London (UK/England), United Kingdom
london uk 1/1/2009 at 00:20 bright orange lights between 3-5 shapes follwing same pattern fast for about 10- 15 mins
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-01
- Where
- London (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10-15 mins
- Geo
- 51.509, -0.126 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-london-uk-england-2009-a4ba73
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
- London (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 222 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from United Kingdom in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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