As reported

Circle over Middlesbrough (UK/England) · United Kingdom

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Having a conversation with a mate on way to McDonalds near Middlesbrough FC stadium and look up whilst sighing at the chat and notice a green light zig zagging about 30,000ft up for over 10 seconds it stops dead like its noticed us looking and then it shoots off out of sight in about 2 seconds which is over 3 miles the eyes can see but it like stopped twice in that to propell its self forward hard to explain it was near Middlesbrough f.c ground but actually over the power station.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144874). 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 2018-07-22 → 2018-08-08

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