CaseUnknown2009
Gloucester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Orange light dropped very fast over Gloucestershire UK
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-18
- Where
- Gloucester (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 51.866, -2.243 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-gloucester-uk-england-2009-0da219
Wave
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
- Gloucester (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from United Kingdom in 2009.
Report
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