Sphere over Wigan · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking at cctv this appeared and danced around for a number of minutes there is a second video that lasts about 8 minutes showing the item moving around then splitting into 3 moving around then eventually dissapearing after about 8 minutes [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Possible]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175463). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
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 2023-04-20 → 2023-05-07
From the same sky