Changing over Malvern · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Travelling from Worcester through Leigh Sinton village and into Storridge, me and my wife saw rotating white lighting which appeared to be coming through the very low cloud in the dark evening sky, a shimmering interference effect was observed early in the observation like a cloaked flying craft hidden from casual viewing. It was thought at first the lights witnessed just after this shimmering was some sort of projector spot light effect being beamed up to the clouds but the effect seemed to follow our car along our route home and was also spotted several miles further on our route, so with it being mobile in nature we can’t explain how the lights could have been projected in this way in several places, so unlikely to be ground based projection. Additionally the pattern of lights would shrink and enlarge whilst rotating, struck us as being very odd effects. We arrived home not long after, I had a look out of the bedroom window to see if there was anything ou! tside, and after a few minutes the same effect was noticed again over our village location. After this lighting effect had disappeared a loud variable humming sound could be heard overhead that faded away gradually but nothing could be seen in the night sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160634). 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 2020-10-02 → 2020-10-19
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