Unspecified over Liverpool, Merseyside · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
One square shaped object. Orange light in the middle. Was moving from South to the North and then to the West.
Held as-reported from UK Ministry of Defence UAP files. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 2001-01-10 → 2001-01-27
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