Torquay (UK/England), United Kingdom
Photographed object and soundless white/red lights over Torquay, red light shining spotlight and spiralling whte lighte at Preston
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-26
- Where
- Torquay (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 50.462, -3.525 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-torquay-uk-england-2008-4e8cef
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
- Torquay (UK/England), United Kingdom has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 196 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure 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.