CaseCircle2009

Hanover (Canada), ON, Canada

Silent, circular shaped burnt orange colored object with no lights that doesn't like being hit with a laser pointer

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-17
Where
Hanover (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
44.150, -81.033 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hanover-canada-on-2009-522b9b
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

  • Hanover (Canada), Canada shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 175 reports came from Canada in 2009.
  • 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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