Hove, Aldrington, Portslade-by-sea (UK/England), United Kingdom
Driving west along sea road (A259) going back to Worthing from Brighton in late May 1997. Looking out to sea witnessed a metalic sphere
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-15
- Where
- Hove, Aldrington, Portslade-by-sea (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 50.831, -0.167 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hove-aldrington-portslade-by-sea-uk-england-1997-9a6008
Part of a wave
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In context
- Hove, Aldrington, Portslade-by-sea (UK/England), United Kingdom has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 47 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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