Woman spots 'UFO' over Wirral beach

Colette Elcock was visiting Hoylake beach with her sister, Francis, when they spotted a black shape moving quickly along the horizon.

As they were looking out towards the wind turbines, they noticed the object traveling at speed above the sand.

Colette said: “The sun had just set, and we were sat on the rocks by Hoylake Lifeboat Station.

“As we were looking out on the beach, I noticed this black shape come from the righthand side and moving really fast.

“At first I thought it was moving along the sand.

“I turned to Francis and said, ‘what’s that’?”

Colette says her and her sister Francis were looking out at the wind turbines when they noticed a black object flying in the distance

Colette says at first, she thought the object was a sand yacht but then realised it was travelling too fast to be one.

“I thought who would be out so late at night moving so fast along the sand that’s a bit weird.

“We were saying to each other ‘could it be a drone?’ but it was a round shape and didn’t have arms sticking out of it,” she said.

Colette’s sister had her camera with her and began to take pictures.

“We both watched it move up above the horizon and zoom along for a little while and then it went upwards,” Colette said.

The object began to hover in the sky before zooming upwards

As Colette and her sister looked at the pictures captured on the camera the flying object had disappeared.

Colette said: “Then we lost it.

“I’m not sure if it was because of cloud cover but we didn’t see it again.

“We were wondering where it had gone it was all very puzzling.

“I was trying to make sense of it, but I couldn’t figure out what it could be.”

Did you spot anything unusual flying in the sky around Hoylake on Tuesday, June 1 between 9.30-9.45pm?

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