Cigar over Nelson, CAERPHIL · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Lying on the grass in a field with a friend watching the clouds. Saw a long silver cigar shaped object just hovering above us. We just lay there and stared at it for about five minutes then it suddenly accelerated and shot off to the left of us and disappeared from view. It was very, very fast and disappeared in a matter of seconds. This happened back in the 1960s probably around 1962. during the school holidays. There were no lights and no sound
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178420). 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 2023-08-20 → 2023-09-06