Canberra (Australia), Australia
((HOAX)) about 5 pm a round silver shaped ufo about 6 feet across at 5000 feet went in a drifting zig zag direction from w to e.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-02-25
- Where
- Canberra (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- -35.283, 149.128 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-canberra-australia-2008-94b54a
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
- Canberra (Australia), Australia has 21 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 28 reports from Australia.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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