Solihull (UK/England), United Kingdom
three lights making extreme noise but passed off by local authority as a hot air balloon
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-12
- Where
- Solihull (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 00:02
- Geo
- 52.414, -1.781 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-solihull-uk-england-2007-78f934
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
- Solihull (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 177 reports came from United Kingdom in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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