UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2008

Portsmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom

equilateral triangle shape red and white flashing lights

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-21
Where
Portsmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 - 10 minutes
Geo
50.799, -1.091 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-portsmouth-uk-england-2008-4441e1
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Portsmouth (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 196 reports came from United Kingdom in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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