Complex sentence: After crossing the English Channel and passing unseen through English airspace during the night, the "Patrie" was sighted over Wales and Ireland on 1 December, where it made a brief landfall near Belfast, before rising again to be blown out over the Atlantic Ocean.
Split into simpler sentences: After crossing the English Channel and passing unseen through English airspace during the night, the "Patrie" was sighted over Wales and Ireland on 1 December. It made a brief landfall near Belfast, before rising again to be blown out over the Atlantic Ocean.