As reported

Sphere over Wolverhampton (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 driving down newhampton road with my daughter when we seen a basketball size metallic ball floating in the sky about 50ft high. We looked away for about 3 seconds looked back and it was gone.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #162896). 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.

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Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 2020-12-22 → 2021-01-08

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