Three lights maintaining triangular formation – Wolverhampton, UK – 23 Aug 2026, 22:01 BST
I'm posting this in the hope that somebody can identify these lights from the footage and the time/location information.
Date: 23 August 2026
Time: Approximately 22:01 BST (21:01 UTC)
Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK
Coordinates: 52.595371, -2.197843
Viewing direction: Approximately west
Direction of travel: Right to left when facing west, therefore approximately north to south
Number of witnesses: Two
My mother first noticed three lights while letting the dog outside. She started recording almost immediately after noticing them, so the beginning of the attached video is approximately when the sighting began.
I came outside shortly afterwards and also observed the lights directly with my own eyes.
There appeared to be three separate points of light arranged in a triangular formation. They moved slowly and smoothly across the western sky from right to left (approximately north to south).
What particularly caught our attention was that the three lights appeared to maintain their positions relative to one another as they moved. I couldn't see any visible structure connecting the lights, so I don't know whether this was three separate objects travelling together or simply appeared that way from our viewpoint.
There were no obvious red/green navigation lights or an obvious aircraft-style flashing pattern. We also didn't observe any sudden acceleration or unusual manoeuvres — just relatively slow, steady movement while apparently retaining the triangular arrangement.
The attached footage was recorded by my mother. Unfortunately, the copy transferred to me appears to have been compressed/transcoded by the messaging service, so useful original camera metadata such as GPS and recording timestamp is no longer present. The date, time and location above have therefore been obtained separately from the original recording and where we were standing.
I have not enhanced the attached version for this post. I also have a 4K-upscaled/edit of the footage, but I'm providing the unenhanced transferred copy because I don't want processing to introduce artefacts that could affect identification.
I'm not claiming these were a single triangular object or anything anomalous. I'm primarily interested in determining whether they can be matched to satellites, aircraft, drones, lanterns or another identifiable source given the exact time, coordinates and direction of travel.
Any identification or analysis would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Samuel
I'm posting this in the hope that somebody can identify these lights from the footage and the time/location information.
Date: 23 August 2026
Time: Approximately 22:01 BST (21:01 UTC)
Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK
Coordinates: 52.595371, -2.197843
Viewing direction: Approximately west
Direction of travel: Right to left when facing west, therefore approximately north to south
Number of witnesses: Two
My mother first noticed three lights while letting the dog outside. She started recording almost immediately after noticing them, so the beginning of the attached video is approximately when the sighting began.
I came outside shortly afterwards and also observed the lights directly with my own eyes.
There appeared to be three separate points of light arranged in a triangular formation. They moved slowly and smoothly across the western sky from right to left (approximately north to south).
What particularly caught our attention was that the three lights appeared to maintain their positions relative to one another as they moved. I couldn't see any visible structure connecting the lights, so I don't know whether this was three separate objects travelling together or simply appeared that way from our viewpoint.
There were no obvious red/green navigation lights or an obvious aircraft-style flashing pattern. We also didn't observe any sudden acceleration or unusual manoeuvres — just relatively slow, steady movement while apparently retaining the triangular arrangement.
The attached footage was recorded by my mother. Unfortunately, the copy transferred to me appears to have been compressed/transcoded by the messaging service, so useful original camera metadata such as GPS and recording timestamp is no longer present. The date, time and location above have therefore been obtained separately from the original recording and where we were standing.
I have not enhanced the attached version for this post. I also have a 4K-upscaled/edit of the footage, but I'm providing the unenhanced transferred copy because I don't want processing to introduce artefacts that could affect identification.
I'm not claiming these were a single triangular object or anything anomalous. I'm primarily interested in determining whether they can be matched to satellites, aircraft, drones, lanterns or another identifiable source given the exact time, coordinates and direction of travel.
Any identification or analysis would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Samuel
