Light over The Longwood Estate (Hampshire)(UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The Longwood Estate (near Long Wood Road, Owzlebury). I ventured out one night and drove the 14 miles or so from my home to a particular area of Hampshire (famed for its outstanding beauty and interesting history) and parked up at a favourite spot of mine that is sign-posted as a path (for walkers and horse-riders). Having left my vehicle, I proceeded to walk on down the path that goes through a large wood, which after quite a way splits off into bridleway's signposted left and right/straight ahead or back the way I had came (I have walked this path many,many times over the years and have alway's felt there is some-one else there the whole time watching me(though of course there never is any-one there at all.......)walking through particular spot's along the path always make me feel particularly uncomfortable but the whole path is itself Incredibly un-nerving,errie And Very Creepy(this as I said at the beginning is to do with it's long history and certain reputation and you can guess the rest and the reasons why......)! anyway upon reaching the junction I decided to walk straight ahead which takes you up hill and around a blind sharp bend which is scarey in itself (particularly at night) as you cannot see what is around the corner until you walk round it. But having walked up hill and around the corner and stood for a while rather than walk on up to the top (which I usually do)but on this occasion I decided not to because I felt particularly scared and as I was making my way back down the hill it was at this point that I saw a very bright and Quite large white light at a very low altitude streak down at an angle from the sky(to my left)very close to where I was walking as I say I saw it fall from the sky but because I did'nt see it land on the ground (as somekind of craft would do)nor know the exact location of where it landed other than it being very close to where I was walking (if it did indeed land) then I don't know weather it was just a Shooting star or something else entierly.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111835). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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