June/July 1992 - Huddersfield – Lit Diamond UFO Sighting
- Chairman Dave
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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report
Author: Dave Hodrien
Release Date: 29/07/2020
Last Updated 28/10/2025
For reasons of anonymity certain location details have been omitted
In early July 2020 Matt got in touch with me to report a sighting which took place on a weekend in June or July of 1992 when he was 9 years old, prompted by the fact that he had come across another BUFOG report which covered a similar sighting from the same city several months after, which he believes may be the same object (see later in report for the link).
Sighting Details
Matt recalls that on the night of the sighting he and his family had just came back from a big party to celebrate his grandparents Ruby wedding. It was the early hours of the morning between 2-3am. They arrived at their home in Newsome, Huddersfield. It was a very clear and cloudless night with the stars fully visible in the sky.
He noticed two white moving lights off in the distance and pointed them out to his mother and father exclaiming “Look, look, UFOs!” His parents dismissed him and responded saying “Shut up Matt, they’re planes!” This is probably exactly what they were.
They went back into the house and Matt went up to his room to get into bed. Before he did though he decided to look out of his bedroom window to see if he could still see the white lights in the sky. They were no longer present. He then looked to his right and that’s when he saw another object to the North North East of his location. The object was diamond shaped and was covered in a variety of pulsing coloured lights.
The object was rotating in a clockwise direction so he was able to see the exact colours and positions of the lights. At each of the four central corners there was a bright light – one red, one green, one blue and one orange. Along each side of the central rim the four colours were repeated with a row of smaller lights matching the four corner colours.
As the object turned the same pattern of flashing of the lights repeated. Firstly one of the four corner lights would dim then light back up. Then the side lights alongside the corner which had dimmed would flash in sequence. The object was drifting around in the air. It appeared to be at the height of about 30 feet. It appeared to be quite close just behind a row of nearby housing. It continued to rotate steadily.
Matt called out for his elder sister Kerry, who was 11 at the time. He said “Kerry, Kerry, come here, there’s a UFO!” His sister thought he was still referring to the white lights and shouted back “They’re just planes!” from her own bedroom. Matt was frustrated at this and briefly turned around to call for her again. When he looked back he initially thought the object had vanished. However he then realised it had ascended by about 100 feet and was now further to the right than it had been.
Suddenly the object descended rapidly, almost like it had switched off and was in free fall. As it fell it appeared to rotate away from his viewpoint. It plummeted down behind some of the local housing and was lost from sight. However it then swooped back up in an arc and came back into view, before instantly stopping. The point which had used to be on the base of the object was now facing towards him.
At this point Matt became extremely frightened of the UFO. He stopped looking at it, closed the curtains, jumped into bed and hid under his duvet cover. He does not recall anything else occurring so is likely to have dropped off to sleep.
In the morning he told his family about what he had seen but they didn’t believe him and told him he must be mistaken.
Sighting Analysis
This is a fascinating sighting due to the apparent shape of the object and variety of lights on it. The rotation of the object and repeated light pattern on it means that it is unlikely to have been a helicopter or lit inflatable. It was hovering quite still in the sky, which means it cannot have been a aeroplane or other light aircraft.
Back in 1992 drones were not commercially available so once again can be discounted. It was clearly an object with artificial lighting in regular positions, meaning it cannot have been caused by earth lights, and these do not tend to appear over urbanised areas anyway.
Similar Incidents
Matt has come across numerous UFO sightings which have been similar to what he witnessed. Firstly there is the BUFOG case report mentioned in the introduction. This sighting took place in September 1992 on the outskirts of Huddersfield. It involved a ring of rotating coloured lights which were red, green blue and white colours. These appeared to be coming from inside a cloud, and after a while suddenly started moving across the sky. Although the witness did not report seeing a diamond-shaped object, the lighting colours reported are similar and Matt wonders if it was the same or a similar UFO.
The case report for this later Huddersfield sighting can be viewed here
Matt also came across a similar sighting from Mississippi on Reddit which again took place in the early 1990s. In this instance both the shape and the colours of the lights matched his sighting accurately:
The UFO observed in the famous 1976 Tehran incident was also quite similar to what Matt reported. This involved two F-4 Phantom II jets which approached an object that was visible on radar over Iran. Before losing control of communication and weapons systems the pilots gained visual confirmation. They reported seeing a cluster of coloured lights including red, blue, green and yellow/white.
While none of these other incidents are conclusively the same, they are certainly reminiscent of what Matt has reported and could be of similar objects.
Copyright Dave Hodrien 2025
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