Fireball over Bolton · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Our security light came on for no apparent reason and whilst recording a light appears just over the rooftops, centre of screen. Moving left then turns and flies back to where it came from. We would welcome your opinion of what our video captured that evening
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129607). 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 2015-08-13 → 2015-08-30
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