Object spotted over Salford area UK

MostlyMike

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I saw two lights tonight silently holding position over Farnworth at 3.30am on the 11th August. I was in Little Hulton, but whatever I was looking at was over Farnworth.



I first spotted it through trees, so I wasted about 5 mins trying to find a better position.



When I did I snapped a bunch of pictures of it. When I was looking through the trees at it, on of the lights seemed to get really bright briefly.

From the better vantage point, it seemed to be two lights, one of which would occasionally fade out completely.

I realised that I should try to film the object in case it did something interesting. While I was changing the camera settings, the object disappeared. I didn't see it leave, I just looked up and it was gone. I snapped a few more pictures, just in case the night mode on my phone would pick up something that I might miss. The object was visible for roughly 8 minutes, based on the time when I first saw it and the time of the last picture.
 

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I drew a crude illustration of my position and rough guess of where the object was when I saw it. My map coordinates are 53.535220,-2.411707
 

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Presumably the fading out and ultimate disappearance was due to cloud. At that time there was quite a bit of patchy cloud over England, drifting generally eastwards.

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Ahh, I was wondering when the first UFO report would come about these two bright planets being close to each other.
 
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