Description of Area / Surroundings

It was a densely populated area. The street in question was known to be a stronghold of the Official IRA.

Full Description & Details

In Cyprus St in West Belfast, around 8.00pm I saw a small object hovering over a row of terraced houses. It was about fifty feet in the air and hovered with a light wobbling motion. It sounded like a much louder version of my mother's Nilfisk vacuum cleaner. It had three bright blue lights on it arranged at the apices of an equilateral triangle. I would estimate it was about 15 feet in diameter and somewhat disc shaped. It was not a military helicopter I was very familiar with them both at night and in the day. Shorts Aircraft in Belfast were known to have made drones for the military after the fashion of several of the Teledyne-Ryan designs.

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I observed the object for around 10 minutes and pointed it out to several adult passers-by. I was ten at the time of the sighting. When I left the scene the object was still there.

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

I think it was a military drone

Witness Background

I was trained as an advertising photographer and worked as a motion picture camera assistant (focus-puller).

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Before the sighting, I knew of UFOs from fifties Sci-Fi films. I did not believe they were extraterrestrial in origin - then or now.

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