That weird moment when three of us experienced the same impossible thing

This might sound mad, but I need to document it somewhere. Last Tuesday (19th Nov), I was in a pub in Manchester with two mates (Tom and Sarah). We were sitting by the window, and we all clearly watched a black taxi cab drive past. Twice. At the exact same time. Like, the same cab passed the window, then immediately passed again in the same direction, taking the same route, maybe 30 seconds apart.

Same cab - same colour, same damage on the back panel, same number plate.

All three of us saw it. All three of us immediately commented on it. We checked the number plate, went outside, looked around - there was no second taxi. No traffic jam that would explain duplication. Just... a single cab that somehow passed us twice simultaneously.

I'm not drunk (I'd had one pint over two hours). They're not mad. I'm wondering: Is this a glitch? Temporal weirdness? Mass hallucination triggered by something? Or am I missing something obvious?

Okay, this is either a glitch or one of you is pranking the other two. The third option - that all three of you had the same simultaneous hallucination triggered by an identical external event - is possible but statistically unlikely unless there's something in the environment (carbon monoxide, specific sound frequency, etc.) that affected everyone equally.

Same cab - same colour, same damage on the back panel, same number plate.

Manchester pub, Tuesday evening, pub's busy, light reflecting off windows in weird ways, three people already mid-conversation... This screams pareidolia meets pattern recognition. Your brains filled in a coherent story from incomplete visual data. Happens more than you'd think.

Simulation theory explanation: Rendering error. The system spawned an object, deleted it, re-rendered it too quickly for the engine to handle seamlessly. You witnessed the visual artifact. Obviously unprovable, but it fits the description.

I actually think this is interesting because three independent witnesses reported the same impossible event. That's not nothing. Whether it's a glitch, perceptual error, or something stranger, it's worth taking seriously. Did the pub have any CCTV? Could you check the footage?

Did anyone else in the pub see it? If it was a genuine visual phenomena (not hallucination), other customers should have noticed too. That's your acid test. Ask the staff if anyone reported seeing anything weird that evening.