Doncaster (UK/England), United Kingdom
17 May 2004 - UFO sighting in the UK. Three large oval shaped lights moving very fast in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-17
- Where
- Doncaster (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 53.523, -1.131 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-doncaster-uk-england-2004-82a5e4
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
- Doncaster (UK/England), United Kingdom has 15 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 155 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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