CaseCylinder2004
Bristol (UK/England), United Kingdom
glowing object in clear blue sky
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-31
- Where
- Bristol (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 51.455, -2.597 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-bristol-uk-england-2004-bea179
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
- Bristol (UK/England), United Kingdom has 31 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 155 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
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.