Cornwall's Tic Tac Attack
UFO Footage of Lore
The county of Cornwall on England’s rocky southwestern peninsula has experienced an unusually large number of unexplained objects in the sky over the years. So much so, the local press took to calling the area “The Cornwall Triangle” after the famous “Bermuda Triangle” located in the Atlantic Ocean.
In January of 2008, two Cornish UFO photos made headlines within a week of each other. Printed in the pages of the British newspaper, The Sun, both images showed small, round objects traveling over large ships at sea. Different photographers took the shots from similar locations near an area of rugged coastline, south of Falmouth.
The cameraman behind the first photo, Kelvin Barbery, admittedly did not see the UFO at the time he snapped the image. He was taking landscape photos of the ocean and only later spotted the anomalous object after his pictures were printed.
The response was initially positive. Nick Pope, the famed UFO researcher and former member of Britain's MoD, remarked on the photo at the time: “If I was still there I'd be looking at this very closely. The object looks structured, symmetrical and metallic. This man has caught something very interesting indeed.”
However, upon further inspection, Barbery’s photo was reasonably explained as being only a blurry bird, streaking across the camera lens while in flight.
A second photo and story ran in the January 4, 2008 edition of The Sun with the title “New Cornish UFO sighting pic.” The article seemed to attract less attention than the previous one despite providing highly intriguing visual evidence.
The image accompanying the story showed what looked to be a compact, oblong craft hovering over a naval ship in port.
One witness stated he watched as the naval crew scrambled a helicopter for a short flight — returning to the ship’s deck within minutes after taking off. He grabbed a few photos of the action before heading home to review them in a larger format. Viewing the images on his computer revealed exactly what the chopper had been chasing — “a UFO.”
According to The Sun, similar images of alleged aerial vehicles were captured by two other photographers over the same area of water. One eyewitness sounded certain that it wasn’t a bird: “It didn’t look like any normal aircraft so I’m sure it’s a UFO.”
What makes the Cornwall sightings and non-avian photograph so compelling are how they compare to recent reports and footage of UFOs tracked by U.S. Navy ships and pilots.
The oval-shaped object in the 2008 Cornwall image resembles descriptions given by U.S. Navy pilots Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich during their brush with an unknown aerial craft off the coast of California in 2004 (the ‘Nimitz Encounter’).
Fravor described the strange craft as a “40-ft-long white Tic Tac with no wings.”
From Dietrich’s vantage point, it appeared as a “smooth, white oblong object resembling a large Tic Tac breath mint flying at high speed over the water.”
Video taken during the Nimitz Encounter shows an unidentified craft barreling across the surface of the Pacific Ocean after its detection by a naval vessel. The object bears a striking resemblance to the 2008 UFO that multiple witnesses saw “buzzing a Navy ship” over Cornwall.
These similarities suggest that the phenomenon could be part of a larger pattern — one that’s existed for decades and isn't confined to U.S. waters.
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