Adelaide (South Australia), Australia
1 cluster of white lights surrounded by 2 larger circles of lights, all flashing and rotating it was the base of something very large
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 (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-25
- Where
- Adelaide (South Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2-3minutes
- Geo
- -34.929, 138.599 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-adelaide-south-australia-2004-5590db
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 35 documented reports from Adelaide (South Australia), Australia in the UFOMYST archive.
- Australia logged 54 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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