CaseFlash2004
Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom
3 white lights flash downward within about 0.3 seconds
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-12-22
- Where
- Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 52.481, -1.900 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-birmingham-uk-england-2004-50170d
Wave
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…
In context
- Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom has 65 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 155 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.