CaseLight2011

Alton (Hampshire) (UK/England), United Kingdom

Strange single brightish orange object/light flying slowly in the dark night sky in a straight line before passing out of sight.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-11-12
Where
Alton (Hampshire) (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Light
Duration
15-20 seconds
Geo
51.149, -0.975 · exact
Slug
light-over-alton-hampshire-uk-england-2011-536f02
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 7 documented reports from Alton (Hampshire) (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 69 sightings in 2011.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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