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Oval over Rugby · United Kingdom

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Please see videos. I noticed from the south a bright metallic light very high up, initially I thought it was a plane, but it was moving very slowly and then in different movements, nothing a plane or helicopter could do. It was a small dot but clear to see as the sky was clear. It was a oval/tictac shape. I watched it for 5 minutes. I started to record it. It went slowly north and then to my east. I noticed sometimes it disappeared but then it came back. It was very high allitude. I checked the flight radar and no planes matched its movements or locations. I checked the ISS website and again negative.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170518). 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 2022-07-13 → 2022-07-30

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