CaseCircle2008
East Cape (Mexico), Mexico
3 Stars Move To Form Perfect Triangle Then Disappear
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-18
- Where
- East Cape (Mexico), Mexico
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Geo
- -38.653, 178.004 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-east-cape-mexico-2008-efc17f
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in East Cape (Mexico), Mexico.
- This case is one of 18 Mexico reports filed in 2008.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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.