UFOMYST
CaseDisk2012

Benfleet (Thames Estuary) (UK/England), United Kingdom

Saucer somewhere above the Thames Estuary.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-15
Where
Benfleet (Thames Estuary) (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
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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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Benfleet (Thames Estuary) (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 103 sightings in 2012.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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