CaseFlash2018

Newport (UK/Wales), United Kingdom

This is the same person who keeps seeing the orange dots in Wales. I have been trying to make contact. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-09
Where
Newport (UK/Wales), United Kingdom
Shape
Flash
Duration
1-2 seconds
Geo
51.588, -2.998 · exact
Slug
flash-over-newport-uk-wales-2018-b7e5fe
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Newport (UK/Wales), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 36 sightings in 2018.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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