Oval over Colne, LANCASHI · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving east on the m65 when I saw a floating oval/potato shaped object in the sky. It moved really strangely to the right, quite a distance in very little time. I say very strangely because it was very smooth and almost instant. It then shimmered, like a wave, like it was reflecting light almost. It was then that i could see the full shape of it, which was a potato/ oval shape. It then just disappeared. I genuinely cannot name what it was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172833). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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