Circle over Alnwick (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Initially I thought I was witnessing a fast-moving shooting-star, until it did an abrupt 180 degree turn. It was moving at crazy speeds, variable and able to change direction like a firefly. I've never, ever witnessed such a thing, and was able to record raw phone video for 12 minutes. I contacted the police. I cannot get over what I saw.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #145644). 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 2019-04-10 → 2019-04-27