CaseDisk2003
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
What I first thought was a hot air balloon suddenly changed shape to reveal itself as a saucer overflying the heart of Canada's capital
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-21
- Where
- Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 45.411, -75.698 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-ottawa-canada-on-2003-40f642
Local cluster
Local cluster
Ottawa (Canada), Canada logged 5 reports in the single month of August 2003.
In context
- One of 123 documented reports from Ottawa (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
- Canada logged 386 sightings in 2003.
- Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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