As reported

Circle over Wigan (UK/England) · United Kingdom

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

White small round object travelled across the sky north to south in seconds.Made no sound.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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UK sighting reports were handled by the MoD's UFO desk until 2009; later records answer to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, earlier files sit at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.

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Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 1972-05-29 → 1972-06-15

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March 26, 2016 · 6:45 PM · TRIANGLE

Wigan (UK/England), NT · United Kingdom

I fort it was strange, so I went to the window it flew past so fast and because of the over houses it disappeared from my view I don't no what it was but I've never seen anything like it looked alien 👽 to me so I no I had report this my little boy asked me what it was, but I didn't no please tell me what it was we saw was it aliens or what it freaked me out

July 2, 2010 · 10:50 PM