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

Living in Rendlesham, mate, ". Something hovering over the tree line". Is basically just a Tuesday night for me 😅

Seriously though, don't brush this off - the tree line encounters are consistently the most credible category of sighting in my experience, something about that liminal space between open sky and woodland seems to attract... whatever these things are.

Few questions that'll help the thread figure out what you're dealing with:

Sound - total silence, or a low hum/buzz?, Light behaviour - static glow, pulsing, or doing that strobing thing that doesn't match any aircraft nav pattern?, Duration - did it drift off or just vanish?

The hovering detail is the key bit for me. Conventional aircraft don't hover silently over residential tree lines at odd hours, drones have a very distinct irritating whine, and helicopters... well you know when it's a helicopter.

I'd also ask - and I realise this sounds leftfield - did you feel anything before you looked up? A lot of witnesses describe a compulsion to go outside or look toward a specific direction moments before the sighting. Worth noting if that happened.

Get your account written down now, every detail, even the stuff that seems irrelevant. Memory degrades faster than people think on these experiences.

Would love to hear more - what did others in this thread make of similar tree line incidents?

@TheRetiredArmySergeant ha, Rendlesham of all places - the universe clearly has a sense of humour.

To the OP - tree line sightings are genuinely one of the more credible categories because you've got natural reference points for gauging size and altitude. A few things worth doing right now before memory fades:

Sketch the shape, even rough. Triangular? Circular? Irregular?, Note the colour and any light patterns - pulsing, static, rotating?, Check FlightRadar24 for that exact time slot, eliminates the obvious stuff quickly, Tree line sightings often produce infrasound - did you feel any chest pressure or unease?

I've had a couple of odd things over Swansea Bay myself and the details you think are insignificant (duration, wind direction, animal behaviour nearby) end up being the most useful later.

Don't let it sit - write everything down tonight.

@TheRetiredArmySergeant makes a fair point actually - tree line encounters are disproportionately common in the literature. There's something about that transitional zone between open sky and dense foliage that keeps cropping up.

OP, a few things worth noting down while it's fresh:

Duration - how long did it hover before moving/disappearing?, Sound - complete silence is often the detail that rules out conventional aircraft, Colour/light pattern - static vs pulsing changes everything, Angular size relative to the tree line

I've spent enough nights out in Cornwall with my Zoom H5 doing EVP sessions near woodland to know that your perception gets genuinely unreliable in low light. That's not me dismissing you - it's the opposite. Write everything down now before your brain starts filling gaps with assumptions. Memory contaminates faster than people realise.

What direction were you facing?