Light over Witham, ESSEX · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It looked like a star, constant bright light, no deviation from course, no changing of light, wouldn't be a star at that time of day, neither would it be one of the bazillion satellites. Sky was a beautiful blue and looked like it could go on for ever.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171441). 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 2022-08-25 → 2022-09-11