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
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
- 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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