UFOMYST
CaseCigar2007

UK/England, United Kingdom

'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-05-01
Where
UK/England, United Kingdom
Shape
Cigar
Duration
9 minutes
Geo
55.079, 98.859 · fallback
Slug
cigar-over-uk-england-2007-0e5c28
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • UK/England, United Kingdom has 71 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 177 reports from United Kingdom.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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