Light over Leeds, ILKLEY ( · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was on my bike going along on a moor looked up to the sky to see a bright light which was quite close, and was getting lower but not straight down, diagonal across the sky. This continued for between 5 and 10 seconds before disappearing.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142918). 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 2018-08-20 → 2018-09-06