CaseFireball2004

UK/England, United Kingdom

Bright orange fireball-like objects moving very fast from north to south, 6 in total.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-31
Where
UK/England, United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
55.079, 98.859 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-uk-england-2004-60d4fb
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…

In context

  • One of 71 documented reports from UK/England, United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 155 sightings in 2004.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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