Formation over Hastings, EAST SUS · United Kingdom
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The report, as filed
We counted 15+ flying objects with lights flashing red and green and sometimes stopping in the sky and flashing white. They flew in and out of our viewing window and up and down and stopped unexpectedly. 3 of them at one point flew in a triangular formation and started blinking simultaneously. We videoed some of them with our iPhone At times it looked like the object behind the lights was somewhat much bigger than we could see clearly, cloaked in some way. It’s hard to explain but they were certainly not planes nor drones. A few of them seemed to appear suddenly on our left. All of the flying objects were moving inland/north (we leave on the coast)
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176289). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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