UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Burnley (UK/England), United Kingdom

((HOAX)) bright light hovering in sky which expanded then vanished.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-06-21
Where
Burnley (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Light
Duration
3minutes
Geo
53.800, -2.233 · exact
Slug
light-over-burnley-uk-england-2008-d6e7b3
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

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Burnley (UK/England), United Kingdom.
  • This case is one of 196 United Kingdom reports filed in 2008.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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