The English Schoolchildren's Cigar Sighting

A group of schoolchildren somewhere near an airfield in England reported watching a large silver object rise from behind bushes in daylight. The description in the file gives it a dome and an orange-red light, and a cigar shape. Some of the children reported seeing a figure they described as a man. Others described the same thing quite differently, as a smoke ring with a hole through the middle. A teacher named in the record as Mr Green saw it too and could offer nothing more than the smoke ring description.

What is on the record

Very little, and the entry should be read with that in front of it. There is one telling, one video and one reporting channel. The archive resolves four claimants, of which two are collective labels rather than people: sixteen children and a group of schoolboy witnesses. Only Philip and Mr Green are individually named, and Philip appears without a surname.

The file has no date. There is no year at either end of the range and no best date, so the sighting cannot be placed in a decade, let alone a year. The location is recorded only as near an airfield in England, with the file marking its own positional precision as vague. No airfield is named, no service or authority appears, and there is no report of any official response. There are no documents.

The descriptions inside the single telling also disagree with each other in a way worth stating plainly. A silver cigar with a dome and a coloured light and a smoke ring with a hole in it are not the same object seen twice, and the record preserves both without settling between them.

Why it sits where it does

The entry carries an L3 label on the basis of several witnesses attached to one event. In practice this is a single-channel, single-telling record with no date and no place. It is held in the archive because school sightings recur as a pattern across the collection and this is one of them. What the children near that airfield saw is not resolved here.