Waterford (Republic of Ireland), Ireland
This seems to happen around the waning of the moon and on a clear night ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-08-04
- Where
- Waterford (Republic of Ireland), Ireland
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 hour+
- Geo
- 52.258, -7.112 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-waterford-republic-of-ireland-2004-d0cd70
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
- Waterford (Republic of Ireland), Ireland has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 10 reports from Ireland.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure 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.