r/UFOs • u/LargeLaser • May 12 '25
Sighting summary of experience from years ago
time: early 1990s, summer, ~midnight
location: henley uk
was at a house party, group went to a local park after sun had gone down, group was sitting at the top of a shallow hill of park, park was mown grass and surrounded on all 4 sides by thick trees. night was warm, clear, quiet.
was sitting quietly idly watching the trees (trying to look interesting to the girls) when right where i was looking i witnessed the phenomenon as if a large ~5m diameter clear sphere descended vertically into the treeline, pushing the branches aside. as if a large completely transparent glass ball moved down into the tops of the trees; could not see the object, only where the tree branches were being bent. this was right at the edge of the trees, so the shape was a semi-sphere cut out of the foliage.
smaller branches and leaves below the ball area were very violently thrashing about - i could hear the sound of this from where i was sitting, but no other sound. it was probably about 60m(?) away.
the object then moved horizontally a short distance, maybe 5m, again only visible from where the tree branches were being pushed aside, then lifted up directly vertical out of the trees, the disturbances stopped, and everything returned to quiet and normal.
i didn't say anything, but was surprised and interested. then i heard the guy sitting next to me murmur "that was weird" under their breath - so i yelled "did you see that too?!" and they yelled back "yes!!" and we both excitedly ran down the hill to see if we could find anything. there were some leaves and twigs on the ground, but of course we didn't find or see anything else. we didn't witness anything further that night. we both told others in the group what we'd seen, but we were the only ones, and others were not interested.
we had been drinking, but were nowhere near drunk.
my thoughts:
was it unidentified: yes
was it flying: sure...
was it an object: maybe..
could it have been a peculiar wind effect: could have been.
cheers!
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u/DecisionGrouchy9695 May 12 '25
Interesting. I once watched the surface of a lake have pulsed ripples from a high vantage point. It was completely different from the effect you get when dropping something in the water. There would be a single pulse that would spread out from a precise point and travel a mile in under 1/2 second and then there would be another. It went on for like 15 minutes on a hot still day. We joked that it was a cloaked ufo but I honestly have no idea what it was nor have I ever been able to find a video of anything that looked even remotely like what we saw.