CaseCone2017
Newcastle (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland
Black dot in Newcastle airshow, 2017 festival of flight. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a mylar balloon, we believe. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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- Duration parsed: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-08-05
- Where
- Newcastle (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30-40 seconds
- Geo
- 54.218, -5.890 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-newcastle-northern-ireland-2017-19218e
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In context
- Newcastle (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 1 reports from Northern Ireland.
- The 2010s skewed 0.4% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
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