CaseCircle2012
Taipa (South Africa), South Africa
5 orange like lights emits a green light on a construction building!
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-02-18
- Where
- Taipa (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10-20 seconds
- Geo
- 22.156, 113.557 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-taipa-south-africa-2012-dc2190
Wave
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
- Taipa (South Africa), South Africa has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 26 reports from South Africa.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% 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.