Unknown over Garden City, Sealand, FLINTSHI · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was out with my dog, walked three doors down and was at the end of my street, Brookside/Farm Road Junction about to walk towards the river about 500 yards away as we always do. I looked to the sky to see what birds were about and noticed this bright light that looked like 2 tic tac shapes but they were also firmly stuck together, moving slowly but weirdly,I watched for about 30 seconds before I realised it wasn’t anything I recognised definitely not a plane or helicopter anyway, so I started filming it, it was hard to film slightly because it started moving faster and sideways and up and down. I tried to get the tree tops in to show how high it was and a few birds flew past while filming also, then it faded and disappeared, the video is just over a minute long. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177650). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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