As reported

Cylinder over Peterborough (UK/England) · United Kingdom

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

The report, as filed

A grey cylinder / disc shaped object which was hovering, dropped a foot and disappeared

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 2009-07-02 → 2009-07-19

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July 8, 2016 · 8:33 PM · DIAMOND

Peterborough (UK/England) · United Kingdom

I've taken various photos in the sky's over my house & on numerous occasions the craft keeps appearing in my photos & when I blow up the image it's always the same craft. The first time I noticed it was when I took a photo of a usaf f15 fighter jet flying over on the 30th June 2016 but didn't see anything in the sky until I took a look at my photo then saw two (2) craft of the same shape. Then on another occasion on the 3rd of July a biplane flew over so I took another photo and again nothing could be seen with the naked eye until I took a look at the photos then saw the same two craft again. And the last sighting was on the 7th July 2016 when I was flying my drone at an altitude of 140m so decided to take a photo which when I did I noticed a white/green circle in my photo & this craft was also in the picture but strangely could not be seen by the human eye. Whilst my drone was hovering at 140m above ground level I placed my controller down to take the photo so with nobody touching the controls my drone started flying forwards & backwards & in circle motion by itself very strange. If you would like to see my photos please contact me then I will be happy to forward them to you. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD

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June 6, 2014 · 1:50 AM · FIREBALL

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