Cairngorms gets quite a lot of RAF traffic actually. Typhoons regularly do training runs through that area and they can look very odd when you're underneath them and they're at certain angles.
Ilkley Moor has a proper UFO history - the 1938 sighting, the 1987 incident, various other reports. If this is a genuine sighting, it fits the pattern of activity in that area.
Welcome. There are quite a lot of us who came here via a specific weird experience rather than a general long-term interest, and I think those accounts are often the more interesting ones...
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