London (UK/England), United Kingdom
a bright light. It was hitting me it wouldnt stop!
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-01
- Where
- London (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Geo
- 51.509, -0.126 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-london-uk-england-2004-194206
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of London (UK/England), United Kingdom in January 2004 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- London (UK/England), United Kingdom has 222 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 155 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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