Sunderland. Houghton le Spring, County Durham, United Kingdom
Got 1 min of footage. But event was about 3. Thing moved too fast and performed maneuvers that defy physics.
Report quality: Low39/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-25
- Where
- Sunderland. Houghton le Spring, County Durham, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- I got a minute of video
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-sunderland-houghton-le-spring-county-durham-2022-07ef78
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Sunderland. Houghton le Spring, United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 34 United Kingdom reports filed in 2022.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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