Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Oval and grey/metallic looking in the clear blue sky. There were the occasional white clouds. A perfect Summers day.

Size of Object(s)

It was high in the sky but I never took my eyes off it as it travelled across the sky...difficult to estimate actual size.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

It was above the white cloud that it briefly disappeared behind, then reappeared.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Rural area and Yeovilton Air Base was about 10 mile South but the object showed no sign of slowing...it just shot from North to South in about 8 seconds.

Full Description & Details

I lived with my Son in a flat at Street in Somerset in the United Kingdom.

One Sunday Afternoon my Son was playing football with his mates and I laid on the grass enjoying the warmth of the Sun.

I looked left (North) at the Mendip Hills and saw this oval metallic looking object, slightly tilted, moving very fast in the blue sky.

It disappeared briefly behind a white cloud and reappeared and in about 8 seconds it disappeared over the Southern horizon.

I shouted my Son but by the time he answered the object had gone and there was not a sound.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It looked exactly as I have seen photographs of UFO's...I wondered at the time why a obviously metallic looking object could travel that fast through the sky and not create a sonic boom.

Witness Background

I am now a retired long distance trucker. I was driving the trucks in Somerset and later here in Nottingham. So I used to get around.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I wanted my sceptic Son to see it but if I had took my eyes off it I don't think I would have been able to pick it up again. Some years later I saw a huge black Triangle very low over the town of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk UK about 0530 one Saturday morning. If it had been a conventional aircraft it would have awoken the whole town. Someone said it may have been a stealth aircraft. They are quiet but not that quiet!

Other Comments

Why on Earth didn't I make a note of the date and exact time of the Glastonbury incident.

The thought never occured to me for some strange reason.

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