CaseDisk2004
Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom
8 minutes the size of Wembly stadium 100 yards away.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-11
- Where
- Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 51.456, -0.971 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-reading-uk-england-2004-53bea5
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
- Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 155 reports came from United Kingdom in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.