Posted: July 13, 2009

Date of Sighting: 13 July 2009
Time: 00.05

Witness Statement: Just after midnight into 13 July, I stepped outside and saw a bright golden light to the right in the night sky. It took me a few minutes to determine it was not a star (probably 2 or 3 times bigger than Venus), nor was it a moving plane. It seemed to be hovering and moving quite slowly. A few seconds later, it moved further east in a straight line and moments later it seemed to shoot off with great speed in the same direction and I saw it within seconds became just a pinprick and then it was gone. The shape - it appeared to have a wider bottom with a narrower short tower on top - a bit like a bottle cap.

It resembled nothing I had ever seen before and I do think it was a UFO. Location at a guess it was over Shoeburyness and the Thames Estuary