CaseCircle2013
Cochin (India), India
Bright blue light appeared for seconds
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-10
- Where
- Cochin (India), India
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 9.940, 76.260 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cochin-india-2013-40fb1f
Wave
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
- Cochin (India), India has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 26 reports from India.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.