Durban (South Africa), South Africa
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Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-27
- Where
- Durban (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- -29.858, 31.029 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-durban-south-africa-2004-a118f1
Part of a wave
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In context
- One of 15 documented reports from Durban (South Africa), South Africa in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Africa logged 10 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 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.