As reported

Circle over Essex (UK/England) · United Kingdom

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

The report, as filed

ball of orange light moving and disappearing then reappearing.

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 2005-08-26 → 2005-09-12

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August 29, 2021 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT

Essex (UK/England) · United Kingdom

I was walking home with my mum, and she pointed at this very bright light, we thought it was the moon at first but staring at it for a while it was far too small to be the moon, there was one small cloud underneath it, which was the only cloud in the sky, the light shut off and it shut from the top and bottom, and moved behind the cloud underneath which was still slightly lit, both my mum and I watched it happen and we were very confused, I carried on watching the cloud and it started to move quite slowly and then it sped up and disappeared. It just was very bright and quite small, but that could of been because it was quite far away.

May 13, 2008 · 3:40 AM · LIGHT