CaseCircle2005

Gatineau (Canada), QC, Canada

Multi coloured circle blasts away after shifting and swaying.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-02-15
Where
Gatineau (Canada), QC, Canada
Shape
Circle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
45.477, -75.702 · exact
Slug
circle-over-gatineau-canada-qc-2005-bb5e92
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Gatineau (Canada), Canada shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 238 reports came from Canada in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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