u/caffeinedrinker

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?

Lots of strange stuff flying round the sky last night, managed to capture this.

First it was just 2, one appears then disappears - also a 4th flashes near the end in the top right.

Very bizzare.

25JUNE2026 02:17
UK, north east

22/06/2026 - 21:43
Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Saw this light hovering above Cannock Chase. Checked flight radar and couldn’t see anything in the vicinity. It remained stationary but flickering for a few minutes, before fading and disappearing without moving. It reappeared later in a different spot and had a different colour to it (I didn’t get footage of its reappearance, sorry!).

How would a UAP legacy program actually stay hidden? UAP Gerb’s new video is basically a 3+ hour theory of the security architecture

UAP Gerb’s latest deep dive, Special Access Required - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.2], is not really about a single crash case, witness, or sighting.

It’s an attempt to map the alleged machinery that would make long-term secrecy possible: SAPs, waived/unacknowledged compartments, DOE classification channels, Atomic Energy Act authorities, NSC-linked programs, contractor infrastructure, program-protection offices, and narrative-management efforts.

Whether you buy Gerb’s full theory or not, I think the episode is useful because it focuses on a question that comes up constantly in this subject:

If crash retrieval / reverse-engineering programs exist, what would the hiding mechanism actually look like?

Some of the major threads he gets into:

- why SAPs and “need to know” access matter
- how content-only SAPs are alleged to reduce the normal budget/reporting footprint
- why DOE and Atomic Energy Act secrecy come up so often in legacy-program discussions
- how SAPOC / Senior Review Group structures are alleged to gatekeep access
- how contractors, IRAD, FFRDCs, and national labs fit into the theory
- why AARO and ATIP are framed in the video as competing narrative-control layers
- how whistleblower retaliation and administrative pressure are alleged to preserve secrecy

We pulled the episode apart into entities, source-attributed claims, and timeline entries here:

https://probed.space/items/8209ebfc-4b26-487d-931e-155a84de7514

My son captured this sphere last night. He was walking his friends dog and noticed what he thinks was a sphere moving quickly from north to south. It was quite breezy yesterday evening. He is unable to get a good description better than the video shows. He thought it was cool. Better analysis could hopefully confirm balloon or otherwise.

Time: 17/6/26 at 13:15
Location: Middleton/Bonsall,Derbyshire, UK

I noticed 2 dark ‘orbs’ or UAP in the sky sitting stationery while I was working in my house, so started filming them, in the video the lower UAP seems to vanish and the second UAP vanishes a few seconds after it.

I assume the things racing by are simply bugs, so I discredit them.

Time 20:51 14/06/2026

Location: Helensburgh, United Kingdom

Was at a pub in Helensburgh, Scotland where I noticed initially three glistening lights in the cloud. I got my mates to have a look and all of them saw them. I started recording for a bit and could only see two orbs at that point.

You can see they are reflective of the light to the right of the clouds where the sun was and when in the shade they were black. The video shows some sort of possible melting/drooping mass of them similar to what has been seen before from orb UAP but could be a camera artefact.

The interesting implication here is Helensburgh lies not far from Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base and Coulport where the UK’s nuclear arsenal are kept.

Also hope you enjoy the commentary from my pals as we watch them lol