Date of sighting: August 31, 2012
Location of sighting: Bolton Lancashire, England
Eyewitness states:
Please be patient as initially I couldn't get the strange object in my viewfinder straight away. At first I thought this mysterious object was a balloon, but it appears symmetrical and uniform in shape. The object which I have coined 'The Flying Sofa' moved silently overhead, spinning in a controlled fashion and intermittently flashing a bright, white light from its own suface like a beacon, (not light reflections from the sun) as the weather was quite overcast and the object was a dark, black colour and not metallic. It didn't look like part of an aeroplane and I'm sure any man made object/ satallite this size coming from space would have burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. Later in the video you can see how far I had to zoom in to see it, so I think the object could possibly have been between the size of a family car and a single decker bus at about a thousand feet or more as an estimate. It casually moved off, seeming to stay airborne and not falling to the ground. What could this strange and intriguing object be???
