CaseSphere1943
Portsmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom
Witnesses near a naval base in Portsmouth, England reported vertical lines of crescent-moon-shaped lights arranged in rows across the night sky, observed for about 10 minutes in August 1943.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (190 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1943-08-13
- Where
- Portsmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10mins
- Geo
- 50.799, -1.091 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portsmouth-uk-england-1943-f0fd9d
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Portsmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 2 United Kingdom reports filed in 1943.
- Sphere craft made up 4.5% of 1940s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.