Triangle over Varanasi, UTTAR PR · India

The report, as filed

On 16 May 2023 b/w 7:58 pm and 8:00 pm (all times are in IST standard time) My mother, my father and me, all 3 of us have seen strange triangle shape object, black colour in the sky from our house garden. It had green colour lights at 3 corners and 1 in the centroid position. my mother saw that thing first approximately at 7:58 PM on 16 May 2023 while washing the garden area she poured the water bucket on the gate to the garden entrance and she saw these light triangle shape 3 lights at its corner and 1 light in the centre and all in green colour in the North direction of small size as described in next para, she rushed to me inside the house as she has seen passing flying disks in past when she was about 10 years old while she was in Gaya city Bihar approx. 35-40 years ago sleeping in the open night sky regularly and she thought I was the best person to consult for this and when I came to the entrance I also saw the same thing but I noticed it was black in colour and all the lights were having a glaring effect and that thing was hovering. I rushed back into the room and grab my Samsung M20 smartphone and answer my father's question which he was asking me that "What's Going on? " I answered with excitement but briefly to save time "PAPA there is a UFO !!" and I rushed out into the garden area with my father also following me with amazement and we saw that UFO as described before and everyone noticed the same detail as described above and Everyone was watching this thing for about 1 min since the first visual contact. We don't have the exact estimation of its size may it was too big or small in dimensions depending on how far or close it was but we can estimate this only as everyone has a different opinion my father said that it was a massive size and was far away and hovering on Godowalia chauraha approximately 2.00 Km away from our location, But my estimate is that it was small in size and it was very close about 30 m away from us at a height of 10 m at max altitude And my mother agreed with me. I thought at that moment maybe it was observing us that’s why it was hovering that long it was a BIG size Drone but the arrangement of lights as explained doesn’t match with the drone light spec available in the publicly open market drone I searched for that but didn’t find the exact match on the internet and my video editing expert friend said based on the photo and description that it was a 40% UFO and 60 % Unknown Drone but I later showed him the ref images than he reversed this percentage but also said the evidence is not clear and prove UFO theory. Let us come back to the incident, to disprove the drone theory as I don’t have evidence but only my family's naked-eye experiences, Now when we all were seeing that thing I was busy opening my phone camera app and it was not opening my phone started to Hang in a weird manner and when I opened my camera app since it was having a flashlight on by default so flashlight tuned on when switched to Video mode and I remember I was not able to Click on start button rather my phone switched to selfie mode and this switch was happening whenever I touched the start button meanwhile I tried to look on the phone screen but only 3 dim light spots where only visible during this struggle with my phone. Maybe due to the continues flashing of my flashlight in this chaos while constantly pointing my camera and fingers towards that thing, we saw that started to move towards the West and then towards the East to hide in the building as we were at the ground level We also shifted our position in order to see that thing continuously and the way it was moving was not naturally what a drone is able to do while changing its position as that thing was not tilling towards the direction where it was going, not like a drone which does this by adjusting the propeller thrust and tilting a little bit which could be observed in the even the most advanced drone in the market (basic Physics was defied by the object). It was in the same orientation since we were tracking it. When it started to move it actually changed its light colour to green and red colour alternatively on all its corners and edges (which indicates the Drone Theory possibility) My phone was not in my control as that thing was acting as a kind of jammer to stop me to get any visuals of him/her captured. But the Drone theory is disproved again when the thing after a small game of hide and seek decided to finally escape so when hiding in the building didn't work it started to move in the west and stopped there and then started to look like a dot of light while it is accelerated towards the North of East and hover there like a bright star and then started to move slowly towards East towards Ganga river which is just 178 m away from the location and while it was just going to vanish into the building and getting off visual sight. Just before it goes Off sight I got my phone controls back and I was able to switch to capture mode and taped the button on the screen multiple times until it vanished I was very disappointed as I didn’t have any concrete evidence(video), but suddenly I saw this photo in my gallery which left me amazed, it was a black and White image But my camera was a coloured high-quality camera but it took a black and white photo without any use of a filter. And that photo was taken exactly at 8:00 PM on 16 May 2023 and that light dot where clearly visible 2 white dots in the photo and a red trail of light which is visible when you zoom in closely on the 2 dots. Another thing to be mentioned when this thing was happening I also saw 2 passenger jets going on their way one in the North and the other in the West and both of them were at high altitude airways which are just above our house. After this all these incidents, I started to share this incident with my Friends and family on WhatsApp, I was recording a voice note to my elder sister and then I saw a similar thing again but this time it was looking like a drone with a strobe light and straight-line movement just after 8 mins of this incident going from East towards West maybe this was a POLICE DRONE which had came to investigate that thing which might also be seen by its operator as us. I also made the video of that possible Police drone as a reference for the future on 16 May 2023 at 8:08 PM. 8 min after the UFO incident. Since I am a Pro Gamer of Flight Simulator games and often play FSX 2010 edition, I Know a lot about flying objects in the sky and easily spot the difference b/w planes, helicopters and Dones of any kind and often do that when I see the flying things in the sky. We were amazed but felt quite lucky we initially thought during the encounter that it was a POLICE DORNE but when I recalled all the incident carefully and typed out all the details while writing this report, today 19 MAY 2023 at 11:03 AM, NOW I am 100% Sure that it was not a Drone, star, falling star or plane, etc but non-other than a UFO. Maybe it does get annoyed by our courageous moves (flashing lights and trying to record and track it ). It thought that it was caught by courageous and fearless people and It decided to escape. I have attached all the measurements of possible distances as discussed and coordinates of the exact location of the incident and the Police drone Video and the UFO. Photo and a reference photo from the internet edited to describe the object. Sorry to mention lastly I believe no buddy apart from us has seen this UFO as we were lucky to be in the right place and at the right time and I and I have not talked to the local people who were there at this location as they will find me crazy so I request investigator not to reveal my name among the local people of the area.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175832). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.