CaseSphere1997

Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom

Two objects doing imposible manovers

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-12
Where
Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 mins
Geo
54.905, -1.382 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-sunderland-uk-england-1997-c40398
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 22 reports logged in Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom.
  • This case is one of 47 United Kingdom reports filed in 1997.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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