Douglas (Isle of Man)(UK/England), Isle of Man, Great Britain
Bright round orange/amber glowing object travelling SW at approx 7000ft over Douglas, Isle of Man.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-02
- Where
- Douglas (Isle of Man)(UK/England), Isle of Man, Great Britain
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 54.150, -4.483 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-douglas-isle-of-man-uk-england-2012-b9bc1f
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
- Douglas (Isle of Man)(UK/England), Isle of Man, Great Britain shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Isle of Man, Great Britain in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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