Rectangle over Birmingham (UK/Wales), UNITED K · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was looking out of a window 4 floors up with a clear view to the horizon many miles away a craft was coming over and directly away from me about fifty feet above me. Must have just cleared the roof going at about 20 -25 mph it was slow and was bus sized black with rear facing triple powerfull lights and the craft was silent helicopters make a hell of a racket having worked for us Air Force in uk I'm well aware of most aircraft. Going so slow gave me a heck of a good look at it the thing I noticed most was the lower sides reminded me of floats on amphibious vehicles I could still see the lights many miles away in the fading daylight for nearly half an hour it was going in a north west direction towards north wales.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165638). 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 2020-07-17 → 2020-08-03