UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Earl Shilton (UK/England), United Kingdom

Brilliant light in sky with smaller light separating and descending to the ground.

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 (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-25
Where
Earl Shilton (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 Minute
Geo
52.577, -1.315 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-earl-shilton-uk-england-2008-4fc71c
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…

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In context

  • Earl Shilton (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 196 reports came from United Kingdom in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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