Other over Telford (UK/England), WA · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Not sure if it’s you who I can report this to. I was sat outside at 06:03 in Telford, England. When I was looking at the stars and seen a star like light moving slowly across the sky at first I thought it was the space station then realised it wasn’t because there was another one behind it. In total in one straight line with the same distance between them all there was about 10 of these then the last one there was two next to each other. One of the two was not in the formation but then sped up faster than the rest I watched this fly over I thought it could be planes but as the sky was clear you normally see the flashing. It was strange and want to know what it could be. I don’t know where to look for anything that is in the sky The formation was perfect spacing to be meteors and the one at the back was going the same speed then just sped up. I tried to get this on my phone camera but would not pick it up. It was really strange. I thought it could be planes but I often sit outside have a cigarette and watch the stars and I’ve never seen planes pass this route only fly another direction. The star like lights flew over in formation. Like I’ve said previous when I first seen the first one I thought it was the space station, but had to look twice as I thought another star was moving when I focused I realised there was a straight row of the star lights in formation flying over. If you have a way of checking flight plans in the area or other reports if the same then I would like to know it could of been planes unless it was military but I would of seen the flashing beacons also seemed to high up for planes. I would like to know what they were. If this is the right person to report this to then any info would be good
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #153231). 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 2020-02-09 → 2020-02-26