(Recreated image) South Oxhey, near Northwood Headquarters, UK.
I’m curious whether anyone else has ever seen something similar, particularly in the UK during the 1980s.
This happened sometime between 1984 and 1987, during the school summer holidays. I was visiting relatives near Oxhey Woods/Northwood in northwest London, and we were walking back towards the Dick Whittington pub (rough coordinates (51.6211397, -0.3959755) ) between roughly 9:00 and 10:30 pm on a clear summer evening.
Several of us witnessed an enormous object moving silently across the sky.
It wasn’t a light. It wasn’t a distant dot. We could clearly see the silhouette of the object against the darker evening sky.
The best description I can give is:
Huge, rounded triangular shape.
Completely matte black.
Totally featureless—no cockpit, windows, engines, markings or visible structure.
No lights whatsoever.
Moving point-first.
Constant, very slow speed.
Absolutely silent.
It appeared low, although I appreciate estimating altitude at night is difficult. At the time we guessed perhaps 100–150 metres, but that’s only because of how large and well-defined it looked. I fully accept it could have been much higher than we thought.
We watched it for around 1–2 minutes as it travelled steadily across the sky. It eventually passed behind trees and we waited to see it reappear, continuing to watch until we finally lost sight of it. There was no acceleration, no hovering, no sudden manoeuvres—it simply maintained the same slow speed throughout.
What has always stuck with me is that multiple people saw it, and decades later, despite not having discussed it for many years, we all remembered the same core details: a huge, silent, featureless black rounded triangle.
I’m not claiming it was extraterrestrial or anything similar. I’m genuinely interested in whether anyone remembers seeing something like this in the Northwood, Oxhey Woods, Watford or northwest London area during the mid-1980s, or whether there are any reports from that time that match this description.
Has anyone else come across a similar case?