Vikki Harrison saw something moving across the sky above Plymouth that she cannot explain.
It looked like a comet, except it was travelling fast and low near the horizon.
She filmed it. Her husband, who is ex-military, could not identify it either.
The glowing object appeared to have a bright tail as it sped through the night sky over the Devon city, as reported by CreatorZine.
Unlike a comet, it was not stationary. It moved quickly across the darkness before disappearing.
“It was very weird,” Harrison said.
Not the first time
Harrison said the sighting was not a one-off.
Since moving to their current home two years ago, with the garden backing onto woods, the couple have seen several things in the sky they could not account for.
“We’ve seen a couple of strange things in the sky since we’ve moved here two years ago,” she said.
“Things we haven’t been able to explain but haven’t been able to capture anything until seeing this.”
This time she got it on camera.
Plymouth’s growing reputation for strange lights
The sighting follows a similar incident near Plymouth last year, when Matt Kipling filmed an eerie glowing spiral in the sky while driving home on the A30 near Wadebridge, Cornwall.
He pulled over to record the lights and was equally unable to explain what he had seen.
Two unexplained sky events in the same corner of Devon and Cornwall in the space of a year is probably a coincidence.
It is also the kind of coincidence that keeps UFO forums busy for months.
Why it matters
UFO and unexplained sky footage is one of the most consistently shared content categories online, and clips with specific detail perform better than vague ones.
Harrison’s video has two things that make it travel: a visual that is genuinely hard to immediately explain, and the credibility of an ex-military observer who also could not identify it.
For creators covering unexplained phenomena, the south-west of England is producing material at a surprisingly steady rate.
No official explanation for the Plymouth sighting has been offered.
SpaceX, which was responsible for similar-looking trails over Los Angeles earlier this month, has not been linked to this one.
Harrison is still watching the sky. Given the view from her garden, that seems reasonable.
