Appearance / Description of Object(s)

It appeared to be basically blue, with patchy white areas, which might have been the intensity of the glow from the object.. I've created a basic picture to show this.

Size of Object(s)

Difficult to judge, but the height of the upright side of the triangle could have been 10-15 feet.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

We thought the distance to be roughly a 250-300 yards from where we were moored.

Description of Area / Surroundings

This is an unspoiled rural area with little building and therefore little light pollution, providing good clarity in the night sky. Maps show RAF Cotisall to be about 4 miles north east of the waterway, although during the week of our holiday I don't recall being aware of flights either during the day, or nighttime.

Full Description & Details

One evening during a holiday taken on the Norfolk Broad waterways with my two children (who had each had brought a friend along), a friend of mine, his wife and their two children, we moored in a quiet location called Salhouse Broad. Being a clear night, and a place with very little light pollution my friend and I decided to lay on the cabin roof and watch the stars. This part of account might or might not be significant, but we began to notice what we first thought were satellites - single non-flashing lights moving silently across the sky. The unusual thing about these lights was they appeared to be zig-zagging, making sharp 90 degree turns, but maintaining a constant speed. We called the children, along with my friend's wife to come outside to watch. We all saw these (9 of us) for maybe a period of 20-30 minutes.

When this ended the two of us remained outside the boat alone, and moved to sit on the stern overlooking the broad. Our attention was drawn to the island that separates Salhouse from the main waterway as birds in that direction were making noises, flapping and squawking, seemingly having been disturbed. At this point a blue, luminous triangle descended fairly quickly to touch the water - which we believe it did, as it seemed to touch its reflection and then equally quickly ascend, disappearing from sight, when perhaps no more than a couple of hundred feet in the air, despite being a perfectly clear night. As with the lights earlier there seemed a lack of deceleration and acceleration. Naturally we were both amazed, and confirmed with each other what we had both seen. Given this episode lasted only a few seconds, we each of us would have doubted our own perception had we not had each other to verify with.

Neither of us have reported this to anyone other than friends and of course family up to this point.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

Nothing natural in my opinion, but nothing man-made that I'm aware of.

Witness Background

I have a college education, and am a freelance publishing and exhibition designer.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

As a teenager I was interested in UFOs, and twice have seen something (once before and once since this sighting) I couldn't explain, so at the time of the sighting I had an open mind, leaning toward belief in the pheomena.

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