Mossel Bay (South Africa), South Africa
The object was seen over the area on three occasions between the middle of July 2012 until the end of July 2012. It first appeared stat
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-20
- Where
- Mossel Bay (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- -34.183, 22.146 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mossel-bay-south-africa-2012-3262c0
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
- Mossel Bay (South Africa), South Africa shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from South Africa in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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