CaseCircle1999
Essex (Canada), ON, Canada
RASC Observing session. Object 5deg. s polaris, eastward 30 deg.magnitude -2watched with 8" ref, 6" ref.. object had long arm that rota
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-05-15
- Where
- Essex (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 42.175, -82.825 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-essex-canada-on-1999-341eaa
In context
- Essex (Canada), Canada shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from Canada in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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