Desside (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
Bright golden spherical object that seemed to be burning with pieces falling from it.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-06
- Where
- Desside (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-desside-uk-wales-2010-1b55d7
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
- Desside (UK/Wales), United Kingdom has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 142 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.