CaseChevron2012

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Wing Shaped Object with Faint Orange Glow moving Very Fast

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-13
Where
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Shape
Chevron
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
51.480, -3.180 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-cardiff-2012-c08988
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Cardiff, United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 103 reports came from United Kingdom in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Report

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