2019-05-15 - Nottingham (UK/England) - Other

Red light, later pulsating. Grew larger in size and emitted red downward beam.

Time is approximate and is GMT. It was night time and the sky was dark. I was travelling in a car with 2 others, my friend (the driver) and my partner who was in the back seat. I was in the front passenger seat (left seat in English car, and also driving on left side of the motorway). We had been to see Nightwish at the Birmingham Arena, so the date is accurate. The time is approximate. We were driving home north from Birmingham up the M1. The location would have been close to the west of Leicester or Nottingham. I could see a city to the east of the road, but uncertain which one it was. They're not that far apart anyway.

I saw a red light in the sky fairly low down, but above tree height. Height is difficult to guess as we were moving. It looked like a large star. I thought it unusual, but I initially thought maybe it was Mars. It began pulating and appeared to grow larger. A broad red beam emerged downwards from the pulating light. The beam had well defined edges, but the strange thing was that the beam did not fade out at the bottom, but had a well-defined flat bottom edge. Just then we passed a row of trees on the left side of the road blocking my view of it. When the car had passed the row of trees the light and beam had gone. I did not tell either of the others what I’d seen at the time, although I told my partner later on. He had not seen it .


((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD))