29-11-2019:
Unidentified Flying Object Seen Over Strelley, Nottingham, UK
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Name: **** **********
Email: **********@mac.com
City: Nottingham
Date: 29/11/2019 11:22
Location: Strelley, Nottingham, England
Watched for around 20 minutes
3 other witnesses
Single object
White/Silver metallic or illuminated object - very sharp white object or highly Reflective
No noise
No clear shape - appeared as a point of light or sphere
Whilst waiting to see a client, I headed to the garden area of the property to vape for a minute or two. Being alone, I looked around and eventually stood by the door and looked at the beautiful blue sky on this very cold and frosty morning.
I watched a couple of jets in the sky to my left and as I scanned the sky for others, I notices a very small but bright object alone in the sky almost directly in front of me, elevated about 80 degrees.
It was very small, looked like a sphere for most of the time I watched, but found it difficult to focus on any details. It appeared like a globe, but sometimes it seemed to have faint edges that blurred and protruded from the slightly left of the top of the sphere and the opposite side (11 o'clock and 5 o'clock.).
I watched thinking of what it could be, but soon realised it was very high in the sky and move almost directly towards me at great height and almost directly ahead, it appeared not to be moving in a straight line.
At this point another resident of the property came out to smoke, and I asked him to tell me what this object was. He initially would not look up as he thought I was pulling a joke on him.
I stepped away and insisted he look and make his mind up. He looked where I pointed, and sighted it. I asked him what it was, he said "it's not aliens"; he confirmed it was not a plane, or anything he could recognise. Eventually he said it was a satellite?, but noted that it did not move in a straight line, nor did it glimmer or change brightness.
Directly overhead at this point I went into the property and ask another resident to come and see a UFO. She scoffed, but came out to look.
She spotted the item which had moved across the sky by maybe 60 degrees from it's original location.
I tried a number of times to film the object, I could not get it into focus. I tried to video it and only got a blurred glimpse of it on one of the videos.
The image closed is the only clear image of the sky and if you follow the lowest branch on the left and pan right almost to the middle, you should find the bright spot that appears much smaller than it did in the sky.
As we watched it moved away from us, not at a speed we could estimate as it appeared very high in the sky, it did cover around 15 degrees within a minute or two before it disappeared behind almost imperceptible cloud/contrail directly as we looked out from the building.
We could not locate it again.
No sound, almost piercingly bright white speck/orb viewed over around 20 minutes 29/11/2019
BEAMS Comment: Was this the ISS? well no, not according to official ISS visibility forecasts.
Fri Nov 29, 4:38 PM 4 min 39° 24° above SSW 12° above E
Fri Nov 29, 6:15 PM 1 min 71° 27° above W 71° above W
The ISS wouldn't have visible at the given time of 11pm, nor for 20 minutes! And thinking beyond that, this object seems a bit too big for a bog-standard satellite; the image doesn't suggest a drone either.
