CaseFormation2007

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 days

Report

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