CaseSphere2008

Colchester (UK/England), United Kingdom

Bright orange orbe over Colchester England

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 (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-22
Where
Colchester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Sphere
Duration
About 4 mins
Geo
51.889, 0.904 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-colchester-uk-england-2008-8d4138
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

  • Colchester (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 196 reports came from United Kingdom in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.