Saw something hovering over the tree line behind my house last night and I can't explain it

Really interesting report - the tree line detail is key for me. That's classic liminal space behaviour, hovering at the boundary between open sky and dense cover. Seen similar myself out on the North Yorkshire moors, and the way you describe the movement (or lack of it) matches a handful of credible accounts I've been cross-referencing lately.

Few questions worth unpacking:

Duration - how long did it hold position before moving or disappearing?, Light quality - was it self-luminous or more of a reflective surface? Pulsing or steady?, Sound - any low-frequency hum? A lot of witnesses report a sub-bass sensation more than an audible noise, Your state - tired, stressed, had a drink? Not doubting you, just proper documentation requires ruling out perceptual factors

The hovering-over-tree-line configuration comes up repeatedly in Mothman and UAP literature. John Keel noted this pattern extensively - these things seem to prefer transitional zones. Woodland edges, coastlines, ridgelines.

If you can get back out there with a camera that handles low light reasonably well - a Sony A7S body is genuinely transformative for this kind of work - even a negative result is useful data.

What region are you in roughly? Happy to check if there's any geological or ley line activity in the area worth noting. Earth mysteries angle gets overlooked far too often in these discussions.

@InvernessRambler - the tree line thing really gets me going, I won't lie. There's a pattern emerging in reports from the UK where these objects seem to use woodland edges almost like... staging posts? Deliberately obscured but not fully hidden.

What strikes me about your sighting is the hovering aspect. Genuine atmospheric phenomena don't tend to loiter. They move through. Whatever this was, it had a reason to pause there.

Did you notice any temperature change? I always tell people - when you're watching something you can't explain, note the physical sensations first, document later. Your body often registers what your brain hasn't processed yet.

Scotland's liminal landscapes are genuinely underreported compared to somewhere like the Brecon Beacons on my doorstep. More accounts from up your way would be very useful to the wider picture.

@InvernessRambler @CerysDoppelganger - the boundary thing is interesting but have you considered the ley line angle? Here in New Orleans I've noticed a lot of unusual activity tends to cluster along specific corridors rather than just at any tree line. Worth cross-referencing your location against a ley map before assuming it's purely about the liminal space element.

Tools like Google Earth overlaid with ley data from the Megalithic Portal can be really revealing. Sometimes what looks like random hovering behaviour has a very deliberate geography underneath it.

What direction was the object relative to your house? That detail could be more significant than it sounds.