2009-06-27 - Walton-on-Thames, Surrey (UK/England) - Fireball

Very bright large fireball hovered low, slowly went up above moon, light went out and grey object went slowly out of site.

I am a 43 yr old woman, and I was going to collect my 3 children from my mothers house, who lives about 1 and a half miles from my home.

It was a very warm evening, sky was clear and sun had just about gone down. The sky was still quite blue, and the moon was very bright. I had just gone out to my car at the front of the house, and I stopped to admire the evening sky over the river thames. There is a small open park in between my house and the river, and a lot of open sky without any obstruction.

I immediately noticed a very bright flame in the sky, right above the park and not more than a mile high from the ground. It was definitely not something that I had ever seen before, and it was obvious to me that it was something out of the ordinary. At first, I was just watching it, wondering what it could be, and trying to make sense of it. The more I watched, the less I could explain it.

I went quickly to the park and also to the other end of the street to see if anyone was around to witness it with me, but there was nobody. I hadn't really taken my eyes off it all the time. I then took a photo of it, as it was raising further and further upwards and to the left, with my phone camera.

I then knocked on my neighbours door, and before she answered, I noticed the flame had gone out and there was a grey object left, floating up and away to the left. My neighbour came out, and she looked up and saw it. She said to me that it looked like it could be a UFO. I said I had taken a photo of it, and I would put it onto my computer and see what it looked like once I could zoom in.

I put it onto the computer later that night, and after zooming in on the object, I have no doubt it was a UFO I saw. The object has an obvious shape around the flame, as though the flame was in the centre of the craft, and the craft looks like it is metallic and has definite angles.

The next day, my neighbours husband said he heard someone in a local shop saying that they had seen something in the sky and they thought it was a plane crash. I dont know if they were talking about the same thing I saw, but what I saw and photographed was definitely too bright and stayed too long for nobody else to have seen it.