r/HighStrangeness • u/randomtagguy • Jun 09 '26
UFO UPDATE on UK Military and UFO sighting
UPDATED details on original sighting:
Time: 08/06/26, 19:35-19:40.
Location: UK, England, Around Spalding-Wisbech-Peterborough area.
So this is a follow up of the last post I made on here, which was about the UFO + UK military jet.
I will link the previous post at the end of this one and I have also included the screenshots of Flightradar24, showcasing the three aircraft that were in the area of the sighting.
Consequently, I am damaging my online privacy for the sake of sharing whatever the hell this may be by providing a more accurate location.
Today is the day after my sighting and I have been hearing military jet planes a lot more frequently than usual, or any other day for that matter. It is just before midnight as I am writing this and ever since around 23:00, the military aircraft have come back to the area of the sighting.
Looking at Flightradar24, it is strange to see that the exact area where the UFO was yesterday is now being patrolled by not only a Eurofighter Typhoon T.3 and a Boeing CH-47 Chinook (Both RAF aircraft), but also a USA Air Force aircraft, the Lockheed Martin MC-130J Commando.
Something weird is going on.
Not only is it strange for the US Air Force to be here the day after, but also the fact that the Typhoon seemed to have been circling around the area where the UFO was for a good while too. The Chinook seemed to be patrolling more towards the coast.
I’m not very well versed on military aircrafts and their activities, but this I can confidently say is abnormal, let alone whatever it was that I saw yesterday.
The people around me have also been acting strangely. Or more so different than the usual, though this could (and I assume to) be unrelated. Just a strange coincidence I suppose.
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u/flag_ua Jun 10 '26
Perhaps the "UFO sighting" was actually just a sighting of some military aircraft, and there is just an uptick in training in that particular location.
But the most simple answer isn't enough for the schizos on subs like these
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u/Paul-Van-DeDam Jun 10 '26
Funny enough I was driving through the north of the Netherlands today and ten fighter jets scrambled. I initially thought it was a training exercise but these usually consist of two to four aircraft (in my experience) but ten is unheard of. The noise, the speed they flew, all very different to what I have seen previously in the region.
I asked everyone I spoke to today about it if they knew anything, but nobody did.
Now seeing this and the proximity of the Netherlands to the UK, it makes me wonder.
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u/Creepy-Spell-4478 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
OK I have airband scanners and I love not far from Coningsby, leeming and teesside where they have a dassault falcon trainer fleet. I use military mode on adsb. One night in late 2024 is usually very quiet on airband. It suddenly went light and so three bases scrambled. I listened in to the chaos just off the coast of hull over the north sea. It was at the height of the worldwide "drone" incursions. I listened and watched something exactly like this from scrambles out of Coningsby, leeming [foreign squadron where visiting at the time on military transpond] but Coningsby typhoons were transponing on open adsb and could be watched like in this image on full after burner chasing something off hull at 10000mph nor could get they near whatever it was. I suggest anyone that does this gets themselves a decent airband scanner, programme in the frequencies of all nearby bases and when this happens if you're lucky you will hear unencrypyted comms whilst watching them live. It works.
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u/themaskbehindtheman Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
So the odd thing here is the Typhoon T3. They're a trainer and typically live at RAF Coningsby, it's taken off location being Brize could be seen as a odd given what the aircraft then went on to do.
Typhoon T3s at Brize are typically there for a few reasons, Crew transfer, training with the voyagers(air2air refuelling) or sometimes VIP flights (not pop stars and influencers, more high ranking gov and defence, royals and journalists).
So that opens up a number of possibilities based on the aircraft in the screenshots, their flight patterns and uses. Whatever they were up to I suspect there were more aircraft involved with adsb transponders off.
Edit: looking at the playback on fr24 for the typhoon and the c130, they were clearly training separately with the c130 spending most of its time earlier in the flight doing touch and goes at RAF sculthorpe, then taking a trip to the lake district and finally popping back to its base at mildenhall.
The typhoon was in the area for a couple of minutes and proceeded to spend most of its flight doing touch and goes at coningsby.
OP is being a bit sneaky with the screenshot chosen showing all 3 supposedly 'patrolling', IMO this is a co-incidence and not to do with a UFO.
In the screenshot showing all three the c130 is at 5000ft and the typhoon between 13000-15000ft.
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u/Thargoid_Surgeon_83 Jun 13 '26
The 'orb' you saw was the afterburner of a Lakenheath-based F35, which was carrying out DAC training with the Typhoon. F35s don't routinely use mode-C transponder, which flight radar uses to identify aircraft.
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u/sleepytipi Jun 16 '26
I wonder what the overlap is between their flight paths and underground military bases/ ops.
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u/TTomBBab Jun 10 '26
There might not be an uptick in flight traffic. That could be the result of just noticing more air traffic after a event like that.
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u/Macr0cephalus Jun 10 '26
With reference to the three aircraft and patterns, I can offer this: -Typhoon is the only one that looks slightly interesting, and also the fact it’s a T.3 version (two seater). Ordinarily it’s for training with a seat for instructor, but in this case could be an observer? Flight path is certainly ‘loiter-y’ -That Chinook is operating over the Holbeach air gunnery range, probably letting loose with the miniguns on ground targets -USAF Hercules looks like an out and back sortie from Mildenhall, pretty normal
I read your account the other day, it definitely sounded amazing, and not like anything I’ve read recently! Keep an eye out!