Disk over Nottingham · United Kingdom
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
I got out of my girlfriends mums car along with her and was about to go enter my home when I saw 4 disk shaped objects moving through the sky in a bizarre way. The video lasts 11 seconds and I managed to record a single disk object moving strangely through the sky. There were 4 all together but the on video only 1 was captured on video. It is quite far so no sound was heard. We thought it way be a paraglider or some sort of other aircraft but the way it moved disproved any of these ideas. After the video ended I spent another short while looking at it and turned away for a few short seconds. When I looked back all the objects were gone without a trace. I have been thinking about this for a long time and finally decided to submit it to specialists. Please may I get some answers [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176023). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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