Other over Alton (town) (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was shopping in the town of Alton, Hampshire, I had been in BOOTS (PHARMACY)and was stood outside this shop and looking into clear blue sky and saw a large long silver coloured balloon/parachute shaped object(at an altitude of a thousand feet or more) coming down from the sky to my left particularly close to where I was situated.I could also see there was a small black object hanging underneath the balloon shaped object (hanging several feet below it) I couldn't hear any sound/noise and don't know if it did indeed land and didn't see it land as I Lost sight of it going down behind buildings to my left Don't know weather it was otherworldly or a normal object but left me wondering what it was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #119031). 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 2015-05-13 → 2015-05-30