CaseSphere2009

Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom

U.F.O seen over Birmingham U.K. 2nd May 2009

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-02
Where
Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Sphere
Duration
6mins
Geo
52.481, -1.900 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-birmingham-uk-england-2009-797865
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

  • Birmingham (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 282 reports came from United Kingdom in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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