Cannock (UK/England), United Kingdom
Flashes in the sky, inside fake clouds. Silhouetted Oval, Computer died when camera was activated for recording.
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: 3000s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-09
- Where
- Cannock (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 50 minutes
- Geo
- 52.690, -2.031 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-cannock-uk-england-2008-d2ccca
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
- Cannock (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 4 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 daysReport
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