Isle of Bute (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
Six horizontal solid white lights with one glowing red in the middle
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-29
- Where
- Isle of Bute (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 55.837, -5.056 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-isle-of-bute-uk-scotland-2011-f9baf4
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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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Isle of Bute (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 69 United Kingdom reports filed in 2011.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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