Disk over Swindon (Wiltshire)(UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was on PC like every night, in my room. I look and see a bright light outside, more bright than a star. A few hundred feet up maybe a miles or so away. For some reason my instant reaction was to record with my phone. As I did it blinked out instantly, but after checking the footage you can see it move up and ascended rapidly, the two times it does move it makes an audible bang sound right when it does (I do not remember hearing this while recording). Not only that when checking the footage again you are able to see a drone leave the object and whizz off.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #163331). 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 2020-07-10 → 2020-07-27