CaseTeardrop2013

Leister (UK/England), United Kingdom

Bright white and green light. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor, or hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low0/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-05-08
Where
Leister (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
Slug
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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

  • Leister (UK/England), United Kingdom has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 79 reports from United Kingdom.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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