UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Dover, Kent (UK/England), United Kingdom

I never thought that I would be in a position whereby I would call the police to report objects in the sky that I could not identify.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-13
Where
Dover, Kent (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Circle
Duration
1.5 minutes
Geo
51.126, 1.313 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dover-kent-uk-england-2008-183da7
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Dover, Kent (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 196 sightings in 2008.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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