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Triangle over Stansted (UK/England) · United Kingdom

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I live by the airport in Stansted, England, and I'm used to seeing and hearing planes and other aircraft in the sky! On said morning, I looked out of my kitchen window and saw, not far away and not too high in the sky, two triangles of coloured lights hovering in the night sky. The formation of lights were unlike anything I normally see in the area. The colour of the lights were also not like anything normally seen on aircraft. The lights were on the UFO but I could only see the blur/distortion of a body that the lights were attached to. The blur/distortion made two triangles that were attached to each other. As I watched for some 2 minutes the craft just hovered, slightly rocking in motion with both sets of red, orange and white lights facing me in their triangle formation. I listened for helicopter noises as these can be heard for some distance from my flat but there was no noise. I looked to the grounds outside of my flat for pranksters thinking of toy drones, but saw no one! It would have had to have been a Hollywood funded prank anyway! After watching for another 2 minutes the craft slowly moved off to my right, taking a good minute to do so, until I could no longer see it, as if it knew I was watching and slowly moved away so I couldn't. I am a avid sky watcher and truth seeker and have only ever seen something like this once before!

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118513). 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 2015-04-09 → 2015-04-26