Hello! Just had my first UFO sighting and I'm keen to learn more

Hi everyone, I'm Sarah from Hertfordshire and I've just signed up after seeing a thread about recent UAP activity over London airspace. Last Tuesday evening (around 8:45pm), I was in my garden hanging washing and noticed something absolutely bizarre in the sky - a triangular shape, silent, moving impossibly slowly against the wind. It was there for maybe 30 seconds before it accelerated and vanished.

I know how this sounds. My husband thinks I've lost it. But I've got a decent photo on my phone and I'm wondering if I should report it somewhere official, or if you lot are the people who actually take this stuff seriously? I've been reading the forums for the past three hours and I'm absolutely fascinated by all this.

Where should I start? Do I need special equipment to track these things?

Welcome aboard, Sarah! You've come to the right place. Upload that photo to the 'Alien Contact & Abduction' forum - folks there are brilliant at analysing sightings. Don't bother with official channels. The MoD takes forever and usually just says it was a weather balloon or swamp gas or whatever they're calling it this week.

For tracking, start simple: a good pair of binoculars (£60-80), a notebook, and a clear sky. Learn the flight paths of aircraft and satellites first so you can rule out mundane explanations. Half of UFO sightings are just the ISS or Elon Musk's Starlink trains, to be honest.

Lovely to have you here! The triangular shape is interesting - that's been reported over the Thames Valley and Rendlesham Forest area quite a bit. Could be classified military craft (RAF Lakenheath isn't far from you), or something genuinely unexplained. Either way, document everything: date, time, weather, direction, duration, behaviour.

Don't get too sucked in too quickly. This community is fun but it can be a bit... intense. Some people are genuine researchers, some are conspiracy theorists, and some just like a good yarn down the pub. Get yourself a cup of tea, look at some resources on the 'Skywatching & UAP Monitoring' forum, and take your time.

Post that photo! We'll help you figure out what it was. Though I'll warn you now - about 85% of the time it's something boring. But that other 15%... that's why we're all here.