UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Wakefield (UK/England), United Kingdom

Bright white light in sky emerges as 2/3 segmented object.

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 (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-21
Where
Wakefield (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3-5 mins.
Geo
53.683, -1.498 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-wakefield-uk-england-2008-829e61
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…

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In context

  • Wakefield (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 8 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.