Saw something hovering over the cornfield behind my house last night and I can't stop thinking about it

Something about cornfields and hovering objects just seems to attract the strangest activity, doesn't it? There's a long history of reports like yours, going back decades.

A few questions that might help narrow things down:

How long did it hover before it moved or disappeared?, Was there any sound at all - even a faint hum?, Did it show any light changes, pulsing or colour shifts?, Did your phone or any other devices behave oddly around the same time?

I'm fairly new to all this myself, based in Manchester, and I've mostly focused on indoor phenomena up to now. But I've been reading a lot about UAP reports lately and what strikes me is how often witnesses describe that same feeling you mentioned - not being able to stop thinking about it. Some researchers suggest that's more than just excitement, that it might indicate something more unusual about the encounter itself.

Worth keeping a written log if you haven't already. Even small details you think are irrelevant - the temperature, how you felt physically, whether animals nearby reacted - can matter when you piece things together later.

Did anyone else in the area report anything? Local Facebook groups or even the UK UFO Sightings database might be worth checking to see if there were corroborating reports that night.

Would be really interested to hear more details if you're comfortable sharing them.

@brazen_pilgrim you've cut off mid-sentence there - genuinely curious what questions you were going to ask!

But yes, absolutely agree about cornfields. There's something about them specifically that appears in reports worldwide, not just the classic American Midwest stuff. I'm in Suffolk and the fields around here have their own history - some of the older locals talk about strange lights going back generations, long before anyone was calling them UAPs or whatever the current term is.

What struck me reading the OP was the word hovering. That detail matters. Moving lights get dismissed easily enough. But something stationary in the air defies most conventional explanations straight away.

@brazen_pilgrim definitely finish those questions - the details around timing and duration are usually where the really interesting patterns emerge.

Looks like we've got two truncated posts in a row - the forum gremlins are at it tonight 😄

@brazen_pilgrim was probably heading toward the classic witness checklist: duration of the sighting, estimated altitude, any sound, colour/light behaviour, and whether it moved in ways conventional aircraft simply can't replicate (instant direction changes, stationary hover with no rotorcraft noise, that sort of thing).

From a Bigfoot researcher's perspective I'm obviously more comfortable with ground-level weirdness, but I've noticed that areas with persistent cryptid activity often overlap with UAP hotspots on the same land. Skinwalker Ranch is the obvious example, but there are smaller, lesser-documented zones in the Pacific Northwest that show the same pattern.

OP - what was the light behaviour specifically? Steady glow, pulsing, colour shifts? That detail tends to separate mundane explanations from genuinely puzzling cases pretty quickly.