NUFORC Sighting 157503

Occurred: 2017-07-20 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-07-10 13:44 Pacific
Duration: 7-10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Dublin (Ireland), , Ireland

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object

I was fourteen at the time. My friend came for a sleepover, and we decided to sneak out in the middle of the night to walk to the other side of the village to ding dong ditch my newly ex boyfriend's house. At some point along the way I noticed some strange movement in the sky out of the corner of my eye but shrugged it off as a helicopter as we live in a high crime area where its not unusual to have searches going on for drug dealers/rings, thieves etc.

We ding dong ditched his house loud enough to wake the whole estate and ran away thinking we were great. On the way home, we walked through another nearby housing estate. I noticed in the sky that there was a white, circular object flying slowly through the air, shining bright enough to be noticed but not so bright that if I'd told my friend "look at that" she'd see it instantly. It was a clear, starry night so I doubted she'd see it in time. I said nothing.

It didn't fly steadily like a plane or helicopter. It was ebbing and flowing ever so slightly, coming from the right to the left. It went across the sky before disappearing in the most unusual way. Imagine a clock, with the hands both at twelve. In the space of two or three seconds, both hands went around the circle in a clockwise motion, with each section disappearing into black. The hands got to three, and so from twelve to three was black, and then they went to six, so from twelve to six was black. Once the hands got back to twelve the entire circle of light that had clumsily flown through the air had vanished, almost like boiled water turning into steam.

It's something I only think of occasionally, sometimes when I'm walking through that same housing estate, but I thought it was worth reporting. I do believe I saw a UFO that night.

Posted 2020-07-23

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