Light over Alton, ENGLAND · United Kingdom
Resolved to a known cause by an investigating body, with the identification on the record.
The report, as filed
Sighted tonight, moving randomly . [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179743). 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 2023-12-14 → 2023-12-31