CaseOther2016

Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom

Large black elongated rugby ball shape ufo.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-14
Where
Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
Shape
Other
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
51.480, -3.180 · exact
Slug
other-over-cardiff-uk-wales-2016-9cec44
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…

In context

  • Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom shows up 23 times across the archive.
  • 34 reports came from United Kingdom in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.