Cropped enlargement of object
07-05-2020:
Unknown Craft/Object Captured Passing Over Plymouth, Devon, UK
Name: ***** ***********
Email: ********@hotmail.co.uk
City: Plymouth
Date: 07/05/2020
Location: Plymouth, Devon, UK
Message:
I was just approaching the junction of Alexandra Road and Mutley Plain, Plymouth (on foot) at between 12.55 and 13.00 hours on the 7th May 2020 when I noticed this large, dark gray object in the sky.
Initially I thought an air balloon - but it was too high and had no basket.
It certainly wasn't an airplane.
Shot 1: marked with enlarged insert; please click for unmarked original
I got my phone out and put the camera onto zoom - hurrying around the corner onto Mutley Plain itself so that I could catch a clear picture of
the object.
I had my iPhone on 'live' so on the image on my phone you can actually see the object moving - I took two photo's but only managed to catch it the second time.
It was moving faster than a airplane would be travelling at that height.
There was no sound - but it was too high to have heard anyway and
there was traffic on the busy road next to me. I probably had the object
in my sight for at most 30 seconds, before it disappeared from view into the distant clouds. It appeared to come from the direction of the Sound, across Plymouth city centre and headed off towards Dartmoor.
The weather was sunny and with light cloud cover, I didn't notice any other objects around and I wasn't aware of anyone else seeing it.
We were then, as now, in 'lockdown' so there wasn't many people
about.
Shot 2 with enlarged insert; please click for unmarked original
When it passed out of view I check the pictures on my phone - neither appeared to show the craft!
I was quite perplexed as I knew I had seen it on the screen of my phone when I'd taken the pictures. Disappointed I deleted the images and carried on to my place of work. Still puzzling over the fact I seemingly hadn't caught the object, I sat down and looked in the 'deleted items' folder for a better look.
There it was! Just passing out of shot but caught in the nick of time. I had captured a picture of the craft after all.
About an hour later I asked a store security guard if he had seen the object - he hadn't but uttered an expletive when I showed him the picture I'd captured!
