Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom
The light caught my eye as it passed by my window, it was a large brightly coloured orange ball shape, the outside edge was orange and
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-04
- Where
- Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 51.456, -0.971 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-reading-uk-england-2009-a50631
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
- Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom has 12 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 282 reports from United Kingdom.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.