Shawnee, OK, USA
This was the morning of april 21st, the ufo was circular and emitted a beam of light from the underbelly.
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 (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-21
- Where
- Shawnee, OK, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- roughly 20 seconds
- Geo
- 35.327, -96.925 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-shawnee-ok-2009-da710b
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 15 reports logged in Shawnee, OK.
- This case is one of 41 Oklahoma reports filed in 2009.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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