Sphere over Beccles, SUFFOLK. · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bright sphere seen to enter the atmosphere/sky and project towards the earth surface at speed in a direct straight line with no derivation and remaining incredibly bright in colour - lost sight due to tree line/horizon, it emerged back in the sky at speed and then continued its initial path and went out of sight beyond the tree line - the object was moving too fast to be an obvious known aircraft and was a total bright sphere.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #134200). 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 2017-05-21 → 2017-06-07