Unknown over Brentford, LONDON B · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I noticed what I thought at first was two escaped balloons, but as it got closer it looked like two balls attached and rotating round (almost like bicycle pedals). I took a video and the people I showed it to suggested it might be a drone, but having finally looked up different types of drones, here don't seem to be any like this. The video won't upload so I've attached a screen shot from it [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179137). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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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 2023-10-17 → 2023-11-03