Middlesbrough (UK/England), United Kingdom
4 orange orbs heading from right to left over the sky of Middlesbrough April 12th 2009.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-12
- Where
- Middlesbrough (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes or so
- Geo
- 54.576, -1.235 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-middlesbrough-uk-england-2009-248f9d
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
- Middlesbrough (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from United Kingdom in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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