Newark on Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom
I stepped outside to have a quick cigarette and as I looked skyward I saw a number of white lights pass over traveling north.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-07
- Where
- Newark on Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 53.067, -0.817 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-newark-on-trent-uk-england-2016-ba046b
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 Newark on Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 34 United Kingdom reports filed in 2016.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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