Watford (UK/England), United Kingdom
Dim, orange, circular object (centre of disk brighter than outside edge), travelling from NE across sky to SW, changing direction by ap
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-12-24
- Where
- Watford (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 51.655, -0.396 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-watford-uk-england-1997-113eb4
Part of a wave
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In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Watford (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 47 sightings in 1997.
- Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 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.