Oval over Stoke-on-Trent · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At about 6:45pm I witnessed a small object, initially thought to be a plane, moving in a straight line across the sky. After a second I realised it wasn't a plane, but maybe a drone. Then the thing stopped dead in the sky for a second and continued moving in the same direction. I took a photo and pretty much as soon as the photo was taken it completely disappeared from sight. Clear evening so no chance of it going behind clouds. Very weird!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148878). 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 2019-09-13 → 2019-09-30
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