Sphere over Beer (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While leaving the Village of Beer in East Devon, England, on December the Ninth at 10.30 p.m. we saw several round orange lights in the sky. They were too high to be any street lights, and seemed to resemble the Big Dipper, although the size seemed to be fairly large, bigger than Mars or Venus, but a lot smaller than the moon. They were stationary as far as we could see but we were on the move. We were driving home and on leaving the coast we left them behind. We both run our business as partners. We are unconvinced that this is a serious-minded report. We will contact the source of the report, and try to determine whether the report is valid, or not. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137682). 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 2017-12-06 → 2017-12-23