Townsville (Australia), Australia
Circular saucer type craft with lights flashing in a rotatry circular fashion whilst driving in east Australia, then it disappeared
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-28
- Where
- Townsville (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1minute
- Geo
- -19.266, 146.806 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-townsville-australia-2005-48eb47
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
- Townsville (Australia), Australia has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 60 reports from Australia.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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