CaseLight1972
Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom
A witness in Stoke-on-Trent, England reported a bright light darting around a small patch of sky with very precise movements, during a thirty-minute sighting in July 1972.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-07-21
- Where
- Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Geo
- 53.004, -2.185 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-stoke-on-trent-uk-england-1972-88a818
In context
- Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England), United Kingdom has 18 sightings on file here.
- 1972 brought 6 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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