UFOMYST
CaseOval2008

Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom

Sighting of spinning lights near Birmingham UK . 28/12/08 about 7:30pm on the motorway.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-28
Where
Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Oval
Duration
1min 30
Geo
52.481, -1.900 · exact
Slug
oval-over-birmingham-uk-england-2008-6079d3
Wave

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In context

  • Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 196 reports came from United Kingdom in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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