CaseCircle2009
Vught (Netherlands), Netherlands
big black circle moving slow and stopped for a moment
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-18
- Where
- Vught (Netherlands), Netherlands
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3/5 minutes
- Geo
- 51.653, 5.287 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-vught-netherlands-2009-4cc6aa
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Vught (Netherlands), Netherlands.
- This case is one of 8 Netherlands reports filed in 2009.
- 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.