Shepton Mallet (UK/England), United Kingdom
The object moved at speed but low with lights at the back and bright lights along the side. Not a conventional aircraft.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-15
- Where
- Shepton Mallet (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- Less than 1 minute
- Geo
- 51.190, -2.547 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-shepton-mallet-uk-england-2004-c80294
Part of a wave
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
- Shepton Mallet (UK/England), United Kingdom has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 155 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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