was at his 2^nd floor flat on Browns Green, Handsworth. At around 5:30-6pm he glanced out of the window to the East in the direction of Handsworth Wood.

*Aerial map indicating Browns Green (A) and Handsworth Wood (B)*

It was a clear and bright evening, with only light cloud in the sky. He noticed what appeared to be two small sized black coloured spheres moving on a straight course across the sky. They appeared to be about 6 feet wide, and were travelling on a straight and level course to the North at a very fast speed, possibly hundreds of miles per hour. He estimated they were about 1.5 miles away from him at at a low altitude, possibly 1000 feet.

The spheres were only visible for 2-3 seconds before they were lost from sight due to the edge of the window. Jamie headed outside to the 2^nd floor balcony but the spheres were no longer visible.

Later on he checked YouTube and came across other cases from the USA involving pairs of spheres.

Sighting Analysis

This is an interesting case, although the spheres did not perform any manoeuvres that indicated they were definitely under intelligent control. They certainly did not appear to be normal aircraft, helicopters or drones.

To Jamie they appeared to be moving at an extremely fast speed, which would rule out the idea of them being black balloons. However, it is sometimes hard to accurately judge the distance and therefore speed of objects in the sky. It is therefore possible that they were balloons caught in a fast air current and drifting along after one another.

I have investigated many sightings of spherical UFOs before, some of which have performed incredible manoeuvres. But on this occasion, despite the fact that the objects seemed to be following one another, the possibility that they were balloons cannot be ruled out.

Later in the year Jamie managed to take a photograph of a glowing or highly reflective UFO. Click here for the separate report on this incident.

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