BBC Breakfast covered the Pennine UFO cluster – did anyone else see it?

Absolutely buzzing about this. Was watching BBC Breakfast Tuesday morning whilst eating my porridge and they did a 3-minute segment on the spate of UAP sightings around the Peak District over the last month. They actually interviewed two witnesses - a farmer from near Edale and a woman who saw something over Mam Tor at dusk.

The sceptical bit made me laugh - they wheeled out some university physicist who basically said 'swamp gas' without saying those exact words. But credit to the BBC, they didn't take the mickey out of the witnesses. Treated it fairly seriously, all things considered.

Has anyone on here reported sightings in that area recently? Would be good to cross-reference with what the telly said. The farmer mentioned a low humming sound around 21:30 hours.

Saw that! My mum rang me during the segment asking if I was watching. I said 'yeah, that's basically what I've been banging on about on Quirk Reports for months' - she just rolled her eyes. The Mam Tor sighting was particularly interesting because there have been three other reports from that side of the valley in the past six weeks. Starting to wonder if there's a pattern.

The sceptical bit made me laugh - they wheeled out some university physicist

Of course they did. Standard BBC formula: get a genuine witness, get someone credible sounding to debunk them, move on to the weather. Still, at least they're covering it. Better than the Mail Online turning it into a 'ALIENS? OR MASS HYSTERIA?' clickbait nightmare.

I'm that farmer they interviewed! Well, I'm mates with him anyway - we have a pint at the Nags Head in Grindleford. He's a genuine bloke, not some attention seeker. Been farming that land for 35 years and he's never seen anything like it. The humming thing is accurate - he said it made his teeth vibrate. Not making that up for telly.

Anyone else think it's slightly suspicious timing? We get three decent sightings, media covers it, suddenly everyone and their dog is reporting lights in the sky. Not saying the original witnesses are dodgy, just saying the publicity might be bringing out the fantasists as well.

@AlmostFlux the ". Suddenly everyone sees one". Effect is genuinely documented in UAP research - it's called social priming, and honestly it cuts both ways: either mass suggestion inflates reports, or the coverage finally gives legitimate witnesses permission to come forward without feeling daft.

Either way, three independent sightings with overlapping descriptions before the BBC even touched it is the bit worth fixating on - the media didn't create those.

Running a Uniden BC125AT scanner up here in Hampshire most nights and the Pennine cluster has me seriously considering a road trip north with my P-SB7 spirit box and a decent dashcam setup. If @grumpy_prowler's farmer mate is still seeing activity, that's your ground-zero right there.