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Seaton Delaval (United Kingdom)

Sighted on Saturday 10. September 2016
Reported on
Shape: blurry spotlight shape | Duration: 10 minutes
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Sitting in the back garden on a warm night, I could see what I first thought was car lights reflecting in the sky. But the lights were moving super-fast across the sky and often going both directions every 2 to 5 seconds. Sometimes moving in a circular or horseshoe pattern. Too fast to be anything I know so I shouted for my wife and son to check it out. They all saw the movements too. I was expecting one of them to come up with an explaination but they had also not seen anything like it before . The lights was like a faded blurry white line - like a boomerang shape but didn't light up the sky. My son did point out that they stopped when the moon went behind a cloud, then start all over again when the moon appeared. It was no shooting star. It was above us, behind us, in front and moved as if they were flying, not falling. Then these lights made a return two days later. We watched them for 2 minutes then got fed up and we went in the house to watch Eastenders.

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