Oval over Melton Mowbray (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
There was orange shading in a cloud which I got my daughter to take a photo of because it looked unusual. When I looked at the photo at home there was an object in the photo. I showed this to someone else and they said it should be reported. It was in the sky the sun was to the left. I was driving from Oakham, Rutland to Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120747). 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 2015-07-16 → 2015-08-02