Unknown over Sunderland · Belgium

The report, as filed

Stargazing in garden watching the annual perseid meteor shower and all the slow moving satellites that are visible on a clear night then from 173•south I seen a very fast low moving object that I thought was a shooting star moving north it crossed my view of the sky in seconds it was a lot lower than the shooting stars and satellites that I normally see never seen anything like it it was a dull light possibly metallic with no noise

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177559). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.