Cylinder over Wigan · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was at home and I went to close a window as the temperature had dropped drastically. I then spotted several moving coloured lights. Two red, two white and three green lights on the side facing me. The object was no more than 100 foot high above the houses across the road from our house. Speed would be about 30 mph (at the most) Size: about the same as a single deck bus. It was shaped like a cylinder with rounded front and rear edges. It "glided" silently on its way in a southerly direction from my position.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #151625). 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 2019-12-11 → 2019-12-28
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