Aberdeen (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
Circular orange flame came overhead from the west of Aberdeen heading east. It just past when the orange flame went out and the object
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-07-03
- Where
- Aberdeen (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 20 Mins
- Geo
- 57.144, -2.098 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-aberdeen-uk-scotland-2007-1ee8ba
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
- Aberdeen (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 177 reports came from United Kingdom in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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