Cylinder over Ipswich · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I looked up into the sky observing the stars and all of a sudden I saw what I thought was a shooting star, but it wasn't as it came straight down towards the earth at such a high speed and it got to a certain point when is was probably 2-300 feet above the earth which I believe to be under the radar detection. It then went horizontal, there was no sound, it was about 50 miles away. It was like a very bright star light travelling. When it was 5-6 miles away from me, it stopped mid air, it went bright red for 2-3 seconds at the back almost like it was cooling off. From 2-3 metres from the red end it then starting glowing bright orange for 2-3 seconds and then shot off again horizontally. It came from the South and went north west.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161617). 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 2020-05-08 → 2020-05-25
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