Bit off topic geographically but genuinely curious - has anyone managed to get decent photos of formation lights like this? I do a fair bit of paranormal photography up in Cumbria and triangular formations are one of the harder things to capture properly because by the time you've adjusted your settings the moment's gone.
Did anyone have a camera out when this happened? Interested in what kit people were using and whether the lights held formation long enough to get multiple shots. That's usually where you start separating lens flare and aircraft from something worth actually looking at - if the spacing stays consistent across several frames taken seconds apart then you've got something.
Also what time roughly? Just wondering if anything showed up on flight radar that could account for it.