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"had been spotted" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something was seen or noticed in the past. Example sentence: The rare species of bird had been spotted by a few hikers in the forest.
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The VW intruders had been spotted.
officers learned they had been spotted.
Prey had been spotted, he told a friend.
The Fort Washington, Md., man had been spotted driving erratically.
I knew several people who had been spotted by them.
But the Zodiac had been spotted in the act.
No dead birds or fish had been spotted.
The extra security at the bridges had been spotted by the attack plotters, he said.
Mario Lopez and his celebrity dimples had been spotted in the flesh.
He had been spotted at a local Buddhist temple, meditating under a tree.
The authorities said that the spill was light and that only a sheen had been spotted.
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