A routine dog walk in the Malvern Hills on August 2, 2025, led to an extraordinary viral event when Andrew Clifton, 40, captured footage of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. While filming his Labrador, Dash, playing fetch, Clifton inadvertently recorded a small, high-speed object streaking across the sky. The anomaly was only discovered upon reviewing the video in slow motion.
The clip quickly gained widespread attention after being shared on a UFO sightings Facebook group, subsequently going viral across social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), where it garnered over seven million views. The extraordinary speed and nature of the object have fueled considerable public speculation, with theories ranging from advanced military technology to extraterrestrial origins. Clifton himself expressed a pragmatic view, suggesting the object is "more likely to be some sort of military equipment that we don't know about." The Malvern Hills area has a history of unexplained aerial phenomena, with a previous sighting in August 2024 involving a bright, yellow light observed hovering above the hills. This event underscores a broader trend of increased public and governmental interest in UAP, with the Pentagon having officially released videos of unexplained aerial encounters in recent years.