First UFO witnessed as a child has led me here...

This story is very similar to my own as a kid except for a different description of what We saw. I was maybe 13/14 years old so about 28 ish years ago.

I was playing football with a friend on a gravel football field in Ravenscourt Park, London. I hit the ball wide and my friend was just standing there staring into the sky. I went to get the ball and when I came back, my friend was still staring at the sky. I asked what he was looking at and he pointed to something that he said looked like a hole in the clouds but wasn't moving with the clouds. It took me a while to see it and at first I thought he was just messing with me.

Once I spotted it I couldn't un-see it. At first the object just looked like a blob at first but it seemed to change shape and it's a real struggle for me to explain. Imagine the image of different shapes a sparkler makes when you twirl it except it was black with maybe flashes of grey. It was also quite small. The only images I remember it forming was a tick (kind of like the Nike tick) and when it formed a circle/blob the centre kind of filled in. There were other shapes but I don't recall

It did the same thing as your story where it would move across the sky really quickly and it disappeared behind some distant trees and then come back above us again. It would stay in some spots and it didn't make a sound.

We would occasionally look around to see if anyone else had spotted it but no one else was looking. Eventually it slowly moved away until it disappeared behind the trees again and we lost sight of it.

We walked home discussing what it could be. A hole in the clouds? Bag in the sky? UFO? Secret government project? We accepted pretty quickly that we would never find out what it was and this is the first time I've really discussed the event. I'd never expect anyone to believe me really.

Reading back through my description, the obvious answer would be some sort of light trick from a nearby event but it really didn't look like that and wasn't that noticeable to make it worth doing. However, I won't dismiss the possibility.

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