Triangle over St. Albans (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Good light and clear sky with a few streaks of stratospheric clouds. Saw glinting which I thought was a high altitude large aircraft. Very high, ~40,000 ft. Got binoculars. Amazed to see it was triangle with lights on tumbling. One bright light on one end. Not reflected from sun as light stayed in same place on object. Regular tumbling motion as it moved across the sky. Looking at the scene were three of these objects in total. identical in size, attributes and behaviour. They were evenly moving together. I'm used to tracking planes, space station and satellites, but these were not. I'm not a UFO believer but am not scared as I am a practicing Catholic, and soI called on Jesus to save us and prayed the St. Michael prayer, as whatever these things are in the heavens - military, natural or supernatural, they cannot be from God or for our good.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111985). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 2014-07-26 → 2014-08-12
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