Cone over Glasgow, SCOTLAND · United Kingdom
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
There was a strange light in the sky above spare ground, it was there when I left my house and could still see it down the road then it suddenly disappeared. I spoke with my son and showed him the pictures and he said he seen that from a train station too but didn’t think anything of it. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177430). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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