CaseCircle2021

ND, USA

First photos sent back from perseverance on mars skyline shows dark object in the sky towards the right of the photo. Only visible once

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-02-18
Where
ND, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Mars (photo)
Geo
Slug
circle-over-nd-2021-1f1724
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

  • 2021 brought 8 reports from North Dakota.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

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.