Appearance / Description of Object(s)

an extremely bright white round light against a clear night sky.

Size of Object(s)

relative size: around the size of the fingernail on the smallest finger of the hand. actual size impossible to estimate.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

object directly above witnesses at high altitude.

Description of Area / Surroundings

extremely remote rural area on a clear, cloudless night.

Full Description & Details

as an army cadet in my mid-teens i was away at annual camp in newcastle. we were to stay in a remote area of southern Scotland just across the border from England for a few days for enhanced fieldcraft training. late one evening we were to practice night ambushes and the night was perfect. there were clear skies so natural light from the stars and the quarter moon came down unobstructed by clouds enabling us to work comfortably with our natural night vision.

there were about eight groups that had to do ambush drills and with each ambush taking around 20 minutes to set up and 10 minutes to complete, as part of the last group i knew i would be waiting a long time. we spent the time chatting, smoking and watching the flares and flashes from the ambushes that were already taking place, whilst listening to the crack of rifle fire accompanied by bursts of automatic weapons.

during one of the recession periods between ambushes with about two groups left to go before us (around 02:00 - 02:30), a few of us were lying back taking in the view of the stars and commenting how clear the night sky was, how beautiful it is to be able to see the stars so clearly which just isn't possible from London.

Then around four of us witnessed an extremely bright white or yellowish light (the brightest object in the sky) move into our field of vision from above us with awesome speed at high altitude. it stopped dead directly above us high in the sky for around a second before moving purposefully left, then right before returning back to it's original still position. the object did not appear to accelerate nor decelerate, the movement was instantaneous. this series of movements was completed within a couple of seconds before the object appeared to shoot once again with amazing speed directly upwards away from us.

we all looked at each other and said at once "did you see that?". we'd witnessed the same thing together, highlighted by the fact that we all described the occurence in exactly the same way to people that had not seen it.

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

had the object not purposefully changed direction or stopped it could have been a meteorite. it moved too quickly to be an aeroplane, satellite or any other man-made object. it could not have been a flare from the ambush drills as flares hang in the air and burn, this object moved too quickly and the light was constant, not a coloured burning. also, no ambushes were taking place at the time. Whilst we were on a military exercise at the time, we were not near any military bases.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

i believe in extra terrestrial life forms, i have some knowledge of cases of UFO sightings.

Other Comments

the witnesses of the incident deduced that maybe the occupants of the UFO we saw had been intrigued by the flashes and noise of the ambush practices that had been ongoing and perhaps had arrived to survey the area.

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