Silver Sphere, South Downs National Park, England, February 2025
An active member of the UFO scene filmed these images in February 2025 in a national park in southern England. Despite wind speeds of 16 km/h, the object remained motionless in the sky. The main image was taken with a Nikon P1000. For comparison, an additional image taken with an iPhone 14 Pro Max is shown starting at 0:42.
This highlights a fundamental problem that affects many UFO images: Conventional smartphones usually have a digital zoom, not an optical one. While optical zoom magnifies the image using real lenses without any loss of quality, digital zoom only enlarges a section of the image – which inevitably leads to blurriness. For this reason, UFO images taken with smartphones often appear blurry or lacking in detail.
To substantiate the authenticity of the scene, the filmmaker also released a second video. It shows the raw footage being filmed on the Nikon P1000 display with an iPhone—as proof that it is not a subsequent fake.
For even more detailed information, we have included the filmmaker's statement translated into German at the end of this article.
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Relevant information
Object: Silver, metallic sphere. Smooth, light-reflecting surface
Filmed: Reddit user “Creepastaa”
Date: February 11, 2025
Location: South Downs National Park in the south of England
Behavior: Despite wind speeds of 16 km/h, the object remained silent and motionless in its position.
Statement from "Creepastaa" on the recordings
(Translated into German by ChatGPT)
"I'll try to keep this short. On January 29, I wrote a post talking about wanting to capture high-resolution 4K footage of a UFO.
I have the necessary equipment and have met with a person who claimed to be able to "call" one of these objects. Since my original post, we've been trying to find a suitable day to meet.
I arrived at a place just outside the South Downs National Park - an area in the south of England that covers 1,627 square kilometers (or 628 square miles) and runs for 140 kilometers (87 miles) through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex.
The weather was perfect and clear, but there was a wind of about 10 mph (about 16 km/h).
I filmed the subject over a period of 20 minutes – with both my Nikon P1000 and my iPhone.
For comparison, I took a shot of the subject with my iPhone 14 Pro Max to demonstrate that mobile phone shots are, and will continue to be, of poor quality in such cases when it comes to the kind of shots we really need. I was surprised by how different the subject appeared on the iPhone.
The exact distance of the object was difficult to estimate. I estimate it was about 400 meters (1,322 feet) from my position. The cars passing in the background appear close, but according to Google Earth, they are about 1,080 meters (3,543 feet) away. So the object was somewhere between those two points. I was also filming from the top of a hill with a slight incline, so our viewpoint was above most of the trees below us.
When zooming in, I noticed a strange blur around the object, and I had trouble getting a consistent, clear shot. It was as if the camera briefly focused on the object, and immediately afterward, a ring of blur appeared around it. I've never seen anything like this with this camera before—only with very bright, circular objects in dark surroundings through a telescope. Maybe it's nothing, but it caught my eye.
Several times in the video, you can see the object descending and then moving upward or sideways. The wind was about 16 km/h (10 mph), so if it had been just a piece of debris or a light object caught in an updraft, it would have traveled about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) in 13 minutes. We were on site for about 30 minutes, filmed for about 20 minutes, and the object stayed in the same place the entire time—it definitely didn't move for several kilometers.
As I was switching between cameras, the object moved upward and diagonally—and within 20 seconds, it disappeared. However, I still have photos of the moment it moved away, or out of the frame.
I also took about 90 photos of the object with the Nikon P1000—some of them are very clear. I plan to create a complete video with all the released footage."