Summary
On March 31, 1993 multiple witnesses across England saw a large triangular-shaped UAP flying in the sky that left a luminous wake in the area of several Royal Air Force (RAF) bases.
Ministry of Defence officers reported “a vast triangular shaped craft flying at about 200 feet” that made a low humming noise and fired a beam of light over the ground. It left trails of luminous vapor before speeding off to a South East direction. Around the same time, similar UAPs were sighted in the skies nearby.
Dozens of triangular-shaped UAPs were reported moving in the sky across western Britain, and reported in areas like the Midlands on the same night. A family in the town of Rugeley in Staffordshire county claimed they chased a UAP across the Staffordshire countryside into a field before it disappeared. In Quantock Hills, Somerset, a police officer along with a group of scouts reported seeing an aircraft described as ‘“looking like two Concordes side-by-side and joined together.”
One of the witness described the craft to the Huffington Post:
“It was a black triangle shape, structured, approx 200 feet in length and approx 150 feet to 200 feet in diameter. It was very defined, and blocked out the stars, as it was a clear night with no clouds. On the two rear points of the triangle I noticed a faint red or orange-colored glow and at the front the triangle was omitting a brilliant white light, and this was moving 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 two 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 up to tell them what I had just witnessed, all of us then went outside to see if we could see the craft but there was nothing.”
Nick Pope investigated UAPs for the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence. The program investigated UAPs until 2009.
“The Cosford Incident was the most high-profile and compelling UFO incident that took place during my time on the MoD’s UFO project in the early 1990s,” he said to the Express Star.
Pope believed the Cosford sighting was examined by the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was run secretly by the American government between 2007 and 2012.
“It is inconceivable to me that this wouldn’t be one of the incidents mentioned in the secret US report,” Pope said. “I’m sure the Americans knew all about the Cosford Incident, and maybe conducted some discreet enquiries of their own… If US intelligence found any answers (about the Cosford Incident), it’s not clear whether they told British defence chiefs. I’d left the MoD by the time AATIP was set up, so I don’t know whether the Americans briefed us on their findings.”
UAP skeptics believe the sighting was a Russian radio satellite that was jetted into the sky and the debris from its rocket booster fell back down to Earth, as well as being combined with sightings of police helicopters.
