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Circle over Crosshill (Ayrshire)(UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom

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

The report, as filed

WE SAW SEVEN ORANGE COLOURED DISC SHAPE OBJECTS IN THE SKY, WHILE DRIVING HOME. THEY WERE GOING ACROSS THE SKY FROM WEST TO EAST AND FLIYING IN FORMATION QUITE SLOW. THERE WERE TWO LOWER AND THEN FIVE STRAIGHT LIKE AN ARROW. WE WERE ASTOUNDED AND PULLED INTO A LAYBY AND STOPPED THE CAR AND PUT OUT CAR LIGHTS. I GOT OUT AND THERE WAS NO SOUND AT ALL. IT WAS COMPLETELY SILENT, WHICH WAS UNUSUAL. WE THEN OBSERVED ANOTHER ORANGE CIRCLE COMING FROM THE SAME DIRECTION A BIT FURTHER BEHIND THEN ANOTHER. AT THIS POINT I GOT MY MOBILE PHONE OUT AND TOOK A PHOTO OF THE TWO REAR ONES, AND THEN ANOTHER APPEARED FROM THE SAME DIRECTION MAKING 10 IN ALL. WHEN I CHECKED THE PHONE LATER, ALL I SAW WAS TWO DOTS. WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS EVER BEFORE AND WE ARE USED WITH AIRCRAFT OVERHEAD. THIS IS THE STRANGEST THING I HAVE EVER WITNESSED AND WHY I FELT IT HAD TO BE REPORTED. I HAVE SPOKEN TO VARIOUS PEOPLE AND O ONE ELSE SO FAR HAS SEEN IT. The witness called the NUFORC Hotline from Scotland. He sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect that he is a very good, and highly reliable, witness. PD

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #134190). 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 2017-05-20 → 2017-06-06