Other over Leeds · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
First object seen was with 2 red lights and 1 blinking white light, then it moved far away. Seen it close to Kirkstall Leisure Centre. It is one I usually see around that area. It moves slowly, and it doesn't go straight, sort of zigzagging, it has a triangular shape. I went to the bus stop, about 5 minutes walk from the first sighting point. After a few minutes, another object, much bigger than the first one, a Pentagon of hexagon shaped , with many lights, at least 8, maybe 9, and they were steady, red and white lights , and honestly it looked like a spacecraft or anything I have never seen and for sure wasn't a plane. It was moving slowly , I would say it wasn't flying straight, but not even zigzagging. A few moments after I saw a blinking light just close to this object, it appeared once, then disappeared for 1-2 seconds, appeared again closer to the hexagon shaped object, and disappeared. It happened between 9:50 -10pm
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177918). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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