Triangle over Reading (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Around 1am on a bright moonlit night at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, a clear night with high Fairweather cloud, I saw a light coming from North to south it was too low and fast for a satellite, the light went out and I could then see a large triangular object under the clouds it then merged or cloaked itself as I could just make out the outline of the craft, it was silent, fast, and when it disappeared through the cloud it left a wake in the cloud, a plane flew past shortly after, under the layer of cloud and the plane appeared to be around a 1/20 the size of the craft
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159715). 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 2020-07-29 → 2020-08-15
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