Unspecified over Harlow, Essex · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Several sightings over the period. A bright orb that travelled in a straight line. As a helicopter approached it the orb slowed down and vanished. Helicopter reacted as if pilot was startled. Saw several other orbs, but the main one was half the size.
Held as-reported from UK Ministry of Defence UAP files. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
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 2009-06-26 → 2009-07-13
From the same sky
Related entries
May 9, 2009 · 10:00 PM
Harlow, Essex · United Kingdom
A diamond shaped orange light. If you held out your hand it would have been the size of a 20p coin. It was totally silent. The object carried on in the distance and then another one appeared and followed the same path.
May 31, 2002 · 11:00 PM
Harlow, Essex · United Kingdom
Two very large disc type aircraft, that were white and had a dull glow.