Unknown over Telford (UK/England) · United Kingdom

The report, as filed

This event happened several months ago but I wrote what happened down at the end of the same week. I am an Army Nursing Officer in the British Army. This event took place very near to 11 Sig Brigade HQ in Donnington, Telford. I was alone with our 2 dogs and 2 cats in the house. I drink very little alcohol and don’t drink in the week and had consumed no alcohol the evening before this event took place. I also only drink two coffees a day and was sleeping soundly until this incident occurred. Early in the morning of 08th Sept 2020 at approx 0350hrs I was woken by a loud solid thud. Our house is about 50 metres from a road and I thought a large truck must have hit a tree or something similar. Because the bedroom does not look out towards the road and there are trees along the fence, I knew that if I got up and looked out the window I wouldn’t be able to see anything, so I lay awake anticipating that I would pick up flashing lights of the emergency services after 10 or 20 minutes. Quite suddenly, after about 15 minutes my room was filled with bright light that was coming from the field just outside our garden on the same side as the bedroom window. The light was ice white and the room became fully lit like it was daytime. The unlined curtains were closed but the light was so bright and the experience so frightening and unusual, I didn’t dare get up to go and look out of the curtains for fear of whatever it was that was outside. I thought it would damage my eyes to look at it. It felt very abnormal and I was very scared in case I was in danger from whatever it was. I stayed still in my bed because I was worried that f I moved whatever it was outside would see (and might) hurt me somehow. After about 5 minutes the large light outside started to move upwards – I could see the light rising slowly up to around 20 metres from the ground, not only through the curtains but also through the small gap where the curtains meet at the top of the window. I ha! ve been in many situations where helicopters are present, however, another odd thing was that whatever this was seemed to make absolutely no sound. When the thing started to move upwards, my dog that sleeps on the bed leapt off the bed, barking hysterically and ran onto the landing. I followed her but really out of fear and to get away from being able to be seen through a window. As I followed the dog onto the landing I crouched down to move to the part of the landing where I could peek round the corner and see out onto the field through the large landing window. Suddenly there was a strong single pulse that passed through the house and right through my body. Our HP printer sprung to life with its arm moving out in preparation to print and I was frozen by fear momentarily. My immediate thought was that it was some sort of pulse created by an explosion of some sort. I thought a blast wave was going to follow in some way ( and a sudden fear swept through me that the house might collapse) but it didn’t, in fact right at that point, the light disappeared completely and whatever it was, was suddenly gone. I moved! slowly to the window and couldn’t see anything unusual other than clouds and stars in the sky. The next morning when I went into camp, the internet (MODNET) on camp was ‘down’ anddidnt return to normal for 2 days. I still haven’t got over it. I frequently wake in the very early morning and lay wondering whether it’s going to come back. Last night for example I got up twice to look out the window to where it landed to see if anything is there. Every time I walk across where it landed I look for signs on the ground…anything at all that indicates it was there. When I think about it my inside are fearful and my eyes well up with tears. This isn’t something I imagined. It did happen – my dog barking and the printer coming to life reassures me of that. It was such an odd event.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161660). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.