Oval over Skelmersdale, LANCASHI · United Kingdom
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The report, as filed
Myself and 2 other friends were sat in a hut where we ride our mountain bikes i suddenly stopped the conversation by saying look at that! We all stepped outside and looked into the blue sky to see a disked shaped object but appeared to change shape on video to a pointed object at a single point but maybe that was just the angle of what it tilted to and maybe deep blue in colour and when the sun hit the edge of the object it looked diamond blue in colour. It looked kind of out of control but so high up in the sky, when it tilted to its side it looked kind of like a deep bottle cap if you can imagine that? But from underneath it looked as if it either has a hole in the middle or had a blue light underneath at one point it flashed from the very middle of it an electric blue colour from top to bottom of the object and my friend also mentioned that it had a red Ora around it what we could not see on camera other than a slight white Ora. We watched the single object for around 40 seconds capturing 29 seconds of it on video before loosing sight of it we was all stunned to what we saw and couldn’t make our minds up about it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172125). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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