Fireball over Kettering, NORTHAMP · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Fireball type circular object hovers in sky, vanishes then reappears. We estimate possibly 6 miles travelled and does so in a few seconds. We have several pictures though all are blurry and unreliable but we have watched this craft over several nights. At one point this craft also lifted up into the clouds and vanished at a high speed.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176485). 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 2023-05-28 → 2023-06-14