Buchholz (Germany), Germany
Bright Orange Lights moving quite fast at about 500 meters above the ground
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-09
- Where
- Buchholz (Germany), Germany
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 53.330, 9.866 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-buchholz-germany-2008-870216
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Buchholz (Germany), Germany.
- This case is one of 18 Germany reports filed in 2008.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% 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.