Swansea (UK/England), United Kingdom
Disk shaped craft seen moving silently from south west to the south east reflecting sunlight from the top of the craft.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-22
- Where
- Swansea (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1min
- Geo
- 51.621, -3.943 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-swansea-uk-england-2012-a50a3c
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
- Swansea (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 103 reports came from United Kingdom in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.