Archive: a witness reported seeing unusual lights above the Cat and Fiddle road in 2019.

In July 2019, a woman described seeing unusual lights while driving on the Cat and Fiddle road. The report is a personal account; the nature of what she saw has not been established. Writer Darcus Wolfson dated the sighting to late July in a later account.

The Cheshire resident, who regularly visited Buxton, said she saw the lights around midnight on the A537 between Buxton and Macclesfield. She asked to remain anonymous and shared her account:

“I kept seeing something in the corner of my eye and I just thought it must be a bat but it kept zipping, no lights, just movement, so so fast. I followed the road, then I started seeing green lights and again, zipping movement. I saw three red flashing red lights in a triangle, then it zipped off. I took the long way round and kept my eye on the sky, then I saw a very faint light ahead. I kept looking and it was just hovering. At one point, I stopped and tried to take a video but it was dark and cloudy. When I got closer, it was like someone turned the switch off and it just disappeared. Once I realised I was alone in the hills, I got scared. Well, I clearly wasn’t alone! I googled it when I got home and there was a similar story in the Derbyshire Times in January.”

The 2019 article also referred to a 1716 light in the Chapel-en-le-Frith parish register. Derbyshire Record Office identifies that description as the aurora borealis, not evidence of an extraterrestrial craft. NASA’s 2023 independent study found no conclusive evidence in peer-reviewed literature for an extraterrestrial origin of unidentified anomalous phenomena; many reports lack enough data to identify their cause.

By Darcus Wolfson.