Fireball over Colchester, ESSEX · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Me and 2 other friends were roaming around our campus at the University of Essex Campus when me and another friend spotted a blue light just race across atop of Wivenhoe House( which is a small hotel on our campus). It is a pretty isolated place at night and this area is surrounded by trees and an open field. It was a dark blue type light a bit like a fireball and it just raced across almost very quickly like it was in a blink right atop of wivenhoe house it seemed as if it would just touch the building but it was very very close to it and just quickly raced past towards the southeast direction.It came and went. This is not a joke none of us do drugs we’re all first year students who have just moved into university and this was an experience to witness since I’m interested in the universe out there. This is not a hoax kindly investigate this thank you.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172699). 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 2022-10-28 → 2022-11-14
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