CaseSphere2006

Pagham (Sussex) (UK/England), United Kingdom

I WAS LOADING SOME FAMILY PICTURES WHEN WE SPOTTED THIS STRANGE SPHERE THAT SEEMED TO BE HOVERING IN THE AIR OVER THE SEA BEHIND MY DAD

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-13
Where
Pagham (Sussex) (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Sphere
Duration
pass
Geo
50.771, -0.745 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-pagham-sussex-uk-england-2006-235d45
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 1 documented reports from Pagham (Sussex) (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 221 sightings in 2006.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

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