West Midlands (UK/England), United Kingdom
3 bright hovering lights seen in the sky for 45mins moving around before vanishing
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.
- Duration parsed: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-21
- Where
- West Midlands (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 mins
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-west-midlands-uk-england-2005-d8bd38
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
- West Midlands (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from United Kingdom in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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