Light over Benson (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
2 x bright lights traveling North through the constellation Cassiopeia, almost directly over head. Travelled very slowly, maintaining the same distance apart, almost directly North. Very bright like aircraft flares. Passed through Cassiopeia and then went out together. I am in the Royal Airforce and consider myself a sound witness. I have not seen anything like this before. They were not aircraft, and there were other commercial aircraft in the airspace at the time doing the usual blinking between red and white light. The 2 UFOs were not flashing, just constant slow moving bright white lights. The other witness is also in the military, and we are both clueless to what we just witnessed, and have not been drinking.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122129). 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 2015-09-17 → 2015-10-04