Sphere over Cardiff, WALES · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I looked up to the sky to notice these round shaped white lights bouncing around each other following in fast movement behind the clounds but bright enough to see they would go back n forth the edging of the clouds then disappear rapidly coming back in like a repeating pattern then there was a 45 min gap which i shone a lazer for litrally a split second then out of no where they were back as the clouds broke apart what looked like a shooting star in flame orange colour flew across the sky so fast i dont do this as a hobbie it caught my attention what was this
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178432). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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