Oval over Nottingham, NOTTINGH · United Kingdom
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
In the image attached with this report, please look at the sky. A large blob of light with a bright white centre and an oval Corona in blue around is seen in the sky. More impressions of the blue Corona can also be seen directly above and below the sighting, as if movement was captured. Two very similar pictures were taken in the moment incidentally, one of them had this UFO in it and the other one (with the exact same phone position and cloud formation) did not. I did not observe this UFO in the present, only while looking back at my pictures afterwards. It quickly disappeared as the other image did not capture it. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177730). 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 2023-08-16 → 2023-09-02
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