CaseTeardrop2010

York (UK/England), United Kingdom

The object exactly like a hotair ballon shape, and translucent, with an orange glow at it's base, moving north west to south east at an

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-06-05
Where
York (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1 minute
Geo
53.958, -1.083 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-york-uk-england-2010-87bdf9
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…

In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in York (UK/England), United Kingdom.
  • This case is one of 142 United Kingdom reports filed in 2010.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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