NUFORC Sighting 98140

Occurred: 2013-05-26 22:30 Local
Reported: 2013-05-26 14:56 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Plymouth, , United Kingdom

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

Spherical orange light/object (not a lantern) seen in Plymouth, UK.

Spherical deep orange/red light/object hovering stationary in the sky. After a few seconds a smaller, flashing, red light dropped down from underneath and quickly faded/disappeared. After about 2 minutes the main object/light slowly drifted directly away from my viewpoint, got smaller and disappeared.

There was no sound so not a helicopter, and it definitely wasn't a Chinese lantern as the main light didn't flicker and I'm very used to seeing lanterns in this area.

Unfortunately I was unable to record or take a photo.

Probably unrelated as it's a holiday weekend here (and no doubt busy for the police etc), but just after the main object/light disappeared a helicopter started circling some 150-300 yards away.

Posted 2013-06-02

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