Coventry Area (UK/England), United Kingdom
An orange light, which looked spherical, passed across the sky SW from Coventry to NE in a corkscrew trajectory then straight line out
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-08-05
- Where
- Coventry Area (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- <1 minute
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-coventry-area-uk-england-2007-d8fcf5
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Coventry Area (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 177 sightings in 2007.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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