Brighton (UK/England), United Kingdom
the object appeared to float for a long time and gently spun around.it was along way away and hard to see if there were any markings.on
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-13
- Where
- Brighton (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20
- Geo
- 50.828, -0.139 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-brighton-uk-england-2004-769d25
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
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Brighton (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 155 United Kingdom reports filed in 2004.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.