Galway UFO video shows shape-shifting object that ‘lit up before zooming away’

A Galway man was stunned at the sight of a strange object in the night sky that seem to change shape, emit odd lights and then zoom away at speed.

The Loughrea resident caught sight of the object by chance and captured a video of the happenings. The video is unclear at points but Allen’s account helps describe the encounter.

Allen Cheshire, 29, spotted the strange sight out his window at around 12:15am, early on 20 December 2023. Allen tells Galway Beo: «I saw what looked like a cloud, like a triangle-shaped cloud above the Loughrea Hotel and Spa, but then it lit up very brightly, like moonlight, and the light seemed to move from one side of the this cloud, like moved from the left of the cloud to the right.»

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«So, I grabbed my phone because it looked odd and I started recording. But by the time I did that, it had changed shape, it was flatter. There were now little lights around it and the cloud was not lit up with that same ‘moonlight’ intensity.»

«I tried to get my phone’s camera to focus but it was having trouble because it was very dark and quite pixelated when I zoomed in. At the end of the clip, the light or object just zoomed straight up into the sky. I could see it with my eyes but it’s not really visible in the video.»

Allen’s vantage point was his home to the east of the hotel, he describes the location: «It was hard to tell where exactly it was. I am not sure if it was high in the sky over and beyond the hotel or between the hotel and my vantage point – but I think it was between where I was and the hotel.»

Allen tells us that between the two minute clip and his unrecorded early observation that the strange object was on show for now more than three or four minutes.

The local man tells us that he has never really thought about UFOs having never seen anything of the sort before. However, he firmly believes what he saw was a UFO.

«Definitely. I know what I saw with my own two eyes. It was so bizarre, like nothing I have ever seen before.»

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