England (west coast), United Kingdom
On 25/3/05 I was on a flight home to Manchester from Tenerife when I saw from the aircraft window a strange black sphere shaped object
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-25
- Where
- England (west coast), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.544, -91.969 · fallback
- Slug
- sphere-over-england-west-coast-2005-4ce550
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
- One of 1 documented reports from England (west coast), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 159 sightings in 2005.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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