Sphere over South Shields (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I thought it was a Chinese Lantern at first but it then became less bright as moved away upwards, vertically towards the South, almost at 45 degrees away from my view point which left a single thin orange trail (line).
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #110136). 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 2014-06-09 → 2014-06-26
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