CaseCone2008

Durham (UK/England), United Kingdom

Cone shape over Durham

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-03-04
Where
Durham (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Cone
Duration
1 hour
Geo
54.777, -1.576 · exact
Slug
cone-over-durham-uk-england-2008-19608d
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…

In context

  • Durham (UK/England), United Kingdom has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 196 reports from United Kingdom.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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