UFOMYST
CaseOval2009

Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom

Orange oval object hovered over Cardiff, UK

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-04
Where
Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
Shape
Oval
Duration
4minutes
Geo
51.480, -3.180 · exact
Slug
oval-over-cardiff-uk-wales-2009-dc9625
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Cardiff (UK/Wales), United Kingdom has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 282 reports from United Kingdom.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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