Flash over Basingstoke (Hampshire)(UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking at stars towards the south and I noticed the corner of my left eye a flash in space like a camera taking pictures, so I turned and looked up into space and noticed a faint light moving between the stars, then another flash occurred and noticed how large the unidentified object was. It was around 5 times bigger than the stars, it flashed again and moved then stopped, then another flash. Could it be the international space station or a satellite? Possibly a tumbling rocket casing?? PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132981). 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 2017-03-01 → 2017-03-18