Sphere over Sidmouth (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Two sandy coloured stationary spheres as large if not larger than a jumbo jet one slightly higher than the other,both at an altitude above medium level cloud, no sound no movement for more than ten minutes both remaining in the same position until obscured by cloud, both spheres at least 2-3 miles off shore, may have had reflective surfaces.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148896). 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 2017-08-18 → 2017-09-04
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