CaseSphere2006
Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom
half circale with 3 bumps on it
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-07-19
- Where
- Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20sec
- Geo
- 52.481, -1.900 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-birmingham-uk-england-2006-da539d
Wave
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
- Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom has 65 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 221 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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