Leeds, Ilkley (near) (UK/England), United Kingdom
I was on my bike going along on a moor looked up to the sky to see a bright light which was quite close, and was getting lower but not
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-23
- Where
- Leeds, Ilkley (near) (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 53.796, -1.548 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-leeds-ilkley-near-uk-england-2018-db5d7f
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
- Leeds, Ilkley (near) (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 36 reports came from United Kingdom in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.