Formation over Whitby (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
at o6:15 this morning my wife was putting out the garbage bin and looked up. She saw a line formation of 'objects' high in the atmosphere. She called me to have a look as well. When I had jopined her outside I saw the last three. The 'objects were in a straight and uniformed line. It was travelling in a North Easterly direction from where we live. This would be towards Scandinavia. The display lasted approximately four to five minutes as the formation had travelled out of our eye sight. The speed appeared to be like that of a jet. However, the distance it appeared to be would suggets the formation was anything but. There was no noise of fancy flashing lights. We feel priviledged to have witnessed this event.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160072). 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 2020-10-16 → 2020-11-02