Durham (UK/England), United Kingdom
I saw a UFO and it was circle shaped and its colour was like a purple. It left a small trail. It also had flashing lights all over it a
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-20
- Where
- Durham (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 54.777, -1.576 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-durham-uk-england-2007-8ab047
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 11 reports logged in Durham (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 177 United Kingdom reports filed in 2007.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% 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.