Wigan (UK/England), NT, United Kingdom
I was sat on my couch with my son age 4 and a half when I saw the three separate orange orbs.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-26
- Where
- Wigan (UK/England), NT, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 53.543, -2.637 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-wigan-uk-england-nt-2016-6e23d9
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
- Wigan (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 34 reports came from United Kingdom in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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