What was the strange object sighted over Shrewsbury?

To date in the UK there have been thousands of UFO sightings, some good, some bad and some simply explainable. However, this is no ordinary UFO story – hundreds of people all across the UK saw the same object on the same night! Could all these genuine people be wrong in what they saw and witnessed over those two nights?

On 30 and 31 March 1993 there was a series of UFO sightings in the UK involving over a hundred witnesses. Many of these were police officers and military personnel as the UFO flew directly over two local RAF bases. It was dubbed ‘The British UFO Mystery’. 

As a 16 year old at the time of the incident I was preparing to enter the army as a solider with the army air corps. Since the age of 12 I had been a member of the cadet force, in which I held the rank of flight sergeant in the Royal Air Force section. As you can imagine I had extensive knowledge of all types of military aircraft in this country, but also in other countries. I also had good knowledge of civilian and NASA type aircraft and satellites. Being a member of the cadets, I was a frequent visitor to RAF Shawbury airbase near my home where I went flying in fixed wing and non fixed wing aircraft. I had and still have a big interest in aircraft. 

On march 30th 1993, at approx 11pm, I was walking home from my part time job at the local bowling alley in the northern outskirts of Shrewsbury. My parents at the time owned a public house called the ‘Harry Hotspur’ and it was only 600 metres from my work along Harlescott Lane. 

The walk only took me normally ten minutes, but that night as I walked back and got to within 100 metres of my home my eye caught a slow moving structured object moving from left to right, South to North, in the sky, approx 300ft up! 

As I got to my home, I continued to watch the object. It was a black triangle shape, structured, approx 200ft in length and approx 150ft to 200ft in diameter and very defined, in fact it blocked out the stars! As it was a clear night with no clouds I could see on the two rear points of the triangle a faint red or orange coloured glow and the front of the triangle was omitting a brilliant white light which moved back and forth as if it was looking for something. 

The triangle was moving very slowly, I would say about walking speed, I could hear nothing but a very low humming sound that was irritating to hear. I also felt warm and the sense of being watched, or at least whoever or whatever was controlling the triangle knew I was watching it! 

Opposite my house, at the time, was rough ground and fields and the triangle continued to move North over them with the white light flicking back and forth randomly, at this point I estimated that I had been watching this craft for about 2 minutes, when all of sudden it shot off to the North at incredible speed, making no sounds at all. 

I knew that this craft was not a military or civilian aircraft and I rushed into my house and woke my parents to tell them what I had just witnessed, all of us went outside to see if we could see the craft but there was nothing. 

Basically that was that for me, I never told the authorities because I didn’t know what to do and during my time in the military I never spoke of the incident as I didn’t want to be ridiculed. 

However it’s only been in the last few years where I found out about the Cosford incident and that what I saw was linked to sightings all over the UK that night. 

Ever since the incident I have had a feeling of knowing that the craft will come back, it makes me feel uneasy, but at the same time I want to know where it was from and why it was here? I think the military in the UK and the United States know of these craft but are keeping it under wraps away from the public so as not to alarm people. 

The UK MoD announced on the 1st December 2009 it will no longer have a dedicated UFO desk in operation investigating reports. But I am sure that somewhere and someone in the MoD will still be looking out for reports, and at the end of the day if UK airspace is intruded by an unknown craft, it has to be investigated properly. The more people come forward with their sightings, the more the truth will come out!

I 100% believe that UFO and extraterrestrials are with us constantly and it is only a matter of time until it is fact!

Article by Darren Perks.

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