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Light over Rugby, WARWICKS · United Kingdom

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

2022 new year ufo sighting UK. Taken approx 1am on January 1st.. just 1 hour into the new year on jan 1st 2022.. While outside watching the last of the fireworks I saw a green and red light flashing slowly in the sky. I obviously assumed it was a plane for a moment however it then started to move in a totally random fashion... Realising it was a UFO or maybe 2 I ran in and grabbed my iphone 11 pro, just before I managed to start filming the initial lights blinked out, then this light reappeared for just over 30 seconds.. unfortunately i didnt have time to change settings on my phone (ie to 4k 30fps) so its only in HD 1080p 25fps and very noisy footage but it was amazing to see... I stayed outside until 7am hoping it would return but it didnt... it almost seems to blink out as a big firework goes off... The initial lights, red and green were circling each other darting around the area of sky in a rapid motion. there was no noise (when the fireworks stopped for a minute) heres the link to the footage i did manage to catch, please feel free to contact me for any more details. I can also send you the file from my phone although its compressed with h.264 codec so isnt much better resolution wise. I work as a designer and musician so i work alot in photoshop and after effects etc so im going to have a play with the camera footage (increase a still image resolution in photoshop etc... not sure what i will be able to do in after effects though as im just a motion designer, see work on glenwilsoncreative.com as im an art director and my technical skills are not amazing to see what i mean). its more interesting to watch frame by frame as it seems to move in an S shape in the sky. youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k_F4A2swvk

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166159). 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 2021-12-29 → 2022-01-15