Cigar over Keswick, CUMBRIA · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The RAF do their flight training across the North of England and sometimes fly down the Borrowdale Valley where I live. I took a photo of the jet as it flew past my garden, later I spotted something else in the photo, much higher in the sky, looked like the Space shuttle and very high up. I thought it might be a training drone but it was bigger than anything like that. What is it?
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178263). 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 2021-10-03 → 2021-10-20
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