Fireball over Stroud (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Flame ball flew down the Stroud valley
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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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 2009-12-29 → 2010-01-15
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Stroud (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Last couple of nights have seen flashing light just over wooded area. But couldn't tell what it was. Thought it could possibly be a satellite. So when I went out with dogs for last walk went out to look in the same area to see if it was still there and if I could see it any clearer. As the sky is very clear tonight and the other evenings it had been overcast and/or misty. When I first looked there was nothing there at all. But as I continued to look an extremely large and slowly descending spaceship appeared. I could clearly see that there were lights on both circles (levels) red, white and blue. But as it got lower the red and blue lights went out and many of the white lights turned off. So even though I knew it was a massive ship it looked a lot smaller. It then moved off slowly into the distance. And there was no noise from it at all. At this point my dogs started barking and running around as though there was someone around. I became a little freaked and came in the house.
February 14, 2002 · 10:36 PM · DISK
Stroud (UK/England) · United Kingdom
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