Light over Newbury · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I stood outside my house and noticed two white lights, the size of medium sized stars in the sky. They were travelling along together which at first looked like a low flying glider or plane. Flying from west to east. After a few seconds the lights moved closer together as they continued to travel, and then further apart. They continued doing this when they flew over me, and just before I lost sight of them behind a block of flats one light seemed to be travelling in front of the other. There wasn’t any flashing lights, and no noise. As noted above they didn’t travel in a straight line. They took 20-30 seconds to move from one side of the sky to the other, so were moving at a decent pace.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174727). 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 2023-02-23 → 2023-03-12