Cigar over Bury, MANCHEST · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I watched these two lights in the sky from my garden during covid lockdown. I initially thought they were bright stars but their movements in different directions were mysterious. Zooming into the still image reveals a cigar shape, darkened areas around it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177766). 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 2020-05-18 → 2020-06-04