Sphere over Mortimer (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On November the 6th, 2016, I was looking out the window and noticed a white orb the size of a star moving through the night sky. After a matter of seconds, the light illuminated really bright and then in a matter of seconds dimmed down to the brightness of a star again. The object was cruising in a southerly direction and passed the house until I can no longer see it. The object showed absolutely no signs of flashing lights or sounds such as aeroplanes and helicopters make, this is completely an unknown. This is now the third time this year I have reported and seen a UFO.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131070). 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 2016-11-03 → 2016-11-20
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