UFOMYST
CaseCircle2005

Leicester (UK/England), United Kingdom

low flying, below cloud level, large, very clearsighting, round, covered in lights no noise moving about the same speed as a plane

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-01
Where
Leicester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
52.639, -1.132 · exact
Slug
circle-over-leicester-uk-england-2005-5dd451
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 22 documented reports from Leicester (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 159 sightings in 2005.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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