Triangle over Barnstaple (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was in town Christmas shopping and was just taking a picture of the Christmas lights, I noticed the blue looking object above and watched. It was there for about five minutes, until it disappeared behind some clouds. Once I got home, I focused more on the unusual looking object and if you look closely you can actual see a proper shape and what looks like blue lights coming out of the side. This image has not been tampered with I give you my word, I’m a firm believer and hate photoshop bs! Let me know what you think! It looked like a triangular shape with bright blue beams. It was too high up to be any lights and definitely isn’t a plane.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144057). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
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 2018-12-10 → 2018-12-27
From the same sky