Circle over Sunderland, CITY OF · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was stood on Hylton road speaking to a friend whilst shaving a cigarette. Something court our eye and we looked up. Above us two bright orange circles that were flying side by side in a straight direction. They both stopped together for a second then one shot off on its forward direction and the other one shot off to the right. Both disappeared within seconds. My friend and I looked at each other in shock and said to one another… I’ve just seen a UFO and then ran of to tell our friends
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178249). 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 2022-08-29 → 2022-09-15