NUFORC Sighting 161389

Occurred: 2002-08-15 17:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2021-01-01 11:52 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Bristol, YT, United Kingdom

Shape: Changing


At times it was pyramid shaped, but the shape changed as it rotated in the sky.

My family’s UFO sighting Hi Peter Davenport, I’ve just listened with interest to Edition 506 of Howard Hughes’ unexplained podcast which featured you, and I thought what a good show it was. It brought back a memory of something that my family and I saw around 8 years ago.

I have just emailed Howard about what I saw and he suggested I contact you.

I was travelling north back to Bristol, UK (where I live) from the direction of Weston Super Mare. My wife, daughter (who was about 8) and my two-year-old son where in the car with me.

It was around 5pm and a clear blue sky. Kerry, my wife remarked about something in the sky. We tracked it as we approached Bristol. The thing we saw was jet black and remained in the same place, but it was not stationary. I stopped the car near Ashton Court (where the Bristol International Balloon Festival is held) and we all got out of the car.

The thing looked like a rotating black bin liner. I just spoke to my daughter about it and she reminded me that at times it was shaped like a pyramid and as it, rotated it morphed into different shapes.

I had my mobile phone with me, which had a camera which wasn’t great. I tried to record it, but it was too small for the camera on my phone and nothing showed up when I replayed it. The zoom on the camera was not very good. We must have watched it for 10 to 15 minutes before deciding to get back in the car.

The fact that it stayed in the same place made my daughter think that it reminded her of a kite, but with no string. My wife has also reminded me that it remained in exactly the same place throughout the whole time we watched it.

We drove on towards the city centre and kept it in our line of sight for another 5 minutes or so, until the tall buildings of Bristol made it hard to see. Eventually we lost it.

It was hard to tell how big it was. It was either small and low, or big and very far away.

We heard no reports from anyone else and nothing was mentioned in the newspapers. To this day we don’t know what we saw. But it certainly wasn’t an airplane, helicopter, kite or a balloon.

I thought you might like to know about this.

Best wishes and happy new year, A.S.

United Kingdom

Posted 2021-01-19

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