As reported

Sphere over Glasgow · United Kingdom

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The report, as filed

When driving into my street, I immediately noticed a flying and hovering spaceship/aircraft. I immediately pointed it out to my dad, we both knew instantly it wasn’t an airplane. It had a weird shape to it. There were two triangle like shapes, with a thin vertical base, connecting them, like how an aircraft has its long vertical base, with winds. This didn’t have wings, it had a weird triangle like shape on each side. Very very prominent green and blue lights all over the aircraft. I told my dad to stop the car before we were just about to go into the driveway. We stopped and looked at it for a minute. Then we went into the house, told my mum and we all went up stairs to watch it for a few minutes. It kept its green and blue lights however got further away. Afterwards, we all watched this object towards the west however it may have been a star. It kept getting dimmer, then extremely bright, then fading away, disappointing and then getting very bright again. This one may be a start/planet. But the aircraft I seen was 100% not a star or anything like that. It felt low down too. It made no noise either. It was at a low height for airplanes and did not move whilst we watched it. I’m extremely confident this is a UFO, I knew it and said it straight away. The aircraft was pointed west, it did actually look like it wasn’t too far away from my house however that could be decieving.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175186). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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