Light over Essex · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving along side the runway at stansted airport, I could see a bright light high up which I thought was odd for a plane to be that high coming into land. I watched it come closer and then it disappeared. There was no cloud cover for it to go behind and it didn’t appear again.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174030). 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 2023-01-17 → 2023-02-03