Light over Llanelli, CARMARTH · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was very bright, (much brighter than venus at its brightest), and looked like a pulsating orb of blue white light. When moving, it left a streak or a trail of light behind it. It hovered beside a visible star in the sky that night and that is how it caught my attention. I only realised it was more than a star when it started to move. Its movement was at first very slow and it did not pulsate at all in the beginning. It moved upwards and curved gracefully around its position in the night sky without deviating far from where i first saw it. A few minutes passed and it just looked like a very bright object in the sky moving around up until it stopped near where i first spotted it, hovered without seemingly moving an inch, and then shot across the sky to the left on a very straight level, so fast that i almost lost sight of it. A trail was visible to the naked eye and this is when it started to pulsate in lumination and change its colour from white to whitey blue. A visible ring of light around the centre mass seemed discernable to my naked eye. It stopped seemingly immediately and just stayed there, before flying up at a fast but slower speed, gracefully arcing back to its starting position again where i first saw it. This is when i pulled out my phone and started to record it. The video i have is recorded in uhd 60fps on my samsung galaxy s20 fe. The quality is good, but nowhere near as good as what i saw with my naked eye. It all occured above a row of houses which almost and eventually did obscure my view of the object. When recording, you can easily see the pulsating light and its ring if zoomed in, and the trail it leaves behind when it moved. Unfortunately it did not move at such incredible blindingly fast speeds on the two minute video i captured. But it did fly at a what seemed to be a considerable speed to the left, arcing gracefully through a cloud before coming to an immediate stop, then rising slowly upwards and traversing back to roughly its "starting" position again (where i first saw it). Then it dips and glows very very brightly, before disappearing behind the row of terraced houses. This is where the video ends and i last see the object. I did not hear any sound coming from the craft. I could not make out any tangible solid shape off of it. But i can without a shadow of a doubt put claim to it, that it was real, and something that i have never seen before. I know what drones are like in the night sky with their downward lights on look like. I know how planes and satellites and the iss move through the night sky. Ive witnessed them all. This was something else entirely and i would love to be proven wrong because it has scared me a little bit. And i hate being wrong. It displayed characteristics to things that i have only ever heared or seen about in other ufo sighting claims. # i have two videos to share. Unfortunately the one that i mention in this description is 1.2gb in size due to its recording quality, and this site will not allow me to upload it. Fortunately i have uploaded it to youtube, but due to the swearing in it i removed the audio using youtube studio. I do have the raw original video with sound on my device if you want to offer me a different method of sharing it with you. The link it below. Set the video quality to high to see it properly. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zngXjdfVzAk The photos i upload are one of a map showing where i was stood (the bottom end of the yellow arrow), and the direction i was facing in. The second image of street view show the same, but the arrow indicates the position that i first spotted the ufo in and ultimately the location it kept returning to (not precisely) and where it dipped behind the buildings and out of sight. Seen on my youtube video upload. The second shorter video was recorded first as i was talking to a food delivery driver. In it i have taken a still of the object whilst zooming in on the recording video (post).
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177870). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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