Fireball over County Durham (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
In my kitchen. I turned to get a drink and saw a green tubular light like a travelling orb about the width of a grapefruit, shoot from the bottom end of my garden towards window, then arced upwards and shot toward sky. My garden was in darkness. The light was not at floor level I would estimate it at 4-5 feet from ground and I saw it travel approximately 14 feet towards kitchen window just before it reached window, it arced upwards.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #134251). 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 2017-05-17 → 2017-06-03
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