Hi ArMaP,
I cannot be sure what I observed with sort of certainty.. so some of the things that you suggest could be quite possible.
I can only tell what I thought that I was witnessing... and in ref to comparing to other things that I have seen in the past and why I may be thinking what I describe.
In terms of the Object or craft what ever it may have been... IF it was a aircraft which is normally what I would have expected it to be... at 4 am in the morning.. its was very quiet time early morning before sunrise... the sky was dark enough for the object to appear as quiet a bright light..but as I mentioned... it was not going that fast IMO for the the height that I was somehow estimating it to be... Now in terms of actual height above me... thats not easy to give an answer to... but in terms of other past aircraft that I often see fly over around my area... I say generally it was lower than most and also slower for the height that I may have considered it to be based also on the brightness of the moving object..
The shape of the object from naked eye.. was a reasonable bright yellowish light...appearing reasonable sized compared to many other general aircraft that I have normally seen in the past. But there was no obvious shape to it other than a round bright yellowish light.
But when I looked thru the binoculars and eventually zoomed in on it... it certainly appeared different in that maybe some of the brighter surrounding light was not distorting my vision of it as was by naked eye..
and as I mentioned on zooming in and focusing in on it... I could then see the object more clearly... and as I said it apeared to be spiraling, twisting & like zig zagging.. and I said it looked sort of snake like.... or maybe like a floppy tube or coil like object but appearing more silvery bright... It may have reminded me of something that I have seen on a video floating in space when there was a thread about some of the things seen floating around the Space shuttle that maybe at the time was being questioned as to what it was... but since I have seen some TV programs that suggested that the snake like object seen around the shuttle had been something that the astronauts had lost.... (or maybe that was NASAs excuse if it was something else)
Normally I think that I would have heard the object if it had been an aircraft as often I seem to do..
The conditioneds were clear and calm... but no doubt after the hot weather from the day before and into the night, air distortion could certainly have been quite a possibility...
It was travelling along the same direction as one of the other craft that I had reported or mentioned in this thread in post one... that I saw the day before I seen a TR3B in the day time at mid day the next day..back in Sept 2017.
It was flying close but slightly to the west of being overhead or not far from flying direct above my house at least as it approached over my street area.. but initially Id seen it at the back of the house further to the North west horizion above another row of houses as far as I could see... but I could not see it appear from low on the actual more toward ground level horizion..
and when it passed over the house / street... it was visible until it had gone over the houses on the opposite side of the street.
So Id say that it was travelling from around North West to south to / South East as I say at 4 am over the Mid U.K.
This is some images that I found on a quick search that may be a bit similar..
BUT the other factor is was what I was seeing due movement of my optics...
As much as I know that does or can happen.... I was trying to be extra careful to keep them as steady as I could... and yet It still appeared as I descibed.. of which I personally would not have expected....
Id say somewhere between the 1st two images but the 1st one which appears horizontal like... was appearing more towards the slanted vertical when I looked thru the binoculars and was was facing more towards the direction that it was moving towards... so if you think of it going in a vertical looking position...you may think its going straight up. or down (in my case it may have appeared going down at an angle as it disappeared over the next row of houses) as it was going or aiming partly further away from me from my eyeview... but in the suggested direction as it went over the other houses... rather than when it may appear horizontal... you may think its going left to right or right to left...
The mystery to me if was snake or flexible tube like, would be why did it appear so bright ? how would it be generating light if its due to sunlight catching it....during the darkness of the night...and how was it moving like it was...what would have been Powering it ?
I could not imagine it being an aircraft, or UFO ET wise... or a drone... and it was not some sort of chinese lantern. or any sort of meteor or astro like object that I can think of...
Id say it was moving at a steady constant what seem relatively slow speed and in one continual direction...
There was no sign of any comm or chem trail or any other sort of light yoy may have expected to see on any sort of expected known aircraft or UFO like object that I would have generally considered..
Im guessing somewhere between 15,000 to 20,000 feet... it was not one of higher aircraft type flyovers which are usually 30,000 feet.. id say more toward half that height...
It was not approaching towards any airport ... and dont think it was any sort of airship or blimp or drone..
Id say at some stage that I saw something like this when I may have had some binocular movement...
and you would see some zig zagging or movement effect..
But as I say it also appeared to be spiraling...or rolling / twisting along the line of the direction that it was going..
like imagine having a flexible rubber hose or tube of say 20 feet long and 6 inches diameter... and the ends of the hose or tube and one end of the tube is aiming in the direction that it is going and the other end is the back of the object.. but then you see it appear to be rolling along its centreline... and then you see it sort of ziz zagging snake like as its also moving along...or twisting where the head of it is moving slightly left to right and vice versa...or up and downwards..or within similar positions of say within a 360 degree possible movement ....(you may imagine up as top of a circle... down as the bottom of a circle at 180 degree... Right or East as say 90 degees.... and Left or east as 270 degrees if say you were looking at its centreline from a certain position, face on looking at it end on say.. ) or maybe its like if you had a hose pipe or compressed airline.. and turned the tap on slowly and more build up the pressue within the pipe gradually more and more... and was not holding it... it may start doing strange things..but in my case it was still maintaining a overall direction as it was moving along in its main directional centreline, but it was twisting and spiraling around that at the same time...
this image shows far too long a tail... so it was not as long as this... but maybe more like a shorter version
or maybe more like this as it was going over the next row of houses..
It may even have been something like this.. maybe a balloon tube like object ... but I did not note the same colour..
and I could NOT imagine a longer narrow like balloon appearing bright and moving like it was.. unless it was continualy pulsing air out to propell it on slow basis at such a height and as long as I witnessed it for... which would have been maybe 2 to 3 minutes in total at a guess...
I seem to recall maybe this snake like object was discussed on PRC before..but was seen in space from a spacecraft if I recall.... was it some sort of earthlike snake that has say been taken up into the earths atmosphere.. or some how got into space or may some creature that lives in space above the earth as "Z" has indicated before with orbs and stuff like that...
maybe like a flying snake that reached the upper atmosphere and got into space somehow over time and some how feeds on something up there and breathes to survive somehow ...
could such a thing really be possible !
THEN coming towards the end of the day and since I have been writing this post... I just outside my house and sitting down drinking a cup of tea as the daylight is starting to fade.... and I hear for the 1st time ever in my area... what sounded like a drone...
I am looking up trying to see something maybe just above house height.. 30 foot of so.... and cannot see anything...
BUT then I look higher and spot a small type of drone hovering almost above the house ,id say 4 x times higher than a house... 120 foot high or more and just hovering there for a couple of minutes.... After I spotted it.... it then started moving away...
Is a local flying it or some sort of spy network ? what ever it seems very weird and rather a coincidence as I never seen one fly over my area ever before today...
If it was far enough you wouldn't ear any sound from it, we usually don't ear a jet 10 km away, for example.
Could the "twisting" be a result of air distortion, like a mirage effect?
Also, can you tell us what was the shape of the object? You said it didn't look like any other, but how was it's shape and colour? In what direction was it moving? How high over the horizon was it? In what area of the horizon was it: north, south?