York (UK/England), United Kingdom
Star like object moving from left to right, a part of the object detached and moved directly downwards at 90 degrees from the main obje
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-05-11
- Where
- York (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 - 5 secs
- Geo
- 53.958, -1.083 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-york-uk-england-2009-43cf08
Part of a wave
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
- York (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from United Kingdom in 2009.
- 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.