I live in central England about 15 miles from Birmingham. I’ve had a close up encounter with a UFO which I can’t explain to this day. When it happens to you it changes your life forever.
My encounter was in 1975 in Majorca in the evening around 11.00pm (local time). I was 19 at the time. Three other people as well as myself had the encounter.
The sky was dark and crystal clear. The air was still and all was quiet as we walked down the road out of the village where we were staying. There were no street lights.
It started with a pure white well defined circular object (possibly a sphere) with a crisp outline, about 4 times the apparent diameter of the moon, at maybe 200 – 400 yards.
It was descending slowly at a 45 degree angle in front of us to our left. As it descended, it “disappeared” as if someone had turned the internal light source out. It then came back on about 2 seconds later still on the same trajectory. The object then continued on the same path constantly illuminated and went behind some trees on our right.
We all turned to each other absolutely astonished and frightened at what we had seen. I wanted us all to run down the street and find out what had happened to the object.
I said “come on, let’s go and see if we can find it”. The others were afraid and didn’t want to come with me. I pointed down the road to the trees on the right and said, “It’s just there behind the trees on the right”.
As I pointed and we all looked, the object shot back up into the sky, (along the trajectory it had descended on) with such speed that it was a dot high up in the sky within one second.
There was no sound at any time during the encounter.
Although the whole event lasted less than a minute, it has left a lifelong impression on me. Whatever it was, it was definitely NOT anything conventional.
Although I’ve since seen other objects I can’t explain, that encounter 45 years ago remains fresh in my mind to this day.