UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Brighton (UK/England), United Kingdom

((HOAX??)) 2 objects, 1 was a helicopter observing glowing object which moved erratically, then helicopter gave chase.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-08-01
Where
Brighton (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Light
Duration
5 MINUTES
Geo
50.828, -0.139 · exact
Slug
light-over-brighton-uk-england-2008-7b9ac1
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…

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In context

  • Brighton (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 24 times across the archive.
  • 196 reports came from United Kingdom in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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