As reported

Sphere over Coventry (UK/England) · United Kingdom

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

The report, as filed

Four round orange objects moving in an organised manner across the sky in two pairs. moving too rapidly for aircraft.

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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Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 2002-03-21 → 2002-04-07

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Coventry (UK/England) · United Kingdom

I was in my parents car, driving at about 20-30 mph, heading to Compton Verny. Out of the window, I spotted a small, white dot in the sky, moving very quickly, several miles in the sky. I know for certain that it wasn’t a plane because a) It didn’t have any sorts of wing or tail and b) it left no trail at all what so ever and c) it moved about 4x as fast as any commercial airliner I’ve ever seen moving in my life. After about a minute the craft vanished completely just like that, in to thin air. All I know is that it looked a bit like a very bright star, though it was quite clearly daytime, just passed midday.

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