Circle over Epsom, SURREY · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I saw several balls of light travelling overhead. I started to film. I captured one flying very fast just above the low clouds. I then recorded one dancing around before heading off at speed in the same direction as the others. When I zoomed in and played the video back in slow motion I noticed other objects moving upwards at speed and disappearing into the clouds. Two appear from the bottom of the screen and a third in the top left. All within the first 10 secs. One of them seems to momentarily change shape and looks to have 4 lights and pyramidal in shape.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170717). 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 2022-07-22 → 2022-08-08