UFOMYST
CaseFireball2006

Northampton (UK/England), United Kingdom

bright white object travelling accross the sky and in a flash it was gone

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-10-26
Where
Northampton (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
52.250, -0.883 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-northampton-uk-england-2006-429832
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Northampton (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 221 sightings in 2006.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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