UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

Gateshead,Tyne & Wear (UK/England), United Kingdom

Huge aeroplane/no sound travelling overhead

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-01-10
Where
Gateshead,Tyne & Wear (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Other
Duration
2 mins
Geo
54.962, -1.602 · exact
Slug
other-over-gateshead-tyne-wear-uk-england-1978-fe0b58
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In context

  • Gateshead,Tyne & Wear (UK/England), United Kingdom has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 14 reports from United Kingdom.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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