UK/England, United Kingdom
A B-17 pilot reported a fiery, orb-shaped object tracking a USAF bomber during a night mission over England, then returning about 30 minutes later, in June 1954.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (161 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-30
- Where
- UK/England, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- several minutes
- Geo
- 55.079, 98.859 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-uk-england-1954-acaeb2
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Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- UK/England, United Kingdom has 71 sightings on file here.
- 1954 brought 2 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 1950s skewed 3.9% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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