Orotin (Costa Rica), Costa Rica
I've been watching stars for over 40 years now. Seen ISS and satelites many times. This was a very bright light moving east/west in th
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-30
- Where
- Orotin (Costa Rica), Costa Rica
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- light-over-orotin-costa-rica-2013-f61dfe
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 Orotin (Costa Rica), Costa Rica.
- This case is one of 3 Costa Rica reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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