Size of Object(s)

quite large

Full Description & Details

Year 1974

Month, November

Location, Snake Pass just west of Ladybower Resevoir, Debyshire

Report,

It was evening time and there was fog along the snake pass on the Derbyshire side of the Pennine Hills. I was driving a Ford Capri 2000 GT V4.

I was heading West towards Manchester, had pased Ladybower Resevoir and was climbing up the Pennines just before the steep lefthand bend in the road.

On my right the hills were heavily wooded and are approximately 2-300ft steeply sloped up from the road. I was just climbing out of the fog into a beautiful late clear blue late autumn evening, ahead was a Volvo estate which I started to overtake.

As I drew alongside the Volvo my engine died, I dipped the clutch and pumped the accelerator, after what seemed like a considerable time, but probably somewhere in the region of 2-3 seconds the engine picked up again and I completed the overtake safely, the strange thing was that the Volvo had not drawn ahead of me in the time I was without power.

As I climbed along the rest of the road up to the top of the snake pass I had the feeling that in my peripheral vision I had seen a strange craft which appeared to be resting on top of the trees at the top of the hill to my right, it was grey with a dull orange dome with what looked like a grey strip running down roughly dissecting the dome into halves.

I crossed the top of the Pennines and started to descend towards Glossop, here the road bends to the right with a very steep drop on the left but with a gravel verge. The view from here is uncluttered and looks over the Lancashire plain towards Manchester Airport.

The evening was very clear and there was an industrial haze over the plain but I was above the top of the haze looking over it when I saw what I thought was a very bright star. However on further observation it became apparent that the 'star' was between me and the horizon.

It was a lovely sight so I pulled onto the gravel verge and stopped, got out of the car and watched the 'star' (object) for a while ...it seemed to be resting stationary just on top of the haze then after probably a minute to 2 minutes it described a flat trajectory arc of 180* travelled into the distance and vanished over the horizon at an incredible speed, far faster than any aircraft could or can travel these days, including Concorde.

I have thought about it on occaisions over the years and have often wondered if I had a UFO experience that evening.

Witness Background

Now retired, but at that time was a Sales Manager for a consumer electronics company, educated to degree level and have held commercial pilot multi engine, instrument rating and advanced ground instructor rating licenses.

Other Comments

my naration of the experience gives all the details I can remember, however I am reasonably certian that it was a disc shaped object I saw on the top of the hill. The object near Manchester airport looked just like a very bright star or planet, blue/silver type of colour

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