Size of Object(s)

size of a large family car

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

10-20ft OR 50ft

Shape of Object(s)

disk, domed

Color of Object(s):

dark: black or heavy grey

Full Description & Details

The night of the sighting was very stormy - heavy rain, wind and thunder/lightning. We (myself and then-fiance) were in my bedroom at my parents house. A donkey in the orchard at the end of the garden (south facing) was making a lot of noise - we looked out the window - there was a flash of lightning, and then the object sped past, parallel to the house and heading east. To me, it seemed close, maybe within 20 ft and about the size of a family car; but Steve guaged it as being maybe up to 50ft away. Height-wise it was only about 20ft off the ground. Whatever the distance at the speed it was going it did well to avoid the higgledy-piggledy range of houses in the area - if indeed it hadn't already hit something, because it was trailing what looked like a ropelight - the kind of white/clear tube you get with lots of coloured flashing lights inside. We heard a bell ring - quite loud and fast (like a handbell?), not tinkly. It seemed circular, made of something dark, and it was domed. I remember likening its top to a kids toy/game, 'Simon' something, which had a sort of button on top. As it went past it angled and we could see the underside which had larger lights. The illumination showed a little detail on the base - moulded shapes (some linear, some curved), and something about the base suggesting a triangular shape. As it passed we heard a strong 'whooshing' sound. The whole event could only have taken a few seconds, but it felt like we had been watching for up to a minute. Afterwards, we just looked at each other - shocked and not sure what to make of it. We didn't tell ANYONE about this until some 14 years later. In 1994 my sister (who had no way of hearing about it) told us she'd had a dream. In it, she was looking out the window to the left of the bedroom we had seen the object from. Her description of the object from her dream matched what we had actually seen in 1981or 1980. She described that in her dream she ' telepathed' "Are you angels?" and got the reply, "No, but we are very thin". All very odd. At the end of the summer months preceeding our sighting, we had noticed strange lights around/in a tree in the orchard I've mentioned. They were like green fireflies and moved around in the tree (which was about 150 yards from the back of the house). I'd say they WERE fireflies except each time we walked down the path (still some distance from the tree) they started to amass, glow more brightly and come towards us. We reported our sighting to a local ufology group in 1994 and were told a similar object had been seen on November, the 11th I think (and possibly the same night as our sighting) in Devon or Dorset in 1980/81 (sorry, can't remember which) - both bordering Somerset.

Other Comments

I believe the ufology group, SUFORIN, has now ceased to be, but that the founders may still be involved in UFO research. If you have to/choose to contact them, we would ask that our email address be withheld from them.

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