CaseCylinder2022

Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Cylindrical TicTac object at distance.Its size must have been very large, very bright white, so much so & stood out against the cloud

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-04-20
Where
Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
52.478, -0.921 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-market-harborough-leicestershire-2022-67aec5
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Market Harborough, United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 34 sightings in 2022.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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