Unspecified over Nenthead, Cumbria · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A bright orange light. Too bright for a Chinese lantern. The light looked electrical not a flame. Travelled in a straight line at a steady speed. Travelled East to West with the wind. Made no noise. It was about the size of a quarter moon.
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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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.
Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 2009-05-11 → 2009-05-28