Swindon (UK/England), United Kingdom
A shocking and unexplainable sighting - perhaps a major sighting event.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-11-04
- Where
- Swindon (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 51.558, -1.781 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-swindon-uk-england-2006-00e2d0
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Swindon (UK/England), United Kingdom reports filed in November 2006.
In context
- Swindon (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 221 reports came from United Kingdom in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 2.7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.