CaseFlash1999
Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom
there was a flash in the eastern sky then an object flashed over head from east to west leaving a trail behind it
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-23
- Where
- Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 54.905, -1.382 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-sunderland-uk-england-1999-f833c2
In context
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Sunderland (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 71 United Kingdom reports filed in 1999.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.