Kerkrade (Netherlands), Netherlands
Object silver and circle moved like waving in the wind. Stood still and disappeared without a trace.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-17
- Where
- Kerkrade (Netherlands), Netherlands
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 50.866, 6.063 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-kerkrade-netherlands-2004-80eed2
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 Kerkrade (Netherlands), Netherlands.
- This case is one of 15 Netherlands reports filed in 2004.
- 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.