CaseFireball1980
Clacton, United Kingdom
Believe this to be linked to u.s airbase bentwaters known as the rendlesham forest incident 1980
Report quality: Low39/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-12-27
- Where
- Clacton, United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minuit
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-clacton-1980-5b1c82
In context
- Clacton, United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from United Kingdom in 1980.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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