Basingstoke (Hampshire)(UK/England), United Kingdom
Basingstoke/Hampshire UK 8:28 pm 4/3/2017. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a tumbling rocket casing?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-03-04
- Where
- Basingstoke (Hampshire)(UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 51.262, -1.087 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-basingstoke-hampshire-uk-england-2017-35f1f8
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Basingstoke (Hampshire)(UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 35 United Kingdom reports filed in 2017.
- Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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