Somebody’s probably getting married/ opening a kitchen showroom/ celebrating Dua Lipa’s birthday.
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Recently had these over South Manchester apparently. Probably some high powered lights reflecting of cloud.
That’s what I was alluding to.
It happened to me a few years back. It’s hard to explain just how deeply weird it was. Three hazy lights flying around in some sort of semi-regular pattern. The looked to be in the sky above the houses on the next block so I walked down the back street for a closer look, but it was a trick of the light (dark?) and I wasn’t getting any closer. That night / the following morning Facebook was awash with locals going “did anyone see those strange lights last night?”
It turned out that across town there was a grand opening of something, a big store maybe, and as part of the festivities they’d hired high-powered searchlights. From my vantage point the beams were invisible until presumably they’d hit low cloud.