UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Middlesbrough (UK/England), United Kingdom

definitely not commercial or military aircraft

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-04-12
Where
Middlesbrough (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
54.576, -1.235 · exact
Slug
circle-over-middlesbrough-uk-england-2009-82a548
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Middlesbrough (UK/England), United Kingdom.
  • This case is one of 282 United Kingdom reports filed in 2009.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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