CaseCircle2005
Wakefield (UK/England), United Kingdom
Orb with four red lights.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (25 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-11
- Where
- Wakefield (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30mins
- Geo
- 53.683, -1.498 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wakefield-uk-england-2005-9aee2f
Wave
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
- Wakefield (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from United Kingdom in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.