CaseOval2009

Rustington (UK/England), United Kingdom

Red,blue and white flashing hovering oval object, with four lines coming out of the object. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-01-13
Where
Rustington (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 hour and over
Geo
50.810, -0.507 · exact
Slug
oval-over-rustington-uk-england-2009-c58755
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…

In context

  • Rustington (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 282 reports came from United Kingdom in 2009.
  • 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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