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5 JULY 2010 – BRISTOL CHANNEL

10 PM/10.30 PM. Ellis Evans was camping with his partner and a friend on his family farm land on the Heritage Coast between Southerndown and Nash Point.

They saw a huge bright orange-white ball travelling up the Bristol Channel (eastwards) towards the Glamorgan coast at an altitude which he compared to being about 2-3 times the height of the cliffs of Minehead across the channel.

When it was roughly between Ilfracombe and Minehead it changed its direction of travel instantly by 90 degrees, turning south and shooting off towards Exmoor National Park, travelling at least four times the cruising speed at which it had come up the channel.

He said, “We have a military training base at St. Athan which means I see fast jets occasionally and this object’s cruising speed was equal to a fast jet flying over the channel, but that 90 degree turn?”

There was no sound or flashing navigation lights associated with the object. It displayed a consistent glow at both observable directions of travel.

Source: www.uk-ufo.co.uk and correspondence with SUFON (Emlyn Williams) 22 October 2015.